Monday, January 11, 2010

2nd post on the 1st hour : Facebook games

Sometimes I don't get it or should I say always, what's the fun point of Facebook games?


I know, you don't need to get to know all those emulator or any crack things to play games illegally and nothing is needed to install to your PC/Laptops.
Only web browser and mouse (or sometimes, keyboard) is needed.

Yes, it's fun to click around and watching the virtual-self getting level up/rich/better.
It's fun to steal other people's crops if you're playing farming games that copied Harvest Moon.

What really frustrating is waiting for hours just to regain stamina/crop to grow/things to earn enough money. Click in few minutes, then hours of senseless waiting for the stamina to recover, then another click in minutes, and hours of waiting again. Endless loop, just like any low budget MMORPGs where you beat monster, level up, buy equipments, just to beat more monster.


Once I heard a radio broadcast discussing about Facebook farming games. (To prevent legal issue, I choose not to point out which radio station) The people are competing in earning levels in their farmer level. Some even managed to earn 20 levels within one day. It's as good as jogging 6 days of work effort within a day. Guess what? The gamers will be "wow"-ing all the time when they heard such news. Yet some of them said that MMORPG players spending too much time leveling their characters. Saying that what's the point gaining 30 levels in one day. How weird of them to allow themselves doing so while MMORPG players cannot.

You call those as relaxing games? I call those as time-wasting games, if you ask me. Which is great for waiting for office hour to reach the end without tiring yourself.

No wonder employers hate Facebook so much that they try to block it somehow.
Yet somehow (again), the clever employees will bypass the block in less than a day, just to play the games. If only such cleverness is used to earn real-life money, not Facebook games' money.

By the way, any comments? Facebook gamers? Enlighten me the fun of the Facebook games before I got whacked by the maniacal gamers.

No comments:

Post a Comment