Farmville Vs Farm Town

Well lets start with some background of farmtown.It started around Feb-Mar. 09 and took off like wild fire. Currently there are over 13 million active users, not to bad eh. See its not just about the farming, its about the social interaction aspect that so many love. Here is some of the features that farmtown has. First you get to pick your name for you own character. You can pick any name or word you want in farmtown. In farmtown you also upload your own picture as your avatar. And whats cool is when others visit your farm they will see it too. You can also change around your farmtown avatars hair color,skin color,eyes,eybrows,mouth and more. You gain coins and cash by growing and harvesting crops and selling them. So in the begining your crops are pretty small but they grow quickly the more you work them. Now there are some downfalls to farmtown. There are a lot of reported bugs that can cause progress to be lost for members which can be very frustrating. Also the graphics aspect isnt really that great. So I am sure by now if you are not playing farmtown you see why it can be a lot of fun and a good way to relax after hectic days.

Now lets talk about the farmville craze. Yes it launched after farmtown and many accuse farmville makers zynga of stealing developers ideas and gaming designs. As you will see when you start playing farmville that it does resemble farmtown. So how about some stats about farmville. Well the total monthly active users is over 74 million. Ouch! That is way more than farmtown so people are obivously liking farmville more. But why is that? Well farmville offers alot of the same things that farmtown does but there are differences so here are a few,more interaction with your neighbors, more ways to earn money, wide variaty of things to crop,vechicles and ribbons. Also they are constantly running special gifts, changing interaction platform for all the seasons and holidays which is just adding to the fun. So by now you see why farmville is way more popular. Most users agree that the graphics are better, cooler characters,better leveling platform and the biggest thing is there is next to no bugs. That alone is suspected why so many more facebook users use farmville. Also from a quick search I did there seems to be a cooler community for farmville vs farmtown.