Screencap your GagaVille farms now, Farmville is dying 12-30-2020

[ChicaSkas 21,057]

https://www.cnet.com/news/farmville-yes-that-farmville-is-shutting-down-at-end-of-2020/

 

"Following an incredible 11 years since its initial launch back in 2009, we are officially announcing the closure of the original FarmVille game on Facebook," the statement read in part. "As previously stated, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player for all web browsers, and Facebook will stop supporting Flash games on the platform completely after December 31st, 2020."

FarmVille allows players to cultivate colorful cartoonish farms by plowing, planting and harvesting crops and trees, and caring for cows and chickens. Between August 2009 and December 2010, it was the top game played by daily active users on Facebook. In 2011, the game even partnered with singer Lady Gaga, creating a farm inspired by her and featuring music from her Born This Way album. 

 

An official announcement was made on Facebook yesterday:

https://zyngasupport.helpshift.com/a/farmville/?s=announcements&f=important-announcement&l=en&snapi_auth=7116e32f658eff79df625cc43122846f

 

TL DR:

Farmville is closing forever in 90 days

Gaga items are still available to play with and purchase

Screenrecord your farms for nostalgia purposes while you can

chica out

[AphroditeLaydee 1,230]

This is sad but somehow beautiful that it existed too. Farmville and Flash games were such an era of my youth. Bless.

[Guest]

Why would they even delete the game

[danbekim 2,699]

thank you for doing this! 

[RAMROD 96,167]

12 minutes ago, BadGurlMadge said:

Why would they even delete the game

 

Adobe Flash is dead. 

Ads, games, and even entire websites were built using Adobe Flash, but times have moved on, and official support for Flash finally ended on December 31st, 2020, with interactive HTML5 content quickly replacing it.

This is a much needed replacement anyway. Flash has a long history of security flaws, malware, and bugs. And it consumes a lot of power, slows down browsers and causes your computer to do a lot of unnecessary work.