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Chủ Nhật, 12 tháng 2, 2012

FarmVille: Adobe Flash Plugin Loading Error and Solution

Official FarmVille Forum Community Manger Grimwell addressed the issue many farmers are experiencing today when trying to load FarmVille, a gray error screen. It seems this issue has to do with Adobe Flash Player crashing in Mozilla Firefox.
FarmVille Adoble Flash Plugin Error

    We know a number of folks are experiencing a gray screen error when trying to play FarmVille and wanted to share some information that may help you resolve it.

    The Mozilla support website has more details about the crash issue for Adobe Flash in FF and steps you can follow to resolve the issue and get back to your farms!

Source: Official FarmvVille Forum

Mozilla has assessed the flash player problem, providing this explanation:

    "By default, if Flash is not responsive for 10 seconds, Firefox will terminate it and display The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed. However, some Flash-based games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars can take more time than to load, unnecessarily triggering this hang protection.

Source: Mozilla Support

You can, per usual, try updating your flash player. This plugin may be used to verify you have the most recent version. If that fix is an unsuccessful, Mozilla provided additional solutions here.

Update: Another source for solutions is Zynga, you can view their suggestions here.

Have you been having difficulties loading your farm? If so, did the solutions provided resolve the issues?

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Apple Application: In Review

Mobile farming was once a dream, made true this past week. The FarmVille App that debuted (for iPhone, iPod touch) was announced at the 2010 WWDC by Zynga Founder and CEO, Mark Pincus, along with the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs. Little information was given at the time other than talk of exclusive items for Apple device users and a potential release date near the one-year birthday of FarmVille.

Farming is not exactly the same while using the App, most noticeably, there are no avatars. This may help the application run at a quicker pace, among other things. There is also ever-so-handy option to have push notifications for harvest time and free gifts.


As with playing FarmVille on a computer, you can gift neighbors, buy items from the market, decorate, have lost animals wander onto your farm, and share bonuses via Facebook. When tapping on or choosing an item you have three options: put in storage, sell, and move. Selling or storing items can be done through simple clicks; moving an item can be done by dragging and dropping (players have reported lag and difficulty when moving items).

All exclusive items -- Snow Leopard, Rainbow Apple Tree, and White Apple Tree -- are available for coins or as a gift, which is quite a treat along with the free download of the application. A Free Fuel Giveaway is now available, giving 1/5 of a tank each day for logging on the App.

There is also an option for Apple mobile device users to purchase $FV through the iTunes store. The exchange rate of real money to $FV is the same although these users now have the option to purchase FarmVille Cash through iTunes, or to buy/use iTunes gift cards instead of purchasing through Zynga or Facebook Credits.

The most noticeable difference of the application is how one plows, plants, and harvest. The feature that has true potential for topping gameplay on a computer is that one can click and drag across plots to quickly plow, plant, and harvest (if using vehicles). As shown during the announcement demonstration, check out the video here.

Farming may be twice as fast with this major boost but of course the App has some major draw backs.

As usual (with new features and functions) there are some bugs in the FarmVille App; many users have reported error messages stating "There seems to be an issue loading your farm" while others who are able to load the app are reporting that it crashes frequently. The fact that FarmVille Co-ops, Collections, Farmer's Market, and Storage Expansion are not available via mobile device, making them exclusive to computer game play, is a major drawback.

Hopefully Zynga will be updating the app soon, so farmers have more well-rounded and smoother experience.

Farming on an Apple device is not cheap with the iPod Touch starting at $199 USD and the iPhone4 at $199 USD. The iPhone 3gs has been reduced to $99 becoming the most affordable option now.

If you have used the app, what are your thoughts? If not, will you go out of your way to gain access to it?

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Thứ Sáu, 6 tháng 1, 2012

FarmVille Scam Alert! The Rainbow Cow News Feed post is a lie

Rainbow Cow Scam
First it was cake, and now we can't even trust cows? The FarmVille scammers are at it again with this Rainbow Cow News Feed post circulating through Facebook. FarmVille Freak reports that this is, in fact, a scam. Whatever you do, do not click on this offer and warn the friend whose account it was posted through. The number one giveaway that a free item post is a scam is that the message does not come directly from Zynga. Not to mention the unlikely language, typos and shady offer pages the links normally take you to.

[Image Credit: FarmVille Freak]

Have you fallen victim to this scam or another before? How do you think is the best way to handle a FarmVille scam?

Zynga gives FarmVille players 5 Farm Cash for free via e-mail

And to what do we owe this pleasure, Zynga? According to FarmVille Freak, players have been receiving the above pop-up in their FarmVille games. It tells them that there will be 5 free Farm Cash waiting for them in their e-mail the next day. This is an unannounced promotion and, frankly, we have no idea what its purpose is. Is Zynga just being nice? Sure, but we doubt that's all (nothing personal guys, but this is a business). Since players are receiving the Farm Cash in their e-mail inboxes, we're going to guess--an educated one, of course--that this is a viral promotion of Zynga's e-mail services. Alright, so if that's the case, we went and done exactly what Zynga wants: create buzz. What? Do you want us to not report the FarmVille news?

[Image Credit: FarmVille Freak]

Have you seen this promotion appear in your game? What do you think of Zynga's methods of playing up their e-mail service?