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For the love of god, I can never understand why this game became popular. I understand the pull of games and I am a gamer myself. However, compared to games li

For the love of god, I can never understand why this game became popular. I understand the pull of games and I am a gamer myself. However, compared to games like minecraft, this game was boring and absurd for me. Make digital farms, where's the fun in that? And I know intelligent, high calibre friends of mine spending hours on the game and hours talking about it. The sheer amount of lost productivity due to this game is astounding, and I say lost productivity because this damn game captured a whole lot of mindshare.

chrisjs95 6y ago
> Make digital farms, where's the fun in that? I mean you do that in Minecraft too haha.
Lammy 6y ago
> For the love of god, I can never understand why this game became popular. Imagine it's 2011, you haven't played a video game since Space Invaders, and you trade your carrier-subsidized Cingular-branded RAZR in for a carrier-subsidized iPhone 4. The number 1 app in the store is "Facebook" so you download it, sign up, and are suddenly spending all your time in their garden rekindling connections with everyone you ever knew. Seems like the perfect low-impact game to play with one finger on a smooth piece of glass, flipping back and forth between it and your FB Messages / comment-thread flamewars / etc.
watwut 6y ago
It was not game for you, it is that simple. Minecraft is boring too many people too. But productivity loss is exactly same as when playing other games. People discussing this game are no different then people who discuss other games. What is unique is the pure outrage at the idea that people might enjoy it from gamers I see in this thread. Not do much you, but the anger and insults targeted at people who like it are way more that I expected.
joveian 6y ago
It is an interesting setting that has been used successfully in other games as well, including Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, and just recently Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin.

chrisjs95 6y ago

> Make digital farms, where's the fun in that? I mean you do that in Minecraft too haha.

Lammy 6y ago

> For the love of god, I can never understand why this game became popular. Imagine it's 2011, you haven't played a video game since Space Invaders, and you trade your carrier-subsidized Cingular-branded RAZR in for a carrier-subsidized iPhone 4. The number 1 app in the store is "Facebook" so you download it, sign up, and are suddenly spending all your time in their garden rekindling connections with everyone you ever knew. Seems like the perfect low-impact game to play with one finger on a smooth piece of glass, flipping back and forth between it and your FB Messages / comment-thread flamewars / etc.

watwut 6y ago

It was not game for you, it is that simple. Minecraft is boring too many people too. But productivity loss is exactly same as when playing other games. People discussing this game are no different then people who discuss other games. What is unique is the pure outrage at the idea that people might enjoy it from gamers I see in this thread. Not do much you, but the anger and insults targeted at people who like it are way more that I expected.

joveian 6y ago

It is an interesting setting that has been used successfully in other games as well, including Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, and just recently Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin.