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Isn't Farmville a rip off of Harvest Moon? I assume any Chinese mobile game they ripped off was itself a rip off from Natsume's Super Nintendo game.
by Larrikin 6y ago
Isn't Farmville a rip off of Harvest Moon? I assume any Chinese mobile game they ripped off was itself a rip off from Natsume's Super Nintendo game.
- somehnrdr14726 6y agoFarmville and Harvest Moon share a theme and maybe even an aesthetic but are in different genres. Harvest Moon is a single player sim game. Farmville is an async multiplayer invest/express. Zynga popularized the genre. The closest "rip off" to Harvest Moon would be Stardew Valley, but no one ever refers to it that way because rip off is not a useful term for conveying taxonomy. Rip off is only useful for displaying derision towards genres the writer doesn't enjoy.