Is Farmville the most popular video game ever made?

 79,331,014 monthly active users
 
79 million :/

" Is Farmville the most popular video game ever made? "

Never played it.

"  79,331,014 monthly active users  79 million :/ "

Yeah, it probably is. But it's still dumb.

Everybody I know plays it constantly. 
 
I weep for the future of mankind.

It's no Harvest Moon so no it isn't.

maybe tetris?

I'd hardly even classify it as a game.

" @Skytylz: 79 million people playing tetris now? "

It's Tetris, you fool.

I wouldn't count FarmVille as a game at all. Yes, it's a Flash game, but there's very little gaming value in it. All you do is click here, buy some stuff, click there to use some stuff and then leave for the day. I would hazard a guess that it is the most popular 'game' of all time though. And that is truly terrible. A game where you point and click. Has beaten real games.

What's a Farmville?

" maybe tetris? "

It got 79 million users because of people who are completely addicted to it and keep sending their friends invites.

Never played it.

Probably the game with the most players, however it's browser-based, has very high accessibility and is free. I'm sure if it was console-based and required paying some kind of price (assuming it was very small price, to match the amount of content in the game) there would be a massive drop in player figures. However, I think under any circumstances player figures shouldn't necessarily be taken as an indication of how popular a game is. Some people may find one game highly enjoyable but only play through once or twice due to the structure of the game, while they could "sort of like" another game and pour hundreds of hours into it simply because the game lends itself to that style of play. Given this I don't think it's fair to say that Farmville is the most popular game ever made.

Most popular? Obviously. Its on Facebook. Its like if there was a Snake game on Google.
Most played in minutes? Doubt it.

" @bunnyboiler said:

" Is Farmville the most popular video game ever made? "

? "

I wouldn't consider it a videogame, more of an application if you ask me.

" What's a Farmville? "

" I wouldn't count FarmVille as a game at all. Yes, it's a Flash game, but there's very little gaming value in it. All you do is click here, buy some stuff, click there to use some stuff and then leave for the day. I would hazard a guess that it is the most popular 'game' of all time though. And that is truly terrible. A game where you point and click. Has beaten real games. "

I don't consider Facebook games to be real "videogames". 
 
So no! :#

natsume is probably kicking themselves for not making it first

This is a Facebook thing? Yeah, those numbers are probably just all the people that forgot to delete it.
Edit: Hell yeah. 1,000 posts. I think I'm gonna go party.

" I wouldn't count FarmVille as a game at all. Yes, it's a Flash game, but there's very little gaming value in it. All you do is click here, buy some stuff, click there to use some stuff and then leave for the day. I would hazard a guess that it is the most popular 'game' of all time though. And that is truly terrible. A game where you point and click. Has beaten real games. "

" @xMP44x:  @xobballox:  @MattyFTM:  @Whisperkill: Real quick question to all those calling it stupid:  you ever play The Sims?  Take that, make it to where you don't have to really do anything except once a day, and you've got it.  Hell, look at SEAMAN!  THAT was a game where you didn't do much except for once a day.   Therefore...how is Farmville "not a game" and "stupid"? I play Farmville...Fishville...Petville...Mafia Wars...Happy Island...Ponzi...  They are good time killers, as well as incredibly social - in a GOOD way.  I'm about to break level 30 on Farmville, and it's not like the game is hard or anything.  Also, there's no addiction there.  I could let it go now and it's not going to affect me in any way.  There are people that are "addicted" to it out there, but no more than something like WoW or Halo or Modern Warfare.  I mean, seriously, putting down casual gamers on a regular basis is...personally...just fucking stupid.  Once I started playing Farmville, I saw the interest in it.  Sure, I don't have to really DO anything for more than 15 minutes at a time, and then just wait a day to do the stuff I need to, but it's perfectly enjoyable.  So if you REALLY feel the need to knock it, then do so... but it just means that YOU'RE the stupid one for refusing to be open-minded in an ever-changing world of what "gaming" is.  Also...Tetris IS the most popular video game ever, but that would solely be based on sales numbers. "

" @xMP44x:  @xobballox:  @MattyFTM:  @Whisperkill: Real quick question to all those calling it stupid:  you ever play The Sims?  Take that, make it to where you don't have to really do anything except once a day, and you've got it.  Hell, look at SEAMAN!  THAT was a game where you didn't do much except for once a day.  Therefore...how is Farmville "not a game" and "stupid"? I play Farmville...Fishville...Petville...Mafia Wars...Happy Island...Ponzi...  They are good time killers, as well as incredibly social - in a GOOD way.  I'm about to break level 30 on Farmville, and it's not like the game is hard or anything.  Also, there's no addiction there.  I could let it go now and it's not going to affect me in any way.  There are people that are "addicted" to it out there, but no more than something like WoW or Halo or Modern Warfare.  I mean, seriously, putting down casual gamers on a regular basis is...personally...just fucking stupid.  Once I started playing Farmville, I saw the interest in it.  Sure, I don't have to really DO anything for more than 15 minutes at a time, and then just wait a day to do the stuff I need to, but it's perfectly enjoyable.  So if you REALLY feel the need to knock it, then do so...but it just means that YOU'RE the stupid one for refusing to be open-minded in an ever-changing world of what "gaming" is.  Also...Tetris IS the most popular video game ever, but that would solely be based on sales numbers. "

" Yeah, it probably is. But it's still dumb. "

Farmville eh? ... I have nothing to say to this really. I don't really consider it a game. It's a lifestyle.

It is not, mah boi.

" I don't consider Facebook games to be real "videogames".  So no! :# "

" @ArchScabby said:

" What's a Farmville? "

It's a crappy facebook game. "

fuck that shit  
i'm never gonna play farmville 
 
 and i got like 26 invites to

" fuck that shit  i'm never gonna play farmville   and i got like 26 invites to "

" @xMP44x:   @xobballox:   @MattyFTM:   @Whisperkill: Real quick question to all those calling it stupid:  you ever play The Sims?  Take that, make it to where you don't have to really do anything except once a day, and you've got it.  Hell, look at SEAMAN!  THAT was a game where you didn't do much except for once a day.  Therefore...how is Farmville "not a game" and "stupid"? I play Farmville...Fishville...Petville...Mafia Wars...Happy Island...Ponzi...  They are good time killers, as well as incredibly social - in a GOOD way.  I'm about to break level 30 on Farmville, and it's not like the game is hard or anything.  Also, there's no addiction there.  I could let it go now and it's not going to affect me in any way.  There are people that are "addicted" to it out there, but no more than something like WoW or Halo or Modern Warfare.  I mean, seriously, putting down casual gamers on a regular basis is...personally...just fucking stupid.  Once I started playing Farmville, I saw the interest in it.  Sure, I don't have to really DO anything for more than 15 minutes at a time, and then just wait a day to do the stuff I need to, but it's perfectly enjoyable.  So if you REALLY feel the need to knock it, then do so...but it just means that YOU'RE the stupid one for refusing to be open-minded in an ever-changing world of what "gaming" is.  Also...Tetris IS the most popular video game ever, but that would solely be based on sales numbers. "

i can safely say that there about as many users who hate it as people who actually like playing it. 

" @xMP44x: So...since Bejeweled Blitz and Super Farkle are ALSO in the "Apps" section, they aren't games either?  Because they are...just like Farmville and the likes are absolutely games.  The reason they are in the "apps" section of the site is because they are just that:  applications that allow a Facebook user to access the Zynga websites without actually going to the Zynga websites.  That's why I laugh at something like: 
 
@Vito_Raliffe said:

" I don't consider Facebook games to be real "videogames".  So no! :# "

...and 
 
@MattyFTM said:

" @ArchScabby said:

" What's a Farmville? "

It's a crappy facebook game. "

...because these are NOT "Facebook" games.  They are merely games that can be accessed THROUGH Facebook...almost the same way that Giant Bomb can now be accessed THROUGH Facebook.  As for the rest of your comments, not every portion of my post was aimed directly at you.  Therefore, just look at the pieces that fit into what you ORIGINALLY said and take that with you.  Don't believe that everything I have to say it directly attacking each individual person.  I merely summed up everything into one big pot.  As a matter of fact, the only thing that was directed at you was the first part about how Farmville isn't a "game".  Just because YOU don't consider it a game...that doesn't mean it ISN'T a game. "

I started up a game because everyone was on my facebook was bitching to me about it. I played it two days I think before I couldn't stand it anymore, but I still have a farm sitting there. I have a sneaking suspicion that I am counted as an "active" user.

"Since I've never played Bejeweled Blitz or Super Farkle, I'll say the same. I class them as applications."

Facebook is fucking stupid, same as Myspace. Don't get me started on Twitter.

Look, I don't agree with you. But I don't want to argue, because we both feel differently on the subject and I can't be bothered with it.