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Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre. You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom “premium” cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence. This is pretty much what I think Farmville and all related games basically boil down to. And why I don’t play them. ericmortensen:justinday:

Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre.

You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom “premium” cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.

This is pretty much what I think Farmville and all related games basically boil down to. And why I don’t play them.

ericmortensen:justinday:

Reblogged 1 year ago from ericmortensen (Originally from justinday)
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  3. upisdown reblogged this from neon-loneliness and added:
    Baha, precisely. God knows I’ll never pay for the extra cash/horseshoes/whatever but I like games that distract me, what...
  4. neon-loneliness reblogged this from fionchadd and added:
    see this is very clever and everything, but… I just quite like Farmville. I started playing it while trying to write a...
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    Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s...
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    Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s...
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    This is fantastic
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