News: Zynga and Facebook to end Close Relationship - Partnership

Facebook and Zynga have amended an agreement that gave the games developer strong access to the social network's one billion users.

Zynga is the developer behind Farmville, a game once mostly played on Facebook, which at its peak attracted 82 million players a month.
Zynga now has its own games platform, but players will no longer be able to share their progress on Facebook.

Zynga's share price fell by 13% in after-hours trading following the news.
It is the latest blow for the company, which last month announced job cuts and studio closures.
The change, which will take place from 31 March 2013, ends Zynga's ability to promote its Zynga.com platform on Facebook.

The move also means it will no longer be required to display Facebook advertising on its own site.
"There was plenty of speculation Zynga was getting referrals within the Facebook community that other gaming companies weren't getting which helped drive web traffic to Zynga games," Digital World Research chief executive PJ McNealy said.

Facebook said the move would bring its relationship with Zynga in line with other games studios.
"We have streamlined our terms with Zynga so that Zynga.com's use of Facebook Platform is governed by the same policies as the rest of the ecosystem," the social network giant said in a statement.
"We will continue to work with Zynga, just as we do with developers of all sizes."
Facebook has not announced plans to build its own games platform.

Recent figures suggest 80% of Zynga's revenue comes from Facebook users.

In an email to staff in October 2012, Zynga founder Mark Pincus said the company would close its Boston studio and consider closing studios in the UK and Japan as part of an "overall cost reduction plan".

 Source: BBC News

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FarmVille Trick & Tutorial: Re-enable Link Copying using Browser Plugins

FarmVille Legends! As you all know that Facebook made some changes to stop us from copying our game requests links / urls. In this post we will tell you a method so you can still copy urls as before. There is a plugin Add-on for you! It’s easy to install and you don’t need to do anything special once it’s enabled. To start using it now, just  follow the instructions below on this page.

1. Click on the link below. (Note: If you are a FireFox user, you will have to have Greasemonkey or something similar activated. Go here to download and install Greasemonkey plugin First.)

http://updates.fvlegends.com/clicktrapremove.user.js

2. Now Click continue in Chrome or Install in FireFox.

3. wait for confirmation that the Extension or AddOn was installed and you are done.

4. The dotted outline will still appear on your requests but you can now copy them as you did in the past.

Hope this Helps You! Remember to share this Trick Post with your friends.. And join us on Facebook by liking our Fan Page. Happy Farming!

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FarmVille Feed Limiting Watering Cans & Animal Feed Shares!

FarmVille Updated Watering Can

FarmVille Updated Mystery Seedling

FarmVille Updated Feed

Hey FvLegends! Recently FarmVille upgraded the Facebook Feed icons for Watering Cans, Mystery Seedlings, and Animal Feeds, but that’s not all they changed. Today, FarmVille announced that it began rolling out changes to some FarmVille feeds that you share with your neighbors on Facebook. Specifically, the posting of Watering Cans when you harvest an Orchard, the posting of Watering Cans when you grow a Mystery Seedling, and posting Animal Feed when you harvest an Animal Pen are all each being limited to one share per day.

Why is FarmVille doing this? As explained by FarmVille Community Manager, Grimwell, below- many players are experiencing problems posting feeds because of the large amount of feeds being posted in a day. In other words, the many feeds that you post and claim in one day can reach a cutoff point that will force you into an inability to post any feeds. To solve this problem, FarmVille has decided to limit the amount of Watering Cans and Animal Feed being shared in one day because it is these items that are most often unclaimed by players. Although lots of these items are being shared, oftentimes they are left unclaimed and useless.

Please note, even though you will be limited to how many of these items you can share, there is still no limit on how many of these items you can claim. There may be no limit to items you can claim, but it seems natural that there would be less of the restricted items around with the new limitations in place- less items being shares, less items available to claim. Whether this is enough to cause a shortage seems unlikely as both Watering Cans and Animal Feed can be sent as free gifts via the FarmVille Gifting Page. It may make growing up your trees a little more annoying, but there are still water-producing Orchards, Water Wheels, and now Fishing Holes.

Also, there is still NO limit to how many Animals, Mystery Seedlings, or fully grown Trees that you can share.

You can read below all of the details straight from the source, as announced on the Official FarmVille Forums.

Posting Watering Can and Animal Feed Change
“Howdy Farmers,
Beginning this afternoon we are rolling out a change to how many times you will be prompted to post Watering Cans and Animal Feed.

The Feeds we are changing are:
Posting Watering Cans when you harvest an Orchard
Posting Watering Cans when you grow a Mystery Seedling half-way to the full tree state.
Posting Animal Feed when you harvest an Animal Pen

What changes are we making?
In each of the three changes, you will be prompted to post one shared item per day. One Watering Can when you harvest an Orchard, one Watering Can as you grow a seedling, and one Animal Feed when you harvest an Animal Pen.
Harvesting subsequent Orchards or Pens, or watering more than one seedling will result in no further prompts to share these items into your feed.

Why are we making this change?
You may have noticed that many Farmers report issues posting items to their feeds. They get messages such as “An error has occurred, please try again later.” and the feed never posts.
A leading cause of this is posting a great number of feeds in a day. The platform begins to limit the number of feeds you can post, and locks you out of it after you cross a certain threshold. After that, feeds stop posting and your animals, trees, etc. can’t be shared with friends.
We studied the feeds that FarmVille posts, as well as the feeds Farmers claim, and believe that these feeds are an ideal candidate to consider for reduction. A great number of Watering Cans and Animal Feed gets posted every day by generous Farmers, but the bulk of it is not claimed, and triggers the platform limit without providing a benefit to Farmers.

Things to Note:
This does not change or limit the number of Watering Cans or Animal Feed posts you can click to receive from your friends. It reduces the number of times you will be prompted to post, but not how much you can claim.
This will not impact your ability to share Mystery Seedlings, Animals, or fully-grown Trees.
This will reduce interruptions to your game-play while harvesting orchards and pens, or watering seedlings. For those of us with dozens of pens and orchards, this means we can harvest and get to our rewards all that much faster!
This is going to roll out slowly over the next week. Not every Farmer will see a reduction in prompts to post up front.
After your one prompted post for the day, when you harvest an Orchard or Pen and would normally receive a Watering Can or Animal Feed, you will still receive it (in your Gift Box) even though you are not prompted to post a feed to share with your friends.
Please share your feedback with us, and your results if you see this change on your Farm.
Thanks!” (Source: Official FarmVille Forum)

How do you feel about this FarmVille Legends? Will this change affect your farming? Tell us in the comments below..

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FarmVille Feed Claims: Now you can see who claimed what!

FarmVille Claimed Activity on Facebook

Hey FvLegends! FarmVille Has introduced a New feature which is very useful.. But before that i would like to put some light on the past and want tell you that There’s been a somewhat unspoken rule about FarmVille farmer etiquette to “Like” a post when you claim an item from a neighbor on your Facebook News Feed.  For example, if you just adopted the latest FarmVille tree from your neighbor then hit “Like” to let them know that someone got their tree and and express your thanks. You can also “Like” request posts from your neighbors to let them know that you’ve helped by sending one of those endless FarmVille Quest items. It helps your neighbors keep track of how many items they’ve gotten (without going back to the game itself) and it also let’s other players know how many people have helped.

Of course not everyone practices the “Like” rule which angers some players, especially those generous arborist tree-breeders and animal breeders who are nice enough to share their new trees and offspring. However, whether you hit the “Like” button or not- now everyone can see who claims what because your activity for claimed FarmVille items is now posted on Facebook under your profile’s Recent Activity area. FarmVille introduced this new new feature a few days ago and we want to know what you think, FarmVille Legends! Give us some feedback in the comments below.

Is it necessary to see all your FarmVille activity on Facebook or do you like this feature because it allows you to see who claims what items? What about you, do you use the “Like” button for FarmVille?

Be sure to Share this Post with your farming friends...

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FarmVille Icon Makover: Where is my Corn?

FarmVille has given some of its most recognizable icons a makeover which has many Farmers asking, “Where is my corn?”.

You will notice that the usual Corn bookmark icon located on the left side of your Facebook bookmarked APPS has been replaced with an almost unrecognizable FarmVille Duck head. No, this is not a hack, this is the legitimate work of FarmVille doings. Many of you have asked about changes made to icons which are also featured on FarmVille shares found on your Facebook News Feed. Some of you have expressed concern about clicking on these links because of suspicion of fake groups or scams. We can confirm that FarmVille has given its icon material and some top feeds a makeover which includes art and text changes for some shares.

Use the same caution as you always would about clicking on feeds, but be aware that the Corn icon is no longer featured on shares. Some time ago the Corn icon on shares was replaced with a FV logo icon.

From FarmVille Official Facebook Fan Page:
“FarmVille just gave our feeds a makeover! Check out new the art & text on our most popular feeds! LIKE this post if you enjoy our updated look & give us your feedback by completing this short survey here: http://zynga.tm/1E2  ”  (Source: FarmVille Facebook Fan Page)

Do you miss your old Corn icon or do you like the Duck better? Take FvLegends Poll.

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The Facebook Timeline is Available for All Now

Ok First I would like to tell you that this post is not related to FarmVille or Zynga!

Long sought Facebook Timeline is available to everyone now, which was earlier accessible to those with developer accounts only. Today, Facebook has enabled every user to have his/her Facebook profile timelined in chronological manner.

You just need to activate it by clicking this link: https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline

Click on “Get Timeline” button to get started..

Click on “Get Timeline” button to get started

Once in your timeline, you can add cover photo, rearrange your profile and play with your security settings to make sure that your profile is safe. By default your timeline will remain visible to you only for seven days – so that you are done with all the homework before it goes live for everyone.
Or alternatively, you can publish it anytime if you want to go live early. Simply click “Publish Now” button available on right top.
Go ahead and grab your timeline. I already see many of you busy in settling your new look.

Facebook New look - Timeline view!

Warning:
There is no known way of reverting back to old profile look once Timeline is activated, hence before you activate it make sure you need it in real. (Source: ProPakistani)

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Join Our FarmVille Legends Secret Group On Facebook!

We invite you to join our Secret Group on Facebook..

Our group "FarmVille Legends" is full of special tricks, hacks & Glitches for Face Bot, Fv Bot and Charles.. 
We also share many unique and rare gifts here found in very few other groups. 
If your interested in becoming apart of this secret group.....

Click Here to Join our Group!

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FarmVille: Birthday Gift Giftable for 24 hours (One Day)

FarmVille and Zynga have placed a limited time gift on the gifts page for FarmVille's 2nd year Birthday!

You can now send and request the Birthday Gift for the next 24 hours by clicking the image below. Please feel free to leave a comment on what you received in your Birthday Gifts!

FarmVille Birthday Gift (June 15, 2011)

• FarmVille Arjuna Tree
• FarmVille Fertilize All (consumable)
• FarmVille Party Duck (animal)
• FarmVille Ossabaw Pig (animal)
• FarmVille Balloon Sign

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