Farmville Dog coming

We have seen the teasers and more clues are coming. The last clue is that the supposedly found in Petville. According to FarmvilleFreak the pet likely be a dog and this has pretty much been confirmed.

Now Petville is just one of the many games that Zynga has. Zynga appears to be trying hard at cross promotion of their products.

This is being doing in many ways as outlined in the examples below. However, I have some issues with the cross promotions that I will address.

• Hot Rod Tractors in Farmville for Mafia Players at a certain level
• Poker Players to meeting in Mafia Wars
• Invite your CafeWorld Friends to play Farmville and now
• The find out more about the Pets, you will need to go to PetVille.

Now I have no problem with the mixing of Petville, CafeWorld, FishVille and Farmville as I believe those are fine for a general audience but Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker are for a different audience.

Zynga should try and keep the games as open to people of all persuasion by providing flexible options that will not be offensive to beliefs. For example, there are no Pigs on the farm I manage.

Allow people to chose the games the love to play and promote the right games to the right people.

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• Keep Mafia Wars out of Farmville

Keep Mafia Wars out of Farmville

I am new to Farmville having been introduce to it by my wife. I had heard about it but I had ignored it for many months. However when my wife started playing I decided to take a look.

For those who don't know, Farmville is social game played on-line that is available to Facebook and MySpace users, and in recent times has been available to users on some of Microsoft's web properties.

I still don't have a 'farm' on Farmville. I have rather opted to assist my wife with her farm and her cafe, on Cafeworld. The games are interesting and truly addictive, so be careful if you chose to get involved.

I would suggest to Zynga, the makers of Farmville, Cafeworld, Mafia Wars among others that they keep Mafia Wars out of Farmville. Keep the games separate. I for one am not interested in Mafias and it would be sad if they allow the Mafia to overrun Farmville.

I will be using this blog to post my thoughts on Farmville and strategies I have found helpful along with reviews from time to time.