Goodbye, FarmVille.
Zynga
2020 is not the only thing that will end on Thursday. The last day of the year is also the last day for FarmVille, one of the original addictive Facebook games.
FarmVille, which allowed players to grow colorful cartoon farms, taking care of crops and livestock, had 30 million daily players at its peak. But game developer Zynga announced in September, it would end the game on December 31, victim of Adobe’s decision to stop distributing and updating its Flash Player for browsers, which in turn led Facebook to announce the end of support for Flash games on its platform. .
The writing has been on the wall for longer. In 2017, Facebook – together with Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – announced plans to end support for Flash by December this year.
Once the de facto standard for websites to run games, streaming video and animation in browser software, Flash Player has fallen out of favor with many companies and technology organizations, which ridicule the plug-in as a battery hog and security vulnerability. Its popularity has waned in recent years, as more people in the online video industry have turned to HTML5, a developing language that can run graphics without plug-ins.
And if you really want to continue with fake farming, there are other options. The company will continue to operate FarmVille 2: Tropic Escape and FarmVille 2: Country Escape, and says players can look forward to the next worldwide release of FarmVille 3 for mobile.
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