Goodbye calf, cow, pig and brood.
On January 1, the millions of virtual farms in the
FarmVille
Facebook game
were wiped off the internet.
The fault lies with the shutdown of Adobe Flash Player, a software which has become obsolete but which has served as support for many games playable from an Internet browser.
Huge success at the end of the 2000s,
FarmVille
is somewhat forgotten.
But it marked a turning point in updating a huge market, that of "casual gamers" (
casual
), and opening the way for video games
free-to-play
today become standard on smartphones.
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FarmVille
was put online in June 2009 by the American studio Zynga.
Conceived in barely six weeks, the title has met with resounding success: one million users in less than a week, 10 million in two months and a peak of 80 million subscribers in February 2010, including 30 million online each. day.
FarmVille
worked on any computer, even low end.
The game was
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