Will playing FarmVille teach me anything about the real world?
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Seriously thought, you can learn things such as time management, money management and its good hand and eye control. Time management is learned thru the harvesting of crops, animals and the trees, and that is an important lesson that teaches us how to budget our time better. Money management is learned when we purchase or sell the animals, trees, crops, buildings or decorations.
Heck we even learn that helping your neighbors not only helps yourself it helps them as well. I think the socialization of this game also helps kids learn that they can create a farm by doing the work. In addition, as an added benefit there, city folks who have never been on a farm learn about animals and they sounds they make!
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M$From experience with other things, I suspect the main thing you can learn is about human psychology in relation to games, simulations, and socialising.
i.e. You will learn how you can get engrossed in something that isn't really important, and how imaginary things get to feel very real. You may also learn how quickly fascinated absorption can turn into boredom.
I'm looking forward to hearing what people who've played it think though.
The answers so far suggest maybe it is more interesting that it seemed at first sight.
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M$FarmVille has this rudimentary system like all the other games from Facebook. There is no completion in the game, except for the one you have with your friends based on which has the highest level.
Obviously from this game nobody can learn how to pay a bill or start a family; however the game focuses on other aspects: how to help your friends or how to make new friends. Since you can earn experience by helping your friends I think the most important message Farmville is trying to send is: Work as a team and help your friends whenever they need you.
It is a social game not an economic simulator.
personal opinion
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No, I don't think is a simulation game. Maybe this was the developer's intention but I think it failed. In my opinion SimCity 4 is an economical simulation game.
I've never played it. Is it a decent simulation of running a business, or just vaguely involving business-like decisions?
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But if you keep an open mind, I think it is possible to learn from Farmville. If you check out the resource I provided, you can see that some people actually did the math and figured out how many coins you earn per hour depending on the crop you plant. It’s actually pretty impressive! And definitely took some brain power. So that’s one way to look at it.
And any game where you can arrange colored bales of hay into amazing works of art must be a game where you’re thinking. The picture I provided is one of my favorites. It blows my mind! Whomever figured this out must have been pretty smart, I’d think.
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