Farmville to shut its gates on Facebook at end of year

FarmVille, once the most popular game on Facebook, is to close down in December, more than 11 years after its launch. The social network will stop supporting Flash-based games in December, rendering it unplayable. Zynga is planning a number of in-game activities to allow fans to give the game a send-off. "As previously stated, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player for all web browsers and Facebook will stop supporting Flash games on the platform completely after December 31 2020," it said. "Ampere Analysis games research director Piers Harding-Rolls said:"The game was synonymous with the explosion in social-network gaming in the late 2000s, primarily on Facebook.

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