So after months of anticipation FV:EC went live this week. Personally, I think the new farm looks great, the exclusive buildings look different to what we've seen before and I like the whole idea of EC.
There's just a few problems I feel Zynga needs to iron out to make this a truly great extension to FarmVille.
Firstly, they need to remove the pause. Many people are refusing to touch EC as they do not want to leave their home farm paused, especially those people who have spent a lot of farmcash on their 'home' farm. People are largely unimpressed with the feature and are extremely disappointed that it got released, the forums may not have erupted in the way they did over the limits and the removal of all cancel buttons but the anger and dissatisfaction is still obvious, the official feedback page on the pause feature reached over 4,000 comments today and this poll shows that there is next to no support for the feature. Many of the people commenting are new members indicating that the people who read the forums silently are now voicing their annoyance. Hopefully Zynga will realise their foolishness in time to remove the pause before it does irreparable damage to EC.
Also they need to have some form of exchange between the two farms, transferring some of your buildings, trees etc. between farms (except maybe the ones exclusive to EC). Because most people have been building their farms for quite a while and have collected a lot of old items that are no longer available. They may think a certain animal or building would go well on their EC but can't transfer it to the farm.
Currently I'm not running to play EC due to the pause, I've stuff on my home farm to finish before I'll properly move to EC. But if they remove the pause feature, I'll be over there in the flash! Zynga also made the mistake of using the union flag instead of the English flag which irritates me as they should know better, but I suppose it's too late now to change it!
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