The pause is now optional!

After an overwhelming amount of negative feedback, Zynga has made the pause feature when moving between the English Countryside and your home farm optional. It's been released slowly over the next day and will see users finally get their way.

No doubt Zynga's going to pretend that they have good communication with their players, when in reality they don't. The simple fact is U-turns like this only happen when a huge amount of customers/players give extreme negative feedback, and when they do Zynga is still slow at giving their customers what they want! It's not achieved that often, maybe four or five times in FarmVille's history!

This is a copy of Lexilicous, the community manager over on the zynga community forums, post in discussions:

Since the launch of English Countryside, many players have asked for the option to keep both their farms active at once.

Well Farmers, we’ve listened and we’re excited to announce that you can now choose to keep both your Home and English Countryside farms active at the same time. When traveling between your farms, choose to ‘play both farms’ or pause the farm you’re leaving. But don’t forget, if you turn ‘pause’ off, your crops can wither while you’re on your other Farm.

Let us know how you enjoy this new option and thank you for your continued feedback regarding the English Countryside release.

Please note: To ensure the health and stability of the application, this feature is currently only available to a randomly selected group of users. We will be slowly releasing this feature to everyone in the near future. 

For more information on how to toggle Pause, please check out our guide here:http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=

Also, this is the new pop-up when moving between farms (yes it comes up EVERY time).