Goodbye Flash, goodbye FarmVille


By MYBRANDBOOK


Goodbye Flash, goodbye FarmVille

The end of Flash has been a long time coming. The plugin first released in 1996 and once supported a broad swath online content, has become increasingly irrelevant in a smartphone-centric world: iPhones never supported Flash, and it’s been just over 10 years since Apple’s then-CEO Steve Jobs published an open letter outlining the technology’s shortcomings.

 

Adobe has been planning for the end, announcing in 2017 that it would phase out Flash by the end of this year. Most web browsers have already stopped supporting Flash, and today is the official end date, with Adobe ending support itself - although there’s still one last “death of Flash” milestone on January 12, when the company will begin to block Flash content from playing.

 

In related news, Zynga announced recently that the end of Flash would also mean the end of FarmVille, since the game relies on the Flash plugin. Like Flash, FarmVille feels like a remnant of a bygone internet era. Launched in 2009, FarmVille’s popularity paved the way for the ascendance of Zynga and of Facebook gaming, but both Zynga and gaming have largely moved on.

 

The company’s co-founder and former CEO Mark Pincus commemorated the occasion with a series of tweets outlining the game’s early development (spurred by the acquisition of startup MyMiniLife).

 

“FarmVille demonstrated that a game could be a living, always-on service that could deliver daily surprise and delight, similar to a favourite TV series,” Pincus wrote. “Games could also connect groups of people and bring them closer together.”

 

And just in case there are any FarmVille fans reading this story, don’t worry: you can still play FarmVille 2: Tropic Escape, FarmVille 2: Country Escape right now and FarmVille 3 is still coming to mobile. Today is just the final day for the original game.

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