Farmville closed forever, affected by Steve Jobs’ accurate prediction

KOMPAS.com – The prediction of Apple founder Steve Jobs, which has now been shown to have an impact on the game. Farm. This game was once very popular and was once one of the most addictive games.

After accompanying players for the past 11 years, Farm stopped the farm simulation game service, which was popular on Facebook, on December 31, 2020.

The late founder of Apple’s Accurate Prediction deals with the “death” of Adobe Flash Player. The software, released in 1996, was officially retired by Adobe on January 1, 2021.

It was Steve Jobs who first said that Adobe Flash would be irrelevant. Steve Jobs, while serving as CEO of Apple in 2010, wrote a letter of protest for Adobe to begin developing technologies other than Flash.

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Jobs’ vision was clear, Flash technology was created for the era of the PC and mouse, while the future technology trends that Jobs predicted were going in the direction mobile. Additionally, according to Jobs, Flash negatively impacts performance, battery life, and has security issues.

Then the popularity of Flash has declined since Apple, YouTube, and Google’s browser stopped supporting Adobe Flash. (Read Also: Steve Jobs Prediction for 1990 Tested Today)

What does this have to do with the Farmville game? The main brain of the game turns out to be Adobe Flash Player.

Zynga, as the developer of FarmVille, stated that the decision to close the game was motivated by the discontinuation of Flash support by Adobe and Facebook.

“Therefore, all Flash-based games (including FarmVille) will no longer be playable after the end of 2020,” Zynga wrote, as quoted by Antara. KompasTekno from the Adobe blog, Sunday (3/1/2021).

Farm is a farm simulation game created by Zynga that was released on June 19, 2009. Farm presents How to play a simple one, where players can farm and raise livestock.

From the beginning, Farm it immediately attracted users. This game immediately had more than 10 million active users from two months after its launch.

At the height of its popularity, no less than 30 million people were playing FarmVille every day. Zynga then spawned several sequels to similar games, such as Farmville 2: Tropic Escape and Farmville 2: Country Escape, and FarmVille 3 that will be present on the mobile platform.

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