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2020 isn t the only thing coming to an end Thursday. The last day of the year is also the last day for FarmVille, one of the original addictive Facebook games.
FarmVille, which allowed players to cultivate colorful cartoonish farms by tending crops and caring for livestock, had 30 million daily players at its peak. But game developer Zynga announced in September it would shut down the game on Dec. 31, a victim of Adobe s decision to stop distributing and updating its Flash Player for web browsers, which in turn led Facebook
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Goodbye and Good Riddance to FarmVille
Screenshot: FarmVille/Zynga
Though most of you probably stopped playing the original FarmVille ages ago, if you want to get one last hit of nostalgia, today is officially the last day you can play the game on Facebook.
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Zynga announced the decision earlier in September, warning the apparently non-zero number of FarmVille fans who still play the original game. It’s a little baffling, considering the original FarmVille first debuted 11 years ago in 2009, and has since spawned
FarmVille 2,
FarmVille 2: Country Escape, and
FarmVille 3. To be fair, FarmVille would’ve probably continued if it weren’t for the fact that the game runs on Flash and Adobe finally killed Flash this year.
Goodbye Flash, goodbye FarmVille
While much of what made 2020 such an absolute nightmare will still be with us on January 1 (sorry!), we will really, truly be leaving Adobe Flash and FarmVille behind as we enter the new year.
The end of Flash has been a long time coming. The plug-in, which was first released in 1996 and once supported a broad swath of 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.
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