If you play FarmVille, you’ve probably seen the little reminders to become a FarmVille Fan all over your game screen encouraging you to take the desired action. It’s pretty common for people to dismiss this as a silly undertaking, but more and more, there are some distinct advantages of becoming a Fan.
What it Means to Be a Fan
In order to become a Fan, all you have to do is go to the official site page and click on the Become a Fan link. This will automatically add the site to your list of Pages on your Profile, and will allow posts from the game’s Page to show up in your Live Feed. This may sound like a hassle, but the posts that the site’s Page puts up are no more inconvenient than the dozens of other game posts that your friends put up every day. And they’re at least as helpful.
Tips and Info
These game Page posts mainly consist of updates about new features that will be added to the game soon. There will also occasionally be links to other sources of information, like the weekly Podcasts, that can help to keep you updated on the numerous new developments in the game and how to properly take advantage of them. Also, if you’re a FarmVille Fan, you’ll know that any offers that you see for free specialty items or Farm Cash giveaways on other sites are not officially sanctioned.
For Fans Only
There have also recently been some special benefits available for Fans only. These benefits often consist of an opportunity to try out a new crop or other feature before it is released to the game population as a whole. Recent early access items include Super Pumpkins and the 24 x 24 land expansion. Not only are these special release items cool just to have access to, they are also usually more beneficial in a variety of ways than the items available to the general game population.
For example, Super Pumpkins, which the site released to celebrate the fact that they had topped 15 million fans on their Facebook page, had a greater overall earnings and experience point profile than most other crops available in the game. This means that the Fans who had access to the Super Pumpkins for longer gained a much greater bonus than those players who weren’t fans and had a shorter window for planting this crop.
Special Items
Being a Fan also gives you the opportunity to send special gifts and to receive other updates and information that players who aren’t Fans are not privy to. You can even have the game site send you email updates to let you know when your crops are ready for harvesting so that you don’t have to worry about keeping track of this yourself. As you can see, there really is no reason not to become a FarmVille Fan – you’ll be able to get ahead in the game without expending any extra effort. What could be better than that?
