Farm Town Goes Down for 3 Hours – Players Freak Out

farmtownlogoAt 8.3 million monthly players and growing, Farm Town is one of the most popular games on Facebook. Apparently, it’s also one of the most addictive.

Tonight, Farm Town was inexplicably unavailable on Facebook for a period of about 3-4 hours. Apparently, the developers of the game had some significant server problems, according to a note they posted in user forums. However, that didn’t stop users from expressing their sadness:

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We’ve received several questions about whether the application’s downtime is related to policy actions on ad networks earlier this evening. Right now, it appears as though that is not the case. We’ll let you know if we hear any more information.

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4 Responses to “Farm Town Goes Down for 3 Hours – Players Freak Out”

  1. virtual worlds says:

    Future of virtual worlds is here in facebook! Hey where u from? can i add u?

  2. Michael Bauser says:

    That’s why I stick to pen-and-paper games. The Dungeon Masters Guide never has a outage.

  3. T says:

    My sight received 6000 page impressions, over 2000 visitors in a four hour span ish when Facebook’s online Game Farm Town dissappeared from Facebook. Safe to say this game is a hit!

  4. Christian Cryder says:

    jumbo journal you’ve receive

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