I know everyone is heartbroken about Farmville closing down at the end of the year. I have gotten together with a group of other farmers and we've started a petition to try and save the game! We all know it's impossible to save all 60+ farms, it would be an incredible undertaking and likely cost a ton of money. So, what we're proposing instead is that once Farmville is done on FB they start it from the home farm on another platform.

Zynga has it's own game room where you can play all the other Farmville games as an alternative to FB so why not bring the OG Farmville there once FB no longer wants it?

By starting from scratch, they could cut the costs of reprogramming by a ton because they could either program that single farm from scratch in the new format or convert the current farm code for the Home Farm to a non-flash code.

From everything we've read and the answers we've gotten over the past couple weeks, it seems like the main reason they decided to put Farmville out to pasture, is because it would be entirely too much work and money to convert all 60+ farms that they have put out over the years and that is completely understandable.

However, it seems that the majority of us farmers (we've talked to the farmers in several farmville groups) would be perfectly happy, thrilled even to start over fresh on the original farm on another platform if it means saving the game.

Sign our petition to show Zynga that we're still here, we still want to play and we would be happy to start over if that's what it takes to save the game we've all been playing for the last 11 years! We already have a great start so keep that momentum going!

https://www.change.org/p/zynga-start-farmville-again-on-a-new-platform-when-flash-expires?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_25237749_en-GB:0&recruiter=58158241&recruited_by_id=3ab9bf40-db77-0130-4b82-00221967ea1d&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=share_petition

So this may sound sappy but I will really miss my farms. FV was there for 2 separate knee replacements and aided in the recovery of a torn bicep tendon. Seriously, the Dr. agreed that all the clicking around was good for tendon recovery (who knew, right). There were times I would not play for days and days I would play for hours. But just to the left it was always there "Farmville". I have played from the beginning....I find myself missing it already.

Zilch Nada Nothing..... Really upset and angry. They would have known and should have sorted it long ago. Started playing at the beginning what a shame!

@royalpains said:
You don't know what they are doing or how long they have been working on it. That is not what FV support told ME when I emailed them. So I am not sure your friend contacted Zynga. I am willng to give them a chance. They say they are working on it and I see no reason for them to lie. They know we are not stupid.

While I admire your determination about the game continuing you really need to stop telling people that their friends are lying and that they are exaggerating. It's not our fault that Zynga is discontinuing your favorite game. You don't have the right to take it out on the rest of the world. That's just being childish.
All Zynga has publicly stated was that they will keep the game running until the end of the year. Read that link that I posted above. Adobe Flash player will no longer work as of Dec. 31. You won't be able to play it on Gameroom, that game archive, etc. It will be gone unless Zynga changes their mind or if they sell it to someone else who can do something with it. Their stock price is actually surging. They have plenty of non-Facebook games that are doing just fine. They may not want to invest any more money into FV. I do hope that they will sell it though like they did with Yoville. My sister still plays that game and has a lot of friends from the original batch that she played with all those years ago. It has its moments, but having people who know how to code running it made a big difference as well.

Please consider starting farmville 1 on a new platform when adobe ends. Farmville 2 is not the same and I will not be moving over. It makes sence to start a game you know will be popular!!!

Seeing as how the game ends in December it would be nice if would could expand our farms with coins instead of FV cash and clear our gift boxes out. I know they probably won't do that though