FarmVille is coming to an end.
FarmVille is coming to an end.
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In its death throes, Adobe’s Flash kills off Zynga’s original FarmVille

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

Adobe is terminating its Flash software today, and with it will go Zynga’s original FarmVille game from 2009.

That brings to an end an era of social gaming that will be remembered in history with mixed emotions. Some people hated the spammy nature of FarmVille and its boring gameplay, while others appreciated what it tried to do in making games more social and appealing to untapped demographic groups such as older women.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.