Awesome & Addictive

Love this game and have since 2015 when I played it on my laptop. Love the tournament’s. There’s always something new and interesting going on. Love the bond you create with your co-op family. The only thing that really makes me sad about this game is that when they created the Mobile Harvest version they excluded it from Big Farm desktop version rather than just make an app for the same game that exists on your pc. This leaves you with a decision to try and play through the GG website on your mobile device as a workaround but it’s barely functional and only leads to frustration. The other decision you have is start all over from the ground up losing your rank, farm, money gold and extremely hard work. I think that if you do want to change over to the mobile version then you should be able to transfer the gold you purchased and the farm money you worked for to the mobile version to buffer having to start from the ground up again. It’s a mobile world and pc games are just not as popular as they used to be. The workaround is a flop. I will say it again that I’m just very sad that it was done this way but what can I say other than A Farmers Life is Full of Strife. : )

Fantastic

I’ve played a lot of games, and this one is by far the most generous and balanced. Spending is not required to grow in and enjoy the game. The Devs have designed a game, that with strategy and patience, will provide everything the player needs. Yes, you progress faster if you spend, as it should be. Updates bring bugs, but that is the case with every game I’ve played. The Devs respond to resolve them. That is all that can expected. Also, each update has incorporated changes to address player feedback on game modes that don’t work well. All in all, it is a fairly well designed game, that continues to evolve to be better, and is fun to play. Side bar: I think trying to “win” this game is like trying to “win” at yoga. This is more of a “it’s the journey, not the destination” kinda game.

You’ve gotten too greedy Big Farm

The game was fun, updates have always been an issue (mostly due to bugs added in with each one), but the latest is just too far over the top. You can play alone or in a group, but now the contracts all want things you need to spend real cash on if you plan on getting anything done. Big Farm claims it is to keep the game challenging for the long term, but they have gone too far. It is no fun to ditch all your contracts and have to wait hours to maybe have the chance of getting a fish that you can turn into the latest golden ticket (mallets) so you can upgrade layers of items to finally make the newest addition to the game, honey. I don’t know at what level you need to be to have the honey forced down your throat, but once you get there, it isn’t fun. Great job at making everyone mad at you Big Farm! And it continues! Now you need the glorious water buckets to get a sheep pen to make hats at the tailor shop. Plus you need those mallets to upgrade your manufactory to get the dye to make colored items in the tailor shop. The honey requests became outrageous and this last update seems to have reduced that at least. They just can’t leave well enough alone! Or maybe they know they are making it outrageous to play without spending real money and add something they plan to fix so it looks like they listened and fixed something??

Green Eyed Monster of Greed

The developers get players engaged and enjoying the game. However, the longer you play, the more you need to spend real world dollars to get anywhere. Currently, my next 9x9 plot of land (which will only hold one field, orchard, or pen of livestock) will cost $262 real world dollars to purchase enough in game gold to purchase the plot OR 47 million in-game earned dollars which can take upwards of 3-4 months of grinding to earn... and then there won’t be any currency to buy the needed building, field, etc. without the required buildings, etc., you cannot produce the items needed to sell and progress in the game. If everyone in my co-op bought one 9x9 plot of land at $262 real world dollars, that is $7,860 real world dollars not withstanding what the developers are making off of the ads players must watch in lieu of produce sales contracts. It seems like the developers, instead of fixing glitches and crashes continue to add more and more expensive Road blocks that serve no purpose but to add dollars to their bottom line. If you want to play, welcome aboard, but just be warned that it’s real world expensive and the in-game currency conversions get to the point where you aren’t earning enough to not have to use real world currency. Devs, you need to re-think the fine line between profitable and out-right extortion.

Developers Ignore Player Input

How many times can one company make the same mistake?? Over and over again new updates are issued with new glitches and bugs - and NOTHING is done to fix the ongoing connection issues we’ve been dealing with for many many months. I LOVE this game and have played it for many years - both the PC and now the mobile version, but these new buildings and new style coop tourney (and the sparkly bubbles - whose idea was THAT) may be the turning point for me. I don’t want to be told how to run our coop projects for tourney. We’ve always been able to plan our own coop strategies and concentrate on projects we enjoy. Why should we be forced to run projects that we hate and our farms are not set up for? And the three new buildings with products you can’t make a profit on? Market orders that include the products have laughable rewards. This is just another gold grab trying to force people to buy what they need to expand their farms. I do spend real money on the game but am cancelling my subscription and will not buy any more packages until I see a real difference in the way you treat your customers. I’m so disappointed in your latest game changes and in the direction you’re taking this great game. You’re ruining a good thing. 😠😡

No point in having it

This game is fun at first when you’re barely learning how to play , but everything takes FOREVER!!! 3-4 hours to produce things ?! When you’re at like level one and trying to level up , it goes by fast. Everything produces fast and that’s when you have the most coins to be able to speed things up. But then when you get to like level 8-9 it starts taking forever. You start planting everything and producing things and since it takes so long to finish you end up leaving the app because there’s nothing to do , and you end up forgetting to come back to it. So like there’s no point in having it if that’s what the games gonna be like Edit: so I wrote this review a few days ago and they responded saying it’s supposed to be playable over a long period of time. But it’s those features that make people not want to play it. I understand leveling up is supposed to be challenging as time goes on but making things take forever to produce and grow , makes people not want to play it for a long time. To make this game better and a bigger hit , I suggest changing that.

Banned Crickets

This has been my experience… loved the game, had worked up to over level 100 (which takes quite a bit of loyal dedication, time, and planning on your farm), had a great co-op with helpful friends working together. Then one day I open the app, ready to show my farm some love and up pops a window that says “this account has been banned. Contact support .” Banned? I assumed this was some type of glitch as I had just recently updated the app and things like that can happen. I waited and tried. Still banned. I have not the faintest idea why. And apparently support doesn’t either. I contacted support and provided screenshots of the messages launching on startup of the app. It’s been over two weeks… and well, crickets. No response. I have replied to the help ticket (as suggested in the confirmation of the first message) two times with more info and nothing. Just the lonely sound of crickets on a farm that doesn’t exist anymore. So, if you decide to play, don’t get too attached. One day, you might find yourself ghosted colder than your least favorite ex ever did to you.

I used to love this game but....

recently they added a sparkly bubble to the game that appears like fireworks every time you touch the screen. EVERY TIME!! I am now unable to play do to this as it triggers a migraine. There are other changes which make every one unhappy but the game is still playable it just takes a lot longer to progress and you may not be able to participate in some of the competitions. To each their own. I’m just disappointed I can’t play at all without developing a debilitating migraine. Thank you for the response and for removing the sparkly bubble, but I literally lost millions of game dollars in product, time and resources due to the fact that I COULD NOT PLAY!! Your lack of action and communication on this matter is awful. You waited a full week to do anything about it even though hundreds of people were telling you they were experiencing physical distress over this addition. But you were more worried about the darn cooperative tournament uproar and the fact that players were threatening to cancel their subscriptions over it and not watch any ads than anything else.

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