{"id":729446,"date":"2010-05-19T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10006809"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:20:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:20:33","slug":"tragedy-strikes-facebook-and-farmville-make-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/729446","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy Strikes: Facebook And Farmville Make Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/farm-thumb-158x82-40476.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Facebook and Farmville and Mafia Wars-makers Zynga were <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5536051\/farmville-maker-is-hemorrhaging-players\">bickering over in-game currency<\/a> and the social network took a stand that hampered the game publisher&#8217;s ability to advertise through pseudo-updated on the site, causing the games to lose millions of players.<\/p>\n<p>Kotaku reports all hope for a permanent, irritating games-crippling impasse <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5541960\/facebook-farmville-reach-truce-on-virtual-currency?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotaku%2Ffull+%28Kotaku%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">has been scuttled<\/a>, because Zynga has backed down and agreed to use Facebook Credits, giving the social network a juicy 30 percent cut of all money players throw away into nothingness for no reason whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the continued nagging from friends begging you to help them with their crops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5541960\/facebook-farmville-reach-truce-on-virtual-currency?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotaku%2Ffull+%28Kotaku%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Facebook, Farmville Reach Truce on Virtual Currency<\/a> [Kotaku]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Farmville and Mafia Wars-makers Zynga were bickering over in-game currency and the social network took a stand that hampered the game publisher&#8217;s ability to advertise through pseudo-updated on the site, causing the games to lose millions of players. Kotaku reports all hope for a permanent, irritating games-crippling impasse has been scuttled, because Zynga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33Lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}