Talk:White Poinsettia/@comment-92.234.181.151-20110115084642/@comment-70.248.117.146-20110116210358

The point is this: when time is short, demand goes UP. You can't seriously deny this. Look at the comments of people short on time who want to finish. Without demand, time doesn't matter. With short time AND people who have invested a lot of effort and fall "just short," the demand for "buying" seeds goes up.

Simply put: once you can no longer get seeds free, buying them becomes more acceptable. SO, zynga will sell more LE crop seeds,especially if hey offer them one or possibly two days after the free ones are no longer available.

If people at zynga can't see this or the benefit from this, they shouldn't be in business.

We aren't talking re-inventing the wheel here. We're talking about setting a running time for a thing 48 hours longer than the running time of another thing.

What's the alternative? Pissing people off. Driving them away from LE events. Driving people away from FarmVille in general. Hmmmmmm, if it would 1) make people happy, 2) benefit the company through sales, and 3) keep people in the game longer ... what's the downside?

Also, if FarmVille won't do it, Green Farm and these other farm games will. "Hey Betty. Are you still playing FarmVille?  How frustrating!  I've been playing XFarm for three months without all the BS I saw in the other game.  Come join me!" and you lose more and more people.

If you build it, they will come.