For years FarmVille was Facebook’s most popular game.
at the peak of its popularity in 2010, a year after it launched. This was reportedly more than twice the number of its next closest competitor on the platform.The end of Flash support on browsers and devices means that some of the most popular browser-based games for the early days of the internet will be rendered unplayable after December 31. Flashpoint, a software preservation effort, is attempting to salvage the situation by archiving as many such games as possible.
, it has managed to create backups of 59,000 games so far, but this does not include Farmville or other server-based or commercially sold games.that it was planning to end support for Flash in 2020. Flash is used by a number of websites hosting games, video clips and education software, all of which will stop working once support is removed from browsers. While extremely popular Flash was proprietary software that was often riddled with compatibility and security issues.
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