Play Farmville on MSN Games

Hey Farmers, you can now play Farmville on MSN Games. Thanks to the partnership between Zynga and Microsoft, the popular Facebook game, Farmville, will now be featured on MSN’s gaming portal. This is the first time that any of Facebook games is appearing on any other website. Earlier in November, Farmville had introduced a separate website Farmville.com, dedicated to the game that has nearly 75 million active users on Facebook. Zynga has been emphasizing to make all of its popular games “platform independent”. It will however pose serious challenges for Zynga to involve users outside Facebook and make the games as enjoyable as they are while playing on social networks. As the current structure of Facebook games is, users tend to share news and exchange gifts and goodies with their friends on Facebook. That’s why Zynga is sticking with Facebook Connect, at least for now. Whether on Farmville.com or on MSN Gaming Zone, you have to connect using Facebook Connect. No separate login is added at the moment.

Its great news to be able to play Farmville on MSN Game Zone but one disappointing fact is that it works only on Internet Explorer and Firefox. So, the users of Safari and Chrome will be hugely disappointed but that’s how Microsoft Game Zone works. Farmville could really boost Microsoft’s online gaming portal so the guys at MSN look very excited with Zynga deal. MSN Game Zone’s homepage is especially themed to introduce Farmville to gamers. Zynga also has plans to bring more games to MSN; Mafia Wars could be the next addition or it could either be Fishville or Petville. It’s still not clear though.

Microsoft is also planning to take some of the games to Windows Live Messenger. That’s going to be very interesting, to play Farmville on Windows Live Messenger while chatting with your contacts online. Partnership of Microsoft and Zynga could really bring some exciting prospects to the life. But for now, enjoy playing Farmville on MSN Game Zone!

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