Facebook 'Happy Farm' player starves virtual guard dogs -- plans to sue
FarmVille and Happy Farm -- helping Facebookers grow the nicest virtual cabbage since '09.Happy Farm is a Facebook application similar to the astoundingly popular FarmVille. Can 58 million players be wrong?
In both Facebook app games, players grow their 'farms' by raising livestock, trading grown produce and protecting their goods from nefarious Facebook enemies. In Happy Farm, a player can buy guard dogs to protect their hard-earned farms.
Such is the case with a Taiwanese netzien named Hsu. Hsu plans to sue Facebook because he claims that he, "spent a total of NT$2,000 (S$86) in seven days on a game on the Facebook Web site named 'Happy Farm,' and accused the company of luring consumers into spending more money on the game," according to an AsiaOne report.
Hsu spent the money on virtual guard dogs to protect his Happy Farm property against other players. Unfortunately for Hsu he neglected his virtual best friends by not feeding them, forcing them to take a breather while on the job and allowing other players go on a Hsu farm raiding spree. Hsu is upset he has to pay to feed the virtual bowsers, and says that Happy Farm tricked him into spending money.
Facebook has yet to issue Hsu a response to his claims.
What this really boils down to is that there are some very bored people on the Internet. If virtual farming in Happy Farm or FarmVille isn't to your taste and you've got nothing better to do, maybe give Facebook urban city living YoVille a whirl.
