Facebook Games - Why Pay to Play?

Facebook games have become incredibly popular with people from all walks of life, in all age groups, and scattered all around the world. What sets this game platform apart from many others is that the games attract just as many adults as children and teenagers. In fact, since Facebook is not supposed to be used by younger children, most of the games are designed with teenage and adult users in mind.

Anyone with a Facebook account can play the games for free, but it is difficult to advance to high levels on each game without paying for some added privileges. It is entirely possible to play the games for years without ever spending real money from your pocket. You just won't get nearly as far in those years as you would with some financial investment. You basically play to accelerate the game.

For example, take the popular Fronteirville Facebook game. Players start with a blank plot of land and a cabin. They can eventually create a dynamic frontier complete with stores, buildings, ponds, campsites, and fruit trees. They can even earn the right to bring a spouse and children onto the frontier so life is more enjoyable. The first task is to clear the trees and kill off the snakes and bears that come out of the woods naturally.

The catch is that it costs the player to kill off snakes, chop down trees, and build up the frontier. There are also challenges that allow players collect basic items that are cashed in for items to be placed on their frontier. The items are collected mainly by collecting rewards for doing jobs. This means rewards are given when a snake is killed, a tree is harvested, or an animal is milked. Unfortunately, there is only a certain amount of work that can be performed within a twenty-four hour period.

Players may also visit their neighbor's frontiers and do work for them in order to collect these rewards. They can only visit each friend and work once within a twenty-four hour period and the amount of work they can do while there is limited.

Players may also post messages on their Facebook pages asking their friends to send them items they are trying to collect. Those are all of the free ways to collect the items and trade them in for valuable items that build up their frontiers.

This process takes a long time, especially for players that don't have a lot of Facebook friends sending items as gifts. In order to speed things up, many players opt to purchase the items they need to collect rather than collecting them or waiting to receive them as gifts. Credits can be purchased to add real money to the Facebook account, allowing players to instantly purchase the items they need for their frontiers.

Not everyone can afford to spend this money on games like Fronteirville, but many can and they do on a daily basis. They are often the players that have the most impressive gaming accounts, since they buy the big ticket items that others have to work to achieve over a long period of time.

Advancing in the game faster is the only reason to pay to play Facebook games. Many are content to just play at a leisurely pace, but others want to see their frontiers, farms and restaurants advance much faster. Those are the players who choose to pay to play.

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