Makers of ‘Farmville’ to Roll Out New Game That Allows ‘Virtual Sex’
- Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:34pm by
Liz Klimas
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Screenshot from video presentation at Zynga press conference by CNET's Rafe Needleman. (Image: CNET)
“Farmville,” the innocent social network game made popular by Facebook and created by the company Zynga, lets players get points by cultivating their farms and rearing animals. The company has dabbled into other “villes” and games, but Farmville is arguably its most notable. On Wednesday though the company launched another social game with a not so innocent activity included.
CNET reports the game — simply called The Ville – will be more about social interaction with other players and will include “virtual sex” outside of virtual wedlock. CNET has more:
According to Zynga executive producer David Gray, when someone is in your house and you begin to interact with them, you can level up by interacting with them in ways that the game sees as romantic. As you climb the experience tree, you eventually unlock the capability to initiate the “happiness home run,“ or just ”whoopee,” as Gray called it in an interview.
When you do so, the two characters begin to disrobe on-screen (not completely, though) and the bed in the virtual bedroom gets covered, briefly, with little floating hearts.
Then it’s over. Congratulations.
While you can have virtual sex in The Ville, you cannot yet get virtually married. And there are no virtual consequences, like children. Some pro-family groups are bound to take issue with that.
Watch the trailer for the game:
Even with this adult activity, the game is not age restricted. Given that it is played via a Facebook login — and Facebook users technically need to be 13 or older — those younger than 13 should conceivably not be allowed to access the game.
(Related: Should Facebook officially open itself up to the under 13 crowd?)
CNET describes this game as a borderline dating app. When you interact with people in their The Ville environments, you do have the option of seeing the person’s actual Facebook profile as well. But Zynga’s Senior Vice President of Product Development Mark Skaggs told CNET that the “romantic” aspect of this is only a small part and not the focus of the game.
(Image: The Ville/Zynga)
“The inspiration really does come from the dollhouse genre and from YoVille [Zynga's first "ville" game],” Skaggs said to CNET. “We’re trying to come at it from a wholesome point of view.”
According to the press release, The Ville gives players the opportunity to ”become the ultimate home designers and express themselves in the way they decorate their homes.“ Socializing with friends and ”earning happiness“ is how players advance to ”unlock new decorations, social objects and advanced relationship interactions with their friends.”
(H/T: CBS Local)
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Comments (60)
AzThunder
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 9:13pmI’m sure this is a dream come true for obama!, look what he wakes up next to every morning
Report Post »Conservative-Atheist
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 9:01pmPfft…who cares. Facebook sucks anyway. Not for me.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:48pmLots of extra points for welfare and anchor babies I hope.
Report Post »AnimalsAsLeaders
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:27pmBack in my day, we had sex with real people.
Report Post »Teufel Hunden
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:55pmAfter all night arguing back and forth over who did what, the sailor proclaimed that the Navy invented sex. The Marine said, “that may be, but we introduced it to women”. Oooorah!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:03pmWhat’s next? The LGBT or NAMBLA versions? The teacher/student version? The Sharia version?
This is just crazy. Keep sex out of games. How about the Angry Birds and Angry Bees version?
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:13pmHave you ever heard of the site “Chaturbate”? talk about some losers. I’d rather play the game instead of looking at the ugly people on that site.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:18pm@salvawhoray
“Have you ever heard of the site “Chaturbate”?”
Nope…. and I’m afraid to even try going there.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:36pmHey Monk, thanks for the warning on that. When I first read it I was about to punch that word into the search engine. Then I completed the statement. Now, it’s the furthest thing from my mind.
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:23pmBoy are you going to be upset when you find out how much sex and violence the bible has it it!
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 2:33amHow many people are going to have virtual sex with someone, only to find out later that their partner is a 9 year old boy?
What are the legal ramifications of that? Could criminal charges be filed?
Report Post »HI_Don
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:34pmNothing I saw in the game description stated it was conventional relationships. I would assume if they thought it “fun” and “productive” to have this game involve social interactions of facebook accounts, something tells me that these won’t just be virtual heterosexual households, no matter their desire to “come at this in a wholesome manner” or not.
“According to Zynga executive producer David Gray, when someone is in your house and you begin to interact with them, you can level up by interacting with them in ways that the game sees as romantic. As you climb the experience tree, you eventually unlock the capability to initiate the “happiness home run,“ or just ”whoopee,” as Gray called it in an interview. When you do so, the two characters begin to disrobe on-screen” end quote.
They seem awful careful NOT to mention gender or orientation. They also don’t allow virtual marriage, perhaps because of pending actual marriage controversy??
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:00pmWill they have multiplayer support? Maybe this can be an interface to AshleyMadison.com where we can cheat virtually? LOL
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:39pmCan you Virtually kill a Cheating Lover?
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:41pm“the “romantic” aspect of this is only a small part and not the focus of the game.”
Report Post »Riiiighhttttt…
The-Monk
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:15pm“Farmville,” the innocent social network game made popular by Facebook….”
When Robert Gibbs left the WH to work at Facebook I was wondering what he would be doing there.
This “game change” has Sociocommiearxist written all over it. Karl Marx would approve. : (
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:23pmWill this new addition to the game have “random consequences” like; AIDS, HIV, pregnancy, abortions, Crabs, etc?
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:38pmIs this company affiliated with the “department of education” by chance..?
Report Post »EROCK17
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:22pmIts just a sims rip off. Nothing more, nothing less. The term whoopie is even used.
Report Post »desertdink
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:07pmHere is a thought…how about these wannabees TRULY design homes, socialize with friends, and experience REAL happiness in the REAL world? Our youth are fast becoming completely incapable of actual person-to-person social interaction, developing critical interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively communicate a point or think critically beyond the cryptic minutia they bounce off each other with alarming frequency.
I guess SIMS and FARMVILLE were getting too boring and needed to be “sexed” up. Pathetic…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:04pmWho, but prepubescents would want to participate in virtual sex? Does someone actually get off on this?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:34pmThe real world just keeps getting crazier. I can only imagine what teenagers raised in the “virtual” world are going to be like as adults.
The generation raised in front of TV‘s from the 1980’s have abandonment issues.
The generation raised with the camcorders in the 1990′s are “it’s all about me”.
The 2000′s brought us youtube and facebook to make everyone a star in their own minds.
20teens are going to be narcissistic, life-is-just-a-virtual game, maybe worth living, maybe not.
God help them!
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:03pmAll wholesome shows or games are not all moral. This is one of them.
Report Post »joarivera
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:00pmZynga should restrict this game for the underage. Other than the age thing, I can’t wait to play.
Report Post »SCgunner
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:08pmhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ;0)
Report Post »Locked
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:58pmLooks like a more limited, less interesting version of the Sims. Nothing new.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:57pmAnd the BLaze calls itself a “christian based” website. Tisk tisk. The hypocrisy is glaring with the non stop stories promoting racism against non-whites, sex, and brutal violence.
Report Post »desertdink
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:10pmHey TM…Exactly how does one promote RACISM against “sex” and “brutal violence”. You are being even less coherent than usual.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:55pmGreat…next level stuff is about sex…gee how original, eh?
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:55pmThis will make a nice outlet for the old and angry Beckbots to release a lot of their tension. Because its been decades since most of them have had sex with someone besides themselves…LOL!
Report Post »Obamammy
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:29pmTM did we catch you in the middle of taking a dump or masturbating into your own feces?
Report Post »desertdink
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:32pmI always find it humorous how the misinformed left think the religious right are somehow sexually repressed as they snicker and chortle at our reactions to such news. Well…there is nothing in the Bible against men and women who are married having exceedingly active sex lives, and I can assure you, we do. In fact, there are warnings against married folk NOT having copious sex to keep temptation at bay.
Sex, like virtually everything else, has a Godly way to be expressed and an unGodly way to be expressed. One is God-pleasing, one is not.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:38pmBravo! Very well said, DESERTDINK!
Report Post »TrollBane
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:23amYou are quite mistaken, a relatively recent study has shown that on average conservatives have better sex lives. A simple search would reveal this. Perhaps this is why we don’t feel the need to constantly venture off into the realm of weird such as playing sad little facebook games.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:54pmBreaking News! Barbie made dolls kids can use to make simulated sex! Breaking News! Movies now have people act out simulated sex! Breaking News! Music in every genre verbally describe sex!
I think get the point. Really… This been going on for years and… surprise since the beginning of time. If you like then don’t play. Just like you shouldn’t buy, watch or listen. You should allow you child to use any content without getting the facts and checking it yourself.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:53pmThey should have named it Satan’s playhouse….
Report Post »The1stDave
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:42pmThat would have been secondlife from lindon labs.
Report Post »Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:52pmThese type of immoral games help people living in a fantasy world under a bridge cope with the minutes on earth God has given them. What a waste.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:47pmLOL, I can see Howard Wolowitz going for the first copy.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:54pmWonder if they make an all male version so that Sheldon Cooper can play….Bazinga!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:05pmOh .. my … yes Howard and Sheldon were my first thought also … Shelville … with Shelmart … and now Shel will finally “get some” … BAZINGA INDEED.
Now we know what Howard has been “engineering” ;-)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:06pmI wonder if they will use this to put Howards new marriage in trouble …. I can see him getting hooked … saying it isn’t cheating.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:16pmAt least Raj would get to play since he wouldn’t have to get virtually drunk talk to a woman.
As for Howard, this would be a new place for him to hook up with Glissinda the Troll. The bedroom is bound to be more comfy then the Bridge of Souls.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:52pmAll funny posts here. I like that show and can see them arguing over who’s turn it is like the Time Machine. LOL
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:48pmThey could do a whole episode with Kripke in front of the screen.
Report Post »hi
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:46pmIf Zynga sets up virtual sexual interactions with 13-17 year old, they should be thrown in jail just as a pimp of pedophiles is.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:45pmDon’t you just love where our morals and values have gone!
Report Post »Vydunas
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:44pmShrug. It looks like it has the same relationship to sex as FarmVille does to farming. Just as there are no droughts, insects or diseases in Farmville, there will be no pregnancy or VD here.
Report Post »AffirmationChick
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 4:44pmThe Sims, in both local and Facebook app form, has allowed this for years now. I’m as pro traditional morals as the next person, but not sure why this is a story.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:18pmYeah, it looks like a lawsuit from The Sims would be imminent.
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