In the comments on a previous post, Chivy asks if there is a way to play this game with just your friends. She is upset about being bought around by other people, and bought back every time one of her friends comes to the rescue.
There are a couple things here...
First, if you have installed the game, then you are choosing to participate in this game. Everybody can buy you, from friends to coworkers to strangers. If that upsets you, then remove and block the application. One day, maybe, Siqi and Alex will add some controls to allow you to play just amongst your friends, but I seriously doubt it. One of their goals is to help people make new connections.
Second, the people buying Chivy back every time is a basic strategy for making money (though eventually, they'll have to not buy her back to realize that gain), or maybe they simply like her profile picture and truly want to keep her. To stop them, she could change her profile picture to something awful (see The Hamster Problem), have a friend buy her away, and then (later) change the profile picture back in hopes the traders have forgotten about her.
The simple fact is that FFS is a game. If you install it, then you're placing yourself at the mercy of the rules of the game. People will buy pets you want to keep, they may buy you and apply terrible nicknames, and total strangers may buy you from your friends. Don't get upset at them, and don't leave nasty messages on their FFS wall. It is all part of the game, so just go with it and enjoy playing!
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I totally agree. If you don't want crazies buying you, then tell your friends to bid you up.
I certainly hope there one day is a proper friends-only option. Private profiles are already a dodgy version of it. It would be a lot more pleasant to be able to play without worrying about crazies abusing people for buying them.
It would not be difficult to encourage people verbally and financially to play openly, and there would no longer be any confusion.
Of course, the private pet problem needs to solved first, or this would be a disaster.
I have to agree with sabretoof, and I have to agree with him strongly. The thing is some of us have only installed the application to play amongst our friends.
Trouble with this open-game setup is that you never know who buys you, for what reasons, what horrible nicknames they might possibly give you. And frankly, I do NOT want to be someone's toy or whatever... I want to be able to control who buys me, either by choosing to play with friends only or by having an option to reject someone's offer/bid to buy me ;)
The creator of this application should consider its user's wishes.
even if u dont install u get bought, its disturbing when ur owned buy sum stranger without knowing...
Tomas, my comments were not intended to encourage people from playing friends-only. Quite the opposite - I think if you don't like the game as its supposed to be played, you shouldn't play it.
No one is forcing you to install it. (and you should only be able to bought by non-friends if you're uninstalled in response to the other poster) The developers aren't required to respect anyone's wishes if participation is voluntary.
My comments merely reflect the fact that some people who have installed FFS are somewhat unhinged and cause all manner of grief for the proper players. That's the only reason I think it should be added.
And as for the nicknames issue, there are already reporting mechanisms for that.
sabretoof, that is absolutely correct - the application is voluntary to install, no arguing about that one. On the other hand, I still think that for those who'd only like to play friends only there should be a magical button allowing them to do so. The thing is, facebook is a community which is actually made out of (and broken into) many many smaller groups, communities, families, networks - call it whatever you like. Anyhow, some of us want to be part of it, but still keep some distance (or privacy) at the same time ;)
Two years later, the problem seems to have worsened.
Those people who otherwise insists that their wishes of not being sold be respected have invented "Not for sale": a rule designed to impair everyone's fair game.
There is already "friends-only mode", but some people refuse to use it because they demand a built-in "Not for sale" feature.
I don't know why players like them exist in the game. I decided to start a campaign to abolish their made-up rule.
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