Announcement Open Beta Unity/WebGL Client Testing

Howdy farmers,

Finally, we can announce the start of the Open Beta of the Farmerama Unity/WebGL Client. It starts on Wednesday, 30th of September at 16:00 CEST! YAY!
It has been a long rocky way for the Farmerama team, but now we are just excited and to some extend relieved.

Probably you can imagine that the last years were a huge challenge for us and we don´t want to mention all details as this would end in writing a novel. Some of you can surely understand that porting the game to a new technology isn´t as easy as it might sound. It's not just “copying” the existing game to something new – it's a way more complex procedure.

During the last years, the Unity technology has developed drastically: the performance has been optimized constantly, so at one point during the last year we decided to make fundamental changes to our architecture which meant: starting almost from scratch. We assume that most of you can understand how difficult such decisions are, but we did everything with the focus of guaranteeing the best quality and performance for you.

Surely all this meant more work, more compromises, and in the end more time pressure but it was worth the effort. Basically, we not only achieved that Farmerama won´t die together with Flash technology but also assured a long future for the game.
So, from Wednesday onwards you can easily switch to the Unity/WebGL client and play Farmerama. Of course, there is still some work left but overall, we are satisfied with the current status. We prepared a FAQ which includes many relevant information and will hopefully answer most of your questions. Please take your time and carefully read the Unity Open Beta FAQ. Thanks a lot.

On another note: It can potentially happen we can't migrate everyone to the Unity/WebGL client, most likely due to “older” Hardware/machines which are used. This means that some of you might not be able to access the Unity/WebGL client.
BUT in that case, we do everything in our power to assure that everyone will be able to continue playing Farmerama – in parallel to the Unity/WebGL client we already started working on alternatives. As always, we will keep you posted on time.

We would be super grateful if everyone could try the Unity/WebGL Client and of course we are grateful for all bug reports too (please read the instructions in the thread carefully: Unity Open Beta Bug Reports. As described the moderatos in alignment with our CS department will review and translate the reported issues to pass those to the Farmerama team. Before reporting a bug, please have a look if the bug has been reported already by another player – this will reduce the workload for our moderators immense.

Moreover, please also take some minutes and fulfil the “Data Collection” File: https://forms.gle/ZyQCdEHonQZJVuJM6 It will help us enormously! All details can be found in the Unity Open Beta FAQ.

As usual, we welcome every feedback; you can exchange your impressions/opinions and experiences here. Please be as constructive and detailed as possible so we can easily understand and tackle the feedback efficiently if needed. The moderatos will support us with summarizing the feedback on a regular basis so nothing will get lost.

In a few weeks we will spread a small feedback survey to all players too. The details will be announced later as usual via official announcement and in game news.
Some of you might be curios what happened to Renzo´s Fun Fair. Well, it's working smoothly in the Unity/WebGL version. You should definitely give it a try It´s fun, fun, fun!

Other than the return of Renzo we reworked the Market a bit. So, what has changed? Of course: you can simply try it out and of course you can also check the updated Market FAQ.
So, what else?

Most importantly we want to say THANK YOU! Thank you, our players, who didn´t lose trust and stayed loyal. Our biggest goal was to prove to you that we not only believe in the future of Farmerama but also execute in a sustainable way on it. Although some of you mistrusted our statements now and then, we never lost focus and we always knew that “the day will come”. Thanks to everyone who is now as excited as we are and who is supporting us during the last phase until we will officially start the new era: “Farmerama in Unity”.

Did we forget something?
Maybe a small goodie? Ok, let´s do it

Everyone who uses the Code “OPENBETA” will get 15 x Super-grow, 1 x Event Plant EP Booster and 1 x Carrot-apple chutney booked to his/her user account. The code is valid from Wednesday, 30th of September from 00:01 CEST onwards, claimable once per user account and valid until 3rd of October at 23:59 CEST.

Last……
But never the least: THANKS to every moderator in the Farmerama universe. Your constant support was extraordinary. We are sure that some of you felt that the goal will never be reached. We also know that we requested a lot during the last years – thanks to you we can run Farmerama in any technology! Thanks to you we never lost trust in ourselves and thanks to your support we were able to identify issues early enough. We can never fully describe our gratitude, but we hope that you know how much we value each one of you. And we hope that everyone will treat you with the respect, kindness and understanding you deserve! Thank you!

We will update you constantly about any news, so keep an eye on the official announcements.

Thank you for your time and enjoy “Farmerama Unity”
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Best Regards,
Your Farmerama Team

 

Howdy farmers,

As of some last minute bugs fixes we decided to postpone the start of the Open Beta for the Unity/WebGL client to 16:00 CEST!

We will prepare a small second bonus code for the weekend to compensate for the prolonged waiting time.​

Thanks for your understanding and support,
Your Farmerama Team