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Re:Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years by Larrikin on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:04PM (#25609958)
Isn't Farmville a rip off of Harvest Moon? I assume any Chinese mobile game they ripped off was itself a rip off from Natsume's Super Nintendo game.
Re:Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years by somehnrdr14726 on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:23PM (#25610081)
Farmville and Harvest Moon share a theme and maybe even an aesthetic but are in different genres. Harvest Moon is a single player sim game. Farmville is an async multiplayer invest/express. Zynga popularized the genre.

The closest "rip off" to Harvest Moon would be Stardew Valley, but no one ever refers to it that way because rip off is not a useful term for conveying taxonomy. Rip off is only useful for displaying derision towards genres the writer doesn't enjoy.