How did you start playing Hay Day!

[drdolittle]

I used to play a lot of various farm games in the computer. Stopped for a while and then a few months after I switched to the iPhone I started looking for free games including farm games; found Hay Day and been a self-proclaimed addict since March-April of this year. Farm-on!!

[shellbell]

Is this really popular among mothers and their kids?

I travel a lot for work, want to find a way to keep connected with my children. Do you think this game might be a good way to connect?

I travel a lot for work as well and my daughter and I definitely play while I'm gone. The only bad part is she'll sometimes keep calling and texting me while I'm tied up in meetings asking things like "Do you have a plank you can sell me? It's an emergency!"...lol

[LadyJEM5]

My 18 yr old daughter had it installed on my IPad, so when she went to the beach with friends for a week, she asked me to check in on her farm, collect the eggs & milk, do the daily WOF spin, and one other thing so she could get that achievement.

By the time she returned from her vacation, she discovered her level 17 farm had been subjected to a takeover by the new management, renamed, and put on the fast track to success. The bank assets had multiplied 10 fold & the level had increased to 28.

She tried to reclaim it, but her play style vs. mine are so radically different that she got tired of hearing my "bake more of those, don't sell that for that, plant this instead" advice, she returned daily management to me and is an in absentia landlord these days. Now on the rare occasion when she does pop in to see how things are doing, she gives me heart palpitations when she begins inventorying the barn & I begin yelling, "Don't spend my diamonds!"

Yeah, I blame my addiction on my teen!

[homeand89]

hahaha what a great story, I might be doing that to my girls one day. How did your daughter find it.

[LadyJEM5]

I think she found it via the IPad free games app, and downloaded it for my other daughter's 5 yr old to play because all the animals were so cute. The baby helps me farm on occasion now, but I keep a firm grip on the pad or else Granny's hard earned diamonds, ice creams, and cheese cakes disappear like wheat under a locust plaque!

[homeand89]

I think she found it via the IPad free games app, and downloaded it for my other daughter's 5 yr old to play because all the animals were so cute. The baby helps me farm on occasion now, but I keep a firm grip on the pad or else Granny's hard earned diamonds, ice creams, and cheese cakes disappear like wheat under a locust plaque!

hahahaha. This is even better. I totally think Hay Day is a great game for kids, which spreads the love to adults. Does your 5 year old grand daughter friends play HD, and addict their parents to it too? hahaha

Also I realized I spent a nice chunk of money to help my daughters grow their farm.

[LadyJEM5]

Not that I'm aware of. The granddaughter got her own tablet for her birthday but its not an Idevice, so we were majorly disappointed that we were unable to download HD, & when she's at her Dad's house, he has a PC only, so no playing there either. Poor baby!

Another of my daughters, the eldest, is wanting to download it on her IPhone but she's been having issues with her service lately, so until that gets resolved, it looks like I'll have to settle for only the one farm to co-opt for the time being. The baby's mother does have an IPhone but refuses to install HD because "You're not getting my phone just for another farm, Mama!" Talk about ingratitude!

[Emhael]

Until some years ago I had no idea of ftp-games; I saw them in the appstore and saw in-game purchases from some euro's to over a hundred. I really thought they had to be joking! Who will spend that much money on a 'free' game, while there are so much nice paid games that cost you less than a 5% or something like that? (Now I know: lots of people are doing so, even if they actually can't afford it).

I wondered if games like that could be played without spending lots of money, so I tryed one out of curiosity. Now I know: some are, and some are certainly NOT. The last one I played before Hay Day was horrible; tasks could not be accomplished without gambling on 'mystery' gifts, spending all of your game currency (which was very hard to get). After you lost on several mystery gifts (giving you lots of stuff you did not need and not giving the item needed for your quest) the onley option was to purchase more of these 'gifts' for real money ('offered' for onley a few days) and not costing you a few cents but something like 8 (or even more) euro a piece. I kicked the game of my Ipad within a few days. (It's a very populair game too it seems; i don't get that.)
In the meantime I had discovered Hay Day (in the appstore i think) loved playing it, and for several months now there is more than enought to do and discover; what I especially like: nothing will die! I can leave the game as long as I want, all crops, animals and little people asking for eggs, wheat or bread are there, patiently waiting for me (my boat will be gone probably, yeah.. that sucks )

[homeand89]

Thank you all for the great information!!!

[KwonChu]

How I started this game is I don't remember honestly. From what I know is I saw this on the top free games. I was very hesitant to play this game because I knew it's going to be like that of FV on FB. But I was reluctant and decided to download and give it a try. After first few levels, I could not get my hands off of this game. Thanks SC for ruining my life (JK).