What Am I Up To These Days

It has been while since I have written anything on the blog. With the holiday season, there were endless shopping and food preparations to do, countless gatherings to attend, and the weather wasn’t really cooperating and brought us endless amount of snow to shovel. (On the bright side, I really prefer a white Christmas over a green Christmas.) There seems to be hardly any time left for anything else. Even my clothes seem to have no more room for more stuff. (It’s probably a sign that I should start my swimming routine again. Hehehe!) Now that I am back to work, my schedule seems to be getting unusually overwhelming and my new found addiction doesn’t help to improve the situation.

What kind of nasty addiction do I have? You might ask. It’s a new Facebook game called “Pet Society” and it’s created by a company called Playfish. (The same people who did “Who Has the Biggest Brain?” game) Remember those mini apps that we used to add in Facebook: there were some that allows you to adopt an animal; there were some that lets you to decorate a room; there were some that helps you to send virtual gifts to your friends. “Pet Society” is all of the above. Once you have added the application, you can create your own pet. He can do various activities, such as skipping, play ball or Frisbee and run hurdles to gain coins. These coins will allow you to buy various items in the town. By using the Facebook API, this game also allows you to visit pets that your friends might have. I always love to see how my friends are dressing up their pets. The most genius part of this game is that you can buy these mystery boxes where as the name suggested you don’t know what it contains. Sometimes, it will give you some extremely rare item or some common food item. Since some of the items are so rare, some players play all day long to make enough coins to buy numerous mystery boxes in order to get what they want. You can also trade items with other people; however, you might run the risk of cheaters who don’t trade as they promised. The last route is to actually pay real money to buy these virtual coins. That’s not a line that I am willing to cross for an online game. Honestly, I rather do some real shopping in the real mall. However, after I have read a thread on an online forum, I found out that around one third of the players actually pay real money to play the game. Some people even admitted to spending hundreds of dollars on the game. No wonder some houses are always filled will the latest and the most expensive items. At the rate that this game is going, “Pet Society” probably will need to release special “credit cards” for these serious shopaholics.

There are some people who pretty much collect every single that have been released in the game and they get upset because they couldn’t get one of those rare items. However, I really don’t think that’s the original goal of the game. After all, you are supposed to have fun playing the game. It’s actually quite fun just to visit other pets and decorating your own home. Like real life, you can’t have everything but that doesn’t mean that you can’t have some fun. Try this game and visit my pet, Pinko! Who knows, I might even send you a treat.