Addicted to Pet Society

So despite all my attempts at decreasing my internet distractions while I study and write my book, I freely admit that I’m addicted to the Pet Society Facebook application.

I consider myself a novice when it comes to Facebook games, because I usually lose interest quickly, and move on to more productive tasks. So when someone invited me to play Pet Society I read through a couple online reviews, saw there were a lot of active users, and thought, “Sure, why not? I’ll give it a try”. I didn’t expect to get sucked into the endless black hole of casual social gaming… and especially after all this time successfully ignoring a million FarmVille invitations!

My biggest problem is that I’m super competitive when it comes to game scores… As soon as I started playing around on Pet Society and customizing my pet, I noticed that a friend of mine had a score of about 9,800. So therefore it suddenly became my primary goal to reach 10,000 points.

After some thorough ‘How do I earn points as quickly as possible?‘, research and careful in-game observations (see, I put my QA Games Tester work experience to good use), I now currently have a score of 41,307. But even after beating my friend’s score in about 3 weeks, it seems to be difficult for me to let go now. There’s a monetary incentive to login on a daily basis, so I do that, and then end up wasting half an hour gathering more points.

So thanks a lot EA, for purchasing the Pet Society developer PlayFish for $275 million dollars late last year. I always knew I was destined to waste hours of my nightlife petting and feeding flash animation representations of cute furry animals. For the record I actually have a friend with a score of 340,000, but I assure you I have no desire to reach that level of insanity. No. Just. No.