最近，Zynga公司发布了一款FrontierVille游戏工具栏。通过该工具栏游戏，游戏玩家每8小时可以赢得免费能量奖励；知道朋友们何时光临自己的基地；在作物成熟时得到通知。

此外，安装该工具栏（目前适用于IE7.0+和Firefox2.0+浏览器）的用户可以获得20个免费的horseshoes（游戏币），并在接下来的15天连续每天获得一个horseshoe。

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FrontierVille游戏工具栏的开发表明Zynga公司正努力将游戏玩家脱离Facebook网站。众所周知，社交网站Facebook是惟一一个可以玩FrontierVille游戏的网站，如果玩家想玩这款游戏，他就必须登录Facebook。但显然，将游戏链接连向Zynga公司本身是一件很简单的工程。在这方面，2010年1月发布的FarmVille游戏工具栏就已经具有这一类似功能，玩家可以直接链接到Zynga的游戏网站FarmVille.com。

FrontierVille游戏工具栏占用空间很小。但纵观全局，我们可以看到Zynga正缓慢但坚定地从Facebook社交网站转移，为其Zynga Live的发售做准备。

那么Zynga Live什么时候发售呢？我们无从得知。但毋庸置疑的是Zynga将提供更多的游戏奖励机制以促使玩家转向Zynga Live。每当Zynga发售一些令游戏玩家摆脱Facebook的新特征时，该公司就会将游戏币作为奖励。如果Zynga现在向每个使用FrontierVille游戏工具栏免费赠送15个horseshoe,那么让玩家使用zynga live也许就要赠送1500个horseshoe才行了。

Zynga has released a games toolbar for FrontierVille allowing users to earn free energy bonuses every 8 hours, see when their friends visit their homestead, and be notified when their crops are ready.

Just as significantly, users who install the toolbar to their browser (IE 7.0+ and Firefox 2.0+ for now) earn 20 free horseshoes (game credits) and an additional one per day for 15 consecutive days.

The FrontierVille game bar represents yet another feature that Zynga is offering that gets its users outside the Facebook environment. True, all links go to play FrontierVille go to Facebook, but that is because it is the only place you can play the game. Surely, it’ll be easy to change the link to Zynga Live when that is eventually released. For its part, the FarmVille game bar released with similar features back in January 2010 goes to Zynga’s own FarmVille.com.

By itself, the FrontierVille game bar is small. But, put it in the context of the big picture, we can see how Zynga is slowly yet surely creating features to get its users off of Facebook to prepare for the day that it releases Zynga Live.

When will that day be? No clue. But, one thing we do know is that when they do release it, Zynga is going to offer so many in-game incentives to move to Zynga Live, it’ll be hard not to. Every time Zynga releases a new feature to get users a little bit off of Facebook, they offer game credits as an incentive. If Zynga is offering 15 horseshoes to get users to try out the FrontierVille game bar, think 1500 horseshoes when Zynga Live is finally released.(source:gamezebo)

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