The reason you’re reading this is because you’ve come across Golden Farm and are wondering whether it’s as legit as it claims to be. The game looks innocent enough—it’s about raising cute, egg-laying birds that can potentially make you money.
Sounds odd, right? Here was my initial thought: how in the world does playing a game make you money without sponsors or a large esports scene?
So, is Golden Farm a scam, as countless people claim it is? Or can you make decent money by virtually doing nothing? By the end of this review, you’ll find out why you should not invest a single penny into Golden Farm.
What is Golden Farm?
Golden Farm is an online game where users raise birds that lay eggs over time. You can purchase more birds that will, in return, lay more eggs as time passes, which you can convert into silver coins, the in-game currency.
The website’s details are written in pretty bad English, but I can’t blame the company for that too much since it appears to originally come from Russia. What I can say is that if the company has paid out over $3 million as its home page claims it has, then maybe they could have hired a professional translator already.
Anyway, there’s not a lot of info on the company, who the game developers are, and who even founded the company. All of these are pretty huge warning signs, but I’ll get into that later on.
Jj
What Does Golden Farm Have to Offer?
The game. That’s it. After you register, which is free, you can start raising birds—i.e., wait around and let time pass—who will then lay eggs. The company offers nothing else. You sign up and play, then somehow make money.
What Does it Cost to join Golden Farm?
To play Golden Farm, you have to register with the website, which is completely free. After that, you will receive a green bird—the lowliest type of bird available in the game—along with 300 silver coins as a signup bonus. Pretty generous of them, eh?
If you want more birds, you’ll have to spend silver coins to purchase them. You can buy silver coins by spending at least ₽1 (about US$0.013), or you can naturally obtain silver coins by waiting until your bird lays eggs. For every ruble you give the company, you will get 100 silver coins.
Different bird species have different productivity rates. Here’s a quick rundown of every bird species’ cost and egg-laying productivity.
- Green Bird 150 Silver Coins – 5 per hour
- Yellow Bird 1500 Silver Coins – 55 per hour
- Brown Bird 7500 Silver Coins – 277 per hour
- Blue Bird 37500 Silver Coins – 1430 per hour
- Red Bird 150000 Silver Coins – 7230 per hour
- King Bird 375000 Silver Coins – 21925 per hour
- Unknown Species (must have at least 1 Red Bird) that “produce[s] money directly to your wallet”
It’s a kind of pay-to-play scheme (nothing new in the gaming world, to be honest) where buying coins with IRL money will allow you to make more money in less time.
Make Money with Golden Farm?
Remember how you can purchase silver coins with real-life money? Well, you can supposedly sell those coins back to the company. To get coins, you need to sell the eggs (100 eggs = 1 silver coin).
The psychology behind this game is that the more birds you have, the more eggs they lay, and the more silver coins you get. Logically, you would want to fork over more cash to raise more egg-laying birds and make a quicker return on your investment.
Here’s the “fascinating” thing about Golden Farm: the buying and selling rate of silver coins is 1:1. So, you buy 100 coins for ₽1, you can sell 100 coins for ₽1.
However! Every time you sell your eggs, 70% of that goes into your wallet, while the remaining 30% gets transferred to a retirement account. Not much info is provided about the retirement account, so for all intents and purposes, it’s safer to assume that 30% goes to the company.
That’s not all! Golden Farm also has a partner system where your downline can make you a bit more money. The more people you bring in through your referral link or by clicking on a banner on your website/blog/social media page, the more you can make. Here’s what you can get by bringing in new members to Golden Farm:
- Every replenishment (purchase of silver coins with IRL money) by referral of 1st level – 15% goes to you
- Every replenishment by referral of 2nd level – 10% goes to you
- Every replenishment by referral of 3rd level – 5% goes to you
- Every replenishment by referral of 4th level – 5% goes to you
- Every unique registration (different IP address) – 250 Silver Coins go to you
Also, you absolutely have to bring in new members in order to be eligible to withdraw your money from your egg-laying operation.
