Use Friends as Resource

Description
A scenario where you are forced by the system to ask your friends to engadge in the system it self for the purpose of helping you.

Examples
In CityVille a user can't progress the game after a certain level without asking their friends to be apart of their city. One such example could be that the friends are needed to complete the building of a police station. The user could solve the problem by buying virtal help but they would then have to buy in game money with real currency.

Another example is Sims Social where you have to ask your friends with help when you want to construct a new room or new furniture. The alternative here is the same as in CityVille, that is that you can but your way out with real money.

Pros and Cons
If two or several friends are engadge in the game this kind of sharing could culture their relationship in real life.

At the same time it makes it hard for a single user to play the game as she can't progress after a certain point if they don't actually pay for the goods in the game with real money. This could make her to cease playing the game.

Relations
To actually ask ones friends for help your first will need to be able to comunicate with them i.e. by doing a status update.

Contributors
Created by Magnus Spånggård.