In this way, Farming Simulator can act as a form of wish fulfilment for those unable to afford thousands of acres of land, or the largest or most technologically advanced farming machinery.
“But through Farming Simulator I can do that, with a lot of different equipment choices.” Playing on the mobile version of the game, Kelley creates large arable farms more like Welker’s than his own. “One of the main reasons I play Farming Simulator is, in real life, we don’t run a very large operation,” says Wade Kelley, who works on his family’s 500-acre corn farm in Tennessee.
The simulation game allows farmers to run large operations and expensive machinery, like Big Bud tractors, out of reach for their own business.
