Farming, for me, was a way to interact with other players. I would have cash prizes for games, trade money for rare food, even create games that players would make money from playing in my house. With the 5 or 10k I could scrape up from the bushes around Xmas time I would match it with bounties and spend 20 or 30k running mini games to give out gifts to strangers who won.
Now that's gone.