Next up in response to the 16 points addressed in the recent Zynga Q&A blog, we look at the concern about adding new people for event in MW.
14. Some Mafia Wars events require that I add hundreds of friends so quickly that I risk getting pinked/banned by Facebook! This is ridiculous!
We removed the biggest issues with this and have been working with Facebook to improve player communications with each other. To our knowledge, this is becoming less and less of an issue.
Please share your feedback regarding Being Pinked/Banned By Facebook.
It's fair to say this most directly relates to the recent "Crack the Safe" event where we had to add 5 new people to our Mafia in order to receive a number of decent loot items. It also used to be a feature of some of the limited time missions where you had to add new crew in order to receive more consumables per day for the duration of the mission.
Although Facebook is of course the biggest single platform for social gaming, and many games actively encourage the addition of new people by design (I mean, who has 500 real friends who play Mafia Wars?), it is technically against TOS to add people you don't actually know:
Unwanted contact: Our systems detect when friend requests you send to others are being ignored at a high rate and volume. Using Facebook to contact many people you don't know is not allowed because it may make them feel threatened, harassed, or unsafe.
As is apparent from their quote addressing the point, I think Zynga already know this is an issue, as they pulled Crack the Safe following feedback from people regarding the amount of "pink-slipping" that was going on, and realised that it's not really a great idea to encourage such intense friend adding linked to an event. Nor have we seen the "crew" function in one of the limited time missions for a while. All in all, I think Zynga have learnt their lesson on this one. Until next time of course :P
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