PAC 2 updates

PAC2 updates are being posted 

by BarryKash on the Mafia Wars Forums where we learn the PAC2 members will be sharing with the Zynga team the issues (which issues?) that are affecting a majority of players (how is this determined?) 

Best of luck to PAC2!

Get Satisfaction to Sleep With the Fishes

 HAHAHA! Wait... HAHAHAHA! No, I'm not done: HAHAHA! Get Satisfaction is getting the axe. 

That's a little sad in a way, but entirely laughable in another way (see: Get Satisfaction=No Satisfaction). It's sad because, like many people, I gave up attempting to interact on the Zynga forums because it is populated by trolls. And when you aren't dealing with trolls, you're dealing with heavy-handed "moderators". I will continue avoiding the forums; I never accomplished anything there anyway. Get Satisfaction, I liked. I liked the format better. I liked that you knew (somewhat) who you were dealing with, since it was linked to Facebook accounts. I liked the 'likability' and share-ability. Although even that was taken away from me in my last Get Satisfaction experience.

Zynga says this: 

The "Feedback" link in the Account menu that drops down from the upper right corner of the Mafia Wars game window will no longer trigger the Get Satisfaction feedback tool, but we still want to receive your feedback! The in-game "Feedback" link will now take you to the Mafia Wars forum, where we invite you to post all the questions, bug reports, ideas, praise, and add mafia requests you may have been posting to Get Satisfaction. As part of retiring the Mafia Wars Get Satisfaction page, we also removed the Get Satisfaction tab from our Facebook fan page and will soon have the Mafia Wars Get Satisfaction page forward visitors to the Mafia Wars forum. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your continued feedback.


~The Mafia Wars Team

Zynga inquires about Family Progression issues

Ten days ago, I made a post wanting to know how many of you have had or are having issues with your Family Progression timers or objectives getting "stuck". After pressing the issue repeatedly with Customer Support, finally one of the Zyngons wrote back saying that my account had been reviewed for the problem. Since then, the only issue that I've had is the timer and objectives not resetting on nights that I don't complete all of the objectives.

I no longer bother with the forums or Get Satisfaction, as they generally offer nothing but canned answers, no resolutions, and infractions which you may or may not be told about, but I did happen to notice that Super Moderator Rinzler recently made a post about the Family Progression issues.

Hi Players,
Are you still experiencing family progression issues? If so, please reply below with the following information: 

1) Please describe your issue and anything else out of the ordinary you have witnessed. 

2) Please post your Facebook User ID Number, or profile link:
This is almost as important as the issue itself. 

3) Post Browser/Operating System/Flash Version: This helps us find patterns with particular issues. 

The more information and detail that you supply, the faster we can get this resolved. 

All posts will initially be hidden from public view, but will be moved to another location and made public if they contain no personal or other confidential information. 

Thanks!
-Rinzler

I can't imagine that many people would want to post their info on the forums, given the kind of behavior that moderators allow to go on there, so I made a test response to the thread to verify that posts are indeed private.

If you are having issues with Family Progression, please go to this forum thread and make your report.

Get Satisfaction = No Satisfaction

If you don't like the forums, you now have one more reason not to bother with Get Satisfaction also, aside from the fact that trying to get anything done there is futile. Read the fine print: Get Satisfaction recently began to be governed by the same Rules Of Conduct as the forums.

I got a warning last week--on the forum. Well, I started raising hel1 because I didn't post anything on the forum that should have been subject to moderation of any sort. Only to find out finally a few days later that the warning was for something I had posted on Get Satisfaction. What the fk?! And no one bothered explaining this to me until I pressed the issue.

I hardly go to the forum because of the trolls that crawl around there, how in the he1l was I supposed to know what the warning was for or that I had even received a warning?! It was only luck that I happened to go to the forum for another reason and found the warning. I call bullsh*t. And that's a pretty crappy way to announce sneaking in that little change about forum rules of conduct - by warning me.

So what's the point? Zynga doesn't listen to anyone on the forum, and Zynga doesn't listen to anyone on Get Satisfaction either. They keep urging and pushing us to use Get Satisfaction, but seriously, it's a waste of time.

Look at this thread for example. My thread about Power Packs has gotten way more likes and comments and +1s than many threads that they have implemented. I slaved over that thread, and you're damn right I'm pissed that nothing was done about it. All this proves to me is that Zynga doesn't give a crap about what we think, unless it happens to jive with their questionable business plan.

Get Satisfaction is as useless as the forums. If you want to make a change in the game, quit. Quit the game. They aren't going to listen. But don't go to Get Satisfaction to tell Zynga you quit, or you'll get a warning on the forum.

Zynga wants feedback on Freedom Fighters

Zynga would like some feedback from players regarding the Freedom Fighters gifting event in Mafia Wars. It can be found HERE.

The poll contains several choices. You can choose multiple choices, but you can only vote once, so be sure you click all statements that you agree with when you visit the poll. These are the choices it has:

1. I Enjoy These Events
2. I Still Do Not Like Gifting Events
3. Boosts Were Useful
4. Boosts Had Minimal Effect On My Fighting
5. This Gifting Event Was Appropriately Spaced From The Previous
6. We Need More Gifting Events
7. Freebie (whatever that means)

These are the results thus far. The majority (so far) still doesn't like gifting events period. While a few people think the boosts are at least moderately useful, far more said the boosts have little effect on their fighting. Several players acknowledged that this gifting event was spaced apart from the last gifting event...but in some of the comments on the poll thread, I think some of us still think there are too many events in general.

Be sure to vote!
http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=1079139&page=3

Mafia Wars: outages possible tonight

Super Moderator Cerulean Master has announced that around 8pm Zyngon time, here in a few minutes, we will start seeing "outages". He says they are updating their system to 'integrate with updates made by Facebook'.

will there be a quest/mission/achievement for Kassina Kunoichi??

There seems to be some confusion over what's actually to be expected of this Kassina Kunoichi boss fight event.

The FAQ clearly states there's going to be a quest and an achievement, but it's just as clearly only a copy and paste of the Roughhouse Rafael FAQ, so who knows how accurate this really is?

There's already a forum thread wondering about it. In that thread, one person claims that Zynga told him there were no plans for a mission or achievement.

 Then there's the image used on Kassina Kunoichi's FAQ ~ kind of looks like an achievement, doesn't it?


It seems that no one's sure!


Maybe Zynga should revise Kassina Kunoichi's FAQ...

Clarification on ice counts

There's been some question today, brought to light by the new icing event, that seemed to indicate that kills (or 'whacks' if you're looking at your Mafia Wars profile page), are also counting as ices.

Supermoderator Cerulean Master made a post on the forums a short while ago that should help clarify. According to him, kills ARE now counted as an ice, but will count as two ices -- and also makes a blatant suggestion that this hints at future fight changes. We already know fight changes are imminent.

He also indicates that feedback on the event is wanted ~ constructively of course, I would imagine.

Additionally, CM addresses the infamous slow rollout, saying that it's still being worked on. He wants to know if anyone does NOT have the Ice Mastery Challenge in their game by Monday.

Cerulean, I'm hoping I don't have to wait til Monday for this event, or it's not just you that's going to be hearing from me ;)

Cerulean says:

Kills are counting as an Ice, but it is set to count as two. We know that kills are harder to get and usually there is only a one line message once you achieve one. This was our first step at making them worth more than an Ice. <---- Hint to the future?

If you do not have the event yet, please do not worry. The team is working on getting it out to everyone. If we still have players missing when I return Monday, getting an update will be my first priority... after that, I'll be looking for the extension thread, lol.

This event was put out there with your feedback in mind, so enjoy it. Hopefully the positive reactions can cause these to happen more often.

Thanks Jennifer for the heads up :0)

Zynga forums temporarily down

If you've noticed that the Zynga community forums are down, you aren't the only one! I tried to access something I had bookmarked, and got the above error message. All I know is that they are aware of the problem and are currently looking into it, so stay tuned.

Forums get remodeled

According to this post by Super Moderator Cerulean Master, the forums are being "remodeled", and indeed I see some changes to the layout. I'm not sure that it's any easier to navigate, but I'm sure we'll get used to it.