Daily Point Nerfed 2/17

In what is another vain attempt to draw players into the Arena, Zynga has nerfed the Daily Point with an Arena Power Up (this started on Valentine's Day). Today's Power Up is a Kamikaze which will help toward the "God of Death" achievements but that one skill point per achievement won't do much to advance your account if Arena Power Ups are now the norm instead of a Daily Point!

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Zynga Iced Themselves - UPDATED

I am so pissed off right now I can't see straight. I am not even bothering with a graphic (maybe add one later).  This new property crap has me fuming mad.  If you read the new FAQ carefully you will see that the reason all the timers are jacked up and still at 12 RPs, regardless of the time, is because that is a new improvement to the property feature. HUH? Yeah.....follow this link http://tinyurl.com/GLOBAL-FAQ and about half-way into the FAQ you will see:

Q: How many Items can I build in a day? How many RPs do I need to spend to craft beyond free Limit?

The very last sentence of the answer they give is all I cared about in the whole stupid long winded FAQ:

A: If you want to build more items, you will be charged 12 RPs for every craft.

Again...HUH?  Are they trying to ICE themselves??? (BTW thanks David Tucker and Co. for that phrase).  I am a chronic speed builder.  I build almost every day when the timers are at 6 RPs per build. It is almost the only thing I spend money on regularly in the game besides the crate sales. And now they have nerfed it.  Now i have to pay 12 RPs to speed build no matter what the time says.  HUH? ARE YOU SMOKING CRACK ZYNGA??? Are you NOT aware of the rapidly dwindling number of players???  This is almost the last straw for me.  I am not going to quit playing, but my wallet is gonna quit paying.  They just don't deserve any more of my money - period.

YOU HEAR THAT ZYNGA? NO MORE MONEY FROM ME!!!! And I won't be the only one.  This type of speed building that they nerfed is, or, i guess i should say, WAS, wildly popular.

Zynga, you are a bastard.  I hope Mark Pincus goes bankrupt, LOL.  Zynga is run by the stupidest of the stupid, and the greediest of the greedy.  They have managed to stumble upon good ideas here and there like a blind chicken pecking for corn.  No vision. No pulse on the players. No clue how to appease the masses. No concern for anything other than money.  Which is a really bad approach for a social gaming company.  Me thinks being socialable might be a good trait for such a company, yet Zynga is better personified as a conniving and sniveling DICKHEAD.  It disgust me that i have spent thousands of dollars on this game.  Makes me want to vomit in Mark Pincus' face. Repeatedly.  I'm sorry ya'll. It's just, I've had enough of this bull.

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Addendum: I forget to mention there is survey you can take. I suggest you take it and help the retards understand how bad they suck at life:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZTSDRVaGZVZ3lGaEtVbHlzZkpCM0E6MQ

FROM A LIVE CHAT I JUST HAD:
"Jonathan: And when mafia wars dies, I will not play any other zynga title PERIOD. not even words with friends on my iPhone. if zynga is even remotely associated with it, I will not be playing it. period.
Xxxx X.: I will let your voice know by all Zynga Mafia Wars support.
Xxxx X.: And that's why we have that survey.
Xxxx X.: Because, we can change it.
Xxxx X.: So my advise, is to keep filling that survey.
Xxxx X.: And I will pass all your un agreement.
Jonathan: ok, sorry for they delay i suddenly had to step away. but pretty much unless this is reversed i am on the war path. no disrespects to you Xxxx I understand this is just your job. I will let you go.

Playing Catch-up on Mafia Wars

It's amazing how much crap Zynga has thrown at us over the last few days. I can barely keep up with everything they throw at us on a good day! I had a real life situation explode in my lap earlier this week, and haven't been able to pay much attention the past few days, looking at the game now is downright discouraging.

Wednesday we noticed Chicago was added to our travel menu. It's pretty safe to assume now that Chicago is coming soon, very soon, much sooner than the 2 more months we'd be waiting if we were going by their first estimated release date.

Traveling to Chicago will only get you this screen for the moment. Nothing much of interest there. We'll have a bootlegging operation, presumably a property of some sort. And crew - most likely reminiscent of the Brazil crew.

Yesterday we saw the introduction of another new property, the Venetian Condo, which meant, more begging. More link spamming. Fortunately, we are still able to create links for the property parts, saving us quite a bit of hassle and waiting and frustration.

Hey! Where's my Private Zoo? <-- I saw lots of questions like that in the news feed yesterday.

The answer to that question is just below your shown properties. "Select 5 properties that you would like to make active (this will appear on your property list)."

Your first thought is probably that you got Zynga'd, being limited to 5 properties. But look closer and you'll see you can change the selection of which 5 properties are showing. Do all your building, then drop down under the properties, uncheck one that's active, and make your 'hidden' property active.

After doing that, a Save Changes button will appear, and you must click that. Afterward, your 6th constructable property will show up and you can build from it as well.

Then yesterday we got another one of those Collect 7 loot drop events. They tried to make these events too fancy; they were much simpler and less intrusive when we had these types of events two years ago. The limits and disappearing loots from the new style of Collect 7 loot drop events is just annoying. I'd do my best to ignore it but it's in my face every time I go to my Mafia Wars home page.

In fact, the only thing at all noteworthy of the Henchmen Urban Agents event was this tidbit of news that we'll be getting another class of equipment called Henchmen. I'd almost bet money that comes out next week with Chicago.

Prepare yourself for Henchmen, ***coming soon, the newest item category in Mafia Wars!*** Help can be had from the most unlikely people, including the local Cab Driver, Garbage Man or Bartender. Gather these 'Urban Agents' to strengthen your Mafia and ultimately gain the Mastery item, the Cocktail Waitress, if you collect all seven.

Oh boy. Something else to keep up with. :yawn:

Now there's this that several people are noticing. Just what Battle Is On? I honestly don't know, but I'm speculating that this may be about the Family mock wars that Jeff AKA Month has been working on.

And with all of this crap hitting the game, don't you know some stuff got borked? As in, seriously, majorly borked. A bad glitch allowed you to remove members from OTHER Families, and this information was unfortunately published, likely leading to malicious actions on the part of some. The hole was quickly patched, but if you find that your Family is missing members since yesterday and you don't know why, you should definitely contact customer support ASAP.

Also, last night brought yet another nerfing to Power Packs. Now you can no longer use both an energy pack and a power pack. It's one or the other, every 8 hours. But - we again get 125% stamina from the Power Packs, rather than just 50%. I'm really sick of their retarded "experiments".

What morass will today bring? I'm sure Zynga will show us soon.

Why Are We Still Playing?

Why are we still playing Mafia Wars when Zynga clearly doesn't give a rat's a$s about listening to a thing we say? That is a question that I've been asking myself more and more lately, and I have to admit, I'm almost at my breaking point for Mafia Wars.

Zynga is not interested in feedback, they don't care about fixing things, they nerf features continually, and we're supposed to just take it, because it's their game? Sorry, that does not compute. It might be their game, but we give the game viability.

 Zynga can feed me their bullsh*t about metrics all day long, they say it's about the numbers, but the numbers they care about are obviously NOT the players, and what they don't realize is, they can't continue to wring money out of us the way they are. They're chasing us off!! Natural game attrition can be attributed to some of the losses, but the simple fact is, the numbers wouldn't look like that if Zynga would stop spinning and lying. They must have an entire department devoted to spinning new bullsh*t and economy-sized reels of red tape.


And now they're also ignoring the Get Satisfaction thread that over 560 people had "liked" as of yesterday. 208 people have clicked +1, and I keep telling people that's the number we need, but the number of Facebook likes should have been a very good indication of how many people supported the thread. 

If Zynga irritates you, go to this Get Satisfaction thread and +1 it. Your "likes" no longer count in Zynga's eyes, they want to make people to go out of their way for the +1.

If you are pissed that they took away Stamina Packs, even after telling us that stamina packs were here to stay, go and +1 the Get Satisfaction thread.

If you never even had Power Packs and are mad about that - GO  AND +1 THE THREAD.

If you had Power Packs, and now you don't - GO AND +1 THE THREAD. 

If you have nerfed Power Packs, and thought they were better before the nerf - GO AND +1 THE THREAD.

Additionally, leave a comment on the thread. Comments are what keep the thread visible in the front page of Get Satisfaction.

Even if you've already left a comment, please go leave another comment. Tell Zynga what you think about them ignoring nearly 600 players who think Power Packs Should Be Put Back!

Otherwise? I might just throw my hands up and walk away from the game entirely. Zynga's game is no longer fun because they keep trashing it.

Zynga Lies About Stamina Packs and Power Packs

Zynga can try and shove this "experiment" crap down our throats all they want, but we know a Nerf when we see one. And this Power Pack Hullabaloo is all just a pack of lies on Zynga's part.

Please go to this thread on Get Satisfaction and give them a piece of your mind over how all of this has been handled. Be sure to hit that +1 button, that's what we need more of. 

As recently as LAST WEEK, Zynga was telling us that the stamina packs were here to stay. 8 days later, stamina packs are ancient history and its successor has already been royally nerfed. That was August 17th. Stamina packs are here to stay, ok.

The irony is that at the time of that last "Stamina Packs are here to stay!" post, power packs had already been introduced an hour previously, upon which many players no longer had even stamina packs. The FAQ on power packs quickly followed, advising us that power packs were a new feature and slowly being rolled out to all players. That was a week ago today.

The Mafia Wars blog told us that Power Packs were replacing stamina packs. Ok.

The power packs were pretty cool, so the only problem in my mind was that they were taking their sweet a$s time about finishing the rollout. Nowhere did Zynga ever say anything about Power Packs being an "experiment". 

A mere 3 blog posts later, Zynga finally lets us know about this experiment. And now I have NO power packs and NO stamina packs. During a time when there are two things going on in the game that require conflicting uses of my stamina. That's bullshit. What happened to the "level playing field" Zynga? I guess it didn't fit in your business plan this time around.

I wonder if I myself can continue trying to fit into Zynga's business plan, for that matter.

Power Packs Phase Two: NERFED

As always seems to be the case, Zynga can't leave a good thing alone. I really enjoyed the power packs just as they were, and I told people to settle down about stamina packs being gone, because the power packs were an upgrade. Well, they've been downgraded again.

Thanks, Zynga. I really have nothing but a bad taste in my mouth over how Zynga has been handling things recently.

 According to Cerulean Master's post on the forum, half of us will now have a 50% stamina refill every 8 hours, and the other half will have a 100% stamina refill every 16 hours. So basically, the first group has a chance to squeeze more stamina out of the packs that the second group does. WTFG with the level playing field there, Zynga. Gah.

In both test groups a Power Pack will continue to provide a 200% health refill every 10 minutes if one chooses to use them to restore their health. Also, any remaining unused Stamina Packs will now reward a mystery bag when redeemed.

Entering Phase 2 means we are getting closer to determining the proper balance and releasing some form of Power Packs to everyone. We appreciate your patience. The feature can be discussed in this forum thread.

Meh. I wish they would have left it alone.

Kiss and make up?

Sometimes Zynga realizes that they have made a mistake and try to make it right....

& then... they wake up...

I just got into the new region... JUST... I never clicked a link... and you are telling me the party is over...

Did you think that the server issues may have made me miss out... grrrrrrrrrrr

Mystery Bag/Free Gift Nerf(s)

Zynga Does It Again!!

 You cannot accept any more Free Gifts today. You can accept more in 11 hours.

It appears that the number of Free Gifts has been further throttled, allowing us to accept fewer Free Gifts per day. Which is extremely asinine, since we have to use our requests for all the various "exciting" "features" that Zynga keeps slogging at us.

Oh, but that's not all!

I've seen some people mentioning in my news feed that they haven't been getting wish list items from their Mystery Bags, so I opened up all that I could (until I had that idiotic limit). I did get one wish list item, but it seems Zynga has also reduced the frequency of this bonus occurring.

I rather suspect that this is at least partly the fault of recently spreading information that unlimited Mystery Bags can be sent. I hope you all enjoyed it while it lasted.

If, like me, you don't like these changes, I encourage you to go to the Mafia Wars fan page, access the Feedback tab, and tell them what you think, and also forward your feedback to "Customer Support".