UPDATED Garage Sale My Ass

UPDATED 7/13/12:
50% GC REDEMPTION AND IN GAME RP PURCHASE SHOWED UP TODAY. If you bought reward points or redeemed gamecards yesterday I'd go bitch at CS :).  ALSO - Don't be surprised if they unload newer and much better crates on us for cheaper towards the end of the sale like last time. {ℳ} Қetąmῗиe Қῗd =Ʀ²Ƒ=

Original Article 7/12/12:
Is Zynga out of their minds????? This sale is an EPIC FAIL for so many reasons.  I'll give you three:

FIRST: We JUST had a sale!!! Good grief give us a break!!! It isn't our fault you screw up everything you touch and are going broke.  You should have listened to your player base back when you had over million people who gave a rats ass about mafia wars.  Now it is just 100,000 players and their minis LMFAO.

SECOND:  No sale on game card redemption.  That was really the only reason I got loaded on reward points - the 50% discount.  Hell, it's a good deal.  But this time - no deal. Maybe they will offer it before the end of the sale (but honestly, I hope they don't even bother).

THIRD: Reward points purchased in game with CC or FB credits are not their usual 50% to 60% off.  Hell, at the time of this writing they were not even 30% or 40%.

It is terrible timing for me.  It has rained non-stop where I live, and in the construction business that means little or no work, so my MWs fund is very low.  I will largely be sitting this sale out.  OH WELL. The more frequently they have these sales the more obvious it becomes that I am an idiot to continue to blow money on them.  SCREW YOU ZYNGA.  SCREW YOU MARK PINCUS.  Lol.  I love saying that. It just feels.....right.

Yours truly,

{ℳ} Қetąmῗиe Қῗd =Ʀ²Ƒ=

It's Reigning Women Sale

There is a new marketplace sale. "It's Reigning Women! Face the storm or drown in its glory! Woman up and make this most of this incredible offer to win a Mean Girl [119/188]. The event ends on March 12th at 11:59PM PST." "Buy 15 items and the Mean Girl is yours!"

I personally love these sales. It is the only time I buy crates. Plus, GC redemption is 50% off, possibly only for today. If you buy GCs then be aware that $15 cards offer the best rate, and today they should net 190 RPs.

If you can't get get physical GCs in your area then you can purchase them online at https://company.zynga.com/game-cards/buy-ecards . But be aware that there is often a delay when purchasing online GCs. After purchasing the online card you will receive an e-mail with the PIN #, sometimes it can take several hours to receive it. OK there you have it. I know i will personally be blowing a sizeable wad of cash today on RPs. I know, I'm an idiot. Oh well :) - {ℳ} ßrµ†µ§

Mafia Wars cramfest

Your news feed when you logged in today was probably your first indicator that something was going on. Well, a few somethings. My reaction was, I didn't want to even log in. I decided to go make some coffee to prepare myself first :D

Seriously??

So, in a nutshell, we haz new property, the School of Choice. Seems you can build it like normal, or purchase upgrade parts to benefit Haiti. There's a nifty little banner offering to upgrade you fully, for a mere $135.

The Countdown to Annihilation sale works pretty much like we thought it would; purchase 15 qualifying items to receive the Mortal Chromebat .22, which has stats of 109 attack and 179 defense. Certain items do not qualify toward the 15 items, so read the fine print.

Reward points for 60% off today.

The New Year's Resolution thing...the gist of it is, as I understand it, you can "vote" for one of the items every 24 hours from now until the end of the event in 6 and a half days. You get one of the item that you vote for. You can earn extra votes (and thus extra loot I assume) by completing New Year's Resolutions, challenges which can also be found from your missions bar. Or you can buy extra votes, of course. At the end of this thing, the items with the top 3 amounts of votes will receive additional mastery, so their stats will go up.

Nate and Jana will be getting my free votes, but I doubt if I'll go out of my way to complete any resolutions. I'd like to be able to play the game and concentrate just on whatever city I'm working on, instead of trying to run willy-nilly through the game to complete everything Zynga throws at me. And I'm darn sure not going to buy extra votes--although at least the cost per item is a little more reasonable than the usual marketplace loot items if you buy extra votes.

If you have the patience to make sense of all that, more power to you. I think I'm just going to go play Sims and ignore all this today.