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Friday, September 2, 2011

JEFF THE KNIFE COOL DOWN

Jeff The Knife Epic Boss Fight Now Has A Cool Down Timer. It Appears That After Your Family Beats Jeff Your Family Now Needs To Wait A Day To Fight Him Again. Thanks Zynga, Now That Many Of The Top Level Families Have Beaten Him 100 + Times. Playing Catch Up Just Became More Difficult In Yet Another One Of Your Brain Storming - Award Winning Ideas. Is This One More Example Of How You Ensure An Even And Fair Playing Field? This Should Have Been There From The Time It Opened And All Families Should Only Be Permitted To Fight Jeff Once A Week With No Purchase On A Reset Timer. 



Epic Family Boss Fight Epic Nerf

For the most part, players like the Epic Family Boss Fight feature. It's fun to work as a group with your Family and coordinate the best strategy. Time was a major component of the strategy until today when Zynga decided to nerf the feature.
There is now a 24 hour cool down timer between Boss Fights. You will see it once your Family finishes the current fight.
 
Zynga likes to find ways to capitalize on their timers and this is no exception. You can speed up the cool down timer for 25 Reward Points. Anybody in the Family can do this. The Timer Needs To Be Set For A Week Per Boss Fight. 
Hayden of the Mafia Wars Maniac Blog  and fellow {ASS} member was nice enough to do this for us.
I don't think Zynga implemented this nerf to make more money. It would have been a stupid business move. They will probably end up losing money because now there is no incentive to use Reward Points for Ammo, Stamina Refills or Boosts. They probably did it to even their ever dwindling player field. 
No, It's Another Too Little Too Late Meager Attempt To Level The Playing Field.
Large Families who know how to work as a team were completing Boss Fights at a rapid pace. My own Family is pretty fast in taking down Jeff and I've gotten quite a few loot items because of it. 
This IS EXACTLY Why Families Should Only Be Able To Fight Jeff Once A Week, PERIOD!!
I'm sure players who are not in Families or are in small ones felt they were at a disadvantage and that's because they were. 
They ARE At A Disadvantage. Many DON'T WANT TO BE IN A FAMILY. Also, When Families Started We Were Told It Was So That Clans Could Be Distinguished With A Red Tag And Weren't Going To Have Perks Above The Rest. I Knew That Was A Lie. As It Turned Out It's Exactly The Case. 
So much for putting in the effort of building a Family and formulating sound strategies. 
I Truly Find That Comment Hysterical. What Strategy Is There If You're Buying Your Way Through The Game? There IS NO Strategy To Buying Your Wins, Stats, And Items, etc!   
There is a reason why so many are quitting this game.
Yes, And This Just Gets Added To The Long List Of Reasons Why Players Quit. The Huge Advantage That You Already Have And Zynga Handing You A Larger Advantage. Why Don't You Stop Treating The Rest Of Us Who Have To Earn Our Rewards Like We're Stupid. 
Wow, 45 Boss Fight Wins? Impressive For A Bunch Of Players Who Can Complete Everything Within A Few Minutes After It Starts. My Family Has 100 Members And Has Beat Jeff 4 Times. And You Have The Audacity To Insult All Us Players And Families Who Have To Work For Our Rewards By Boasting About What You Have Been Rewarded Then Complaining That Zynga Is Trying To Even The Playing Field. Puh-lease!
Thanks again to Hayden for the screen shots and letting our Family fight Jeff one extra time.
Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. 



4 comments:

Anonymous said...
Yeah...they'll worry about an even playing field here but then there are those of us who STILL don't have power packs and they've been out for a few weeks now. Losing a couple levels a day that way, or at least 10 skill points every day compared to those that have them. Don't have Union Station, either so I can't split my energy and stam collections in Brazil and thus some of it is wasted. I believe they think they'll get more money out of it. I don't recall a time where Zynga made a decision that didn't benefit them financially.
Anonymous said...
"I'm sure players who are not in Families or are in small ones felt they were at a disadvantage and that's because they were." Agree, but know something? Ppl always have the chance to join a large(r) family, but not anyone have 25 RP to reset the timer over and over on the same day. Back then it was large families against small ones/lonely wolves, now it's rich families against everyone else (not rich large ones, small ones and lonely wolves aswell). Dunno Zynga... my personal opinion is that this move wasnt a smart one. On the other hand: due to the huge amount of powerful gear, ppl almost forgot about the ICE event (or they are so bored with it) and sometimes the fightlist is almost empty. Always givin' ya a hard time, eh Z? :)
Anonymous said...
well, actually a sound business move, 25 RP is not much and there will ALWAYS be somebody from 100 people who will pay it...
Anonymous said...Can we say Energy Accounts ?


My energy can level 500x a day in Vegas, so I can restart the boss a few dozen times day for nothing. 


WAY TO GO ZYNGA, you evened the playing field for energy accounts, so I guess your numbers are back up ;)


I'm busting chops today like Janitor ;)



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