This And Next Week Mafia Wars News Release

Released This Week

Retro Gaming Crates
Check out the 8 pixel-powered items we've boxed up in the Marketplace!

Ice Season: 11
Ice mobsters in weekly Ice Seasons to earn reputation badges & cool rewards!

Mission Event: Family Gatherings
Prevent an attack on the Dons Meeting to earn the Chomp Rocket (92/159).

HDSA Fundraising Item: Cane Sword
Buy a Cane Sword (148/90) for $3 USD (or 6 for $15), and Mafia Wars will donate 100% to HDSA's work on potential therapies to treat symptoms of Huntington's Disease and, eventually, the disease itself.

Family Battle Reward Weekend
For a limited time, earn rewards for every battle!

This Week's Major Bug Fixes

"Blocked URL" Message When Posting To Facebook

Mystery Gifts Too Mysterious

Districts List Is Still Displayed When A District Is Open

If you are experiencing issues of any kind, please let us know via the Bugs & Support forum, where you can get the latest updates on known issues, fixed bugs, & solutions in development.

Coming Next Week*
*As far as currently scheduled, but things can change.

Save Don's Dinner
The Don has invited you to Thanksgiving dinner, but he needs more birds. Collect 25 turkeys and he’ll reward you with a powerful item: his right-hand man, The Butler (155/95 at Ruby level).

New Limited-Time-To-Request-Upgrade Parts NYC Property: Botanical Garden

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Retro Gaming Crates

Ice Season: 11

Mission Event: Family Gatherings

HDSA Fundraising Item: Cane Sword

Family Battle Rewards

Players Say No To Battles

One Can More Than Reasonably Assume That Half The Families That Participate In The Family Battles Will See The Above Banner When The Battle They Participated In Commences. The Other Half Of The Families Who Participated In A Family Battle Will See The Following Banner;

The Dark Truth Of The Matter Is That Most Families Are Not Participating In The Battles At All. The Following 2 Pictures Show How Many Families Are Currently Registered In Mafia Wars.

As You Can See There Are 11,715 Registered Families. Since The Mafia Spirit Family Has Not Participated In Any Skirmish Nor Battle At All And We Have A Score Of 1500 In Each I Can Presume That All Families With That Score Or Less Have Not Participated In A Family Battle. On The Next 2 Pictures I Drew A Red Line On The Leader Boards Where My Presumed Participants Would Be Separated From The Non-Participants. 

As You Can See, With Using This Ideology, Only 23% Of All The Families Have Participated In A Skirmish And Only About 20% Have Participated In A Battle. One Can Only Deduce That An Overwhelming Majority Of Mafia Wars Players Have Not Partaken In A Battle (Nor Skirmish). 

One Major Reason Why Many Of Us Who Are Running Families Are Not Electing To Participate In The Family Battles Is The Family Progression.

We Feel We Have Enough Difficulties To Deal With In The Game As Opposed To 'Having' To Be Online To Help Our Family In A Battle That We Will Lose Too Many Fights In. We Need Ices, In Other Words, And We Can Not Get Enough Ices For The Family Progression If We Have To Red Ice To Get Them. Add To That, We Do Not Get The Fighting High End Loot When We Lose Fights. Add To That, The Fact That When We Lose Our Fights Trying To Get A Red Ice We Are Helping The Opponent Become Stronger Through The Experience They Are Gaining And We Still Lose The Battle. Add It All Together, Add To That, The Fact That We Still End Up On The Fight Pages If We Have Full Health So We Take Fight Losses From There Also. The Bottom Line Is The Fact That The Battles Aren't Worth The Same Loot Items We Get By Doing The Boss Fights Nor The Fight Losses We Take When We Participate Nor The Playing Dead We Have To Do If/When Our Family Is In A Battle And There Are No Viable Targets. We REFUSE To Be The Stronger Players Punching Bags!!