Mafia Wars DAU Sinking Like The Titantic

At What Point Should Players Become Concerned That Mafia Wars Is Going To Sink To Rock Bottom? The Daily User Activity Of The Mafia Wars App Has Dropped To 650,000. That's Nearly Equivalent To The Population Of El Paso, Texas. 

Someone Needs To Throw Mafia Wars A Life Saver And Send A Rescue Chopper. 

On September 12, 2011, Before Chicago Opened, I Asked The Question; "Will Chicago Be Mafia Wars Saving Grace?". We Have Our Answer And The Answer Is No. Zynga Seems Content With Letting Mafia Wars Die. 

The Dilemma Is That If The DAU Continues It's Downward Spiral Then Even More Players Will Quit. That Brings Us To The Real Questions That Needs Answered. Those Questions Include; How Does Zynga Save The Game? Can The Game Be Saved? Does Zynga Want To Save The Game? 

Zynga's Focus Has Been, Recently, More On It's New Flash Based Games Like Mafia Wars 2,Adventure World, Empires And Allies, Mafia Wars Shakedown, And It's Newest Game Castleville And More. These Flash Based Games May All Look Pretty With Nice Graphics, But, They Suck. They Suck In The Sense That They Freeze Up, Crash, And Most Importantly They Crash My Computer. What Good Are They If You Can Not Play Them Most Of The Time? 

Zynga Has Also Focused On How To Stop The Bot And Script Users In Mafia Wars. Like They Believe That Will Help Save Mafia Wars. Pffft. Phooey. 

If Zynga Truly Cared About Saving Mafia Wars They Would Go Back To It's Roots. They Would Make The Game Playable By Everyone And Not Just A Few Who Have A Credit Card. They Would Buy Larger, Faster Servers So They Wouldn't Have To Close Cities. They Would STOP Segregating It's Players. They Would Listen To The Entire Player Base And Not Just Those Who Are Fortunate Enough To Have A Platinum Visa Card. They Would Understand That A Game Like Mafia Wars Is As Much A Blue Color Game As It Is A White Color. 

Even In Today's World Mafia Wars Has More Potential To Be The Greatest Online Game Of All Time Than Any Other Online Game. All Zynga Needs To Do Is Simply Take The Game Back To It's Title And Make It About Running A Mafia And Steer Away From Being Just Another Fighting Game.   

The Gift Clicker

The Gift Clicker

Team Spockholm has posted a script that should make sending gifts a lot easier. We all need to come to terms with the fact that the updated to gifting made by Zynga broke the gift links system that many of us are used to using. It's now all about the ZMC. The more gifts you send, the more you will get back. You can send 50 gifts at a time and there is no cap on how many times you can do this. Going to your Send Page and clicking on 50 X's is a pain in the ass. The Gift Clicker will do this for you. This is just a simple script that will click the X in front of 50 mafia members for you. Team Spockholm is already working on more advanced scripts to make the "enhanced gifting" process even easier.

To get started, follow the steps below.

1. Go to the Spockholm Mafia Tools Experimental Page and located the Gift Clicker.

2. Click, drag and drop it in your bookmark toolbar.

Alternatively, you can import this Spocklet to your Spockholm Toolbar. Copy the code below and paste it into the import box.

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3.  Go to your Free Gift Page and select the gift you want to send to your mafia. I will use Special Parts in this example.

4.  Click on the "Proceed to Send" button and wait until your Send Gift Page is loaded. If you don't use the Spockholm Toolbar you will need to make sure you are unframed on this page. If you do, you're good to go.

5. Click on Gift Clicker from your bookmark toolbar or the Spockholm Toolbar and wait for it to click 50 people on whichever list you have open. In the example below, I used my Mafia Wars Friends list.

6. Once 50 players have been selected by the Gift Clicker, click on the "Send Requests" button.

7. Click on "Send Requests" from the generated Facebook request.

8.  Repeat steps 3-7 as many times as you want. The more you give, the more you will receive. Keep in mind that you can only send 1 gift to each or your mafia members per day and you can only accept 200 returned gifts per day. The ZMC can only hold 100 gifts at a time. Now just sit back and wait for your return gifts to come rolling in.

I wasn't able to get the Gift Clicker to work in Chrome and have reported it to Team Spockholm. It worked fine in FireFox.

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.