Zynga announced earlier today that the VIP Membership is now available to ALL players. Here is what was posted on the Official Mafia Wars Blog;
VIP Membership Now Available To All Players!
Mobster,
VIP Membership Plan is now available to all Mafia Wars players!
Thank you for your patience while we were gradually rolling out the VIP Membership to all players.
Get additional benefits for the longer you stay subscribed! VIP benefits will now get better with the duration of your continuous subscription.
Enjoy exclusive benefits by subscribing to the VIP Membership Plan today!
-The Mafia Wars Team
Great, Great, Joy, Joy………………….
Now here is why many more players might quit this game. If you scroll down through the series of VIP loot images you will get a small glimpse as to how much of an advantage the VIP players have already gained over the ‘FREE’ players.
This series of VIP loot is the current loot that many VIP members have been clammering for since June 1st.
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The VIP members will have these loots maxed out by the end of today or tomorrow or within a day or two at the least.
For the sake of argument, as you can see in the chart below the VIP members are gaining absurd advantages quickly over the ‘Free’ players since the VIP loots drop rates are too good.
| Loot Name | Amount Of VIP Advantage | Assuming 500 Needed By VIP Member | Estimated Advantage Acquired By VIP Member |
| Snake Fish | 15 | 500 | 7,500 |
| Gaucho | 20 | 500 | 10,000 |
| Bionic Mask | 25 | 500 | 12,500 |
| Mafia Defense > | 30,000 | ||
| Chrome Teeth | 17 | 500 | 8,500 |
| Basket Star | 23 | 500 | 11,500 |
| Orchestrangle | 27 | 500 | 13,500 |
| Mafia Attack > | 33,500 | ||
If you didn’t notice there are still 2 more items to account for in attack and defense (4 more items total) that are not factored into the chart above. Therefore, the VIP is even greater than this chart alone represents.
So we look at the previous VIP loots to determine which loots are contributing. Here’s the loots;
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To find out the best overall guess of the VIP Members total advantage gained we compensate for the 4 missing loot items that the VIP members have ALREADY MAXED their inventories with. Here’s what we have added;
| Loot Name | Amount Of VIP Advantage | Assuming 500 Needed By VIP Member | Estimated Advantage Acquired By VIP Member |
| Bareback | 11 | 500 | 5,500 |
| Lightning Trike | 22 | 500 | 11,000 |
| Mafia Defense > | 16,500 | ||
| Steelian | 11 | 500 | 5,500 |
| Art Curator | 24 | 500 | 12,000 |
| Mafia Attack > | 17,500 | ||
We can now add the 30,000 Mafia Defense Strength gained from the first chart to the 16,500 Mafia Defense Strength gained from the second chart to have an estimated 46,500 VIP Member’s Mafia Defense Strength gain of the ‘FREE’ players.
We can now add the 33,500 Mafia Attack Strength gained from the first chart to the 17,500 Mafia Attack Strength gained from the second chart to have an estimated 51,000 VIP Member’s Mafia Attack Strength gain of the ‘FREE’ players.
Keep in mind that these numbers ARE ONLY ESTIMATES. There are many other factors to consider to acquire the true advantage that separate the ‘FREE’ players from the rest of the player base. Such as the weekly item that the VIP Members are given. In addition to skill points, each week they receive one of the following;
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Why should this concern anyone? You may ask. Because we know that a players Attack and Defense Strengths do get factored into a fight or rob somehow. The exact equation is unknown. But it has been rumored that it takes a +40 in a loot items Attack/Defense to equate to just 1 skill point. If this is true then it is like the VIP Members are gaining 1,163 Defensive Skill Points And 1275 Attack Skill Points over the ‘FREE’ players in addition to ALL THE OTHER PERKS OF BEING A VIP MEMBER!
This is a problem since many players only received the ability to even purchase a VIP Membership today. Will They still get the original loots? Probably.
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It is also a problem because there IS NO reason for the ‘FREE PLAYERS’ to continue playing Mafia Wars because all we have become is the punching bags of the fortunate.
In other words, Zynga may as well lock the ‘FREE PLAYERS’ out since it HAS BECOME A PAY TO PLAY GAME!
IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE I MAKE THAT DECISION TO MOVE ON AND GET BACK TO ‘REAL LIFE’!
