Zynga Game Surveys – Hidden Shadows And MW Optician Awarded

It’s common knowledge that Zynga has been losing players across all their games. Zynga is in desperation mode trying to figure out why. One of the latest tactics is the use of surveys asking players why they quit a game or why they ended their VIP membership or what will it take to get them to return to a game.

On August 16, 2013 Zynga had a survey for Current And Former VIP Survey – FREE Optician Bribe Loot

That survey offered players an Optician just for taking the survey. Current and former VIP subscribers were awarded the Optician today.

I am uncertain if players who have never been a VIP player and took the survey had received an Optician. Check your inventories if you happen to be one of those players.

Today players, current and former, of other games of Zynga’s (at least Hidden Shadows) have the opportunity to take a survey. I received the following survey in an e-mail;

One of the biggest reasons players quit your games, Zynga, is the high demand on time requirements it takes to play your games. The second biggest reason, or another reason rather, is the high demand to make in-game purchases. And a third major reason that players quit playing your games is the absurd amount of begging for parts and creating spam on our Facebook walls, etc. Culminated together, these things lead to the inability of playing your games without the use of scripts, bots, or the use of cheats.

Players want to feel like they are special, and with the current status of your games and your VIP programs and your Leaderboards we don’t!

We understand that you need to make money to keep your games free to play and even available to play. We would contribute some funds here and there if we didn’t need to refinance our homes just to buy few energy refills. Maybe if our purchases gave us some kind of benefit within your games then we might buy something once in a while. The key is ‘once in a while’! We don’t want to feel like it’s a must in order for us to be competitive in your games.

As far as Hidden Shadows goes, I have an idea that would turn hidden object games upside down. I will not state my idea here nor anywhere for free (It’s that good). So, you will have to continue with you’re a-typical hidden object game the way it is now. If I get some free time I might spend a few minutes on it again. Or not.

Iceboard – Typhoon Rider And Metal Spine

Because Zynga cares sooo much about its player base they continue to release these events that only a very few players have a chance to win. I guess I shouldn’t whine, gripe, or complain too much because those players do need reasons to continue to play this game too. We’ll let them have at it.

The rewards that we’ll, or at least I’ll, be missing out on once again are a Typhoon Rider and the Metal Spine.

When the event ends the top Icer in each family will be rewarded with a Metal Spine. This hardly seems fair to players who may have thousands of ices yet finish 2nd or lower in their families while some players may not have as many ices yet finish first in their families Iceboard Leaderboard’s.

The Typhoon Rider will be rewarded to the top 3 leaders on the Global Leaderboard when the event ends.

If you are interested in watching the Global Leaderboard there really isn’t much to watch. Even if/when we see new leaders on the Global Leaderboards the players still usually are members of the same families that other/former leaders were members of. Not too exciting if you ask me.

ṠĄÐÎṠṪ ṀãƒĬã - Bloemfontein Chief "◆╣ֆ♍╠◆ Ned Kelly" level 55724 Fearless

ṠĄÐÎṠṪ ṀãƒĬã - Capo di Calabria "◆╣ֆ♍╠◆ scarface" level 54082 Fearless

Assassin-a-Nators - Bloemfontein Mogul "{ASS} DLC Junior" level 27755 Maniac

These events truly aren’t very competitive. They are usually more like blow-out’s. Many players haven’t even gotten out of bed yet and the leaders had already accrued 12,000 + ices in under 4 hours. That’s an average of 3,000 + ices an hour.

Wouldn’t it be nice to see what would happen if these events started at differing times once in a while? Would we see different players on top of the Leaderboards? Would more players try harder? We may never know the answers to these questions because Zynga seems to have it’s group of favorite players. The rest of us are just hear to be the whipping posts for the elite.

That leaves us with the option of seeing How Low Can We Go?