Mafia Wars Update on Fighting ( 8/1/2012)

On the Official Mafia Wars Blog and in the Mafia Wars Forums an announcement has been made regarding a new beta test about the fight feature. Here is a reprint of Zynga’s version of the update;

Mafia Wars Update on Fighting ( 8/1/2012)

Dear Mobsters,

We have news for you! Most of you have requested for a better notification when you are attacked. We are experimenting with a system that notifies your recent attack when you are playing. Please note that the feature is still in beta phase and would require community feedback for improvements.

Please note: We will be rolling this addition today at  03:00 AM PST. Since it’s a slow roll out, some of you might not be able to view this new addition until we roll this out to all players.

Also for the time being, clicking on the notification will have either one of the 2 behaviors:

1. Takes you to the opponent’s profile page or

2. Takes you to fight page with the opponent, by dealing an attack. Based on the players response and inputs there could be further improvements to the new additions.

We welcome your feedback HERE.

-The Mafia Wars Team

 

Personally, I do not see a benefit to this modification. Too many players use the Battlefield or Assasin-A-Nator while they are fighting and therefore won’t ever see the red attack pop-up notification.

In addition, if this works like the notification when a player declares war on you then you will rarely see it pop-up and by the time you respond the war is over which defeats the purpose of the notification.

One more thing about this is the risk that it will confuse players. Some players will see it and think a war was declared on them and they will click on it and be taken to the fight page.

While I am fighting I am only concerned with getting my ices and move onto the next player that I am lucky enough to find that I can beat. In other words, I don’t give a shit who attacked me unless I can beat them. I am only concerned with 2 things.

1. Getting my daily 150 ices.
2. Leveling up

This modification helps with neither.

I only see this as an advantage for the strong players who can beat anyone. I see this as a negative where those strong players will turn around and sit on the weaker players. I see this as yet another taxi for players to take away from this game.