One of the funnest things left about Mafia Wars is speculating on it’s remaining life-span. Guessing it’s end date, in other words.
Since February 7th Mafia Wars has lost approximately another 20,000 daily active users.
Source; http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/10979261223-mafia-wars
Zynga seems to have false illusions that it’s more fun for us to open our wallets and give them free raining access to our bank accounts and/or credit cards. If you look at the types of events that are currently available in the game it appears that nearly all of them require players to spend some amount of RP’s in order to complete them or even participate at all in them.
If you master this Secret District to the Ruby level before 3/3/2013 11:59 AM PST, you can reset your progression for 50 RP without losing your loot and rewards, which will let you master this Secret District again. You can reset your progression a maximum of 3 times, and can earn mastery rewards a maximum of 4 times. You will also get 1 Skill Point on completing every job.
Buy Crates and collect items to complete Crate Carnival, and win an amazing reward and Skill Points.
** Note; There IS NO SET NUMBER OF CRATES ONE HAS TO PURCHASE TO MASTER THE CRATE CARNIVAL.
At 54% Off the High Rollers Pack STILL costs $149……..Originally it cost $320. LMFAO….. Uhhh, no thank you. I pre-ordered the EA Deluxe SimCity for a little more than half the sale price and I’ll get an entire game.
Purchase the Arena Power Up Pack for 50 RP and earn a limited time Stats Boost to increase your stats.
Translation; You can waste 50 of your RP if you have an ego problem. Keyword; waste!
At 60% off I could purchase the Arena Mega Pack for $79. Uhhh, again no thank you. I pre-ordered the EA Deluxe SimCity for about the same price and I’ll get an entire game.
Either you have to buy your way through the mission or buy the shit you need in the Arena or you get damn lucky or you already have a high energy, stamina, attack, defense, etc account. I gave up. It’s BULLSHIT one way or the other.
For 35 RP, If you haven’t done so already, you could replay The Obelisk Of Sao Paulo. Easily the best deal listed. However, Zynga might quit re-releasing the pay-to-play districts.
Haven't recieved skill points from the punches you earned earlier? Don't worry. Get one more punch on your reward card and you'll receive your unrewarded Skill Points.
If that doesn’t make you stop and go huh? wuh? nothing will. Zynga is obviously stating that we want your money but they may not give you what you purchased unless you bitch about it.
Also, no indication anywhere as to how much this will ultimately cost you. That is not without doing some research or opening a pop-up window for the recent RP sales. Many players even wait for RP sales of 50% off before ever considering this.
Then there is the Collectable Stat Cards. It has been said that in order to collect all the cards in just one set could cost a player anywhere from 700 to 1300 RP. Possibly more if that player has bum-luck. At the extreme minimum it would cost 375 RP’s (assuming a different card was received for each single-card purchased).
Then there is Ice Season and the new Research Facility that could cost players.
All this on top of the $25 a month VIP Membership.
We have to wonder, where is the game at in Mafia Wars? Is there even a game at all anymore? Is it just a contest of who can spend the most money? Is it a game of who can spend the most time playing? What are your thoughts? What do you find fun about Mafia Wars? Why do you still play this game that is nearly impossible to play without a credit card?
