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. 

This And Next Week Mafia Wars News Release

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Retro Gaming Crates
Check out the 8 pixel-powered items we've boxed up in the Marketplace!

Ice Season: 11
Ice mobsters in weekly Ice Seasons to earn reputation badges & cool rewards!

Mission Event: Family Gatherings
Prevent an attack on the Dons Meeting to earn the Chomp Rocket (92/159).

HDSA Fundraising Item: Cane Sword
Buy a Cane Sword (148/90) for $3 USD (or 6 for $15), and Mafia Wars will donate 100% to HDSA's work on potential therapies to treat symptoms of Huntington's Disease and, eventually, the disease itself.

Family Battle Reward Weekend
For a limited time, earn rewards for every battle!

This Week's Major Bug Fixes

"Blocked URL" Message When Posting To Facebook

Mystery Gifts Too Mysterious

Districts List Is Still Displayed When A District Is Open

If you are experiencing issues of any kind, please let us know via the Bugs & Support forum, where you can get the latest updates on known issues, fixed bugs, & solutions in development.

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Save Don's Dinner
The Don has invited you to Thanksgiving dinner, but he needs more birds. Collect 25 turkeys and he’ll reward you with a powerful item: his right-hand man, The Butler (155/95 at Ruby level).

New Limited-Time-To-Request-Upgrade Parts NYC Property: Botanical Garden

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Family Battle Rewards

Players Say No To Battles

One Can More Than Reasonably Assume That Half The Families That Participate In The Family Battles Will See The Above Banner When The Battle They Participated In Commences. The Other Half Of The Families Who Participated In A Family Battle Will See The Following Banner;

The Dark Truth Of The Matter Is That Most Families Are Not Participating In The Battles At All. The Following 2 Pictures Show How Many Families Are Currently Registered In Mafia Wars.

As You Can See There Are 11,715 Registered Families. Since The Mafia Spirit Family Has Not Participated In Any Skirmish Nor Battle At All And We Have A Score Of 1500 In Each I Can Presume That All Families With That Score Or Less Have Not Participated In A Family Battle. On The Next 2 Pictures I Drew A Red Line On The Leader Boards Where My Presumed Participants Would Be Separated From The Non-Participants. 

As You Can See, With Using This Ideology, Only 23% Of All The Families Have Participated In A Skirmish And Only About 20% Have Participated In A Battle. One Can Only Deduce That An Overwhelming Majority Of Mafia Wars Players Have Not Partaken In A Battle (Nor Skirmish). 

One Major Reason Why Many Of Us Who Are Running Families Are Not Electing To Participate In The Family Battles Is The Family Progression.

We Feel We Have Enough Difficulties To Deal With In The Game As Opposed To 'Having' To Be Online To Help Our Family In A Battle That We Will Lose Too Many Fights In. We Need Ices, In Other Words, And We Can Not Get Enough Ices For The Family Progression If We Have To Red Ice To Get Them. Add To That, We Do Not Get The Fighting High End Loot When We Lose Fights. Add To That, The Fact That When We Lose Our Fights Trying To Get A Red Ice We Are Helping The Opponent Become Stronger Through The Experience They Are Gaining And We Still Lose The Battle. Add It All Together, Add To That, The Fact That We Still End Up On The Fight Pages If We Have Full Health So We Take Fight Losses From There Also. The Bottom Line Is The Fact That The Battles Aren't Worth The Same Loot Items We Get By Doing The Boss Fights Nor The Fight Losses We Take When We Participate Nor The Playing Dead We Have To Do If/When Our Family Is In A Battle And There Are No Viable Targets. We REFUSE To Be The Stronger Players Punching Bags!!