Survey; Vote For The Next City

If you could choose the next city in Mafia Wars, which would you choose?

You now have an opportunity to at least help Zynga decide which city may be developed to be the next city in Mafia Wars. On the Mafia Wars Fanpage Zynga is asking players to take part in the Mafia Wars Next City Survey 2013. Zynga has provided you with 11 cities to choose from. These 11 cities are;

• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Dubai, UAE
• Hong Kong, China
• Istanbul, Turkey
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Mexico City, Mexico
• Morocco, North Africa
• Mumbai, India
• Paris, France
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Shanghai, China

Zynga also asks you to pick your second choice. I assume that’s in the event of a tie.

If you didn’t notice there are no choices for any cities in the USA. Of course with New York, Las Vegas, and Chicago the USA is already well represented.

The 11 cities that we are provided with to choose from may leave many players disappointed since many want to see their locations represented.

The problem with something like this is that certain players or groups might push for what they want. This was a HUGE problem during the New Years Resolution Event at the end of 2011. It leaves many players cold and out in the cold and we start to feel that this is their game so why are we playing.

Mafia Spirit asks that you vote for which city you want to see in Mafia Wars and to not just to be a follower and support someone else’s agenda. Make the game a game again and STOP letting it be controlled by a select few.

click 

Mafia Wars Next City Survey 2013 

to go to the survey

You might be curious about our thoughts of which city should be in Mafia Wars. For me, personally, I believe that the game should have many more cities (destinations) than it does. Choices are a good thing. Consider that every time Zynga closes cities the game appears to lose players.

It is my belief that the locations should include what one would consider as being notorious for organized crime.

If you consider what crystalkiss.com lists as the largest Mafia’s in the world (listed below) then I would say these locations should most assuredly be include in the game as destinations. 

1. Russian Mafia
2. Sicilian and American Cosa Nostra (Also known as the Italian Mafia)
3. Colombian Drug Cartel
4. Chinese Triads
5. Japanese Yakuza
6. Mexican Mafia
7. Israeli Mafia
8. Serbian Mafia
9. Albanian Mafia
10. Jamaican-British Yardies

No matter which city wins the votes or ends up in the game we hope that NO city will be closed. In fact, we still want Italy, Moscow, Cuba, and Bangkok back. The various destinations gave the game depth and direction. Players had something to work towards. There was purpose.

Iceboard Ices Have Been Iced And Reset

Is, was, isn’t, is now? Say what?

How many ices do you have? I don’t know.

Surprise fellow Mafia Bosses, Zynga blundered something again. The post button in your Content Management System (CMS) means that the event is going to be live and active as soon as you click it. But I can only assume that your CMS works about as effectively as the game itself does when accidentally clicking the buy button on our end does. Hmmm?

So that we are up to speed, the Iceboard was released around 12 pm EST today (9 am PST). We were so overjoyed by it’s release [1]. Now those images we posted are outdated since someone in your office didn’t drink their coffee. Their jittery fingers clicked something that reset the feature (Likely posted over the original release).

Original Start

Re-Start

Now, how are we supposed to know who actually is leading on the Iceboards?

Oh well. It is at least entertaining to watch the Fubar game in action.

Iceboard Returns – Whoopty Doo

The Iceboard has returned. And once again I am NOT INTERESTED!!

Just more loots that I don’t have a chance in hell of ever seeing in my inventory, so I repeat myself when I say “why bother?'”.

And here’s a good example as to why I don’t care about these types of events;

Within just 1 hour into this event we can already see players icing nearly 2500 opponents. Something that is impossible for most players to accomplish on a normal day. How fun is it to watch others dominate these events time and again? Not very!

Like most players our best chance to any reward is to be #1 on the Family Iceboard Leaderboard. And that can be nearly impossible for many if we have strong players within our own families. So, again, why bother trying?

When all is said and done it is very likely that the usual suspected players will win even more rewards making them even stronger thus strengthening the sentiment of why are the rest of us even playing this bogus game?

Anyway, I’ll sit back, as usual, and watch the same players win these rewards;

Hexshot

Hearse Majesty

Congratulations Players Who Won These Loots. It Wasn’t Fun Watching….Again.

A Valentine’s Day Event Coming Soon?

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On February 14, 1929, St. Valentine's Day, five members of the North Side Gang, plus gang collaborators Reinhardt H. Schwimmer and John May, were executed inside a Chicago garage that was located at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of  North Side. The tragic event became known as ‘The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre’.  

The event conjoined the Mafia with Valentines Day.

In 2010 Zynga connected Mafia Wars to the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre for the first time. Many of you may remember the Mafia Wars Valentine’s Day Event. Here’s a blast from the past;

Mafia Wars Valentines Day Event

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Mafia Wars is getting ready to lavish you with cool new game updates for our Valentine’s Day Event starting Tuesday, February 9th. First off is a new featured job – the Valentine’s Day Massacre.  This featured job will be played similarly to NYE featured job – it’ll be broken up into three special jobs for you to choose from that each have timers, and you’ll be awarded with  unique Valentine’s Day bonuses for each stage you complete. Finish the featured job for a cool mastery item! Because we want everyone to feel the love and get the mastery item from the event, we’ll be offering some extra help. You’ll be able to use Reward Points to speed up the job timers, and will also have the option to ask for help from your mafia.

In 2012 players were offered a Valentine’s Day Massacre 7 day sale.

 

In 2011 Mafia Wars players were able to participate in the ‘Love And War’ Gifting Event.

Although one might believe there is a connection between the saying ‘Love And War’ and the ‘Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre’ there is not. According to Wikipedia the term ‘Love And War’ originated as an anti-war slogan which, in it’s entirety, read ‘Make Love, Not War’. The slogan was first printed for a Mother's Day Peace March in 1965 in Chicago, Illinois.

It is now 2013 and Zynga has recently added some peculiar loots to the inventory that, almost certainly, will be for another Valentine’s Day Massacre Sale. No ‘new’ images have been found yet on the servers for this 7 day sale. It is possible that Zynga will decide to reuse the images from the 2012 Valentine’s Day Massacre 7 Day Sales Event. The Loots for this upcoming 7 day sale include a Struck Out, Decaying, Whiffed Away, Roadkill (Our favorite), Blind Date, Thorn Apart, and Red-back Spider.

Start saving those RP’s if you want to get some of these goodies.