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By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:54:34 +0000

I’ m having trouble. I bought 1 weapon for all my peeps but when I fight it doesn’t fight with all theweapons

By: Celebfan

Celebfan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:59:42 +0000

I tried this game and I think is so boring, and to hard to play.

By: crazy insane alien

crazy insane alien — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:00:06 +0000

Zanga sucks big time. They killed their own baby, enough said.

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:25:33 +0000

It has gone down BIG time on Facebook, wiped out 1000s of players, and they’re all getting annoyed with them too…

By: Turbo

Turbo — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:08:11 +0000

Zynga causes extreme frustration for all games. Most energy packs don’t work, and why should we promote businesses by playing games on Myspace? Anything used for the games should be bought by money made from the game!

By: Baden Powel

Baden Powel — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:55:41 +0000

Guys, the hitlist must be a place where no one wants to be…is that so difficult to understand? If a strong player goes to the hitlist, another stronger player will take him out, or any other weaker player, but sacrificing his own health. Don’t understand why the hitlist should be a positive thing for people in it…that makes no sense. If some cheaters and lame [elite] players took advantage of the buggy old hitlist, and now they are not doing it anymore…well done Zynga. Zynga added the energy paks to advance in levels quickly, so please stop moaning about the hitlist feature. It makes much more sense now than before.

By: Tom Melin

Tom Melin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:51:39 +0000

I agree with James. If they changed the game so that family members couldn’t put you on the hitlist, that would be a better solution. I don’t even “ride the hit list”, but I enjoy attacking people on it for the fun of adding to my “hit list kills” status. I purchased some DVDs, and never received my points, but I’m not even concerned about that. I’m just upset with the game. I signed up for the Mobsters app and the Mafia Wars app at the same time. I only played Mobsters because Mafia Wars, at that time, took forever for anything to load, and it just didn’t seem to be as much fun. I came back and tried it a month ago and they had improved the game and unlike Mobsters, the hit list was always full. I also liked the fact that you could get A LOT of money to purchase property…so I have stopped playing Mobsters and began playing Mafia Wars. NOW, the main reason I play Mafia Wars, the full hit list, is screwed up. I think I’m going to stop playing this too. God, what am I gonna do now???? I’ll have to go back to real life….lol. Later all, and Happy Huntin’!!!!

By: Tech Magazine

Tech Magazine — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:51:57 +0000

Mafiawars used to be my favorite game, but the recent changes have destroyed its popularity. I hope it comes back to the previous mode.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:55:35 +0000

I am suspicious that this important change was made to provoke a strong response, as a marketing ploy, to gain even more attention and popularity. I can remember when Coke took their original formula off the market and then reintroduced it, soon after, as “classic”, with the same melodrama. I think not feeding into the anger, until the smoke clears, and keeping a clear perspective, is the best course. Although, Zynga, did make this sudden change, without notice, they also indicated, very cryptically, it would roll out subsequent updates to compensate for this.

The other unfortunate issue involves reward points, that have not been awarded via offers or cash investment, and can no longer be earned, or were ever available to be purchased with Zynga dollars.

If you are serious about getting Zynga’s attention, we have the power to boycott all of its games and its marketing affiliates, in concert, until the players demands are met. This means we all have to stick together and not play Zynga games, so that their traffic and marketing affiliates feel the loss of potential revenue. Zynga will come around, because the game is about revenue and business, not fun or player satisfaction. The outcome depends on your behavior.

Enough said.

By: Mofoia

Mofoia — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:34:39 +0000

Those who are forwarding the class action suit, get over it. All you are doing is making the blood sucking, ambulance chasing lawyers rich, and you only get whatever scraps are left. If you had signed up for services with Zynga’s affiliates to get godfather points, and they have not delivered what has been promised, then you have a case. Otherwise, you have no case just because you are pissed off that you can no longer live off the hitlist.

It’s funny that I do not hear people pissing and moaning when the past glitches worked in your favor, such as being able to obtain the bonus weapon before reaching level 99 or making huge amount of money for your top mafia by hitting the mini bosses.

No one is forcing anyone to purchase godfather points and those who did it, you have paid for an advantage over those who did not choose to with upgraded skill points, limited edition weapons, etc. Like I said, if Zynga did not delivered the favor points for buying the points directly, you may have a case.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:57:41 +0000

Zynga really jumped the gun on this. Disabling experience gain on wins from the hitlist should have been a last resort, rather than the first step.

If they want to change the hitlist to be just for money, that’s one thing. It will be much less popular since only new players generally need money, but it’s a better solution than it being completely one-sided like it is now. That is, it’s not fair for the offensive to get experience on wins while the defensive gets nothing for wins. Basically, it amounts to someone putting another player on the hitlist, and the player just loosing more and more health, with no benefit, even when winning.

It’s not perfect, but at least a better solution would have been to make it where a player cannot put another member of his/her family on the hitlist. At least that would lessen the issue a lot, and is a much better first step. If not that, something else, but try other things before heading to the worst possible case.

By: James

James — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:01:49 +0000

The website address for the class action effort is http://www.mafiawarsclassaction.com. Please sign up today if you have been taken advantage of in any way by Zynga, SuperRewards, or SRpoints. The more people that sign up, the more of a footing we will have to fight the unjustice done to all players who have invested their time and money into this game only to be swindled in the end.

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:40:19 +0000

Built my character to survive the Hitlist Rules (loaded health and defense). Had I known of these changes, I would have built a stronger “attack” character. Additionally, I now need to remove my “Top Mafia” because I don’t want them to heal me. If I get wacked, I want to stay dead until I’m online again.

By: שומר את השמים

שומר את השמים — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:26:04 +0000

Zynga has made a very big mistake. BRING BACK THE XPs IN THE HITLIST!

By: Mofoia

Mofoia — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:21:51 +0000

The problem is that the exp losses for being killed is only 6 points, if they had made the loss of exp point proportionate to the player’s level, I don’t think think the hitlist will be used as a shortcut to leveling up. Let’s face it, the hitlist was never intended as a shortcut, but no matter how you cut it, the higher level mafia family will continue to get stronger at the expense of the weaker families.

By: Snarky Fingers

Snarky Fingers — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:05:50 +0000

Zynga has made a very big mistake. They have, in essence, ruined their most popular game. As soon as the issue of not getting xp points for being on the hitlist surfaced, the hitlist on my server was only 8 people long. Other servers have even fewer. It has stayed that way since, normally it was around 50 to 70 people long. I hope that Zynga is happy with their loss because I’m sure that the revenue they had coming in from people paying for God Father points has plummeted and they will probably face law suits over what people have payed for. If you want to do things to fix the game, make it so you actually do some testing to ensure people can not find glitches to take advantage of to use for an unfair advantage in the game. Spend more time working on how the game functions instead of making it look pretty. In my opinion Zynga has made their biggest mistake with this game….I thought that allowing people to buy Godfather points was bad, but this is by far the biggest mistake of all.

By: Johnny Chicken Fingers

Johnny Chicken Fingers — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:50:35 +0000

Perhaps, in order to curb the perceived “cheating” to “level up,” Zynga — while IT SHOULD RE-INSTATE THE XPs IN THE HITLIST ATTACK WINS — should disable the “add to hitlist” bar when a player attempts to put one of their Mafia Wars “family members” on the hitlist in the hopes of the targeted player gaining wins and experience points (”XPs”) . Taking out the XPs in hitlist wins isn’t fair, since a player STILL loses 6 XPs when they are snuffed in a hitlist death. Wasn’t it bad enough that some people actually sunk money into this game to gain Godfather points, and now Zynga turns around and changes a crucial strategy used by the multitude of players to “level up”?! BRING BACK THE XPs IN THE HITLIST!

By: Antonius Proximo

Antonius Proximo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:24:13 +0000

Makes you wonder where the money has gone since I, like many others, have purchased God Father Points… This is a major let down for all of us players!

By: Donald Varner

Donald Varner — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:53:17 +0000

Make it so you get experience from the hitlist! I refuse to play until this has been changed, as do the others in my Mafia. (151).

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:19:46 +0000

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/CHANGEMAFIAWARSBACK/

Sign it and be a part of the cause.