The Big Sham

The "Must Play Weekend" Holiday Event sounded really cool.  The pop-ups for it caused many to cancel their 4th of July plans, load up on Reward Points for stamina refills and fight all weekend long.  The reason this was such a big deal is because the best loot to equip your mafia with now comes from fighting and not jobs.  Here are the loot items we all need 500 each of.  None of these are giftable and they can only be obtained from fighting.

Soon after the event started, everyone was disappointed because Zynga pulled a fast one and reduced the drop rate of the above items by about 50%!  This pumped up event essentially made no difference in the number of fighting loot items dropped this weekend versus any other day.  Do they think we mindlessly click and not pay attention?  What was the point of "2X Fight Loot?  Since they are losing so many players, maybe they are getting desperate for money and felt it necessary to lie so the remaining players would buy Reward Points under the guise of the "Must Play Weekend".

The gang at Top Mafia.Info have been diligently gathering data on the drop rates of fighting loot ever since it was introduced.  To see the data they have collected and track their progress, follow the discussion thread titled FHeL (Fighting High end Loot) ... drop percentages on The Top Mafia.Info Forum Boards.

The following images were taken from this discussion thread.  The images are taken after stamina runs using the bookmarklet program AttackX by Spockholm MafiaTools.  I added the yellow arrows.  The first one was taken before the "Must Play Weekend" and the second one after.

FHEL 19.6%

  FEHL 10.3%

All I can is WOW!  I like the way Top Mafia.Info presented the image above.  Zynga should really be ashamed of themselves.  Once the news got out, the ShamWow people hired Mark Pincus to replace Vince Shlomi as the spokesman for their product.