The Official Mafia Wars Blog is trying something new to keep us informed. Every Friday they promise to write a blog post called "This & Next Week". This sounds like a bold ambition to me and I hope they will keep up with it. They attempted to post frequent Release Notes, but that son fizzled out. The last time we saw that was on March 30th right after Brazil was launched. I like this idea but suspect they will miss many things in the "This Week" section. According to the first edition of This & Next Week, only 3 things happened in Mafia Wars. Looking at my own archives, I can assure you a lot more things were implemented or updated. I guess we will have to accept that only important things will be highlighted.
Coming Next Week*
New Mission: Blood Money
“Revenge is a dish best served cold.” If you succeed, you’ll get the last laugh in this 8-part mission.
Translation: The timer on your current Limited Time Mission will expire next week. Did you think we wouldn't add a new one?
New Lucky Stash Loot
Play the slots for a chance to win new loot items!
Translation: We know you will spend Reward Points on this feature so we consistently make this a top priority. The Crime Spree is free so why would we ever update that loot?
Collector’s Edition Items
These items are so special that we only made 5,000 of them! The only way to get them is to buy them in the Marketplace, and they'll cost a pretty penny. Once they sell out, they’re gone for good!
Translation: We recently learned that there are a lot of collectors out there and want to further capitalize on this discovery. Honestly, why else would you buy Marketplace loot? We refresh it more frequently than our player base changes their underwear. This fun little twist will ensure stress is caused to our collectors who are sleeping when the release takes place.
Premium Boosts
Tired of being a loser? Get the super boost you need to beat your opponents! Premium Boosts will be available in the Marketplace.
Translation: We gave you a taste of how cool these boosts are then swiftly removed them from the Free Gift Page. Now you want them and for a price they can be yours.
The Big Payout
We're showing high-energy level players some love with a limited-time Brazil job specifically for them! The exact amount of energy you will need to spend has yet to be determined, but you can bet it's gonna be HIGH. Of course, a super high energy cost yields a super sick mastery item, so work on leveling up to one day live the high life and enjoy all its perks!
Translation: The entire destination of Brazil was mad love for all of our E-Ho's. What can we say? Ho's will be Ho's. They just can't get enough so we want to piss off the fighters a little bit more and hope they will stop spending Reward Points on their skills. It really causes our playing field to be unbalanced.
New Declare War Loot & Achievements
Translation: We know the bots make it impossible for many to get war loot items for helping. We want you to declare your own wars to keep the cycle going. Do you think we added a timer speed-up option because it looks pretty?
*As far as is currently scheduled, but things can change.
| 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. |
Didn't get the 1000 ices because the event started 5 days late for me...
ReplyDeleteRaven appeared the first time and disappeared halfway through the fight...hasn't shown up since then, despite more than 300 ices...Will probably take more than year to ice the Raven a 100 times....will I be playing till then...who knows...
Least that they could do is remove the achievements for this....
new fight module still doesn't show up..
Why do they keep adding new stuff when they can't roll out the old stuff in time...slow rollouts, my ass...;-)
==>Big Payout is going to be a Big Disappointment for a lot of the casual players...
==>How many collectors are they and does 5000 people count when you've pissed of millions of the player base...
==>new boosts were fun...but now they've disappeared...
==>new war achievements...well what can I say....hmmm
I wish they would listen to the LootLady like they did with the Honey badger...hmmm
LOL......the game is really stressful at times and i love it when people see the funny side of these things....though i am a serious player i enjoy to see my players make jokes once in a while on their posts
ReplyDeletenot too concerned with the Raven, if it comes it will come, quite sure it will make an appearance one of these days...even the money achievements took ages to get...only got them through a glitch months ago....
have not bought any loot item from the marketplace besides the ones for charity, the last one was when i just started playing, something called My Bestfriend i think, it's way down the ladder now in terms of stats....glad that they are serious collectors out there..at least we can hope that they will still be playing when the masses have left...lol...it's really frustrating when you added new players to replace the many who have left and after a few weeks they are also gone...:(