Zynga has pulled the trigger and is taking away some of the War Loot that players received. See the announcement made on the Official Mafia Wars Blog for all the details. I''m not sure exactly what "more than you should have" breaks down to but I'm sure there will be more to come on this topic. Here is a reprint of this announcement which shouldn't come as a surprised if you read the post I made earlier today (1).
Because the war loot is so awesome, we limit how much of it can be collected in a day to maintain game balance.
We have discovered that some of you have collected more than you should have. We will be reclaiming this extra war loot over the next few weeks. This will only effect non-giftable, tier 2, high-end war loot and above.
So, to recap: If you have collected more high-end loot from wars than you should have, we will be adjusting your quantity of that loot to what you should have earned within the appropriate limits.
Thanks to Nabin for posting the link on the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page.
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| 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. |
for that we ll need to be able to help in war first .. lol
ReplyDeleteGood! I fought one guy today that had well over 300 of each of the premium tier 5 items. Some folks!
ReplyDeleteTry telling that to maxed out war-loot users..those with 40k+ war assists. Those should be the prime targets, not some random witch hunt against "lesser" players.
ReplyDeletehmm ,rollback its ok i still will have some other loot to use,and i have just 10 k war assist and almost max with war loost its not my foult you dont have some great war script as I ,if you want follow rules try farmwille ,in mafia there isnt rules long time ago
ReplyDeleteI don't know how this could have happened. First of all we are only allowed to help in 5 wars per day, Zynga limits us. Secondly if we do declare war and we pay reward points for it, how can the loot be reclaimed??
ReplyDeleteI have spent more than 2000 reward points just to purchase Brazil money to enable me to complete or carry on in the game. Goodness knows how much more I need to spent as I'm not even three quarters of the way there. I understand some people cheat but don't let everyone suffer. I hope you will be taking from people that cheat and not from one's that don't.
Unhappy player that don't cheat !!
thats rediculous, what about those who spent reward points to wage war more, to get achievements .........that means zynga will be stealing back what folk have paid for .......grrrr
ReplyDeleteDamn. Guess I need to start farming Roman Legions and Sea Eagles again...
ReplyDeleteWhat about the ppl that spent RP to do another war?
ReplyDeleteThe problem is, what are they going to role back... if everything roles back, there is no problem, if only part roles back... what part will it be... or we are going back to the old values and it wont make any difference because every one will be at their old values, so there will be no difference in overall strength or when only part of it is taken back... that could be a disaster and create big gaps between players strength... you could end up with players going back 30k in a/d making the old strong ones weak... and the weaker players from before 'who have more reasonable amounts of loot' stronger then before... where will they find a balance...
ReplyDeleteIf they do this I will quit playing Zynga games. I did not even know this was a glitch until I saw this posted in a group this morning. I have stayed up all night on many occasions clicking as many wars as I could because the loot is good and now they want to take away my HARD-EARNED gains because some other whiner didn't want to make the effort. They should give them a way to earn it easier or something. And how will they calculate what to take? Some people may defer fighting in a war in order to get better loot in another one! This is a very poor solution to another of their mistakes. Make the gamers suffer for the developers over sights. I will quit playing Zynga games if this happens.
ReplyDeleteI think they should take away giftable items, too, because not everyone is in a trading or gifting group where people can amass hundreds of high end loot items. IT'S JUST NOT FAIR That they can get all the loot so easy and people who don't want to be in the groups can't!!
ReplyDeleteThe only thing i find very interesting in this is: IT is The only glitch in the system where Zynga was unable to force people to spend money on rp's, every other glitch in the MAFIA system where a dis-advantage was exploited, Zynga did not step in and correct but removing any loot, They didn't care, be they were still on top with all the money people had to spend to keep the RP's flowing. I just find it all interesting. I wonder how they are going to prove the difference between, the HEL you get from helping, and the HEL you get from using 8 RP's to start a new war? because you still can collect as many HEL from your own wars, especially since you are paying for them??? This is going to be very very interesting
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of course! Make the gamers suffer because of another ZYNGA glitch! Arbitrarily take away loot from people because others couldn't get it. Will they take away my canonazo? or my paraglider? If I had known there were limits I would skip the wars with lower loot and only participate in the higher level ones. I was not aware this was even a glitch but may have to pay for Zynga's mistake?! Rather than take away the loot that players have EARNED, why not take away the faulty, glitchy reward limitation? If EVERYONE can get as many as they can click, there should be NO complaints! But, as I said at the start, MAKE THE PLAYERS PAY FOR ZYNGA'S GLITCH.
ReplyDeleteIf they'll do it - i quit playing!!!!
ReplyDeleteI dont have much of that loot, but its a lie to say its for the game balance... they have to roll-back things like the RUBY LOOT because they push energy accunts and skript-players....
if zynga cant get professional programmers (the war-loot-limit bug exists since the beginning sept. 2010!!) they should not punish normal players with a little luck.
Zynga you SUCK!!! Bye bye
I have to agree with some of you. I have spent RPs to do extra wars, and knowing I am limited in what helps I can do, I have been very picky about what wars I do click on. I also belong to a clan where we do each others wars, and tell each other what the rewards are, so people can choose to help or not. If they do this rollback and I get screwed over because of it, I am done buying RPs and I am done with zynga games. mark my words.
ReplyDeleteI think this is so stupid they have all this different events so you can get kool loot but as soon as they screw up they wanna take it away. Why don't they test things first or just suck it up. That last loot event ruby mastery I dont know how people I talked to never got any loot from there, myself included. I spent all my engery plus leveled up and an energy pack and refilled energy with RPs on my Ruby level and never got any of it. I dont think thats very fair why dont they do something about that. It's because they don't care about there players whats so ever maybe everyone should boycott ZYNGA games for a day and see if that will change their minds.
ReplyDeleteyes zynga sucks. this game is nothing like real mafia wars. i am addicted to my friends and family and trying to help them. i'm getting tired of their shit, too. quit fucking with gifts and do something about the damned bullying in the game, u wusses~
ReplyDeleteIf Zynga would spend their money on servers for Testing and Staging servers before they roll out crappy code, they could fix their problems before they get rolled out. Instead they screw the players who are working within the confines of how the game code was built. Maybe Zynga should look inward instead of outward to fix internal mistakes. Maybe if you didn't roll out so much crap in the game, your development team could spend more time on fixing their code.
ReplyDeletefor the record - zynga can check every account and knows every click you made. They can tell if you spent RP for extra wars - just as they have their "triggers" for all those who took advantage of a script to allow them more than the 5 war items permitted. If you didn't "cheat" they will know - so everyone who didn't has nothing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteI have a little bot of a different opinion about this. Nobody did anything wrong, and Zynga (again) does not understand how their own game works. Maybe that programmer quit or something.
ReplyDeleteIf you deal the final blow in someone elses war...you get the same reward as the person who declared (and won) the war. Maybe...just maybe...zynga does not realize that's the way it works.
Having rules and abiding by them makes people feel safe. Applying remedies to a game that do now fall in line with the rules makes people angry and confused. That is what is happening here.
Why would they store all that information? It would be HUGE amounts of information. Why would they have that stored?
ReplyDeleteA back-door is easy to set up. With an IP address you can track any player's movements within the game. However, if I collect 5-6 Paragliders because the last person to Win a War, I shouldn't be penalized. Now, with that said, if I work in an office of seven players sharing the same IP address and one of the players uses a bot, we will all show up in the "back-door" analytic as running assisting in multiple Wars. Who's the victim now? Granted, all seven players will have different WHEL counts, but unless Zynga plans on investigating each and every account, there's no way to differentiate. With hundreds of thousands of players playing at any given time, I highly doubt that Zynga has the time and man-power to go through every account.
ReplyDeleteI am currently maxed-out on all War Loot, as well as Patriots (last glitch) and Bangkok HEL (yet another conversion glitch).
I didn't sweat a roll-back then and I don't sweat a roll-back now.
It time to move this to "Get satisfaction"
ReplyDeletelet your words be heard, we doubt Zynga will hear you, but we have to give it a shot. It is not cheating if the program allows you to collect.
two threads running
http://getsatisfaction.com/mafia_wars/topics/roll_back_anoucment
http://getsatisfaction.com/mafia_wars/topics/cheaters_do_prosper
what if ..you are an active player and played almost 18hrs.just like me even i'm at work i played this game )MW) helping my MWF too,active and dedicated,is that bad active and helpful to get all the rewards I diverse.?
ReplyDeleteso if i bought 1000 rp's 1,000 Reward Points
ReplyDelete$200.00 USD $140.00 to fight wars.. and zynga removes the rewards I received . how is that not theft, bate and switch is not right
I got a message about half an hour ago to say that I had exceeded the maximum number of war loot items, yet I am just playing the game normally, helping my mafia in their wars (when my slow loading page lets me get in a hit, which isn't often!) and I don't even declare war each time I would be able, so I can't imagine HOW I've exceeded their mysterious limit ... but they have deducted the so called excess items from my account, thereby lowering my attack & defence stats.!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, how amateurish are they??? They couldn't figure out that they could have simply created more high end loot to void out the rewards we had recieved? Most players would be in a happy mood instead of ready to lynch Zynga. Heck, they not only could have fixed the problem but made more money doing it. Whoever thought of this solution ought to be fired and sent back to marketing school.
ReplyDeleteLol too many whinny ppl here that saying they deserved that glitched loots cause they spend too much time on game ,well well ,first of all u better should accept that u are not helping wars by clicking on wars :) too many of u already use scripts to catch and help in wars rite ? and players like me who really plays the game him self cant even get the 5 help limit filled per day cause of ppl like u hehe ,so stop cryin
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ReplyDeletefor the record - zynga can check every account and knows every click you made. They can tell if you spent RP for extra wars - just as they have their "triggers" for all those who took advantage of a script to allow them more than the 5 war items permitted. If you didn't "cheat" they will know - so everyone who didn't has nothing to worry about.
HAHAHAHAHA yeah right. I've never used a script/bot but I got rolled back 600 attack and 600 defense, my crime was to help too many people and receive rewards due to Zyngas programming error. Nothing but a fucking joke the whole game now. And then to be told it's about level playing fields, HAHAHA, yeah credit card players equal level playing fields???
ACCOUNT NOTICE
ReplyDeleteDear Mafia Wars player,
We ran an audit of Mafia Wars accounts that showed abnormal behavior and found that your account exceeded the expected number of Declare War rewards. To ensure a level playing field for all our players, we adjusted your Declare War rewards based on the order you earned them to the maximum limit allowed under the current system.
We apologize for the inconvenience and credited you with a bonus of 120 items in addition to the 60 purchases you made for Declare War.
Sincerely,
The Mafia Wars Team
I only had about 800+ wars won and have only ever tried to run the Auto war once and couldn't get it running correctly... Its not as if i had 1000's of wars won and I have NEVER bought 60 declare wars :@ :@ :@ :@
Wars Won 422 ... But my Att , Def has not changed...