Once again my account has a bug that others don't seem to have. I wonder if they are targeting me in hopes that I will write blog posts about how many things don't work. There is a conspiracy theory going around that Zynga is purposely trying to get as many players to quit the game as possible and I'm starting to think there may be some truth to it. Almost a million players in the past 30 days have stopped playing Mafia Wars. Zynga is doing a great job in making this happen month after month. Soon there won't be any left.
I crafted my buildable items, opened 100 gifts and did my ices and jobs for the day. When I went to collected my individual and experience bonuses, I was greeted with this beauty. My timer reset just fine but my objectives were already checked. The end result...zero experience for me and my Family.
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personally i believe ... that it is all intentional ... mw is not bringing in as much money as it once did ... so they are trying to make people quit so they dont get law suits on themselves when they stop supporting the game ...
ReplyDeletei mean seriously as stupid as zynga devs are ... surely they arent retarded
Good afternoon Jen,
ReplyDeleteThe rumour may be not be so far from the truth. Being a business woman myself I see the classic signs of a company in trouble .... offering discounts on a daily basis so as to bulk up the bank balance before pulling the plug. It's a classic move ! I would not be surprised to see MW being pulled by Zynga.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how to keep players from leaving,yet Zynga keep on wearing their blinkers and let it happen .... SHAME on them !
Kelly *Killer Queen*
On the one hand I'm in awe of Zynga for developing a game of this complexity as people are playing it. That's no small feat. On the other hand, it's incredible how little testing they appear to do on new features. It's inevitable that the odd bug will slip through, but it's as if they just say "close enough" and launch it without completing testing. My guess is that development is deadline driven and when the deadline hits they launch the feature regardless of whether testing was completed or not. I'm guessing they feel that new stuff makes them money, so rolling out new stuff is their priority.
ReplyDeleteI had to contact Facebook about the Family Progression as well, and on the live chat then the game was reset and the timer went on. After posting this to the family, then the ones that were effected were given rps or loot for the issue. I quite agree with you that Zynga is just running to much at the same time and have not figured out how to keep it running.
ReplyDeleteI do believe you that think that Zynga is trying to keep the informed players from getting the news.
this happened to pretty much everyone in our small family (20 members) for several days in a row just after Jeffy appeared....the Zyngoids decided to do the most useless thing they could...as they couldn't identify who actually had the problem, they gave everyone some extra exp. points, whether it was a good time for you to be using them or not and increased the family %age counters....nice boost for a big family especially when only a few were having the problem.....I have to say that I have pretty much hit the end of the line here...and I don't appreciate the 25 RP hit to get the timer rolling again....it's too bad they can't recognise that small families just can't do things the same way as larger ones.....I could go on about all of the other things that have torqued me out but I have hit the point where I can't be bothered to waste the time complaining as no one listens ever.....
ReplyDeleteThat is most likely the bug that starts your day in the negatives. IE you start at -150 Ices and work your way to zero. I have gotten it 3 times since the big fix they did. Never more than 1 day at a time. I got the canned response the last time I reported it. But the next day it seemed to work fine.
ReplyDeleteUnlike you, they haven't given me my credit for the Last time the family progression messed up. I wrote several times and same bad service I even gave them a screen shot of the apology and that others were credited, but to no avail. "I will let the developer know" is what they said each time.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like, they really don't care if you play or not.
BTW, if these support guys were really daily players, they wouldn't put up with the bad supportt.