Zynga Attempts to Capitalize on Family Progression

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I often wondered why family experience was not available in the Marketplace. It seems anything Zynga could slap a Reward Point charge to they would take advantage. There is a new offer out and players who purchase Reward Points will now be able to use them to buy family experience that will be applied to their Family Progression. I didn't find this in the Marketplace and it looks like you need to purchase Reward Points before you get the option. This is probably so serial leveling accounts can't use their Reward Points for this purpose.

Here is the breakdown of how much family experience you can purchase with this "deal". Keep in mind to get from Level 9 to Level 10, you need a total of 10,406,250 family experience points (1). To buy your way to Level 10, you would need to spend 175,000 Reward Points. It doesn't seem like much of a deal anymore.

Family Experience	Reward Points
300	5
600	10
1,200	20
2,700	45
3,600	60
6,600	110
10,500	175
15,000	250

This offer is about as ridiculous as the Fighter's Frenzy offer we got a few days ago. Zynga must think the majority of the player base is stupid and they can manipulate them into spending Reward Points. If their product weren't so jacked up, they wouldn't need to.

Thanks to David Haedrich for posting on the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page and to Adnan Javaid for the screen shot.

Edit: Originally I had posted that you could buy 150,000 family experience points for 250 Reward Points. This amount is actually 15,000 for 250 making this offer 10 times more of a rip off than originally posted.

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