UPDATE: The gift limits were removed and one extra day was added to the event.
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This post is for the developers who read this blog and fix every glitch within hours after they are posted. We have a small situation that is causing panic in the community. It's safe to say that not many players like Gifting Events. It all started over a year ago with the Prized Pigs. They were cute, we laughed but then things got out of control. After much complaining, the pace finally slowed down and for the most part have gotten used to them.
Name | Date | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Gift Total | Event Total |
Prized Pigs | Oct 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 54 |
Masked Robbery | Oct 15 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 54 |
Rendezvous At The Pentagon | Nov 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 63 |
Serial Assassins | Nov 18 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Cake Jailbreak | Nov 30 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Hustlin’ Wit Dre | Dec 15 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 30 | 90 |
Bury The Mole | Jan 12 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Ancient Relics | Feb 21 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Fighting Irish | Mar 17 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Brazil Smuggling | Mar 25 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Cyber Warfare | April 8 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Freedom Fighters | Jun 30 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 34 | 102 |
Arch Enemies | Aug 27 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 34 | 102 |
Incognito | Nov 30 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 28 | 84 |
Incognito is the 14th Gifting Event and there was an unannounced major change. A limit of 10 gifts from the gifting system and 3 from the news feeds was imposed. I don't know who pulled the number 10 out of their ass but many are worried they won't be able to complete the event. There are 11 days to master the event. As of today, we are in the dark and don't know if each gift will have a limit of 10 or if we will be able to play out the event a total of 3 times. Worse case scenario is there is a total gift limit of 13 per day. A total of 84 gifts would be needed and there would be enough opportunities to master the event once. It wouldn't be possible to master a second or third time without using Reward Points as you would need to accept a total of 168 or 252 gifts. There is only enough time to accept 143 assuming you don't miss any days. This limit will also effect players who aren't able to play everyday. Ideally there would be no limits so players can complete this event on their own time line. If a limit must be imposed, 20 or 40 a day would be more reasonable so players don't have to stress and can have fun with the event.
Date | Day | Free Gifts | News Feed |
Nov 30th | 1 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 1st | 2 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 2nd | 3 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 3rd | 4 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 4th | 5 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 5th | 6 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 6th | 7 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 7th | 8 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 8th | 9 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 9th | 10 | 10 | 3 |
Dec 10th | 11 | 10 | 3 |
Total | 110 | 33 | |
Grand Total | 143 | ||
Total Gifts Required | 84 |
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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. |
Just another way for them to push more players away. It seems that they are wanting the average players to leave and only have ones that spend major dollars on a virtual game left.
ReplyDeleteYou hit the nail on the head. Their intent for the last few months is to force players to purchase reward points .... unfortunately the game does not justify purchasing 30 or 40 dollars per week to master any event! Players are dropping the game left and right.. Soon they will find that they will be playing the game by themselves ... lol
ReplyDeletegifting events SUCK!
ReplyDeletethat permanent spamming with those 'tupid limited time properties is annoying enough!
if i would want to spam my facebook wall full of crap, i'd play pioneer trail! :(
Haig, Somme, Zynga, Mafia Wars.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson was spelled out in the movie WARGAMES:
ReplyDeleteThs only winning move is NOT TO PLAY!!!
Don't do the freaking gifting events. Eventually they will go away and the producer who comes up with them will get demoted or fired.
Yet again it is painfully obvious that there is no cross communication between development teams over there in Zyngaville. Damn it they take two steps forward and three steps back each and every flipping time. Aren't these supposed to be smart people? Obviously intelligence and logic don't go hand in hand. If it did they logically would have increased the limit in the ZMC (and the limit in the Player Updates too, but that is an argument for another post). They logically would have posted information either before or shortly after the release of this or anything. If anybody over there showed one iota of caring and compassion for the players they have left, if they really wanted to retain us and not try to squeeze us for every last penny we have...things like this would be thought out a hell of a lot better than they currently are.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know we can't point the finger at the devs all the time, the suits are just as much if not more to blame than anybody.The devs develop what the suits tell them to. How the hell has this company not gone belly up before now? A bunch of monkeys in suits pressing random decision making buttons would do a far better job than the dumb asses that currently make the decisions.
Where is the betting pool for how much longer this game will be around? If there isn't one, I vote for one to be started up! At the rate people are leaving the game it won't be Z closing up shop.
After playing this game now over 2 years, most everyone I know has left! I am unsure how much more I can take it... bottom-line is Dynga Does NOT care, if they did the would listen to us and change this... fix things... Seems the changes are money based and they feel the newer games they have created will take them to their precious IPO... Greed will get ya you know! ;-(
ReplyDelete"This post is for the developers who read this blog and fix every glitch within hours after they are posted."
ReplyDeleteLMAO ROTF...
nice article though... love how you are able to always express the opinion of most players... thank you Jen
i dont really care this event...im just waiting for the end of MW...LOL sorry for the trolling...love you loot lady..:-)
ReplyDeleteWell said. I had a feeling that they made a limit so that it would be impossible to master all 3 without paying. I REFUSE to pay REAL money for a VIRTUAL game.
ReplyDeleteI've just deleted over 400 of my mafia because they stopped playing. I guess I'm going to have to delete another 400 in the next couple of days.
I guess we can get total of 16 gifts per day not 13.... 10 from ZMC... 3 from Other Friend's Feeds and 3 from ASK button..
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Can only hope that it gets a response that helps players.
ReplyDeleteThis is getting worst and worst...
ReplyDeleteCome on guys....Just remove the limit.....Ken Nickerson
ReplyDeleteZynga, please leave the limit at 10. Since everyone hates gifting events, the less gifts the better. And let's not forget about event fatigue. I'm looking forward to taking it easy on this one.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started this game 3 years ago - it was fun - loot drops from NYC/ Moscow / BKK were reasonable - drop/energy ratio was ok and the high end loot was cool and giftable (wish list meant something). We had fun fighting / doing jobs / trading etc and job assists meant something We had Clans and a community. Special events were jobs or random loot drops.
ReplyDeleteYou could play at your pace and have fun ...
Now its just begging - job assists rewards are so low. The events are collecting stupid gifts - the Turkey event was plain boring - its like a job now not a game .... I think MW has become so boring - the energy requirements and loot drops in Brazil and chicago mean in 5 or 5 clicks you are done and nothing drops anyway - gifting is non-existent as there is nothing to gift - its like in 5 mins you can post your begging spam - use your energy - fight a few -
With this limit its not worth even trying - its just plain dull futile and boring ....
so when I close my account I can't even give away my top loot .... bye bye Zynga you lost the plot big time .... its just not fun with your stupid limits 20 turkey protectors / 5 part assists for your mafia / 10 gifts ... forget it
no wonder everyone uses scripts ....
We're going to fix this today.
ReplyDeleteA message from CS
ReplyDeleteI've just contacted the support and talked about the "incognito event" for accepting only 10 gifts every 24hour
he told me that when the 2nd item will be unlocked there is not limit for the briefcase gun so we have to be patcient :D
I honestly believe Zynga wants to discontinue Mafia Wars; there is no other explanation that makes sense. New players are not wanted and are being actively discouraged from playing as shown by the inequity of the "new" New York properties. And now this. It's discouraging to say the least.
ReplyDeleteI just obtained the Gold lvl on the Briefcase Gun "16/16" There wasnt a opton to redo it and I had stockpiled 35 extra briefcases in my ZMC so I tried them anyway hopeing to at least get a skill point or a RP from them turning into Blue bag loot imagine my suprize when they all remained useless Briefcases adding to the Number of gifts you can open per 24 hours. It could possibly change but thats the scoop so far.
ReplyDeleteThey already imposed a timer on the gifts itself. When the last item is finally available. The first item expires, and is removed from zmc, wtf?
ReplyDeleteSeveral events I do not play anymore, requiring more time that I can spend elsewhere. This is now one of them.
Due to recent fb screwing with the grups, and now with friend requests, and zinga placing 5 or 10 item limits, Im finding the game more of a pain and less enjoyable.
When the year ends, so will my mafia wars, too many restrictions, unreasonable limits of 5/10, Talk about nickel and diming one to death.
more crappy events from Zynga! just let me play the damn game the way I want to play it!
ReplyDeleteStop making me beg on my wall, I have family & friends who don't play and think I'm an idiot!
I have played since the day it was released on Facebook but it's getting so hard now! :(
I think I could end up packing it in before xmas :\