A recurring question we often see on the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page is what will happen to the Extreme Missions that have tasks in Italy. We will soon know the answer as there are only 8 hours left before we will all be locked out of Italy.
There are a total of 19 Extreme Missions. Four of them have a collective total of 8 tasks required in Italy. This demonstrates that Zynga didn’t know they were closing Italy when Extreme Missions were introduced. Most likely these tasks will be changed to involve different destinations in the same manner as we saw with the Collectable Stat Cards[1]. It’s going to be a pain to figure out what the new tasks are as most of us are stuck on Mission #12 [1]. Once you complete a Mission, there is no going back.
Extreme Mission #1
Extreme Mission #9
Extreme Mission #17
Extreme Mission #18
Extreme Mission #19
I am not so sure about your statement "This demonstrates that Zynga didn’t know they were closing Italy when Extreme Missions were introduced." You are giving an awful lot of credit to Zynga. I'm more inclined to say that they knew, but weren't smart enough to figure out the implications.
ReplyDeleteLOL, they will probably realize it when they read this post!
ReplyDeleteDoes it really matter whether they knew or didn't know about Italy closing? Each phase of these 'Extreme' missions can be so long and tedious that there isn't any conceivable "good" time to close Italy once these extreme missions were started.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I just don't care about Italy closing.... The job ratios were always terrible and the loot drop rates were terrible making the city pretty worthless as far as loot goes... The only good thing about Italy was that it provided one more city for fighting.
As far as I am concerned.... Italy was not one of Zynga's best ideas...
Ciao Italia!
Anthony
why is everyone so ansty against the extreme missions - i've built 7/50 in the Chi warehouse and enjoyed everyone of them - much more fun than doing something that helps me level up or improve my combat stats LOL
ReplyDeleteZynga has said that they will make changes to those parts, so that we can do them.
ReplyDeleteThis is for the owner or mod of site. I was reading the zynga boards and from reading them it seems that zynga new policy is to try and force players to spend money to play 24-7 and still buy cash to finish quests. They are increasing timers forcing players to be reliant o. Others and putting many goals on timers or making them just out of reach unless you have tons of time or cash or in some cases both. Example tree mastery in farmville was just changed so it takes longer building anything in any zynga games takes days for players with few friends and any exploits that help the players gets patched while ones that do not sit on back burner. Also all zynga games now have help limits on both sides please go read the zynga. Boards and if you are not register don't bother they send you an email 2 days or more later with broken activation links
ReplyDeleteThe main problem with Zynga and its handling of its past, present and future mafia wars planning; it clearly does not know what it is doing and it has already clearly stated objective unapologetic and somewhat arrogant unsurprising attitude that it does not really care about players.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I find that to be a bit puzzling and even bewildering; because it is also saying they are trying to make the game of mafia wars better in quality and diversity; this kind of sends a mixed message of sorts and that is not good at all.
I truly think and believe that if Zynga does not start investing more into the customer service aspect side of the business equation on behalf of its loyal remaining mafia wars game players base that the mass exodus will only further slide and deteriorate over time to resemble more like that of mafia wars 2 DAU(daily active user) statistic of severe decline and atrophy.
The old mafia wars city style of game play allowed one to fight in many cities and also play and interface socially with many other mafia wars game players that now simply does not really happen as much in the same way as I have personally experienced comparing the old versus the new mafia wars game setups.
If their argument was to make the mafia wars game quality better thru enhanced social games networking I am finding little evidence of it there was more of that with the original mafia wars game setups; basically zynga has somehow killed the game mafia wars thru some of the subtle and not so subtle modifications to the game mafia wars.
On its present course mafia wars will not likely be around in the next three years is my personal feeling, largely due to these undesired mafia wars game changes; this is further directly evidenced by the dissolution of the player advisory committee.
Why did Zynga not listen to the suggestions of PAC 1.0 and why should we believe that they would listen to the future suggestion of the supposed newly formed PAC 2.0.
Based on the direct evidence presented above I find it rather difficult to believe any promise being fulfilled on behalf of mafia wars game playing customers.
I think I speak for all those who have either recently left the game mafia wars or who are on the fence about leaving the game mafia wars permanently; if Mark Pincus is listening; now there are even only more compelling reasons to leave the game mafia wars than ever!!
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