We often talk about the challenges of the Mafia Wars developers. Their goal is to make the game fun but at the same time they need to comply with the goals of upper management. Jake Coleman discovered something funny in the back code of the game. The green writing in the image below is code that is not executed in the game and serves as comments that the developers can make to each other. We all hate popups, they know we hate popups but you can tell by the comment in the code that they have no choice to do something about it and have a sense of humor. I can only imagine the comments to be found in the Limited Time Upgrade Properties.
//this is done so the first promo can be seen after the user closes out half a dozen popups
To access the back code of any feature, right click your mouse and select “Inspect Element”. You never know what you may find!
That IS funny . . . they *knowingly* popup like crazy. (not sure if I should laugh or cry)
ReplyDeleteyou've written about this before...
ReplyDeleteThe ZMC pop-up REALLLLLY needs to go away... I don't see how it's beneficial at all to zynga in making money, it only annoys players while trying to help their mafia and friends, thus making them close it out over 100 times or more per day.
ReplyDeleteThe spockbar and addon try to cancel it out, but takes way to long to do it... I'm sure zynga won't even read this, so cheers to the wall I'm talking to. :-)