UPDATE: I may have spoke too soon. Don Mattrick comes with a reputation and it's not the best. Go here to learn all about it. This guy will fit right in! Thanks to Brandon for the heads up.
Zynga officially named Don Mattrick as the new CEO. This makes Mark Pincus a former CEO but he will stay on as the Chairman and CPO (Chief Product Officer). This is anything but bad news because something needs to change at Zynga. What impact it will have on Mafia Wars, I don’t know but there are currently all kinds of rumors about a shutdown. I prefer the wait and see approach. Following the announcement, Zynga stock prices went up which should somewhat reflect what the shareholders thought of Mark Pincus. I know the players never had much confidence in his abilities. For more details, go here for a blog post by Mark Pincus and here for one by Don Mattrick. For more details go here. Thanks to Scott Colin and Peter Flindt for posting this news on our fan page.
eactions from Zynga shareholders who boosted the company’s stock price 10.43% to $3.07. After hours the stock has gone up another 3.58% to $3.18 following the announcement.
id like to see that VIP gets always discounted rp's and when any1 uses rp's to upgrade properties , ( video store, etc ) that they be given a request for parts instead of waiting for allotted time to request . and maybe allow us who hasnt or wasnt able to upgrade all limited time properties a chance to resend parts instead of charging an ungodly amount of rp's .. i have more but hey thats just a few for now ty OH 1 last thing , the WARSMITH items , i spend a but load of rps building 1 and i wasnt able to fully max up my weapon , now any1 who spends 500+ rps on a weapon that weapon should always have the highest and best attk/def than any other weapon on mw !!! and it would be good to see these items reappear for upgrades as the game progresses :) as of right now i want my rp's back on my warsmith !
ReplyDeleteadding to that , id like to have more TOP MAFIA , 6 is good but theres 501 in my mafia so maybe add 3 more is an idea . and possible having VIP tagged on my players title would be cool as well , ok i hope the new boss is generous :)
ReplyDeleteYes, please tag VIPS with vip in their title then I can easily find them to ice them :)
DeleteWhy not give us your link first, then you can see all the VIPs who ice you.
Deletemy thoughts a few months ago were,zynga-online casino. they have their own site now, have slots, poker, bingo, so have done a dummy run. Will they leave mafia wars behind? methinks yes, they will prob sell it, but i am just guessing of course ;-)
ReplyDeletethe video in the 'update' has no merit IMO.
ReplyDeleteit's simply bashing him as a scapegoat for the corporation not releasing any new hardware recently. it has no bearing on his capabilities. as you said though, it's a wait and see scenario as to whether this will have any impact on MW. I hope it does, because it couldn't get much worse than it is now.
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DeleteExactly. There was absolutely nothing wrong, nor telling, about the statement he made. Gotta find other sources, or, "wait and see." That video is a joke on the person who thought it meant anything.
Do a google search on the whole incident. The point is that he is supposed to be selling new boxes, not telling people to stick with their old ones and telling his customers to suck it up. Maybe that was a bad example of a video but I didn't have much time to put into the update.
Deleteit would be awesome if they would sell it to EA so they could work the bugs out. Sadly I don't think EA would be interested in trying to fix such garbage coding.
DeleteTelling users who have no internet access to stick with the 360 is maybe a little arrogant, but it is honest. Without internet access the xbox one is pretty much useless. He could have left that out and let people buy the xbox one and then turned around and said "too bad, not our fault you don`t have the net"
Delete$3.00? Their stock is at $3.00???? LOL....
ReplyDeleteI meet the guy a few years ago, when I was working on harry potters first game for EA, he is a money man, he does not give a shit about game play or how players will be effected, his only care is how many boxes can we shift, and can we get any more from any other sku's !!
ReplyDeleteI posted that video of him saying that to my mafia family page also saying it's bad for them (good for my xbox community though) i wanted to slap him when he said that stick with 360 crap. Next thing all the bad things about xbox one were reversed and this guy is gone so all the bad things surely came from him. The video had nothing to do with no hardware recently it was about the xbox one having to be connected once a day or it will not play games after 24 hours and people hated it and he sounded like a real arrogant prick. That is what the video was about and i am certain it was his idea.
ReplyDeleteWall Street prices go up when they think that their ROI (return on investment) is going to increase. That usually happens when staff is reduced and the company is sold.
ReplyDeleteWell, if players are worried about a shut down, pull out the credit card and spend a little money on MW. If 25% of MW players are spending a few dollars each month, they wont shut it down.
ReplyDeleteI want his email address.
ReplyDeletehttp://gigaom.com/2013/07/02/the-stock-market-likes-the-new-zynga-ceo-but-its-wrong-here-is-why/
ReplyDeleteI do not know if this new guy is even going to get involved with MW, after all, he is responsible for the whole picture of which MW is just a few pixels
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