Feb 13, 2015

Bad News for Facebook Scripts

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The following was posted on the Mafia Wars AddOn fan page and helps explain the news feed issues many have had. The very bad news is that on April 30th news feed scanners and any script that requires review of Facebook data will no longer work. News feed scanners are a double edge sword. They are good because you know your stuff will get clicked on but they are bad because it’s hard to find active requests when you need things. This may seem like good news to players who hate feed news feed scanner but it will affect all scripts (and APPs) that use any part of Facebook. It will be interesting to see what the script writers come up with and if this will affect Zynga in any way. For questions and more information, go here.

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43 comments:

  1. hmmm... maybe this is a good thing as it will finally free me from this game and save me £20 every month from VIP... theres absolutely no way i could contemplate playing this game fully manually anymore.... we shall see

    Andy B

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    1. I disagree many more small pends will play again until some retard writes new scripts for the rich and famous that are to lazy to play or wanna play 24/7 from an empty chair while they are at work feeding their bots reward points

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  2. I agree with Andy B. THey require to much to do it all manually. THe majority you can but it is that small part that will keep you from completing a lot of tasks or family stuff and this in turn will drive people away in the long run.

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  3. The end of MW for anyone who can't sit and play all day long...which means that probably 60+% of the players quit which means MW goes away. There would be no way to complete any event which requires begging except those who can sit and watch the news feeds all day long...which is most of the crap that Zynga puts out. Oh well....It will save me my VIP and no additional spending on my part for anything until that time. If not resolved...I'll simply quit...thanks to Facebook.

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  4. I will be quitting also if this happens and giving up VIP - may get a "real life| after all! :-)

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  5. Something like this helped kill off Cafe World; would not be surprised if it happens to Mafia Wars as well.

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  6. If they cannot create a work around for Home Feed Scanner, or Spockholm's Stream Scanner then there is no reason to continue. I already cannot upgrade the limited time property, cannot get crew, and the only way I win wars is to post them on my red tag.

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  7. Quite funny that you point out how this will affect Zynga considering they are part owners in Facebook

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  8. You know there is a federal law against discrimination of the handicapped. I have a condition that causes massive tremors. I can not play the mafia wars game without my special mouse and scripts. I can barely click on items requiring small motor skills. Wonder if there are others out there that it would discriminate against if scripts were not around? I love this game and am a Godmother as well.

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  9. The thought has crossed my mind as to why?
    Do you think it has to do with money?
    After all that is what makes FB work,

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  10. I TOO, HAVE SEVERAL DISABILITIES THAT PREVENT ME FROM PLAYING MOST GAMES IN THE 'NORMAL' WAY. JUST YESTERDAY I SUFFERED A SERIES OF MINI-STROKES, LEAVING MY LEFT SIDE ACTIONS TOTALLY USELESS. WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO USE MY MOUSE NORMALLY AND WITHOUT SCRIPTS I'M STUCK. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE FIXED TO WHERE I CAN PLAY MY GAME(S) AGAIN.

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  11. I always played Manually, and there is far too much pressure to complete things, so i prioritise and do what suits me, but i will miss the script users for all their help.... I thought Mafia Wars was a game to be enjoyed not a chore?

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  12. I never have and never will use scripts as I feel one is not playing the game instead instead like a robot with a set of instructions. I will miss the players that use scripts who are about to quit soon!

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  13. Time to say Good Bye
    Was a good game in the early years.
    Now its just more a Game for Players who use a Kami and can level 100 times a day.
    All the f**king Events are just made for Kami Users
    Players who stucked hell of USD in Stamina to get a Selfleveler got f**ked and get no chance to get rewarded. So i see it with 1 smily eye, and 1 sad.

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    1. Isnt that the truth you hit the nail on the head

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  14. no wonder their stock went down again

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  15. As most of my begging posts and wars seem to go unposted, scripts are there mostly to help others or for icing. If the scripts no longer work, I can see no point in continuing the game! Most players who pay have jobs (or how else can they pay?). You can't work and watch the screen all day - ergo, watch Zynga go down the pan with this one!

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  16. I guess I will have to quit as well. I am unable to sit at my laptop all day as I work full time, I have been unable to complete anything for a long time now and it has only become worse. If there aren't improvements made I will be out of here. I have been playing for several years now and will surely miss it.

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  17. disable the scripts for good - great!! this would be the return of the fun in the game - i did every single click manual since i started to play in 2009 - i was close to leave for good because of the script players - and i never needed to play hours each day - bec.i always played the strategy- low energy, low stamina - leveling up max 3 times a day - time to say goodbye to the skripts - they destroyed the game

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  18. the lower level players and people with over 4 hours a day to play are the ones who can play successfully with out scripts.

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  19. I remember the good old days when the game was enjoyable and you could actually play manually but now the requirements for everything is way too high that they force you to use scripts and it's no longer fun when you just leave a script running all day

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  20. Mixed feelings on this. I've never understood the attraction of playing fully scripted, as you might as well not play at all, if you're hardly doing anything. I (used to!) play with scripts sometimes, sometimes not. I mainly use the stream scanning scripts (Stream Scanner and Daily Shuffle) as finding ones to click in my news stream can be a real bind.

    The main thing is going to see how this affects overall game play. I've a hard core of do-players who seem to play mainly manually, so it will be possible to carry on playing. But will I ever be able to complete any events, builds etc without the help of the script-players? I suspect that that will need Zynga to reduce requirements. But if all the VIP players quit, Zynga lose the income stream attached to Mafia Wars, so will there be any incentive for Zynga to keep it going?

    It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at Zynga's decision-making meetings right now ...

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    1. Its not the scripts for helping doing tasks completing jobs ect as much as it is the hate scripts running 24/7

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  21. i'll be leaving and out of the 2527 friends i have all which play mafia most everyone has said they're leaving as well with no scripts. there's not enough time to sit on my ass and play manually those are for the people on SSI who sit home all day. For us who work long jobs daily we have no chance to play without scripts. so long mafia wars and facebook.

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  22. I have 2 vip accounts, and I regularly bought more rp to use for energy or stamina refills. I stopped spending any money, except my vip dues, about two months ago because the game became unplayable. Every link I click brings a white screen that must be refreshed several times. It was aggravating; no longer fun for me. I've never used any of the feed scanner scripts, but use fighting scripts. My two months of not spending with zynga has kept me from completing some of the activities, but it also helped me realize that many of the activities are cleverly devised to make people like me pull out the plastic cards.

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    1. You who ever you are are an idiot hate monger Im glad happy infact if your hate script no longers works maybe the people you sat on till they quit will pick up and play again zynga will profit from them 10 times more than they ever did from your sorry ass

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  23. There is a way for zynga to (sort of) fix the issue of people not getting enough limited property build support, plus power cards, and any other type of request that currently relies only on home feed begging posts. Zynga simply needs to convert all requests over to the message centre. That will be the problem solved on a couple of levels, as it will 1. give players more control over sending/receiving any and all requests, and 2. it will help those with small mafias get their Helper perks done daily.

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  24. Let's be honest: You aren't really "playing" this game if you click a button and walk away from the computer. Not sure what the appeal is with doing it in the first place. Back a few years ago you actually participated with family members of your clan and had fun. Now the game is run by scripts and the social aspect that was the original draw is now gone. The game is being "played" by scripts and that is a sad end to a great game.

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    1. Zynga has made it such that people have to rely on scripts in order to reap full benefit of the game. I never click a button and walk away; I always watch my screen when I'm playing, but I admit that I have to use scripts in order to play. I have tried playing arena and tried clicking on posts in the facebook feeds manually and it is impossible to get any good result from playing without scripts. The only players who can be iced now, by pointing and clicking on them, are the ones who are level 3000 and below. I can't speak for anyone else, but with my hands free, I can interact more with my clan mates, so the social aspect for me has improved since I started using scripts.

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  25. Facebook will be ending up like these great games, great at first then with all the changes it will lose more and more players. If it wasn't for some of these games I wouldn't be on facebook at all. I agree about the scripts if you use all scripts your not really playing the game. However, scripts work great for people who don't have time to sit for 4 or 5 hrs a day. I quit MW's awhile back, i just started back. If i quit this time i'll be going to the store and buy a computer game and screw Facebook! Facebook games was good when they first came out but when they decide to "make them better" ruined the game or games!

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  26. so many times Ive been worried about the game ending-what a waste of 5 years of my life. Could it suddenly get better? I tend to doubt it. For me the end of mw and of facebook...a vast wasteland of fake profiles fake friends and more fakery...for the few real people Ive met Im grateful, but as they no longer play,interaction even with them is less and less. overall a colossal waste of my life..hmm..maybe quit today :D

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  27. Hoping you get it fixed fast, I am losing thousands of points a day because of the issue. Here's keeping my fingers crossed!

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  28. I also have several disabilities too that would make it simply impossible for me to sit & click the way I used to when I first started (including fighting). And I hate scripts - but, no chance. I've got carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands. Manual fighting just KILLLS me & makes it so, after not long, I can't even move my hands & I pay for up to a week with more pain.

    Add in the tremendous time this game requires? It's ridiculous. Scripts are the only saving grace for me. Without them, I think I'll have no choice but to quit. :( (and oh btw... I never start them & step away from the game). I'm still trying to catch up with everything in game, return help, etc The scripts just help me to get it all done. :/

    My opinion... Zynga destroyed the game by making it so time-intensive, these incessant stream of events stacked on top of each other & requiring so much time & effort that players HAVE to use scripts just to have any chance to complete anything or be competitive. Yeah I am VIP. It's a hobby for me so I don't care about that. I do think they should have a paid & a free version tho. The free players really don't stand a lot of chance against VIP players a lot of times. lol :) Game was great to begin with. It's really a chore now. However, if I still didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't still bother so I can't complain I guess.

    But without scripts? Pfffft. Forget it. I don't think I'll have any chance of keeping up with the game. :(

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  29. manually _= f__K them i quit plan and simple

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  30. why condemn someone for using a script if it helps you

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  31. looks like maybe a return to back in the day ! good times ! its just a game play when you got the time !! plain and simple :-) just clicking a game and leaving it to complete totally boring !!!

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  32. I have a handful of friends who always click my property builds as I return the favor. So when I see you people grabbing up everything using scripts...pisses me off. Whats the use of playing total bot,...grabbing all the wars all the free stuff and free property parts when posted? Why play the game because its pretty much you do nothing except launch bots and let it do everything for you. Gives SOME people the chance to collect freebees off the posts. Your all a bunch of whiney lazy a holes....and YES you should all leave the game. I been playing the game since it started MANUALLY....as I think if you play the game with all the bots....then YOU are not playing the game at all....your scripts are doing it for you. LAZY Bastoids!

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  33. Scripters set the curve. That's why Zynga make it harder to complete things. They'll probably slacken it off when you have to actually click manually. Or charge you more for in game currency so you can complete tasks.

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  34. good that means the players the REALY PLAY can get so things,,,,,i get tired of clicking on feeds that say posted JUST NOW and it is max,,,,,,,

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  35. Yall so negative...zynga has nothing to do with this...its fb...script writers will figure it out...patience grasshoppers...lol

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  36. Patience is a virtue sure. I however have had enough, Ended my VIP and will probably slowly drop off the game again. I have played since 2009 (took a year or so off way back) and HATE fruitless begging posts.... the Ops we get. So I came back to the game and am in an organised Family so do not have to plaster my wall with repeat begs. I used Spock as it was very easy to scan back and find my helpers. I like to reciprocate help and in a time poor world was often posting begs then running off to work or wherever.
    I still went to walls I still manually did stuff as well. I was "spoilt" whatever. I liked my gaming so much I went VIP in 2014, and was aiming for emerald.
    The theory I came up with is by blocking the stream scan they make people like me post more. Which is essentially free advertising...with the way stream scan worked, other scanners could pick up your feed without you needing to actually post it to your wall...with a strong Family and a network of loyal streamscanners I rarely posted requests to the newsfeed.
    Anyway the pressure of having to run around repaying help is still keeping my posts off my walls pretty much and for the first time I did not bother with the last round of Ops, we all got our own opinions and styles of play and the new rules will suit some, I am jumping off the fence on it and out the paddock gate I reckon,
    FB, ZYNGA, Whatever Corp, will not be catching me up again in one of their addictive games. It has been such a challenge to keep MW as a balanced fun time out thing that did not take away from family and chill time that I doubt I will find a replacement game till I am actually stuck in a chair or something

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