Mar 12, 2015

News Feed Issues Intensify

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If Zynga isn’t going to address or even attempt to do something about the rampant news feed problems, the least they could do is stop putting limiting them. If you are lucky enough to find a working post that loads, you get hit with the ‘maximum amount of players have already collected from this feed’ message. Even though scripts (which are hardly working on the news feeds) are against the TOS, Zynga needs to stop assuming that ALL players use them. They don’t and these issues are extremely frustrating and make features requiring the use of the news feeds impossible. If these issues aren't fixed or the game isn't adjusted to bypass them it's probably time we take a stand and cancel our VIP subscriptions and stop paying for a broken game.

Find a post…
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Click on it…
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Find another one…
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Click on it…
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Repeat…
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Meanwhile back at Zynga Headquarters…
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12 comments:

  1. I have played the game for years, but it is so bad lately that I get fed up and just log off and am losing interest fast at this pace. I keep getting timed out while doing things on it and have to refresh several times to get back where I was. Fight scripts just time out the same way. Slow enough as it is, but with the constant refreshing over and over...I don't really care about leveling up anymore..Fix it or shut it down, but do one of them!

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  2. I guess even more frustating if you are at 25/40 (=5 feeds found) is that you see posts after feeds: "You send a buckler to your friend, but you are maxed for today". So those are using scripts and they even stop when they have finished? So Zynga is punishing only real players not script players... That's the way it should be?

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  3. I'm a 5 year player and stopped VIP months ago when these issues intensified. I have posted before, IMHO the reasons for this. they don't want us home players anymore,80% mobile, that should tell you something.I am not savvy enough to suggest a solution, but I hope they find one. I am spag68 as anonymous is the only thing I can be and don't know what a url is.

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  4. I used to use scripts for the newsfeed, but they are pretty hopeless now. I have found that I have more success clicking on a post if I first click the word "comment" and then click to help (FF and Chrome)

    Kathie E

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  5. I don't think we have to worry about "paying for a broken game." We have to worry about them closing down before we get the remaining value for the money we've already given them. The Los Angeles district is going to have Dead Man's Curve in it somewhere, and when we reach that, the game will never load again :)

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  6. Funny thing is (really not so funny), is I became a script user after along time refusing to be one, due to the very fact of it being impossible to play normally anymore. Trying to fight on the fight list manually ? lol good luck finding someone to fight and burning up your stamina that way! Now the scripts are getting as bad.

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  7. complain... complain ....complain....no one forces anyone to play this game. if you don't like it just quit and move on!

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    1. That's the point. If enough people do that then there won't be a game to play. They don't care about the free players moving on but if enough of those who spend money to what you suggest do you think Zynga will pay the developers to keep the game going?

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  8. Is not just the problem of finding working feeds but whether they are being posted in the first place. Over the last week I have found more and more of my posts either being lost in the ether or only going to random friends. Yesterday, a request for Bucklers took 7 minutes to get on my wall where it remained for only 3 minutes, never to be seen again. I consider myself lucky that I collected 2!

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  9. When you get the white page, just refresh, sometimes you need to refresh more then once, but it will eventually work.

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  10. I use Firefox and when I get the white page it doesn't load no matter how many times I refresh it. I have to go to my homepage and click the link again or click Mafia Wars to get it to work.

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  11. Seems to me that Zynga are maybe hoping that enough people quit so they can close it down and justify it to all the people that have spent a small fortune in the game at the same time... I get the feeling they have already given up trying to fix the game, probably because they're not capable of fixing it. At one time I got the impression they had people read this blog and at least try to act on the posts even if not always successfully... now I figure maybe the janitors cat is in charge of that. their silence on all these issues says everything... time for them to get on their soap box and like someone else posted above... time to fix it or close it!!! Do us all a favour one way or the other

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