No More MafiaWars/Farmville on Facebook?
 

good, im sick of seeing the whole first page of that crap on facebook.

time for people to get off the computer between jerk off sessions and get outside or get a part time job to earn some extra $$ to buy more porn :2 cents:

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never heard about anything in this thread

LOL They are going to lose way more then 30 % of their income... The guy is an egomaniac if he dosen't get that.

You can block those apps, without blocking the people.. :2 cents:

I lean a little bit towards FaceBook on this. I'm glad they throttled back the messaging for those games, it did take away from the FaceBook experience for alot of people, myself included.

I actually like some of the silly little games they have, but I don't like spam for anything so up in my grill. I also think that without the use of Facebook's platform to launch and solicit for their games / apps- with people making the jump and leaving myspace behind consistantly for at least the last 2 years- whatever fee FB wants to take they should accept.

Facebook's error was not trying to better monitize the traffic to these games years ago. Trying to put the clamp down now the games have enough of a following where they have the chance to exist on their own.

Zynga has a little play room since FB waited so long and they've already been gathering consumer data, but if they pull the plug they will be cutting off their nose to spite their face.

If I were them I would shut up, pay the 30% but trash any exclusivity deals. They need to keep their eyes peeled for who will be the next big thing in the social space and cut a sweetheart deal with them early in the game.

It's said on the official Farmville forum that the Techcrunch article is literally the ONLY article about this, and any other stuff about this cites Techcrunch as the source.

Personally I don't see it happening even if Zynga does indeed open it's own facebook style site, they have WAY to big of a plugin market on Facebook and Myspace.

BUT, if it were to happen it would be ALL of Zynga's games and not just Farmville and Mafiawars (I think they have like 15-20 games total maybe a bit less and maybe a bit more)

-Loki-

I have every MafiaWar/Farmville thing blocked from ever showing up on my front page - it makes me think less of my friends who play it that much.

It makes me want to "unfriend" people who are stuck on that shit.

There are ways to block that stuff. I won't miss MW. There were so many changes made in the last month that I don't even recognize it any more. I am done.

Nooooo!.I have over 3500 in my Mafia!

go and play on mafiaoutlaw.com instead :)

zynga had best make calculated decisions.

better to be a rich ho, than a broke pimp.

those games were 100% eyeball driven. (by that i mean no one would know who they are without FB and FB users), which are the eyeballs.

wait till they remove the eyeballs from their games.

proceed with caution Zynga.

haven't been on facebook in 5 months anyhow, so don't really care.

my tolerance level for it ran out.

Man I got into that Mafia Wars game and while I was playing it I could not understand the appeal. I mean it is just click, click click and you're done for the day.... I have finally just given it up and yeah, I am tired of seeing it on my facebook page, all I see if those games now

without fb they will suck

I always thought this until I actually played one of the games. They take no time at all. So while every nonplayer thinks that the players sit in front of their computer all day playing Farmville and Mafia Wars, it's actually very far from the truth. You can only play Mafia Wars for about 5-10 minutes at a time, maybe two or three times a day... maybe.

Most of us spend more time on the shitter in a day. I know I do!

i said this last year and i will say it again now....

FACEBOOK IS FOR FAGGOTS....... :thumbsup

total time waster unless you are running a page for commercial reasons....

if i want to know what you are doing, i will call you.... :2 cents:








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I never played mafia wars because as an outsider it seems dependant on spamming other people. Am I wrong?

Farmville was a little too repetitive for me. Even after they came out with the tractor / harvester etc..

Jon Oso got me hooked on Restaurant City, that's my main game. I prob put in 10 -15 mins a day or less. Not alot of clicking / repeititive motion. More like a wind up toy, I set it up and it runs itself.

I`ll miss Mafia wars but fuck that.......

hahahaha damns rites :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

It's the same as any other games. If you spam, you can probably move faster or get additional benefits, but it's not essential. I was playing it for a little while but then got deathly bored with it. And no, I did not do the friend spams as I can't stand those myself.

I did that too on lots of apps on facebook. Those two are popular games in facebook..

I've never played so I take your word for it. Maybe I should change it to "it makes me think less of my friends who post MafiaWars and Farmville updates to their page so much."

Ahhh shit poker was thru zynga as well :(

I agree with you 100%.

No such thing as the Mafia

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I'm going to miss my Poker :(

What's all this Farmville bullshit? Don't tell me that South Park didn't make that dumb shit up.

yeah, because 70% of something is much better than 0% of nothing -- which is what they'll get if they ditch Facebook.

Social Gaming is the future, just like social media was the future a few years ago.

Zynga is a name in that space and one of the originals, I believe they hold all the cards and are right to think so.

I've never played any of those games but if you don't realize that social gaming has a HUGE future, you are out of touch, even more so than me who only has 12 friends on Facebook :)

Facebook needs Zynga a lot more than they might realize. They are also their biggest advertiser and the reason FB is now profitable. I understand why FB wants them to use their credit system only, but they should simply work a revenue sharing deal. Zynga will lose a huge following from the breakup and Facebook will lose a ton of revenue. They should just work a deal and try to salvage this relationship.
WG

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i like zynga poker, it's fun to play sometimes

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No skin off facebook's nose. Zynga needs FB more than the other way around--farmville addicts or no farmville addicts.

same here :(

Either Facebook or Zynga are teaming up with IMVU, both in negotiations I hear.

Fuck yea.

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I don't mind that, heh...

If there's anything I've seen in business it's that people far too often will throw away 70% of something to go for 100% of what turns out to be nothing.

exactly. which is what prompted my "better to be a rich ho than a broke pimp" comment. they are making shit tons more cash now than if they leave. as much as facebook "needs" them, zynga is fully dependent upon facebook.

well said. :thumbsup

For the first time in a year or so yesterday I logged into the face book account I made long ago. I had over 20 friend requests from distant unknown relatives, and some privacy settings popup that would not go away and was entirely vague. Can someone explain why they are trying to force me to use what they call "old settings" versus some radio button that doesnt tell me what it does? How do I know what in the fuck my "old settings" even are or were if it wont let me surf without the popup in my face?

Yesterday I just hit my browser back button until I could get my mouse on the Logout link and click it. MF's really must like to piss people off..