Mafia Wars Last Score of 2009

From December 28th and running through January 4th, the Facebook MafiaWars Last Score of 2009 Limited Time Job will be up and ruunning. This featured job will give you even more options than before including choosing different missions with different payouts."

Score some New Year's Loot!

This is a Limited Time Job.


Share Reward Points after finishing a Job!

* After every completed job, you can send 2 reward points to your Mafia.
* MafiaWars players can collect up to 10 Reward Points for this event.


New Year's 2010 Jobs and Payouts:

Steal a Shipment of Champagne
Champagne Bottle (Boost)
Stats: +25 ATTACK
Chance to Loot: 10%
Mastery: 1%
Bonus Payout: 2x Champagne Bottle
Time to Wait Between Jobs: 5 minutes

Crash the Mayor's NYE Party
Party Balloons (Vehicle)
Stats: 6 ATTACK 18 DEFENSE
Chance to Loot: 50%
Mastery: 7%
Bonus Payout: 1x Party Balloons
Time to Wait Between Jobs: 4 hours

Steal the NYE Manhattan Ball
Manhattan Ball Drop (Weapon)
Stats: 19 ATTACK 30 DEFENSE
Chance to Loot: 100%
Mastery: 15%
Bonus Payout: 1x Manhattan Ball Drop
Time to Wait Between Jobs: 8 hours

So there you have it. Go do your jobs and have a Happy New Year!

MafiaWars Closing Thoughts for '09 and Preview for '10

First of all, I would like to thank you guys for supporting Facebook MafiaWars.

Anyways, here are a few words Justin, our General Manager:


Overall, 2009 was a great year for Mafia Wars. And although we experienced some issues towards the end of the year, we were able to fix most of the bugs while prepping many of the exciting features that promises to make 2010 a banner year for Mafia Wars. Some of the features we have in store for you in the coming months:

New Years Job: We're heading into 2010 in exciting fashion with a featured job starting December 28th and running through January 4th. This featured job will give you even more options than before including choosing different missions with different payouts.

Release of new city - Bangkok: Originally slated to debut in December 2009, Bangkok will finally make its premiere in January 2010. We intentionally delayed Bangkok to fine-tune it for an improved game experience.

Multi-item gifting: We're making it easier for you to make your mafia stronger by providing multi-item gifting.

Translations: For our many international players, we will be adding translations of Mafia Wars in many different languages in addition to our current offering.

Robbing: We heard you loud and clear, we're bringing back robbing in a new and improved format.

In addition to features, we are also enhancing community outreach through various initiatives:

Developers Days: A series of intimate meetups between players and Mafia product team members where idea generation and candid conversations can take place.

Exclusive Betas: Preview, testing, and feedback of features by users before full release.

Weekly Giveaways, Rewards, Contests: Bigger and better giveaways, contests, and rewards.

Thank you very much for supporting Mafia Wars and making it the best game on the web. We feel very lucky and fortunate to have you as players and feel humbled to be building features for you all.

Have a happy holidays and a wonderful new year!

On behalf of the Mafia Wars Team,
Justin, General Manager

Special Charity Item: Haitian Drum

Limited Edition Item: Haitian Drum

Mafia Wars players, did you know that Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and the 7th poorest in the world? Buy this week's Limited Edition item, the Haitian Drum and 50% of the proceeds will be contributed to FATEM to help build school kitchens and establish school meal programs for children in Haiti who might otherwise have no source of food to help their young bodies to grow and learn.

Haitian Drum
44 Attack 46 Defense
Buy This For: 25 REWARD POINTS

FATEM, a non-profit organization based in Mirebalais, Haiti, is organized to bring information technology to the people in the region and help with the economic advancement of the area. More recently, FATEM recognized the need for a sustainable means by which to support the general education of Haitian children and to ensure that these children have the necessary meals that will permit their young bodies and brains to learn and grow.

For more information, visit www.FATEM.org.

Facebook Mafia Wars Bangkok Travel Loot Requirements

Since Bangkok is almost ready, get a head start by collecting these loot items required to unlock Bangkok.

Here are the requirements to be able to get to Bangkok.
All of these are found as loot of NY (New York) Job Tiers.

Just look for the ELEPHANT symbol to find out which job gives off the item.

The Thai Elephant is at large.

Bangkok Required Loot: Triad Coin
New York Job Tier: Soldier
Job: Asian Museum Break-in

Bangkok Required Loot: Yakuza Sake
New York Job Tier: Enforcer
Job: Smuggle Thai Gems

Bangkok Required Loot: Thai Note
New York Job Tier: Hitman
Job: Repel The Yakuza
The THAILAND PASSPORT will be given on the Mafia Wars Bangkok Launch.

There you have it. See you in Bangkok!

Facebook Mafia Wars Server Issues

We're fixing a whole lot of bugs to make Facebook Mafia Wars a whole better experience.

Saturday December 12th 2009
Issues Update: Earlier this morning we experienced intermittent page load problems that may have affected your game play (specifically, the ability t o see your entire Mafia). Zynga’s Network Operations team quickly responded and brought additional servers online to restore normal game play. We realize that this problem is one of many you may have had to endure over the last two weeks while we worked to upgrade our systems to speed up performance and stop botters and cheats. We are grateful for your patience and want to assure you that the entire team i s working through the weekend to address these issues and improve our processes.

Thursday December 10th 2009
Known Issues from Performance Upgrade: Recently, the Mafia Wars team launched two major efforts to improve your game play. First, we deployed iframe technology to dramatically speed up the game (and get rid of spinning revolvers!). Second, we launched a major offensive against botters, hackers and cheaters.

Unfortunately, with the good – a 10x improvement in load time for most players and the ability to detect and deter botters – there were some unintended consequences. Specifically, a small number of players have been unable to access the game, while others have experienced symptoms ranging from having their player names scrambled to a disruption of their stats.

We would like you to know that we have found a fix for those of you who are having trouble accessing the game or have scrambled stats. Our system is working through the affected accounts and we are confident that all of you will be back in the game very soon. Every day we will post an in-game message to those users who have had their accounts repaired on that day. We appreciate the patience and understanding you have shown us.

Good News! Profile links are back! We fixed the bug that was blocking players from fighting through the Profile page. We want to assure you that this was an unintended bug introduced while trying to improve the performance of the game. Everybody on the Mafia Wars team believes that clans and warring are an integral part of the Mafia Wars experience.

We also realize that there are a number of outstanding bugs in the game that we need to work on. Tomorrow we will post a list of them and the order in which we intend to prioritize them. Please feel free to let us know if you think we've missed anything or we should change the order.

Thank you for your patience and feedback.

Bug fix: We have fixed the bug where users who play on the same computer initially saw a Mafia Wars page of the previous logged in account when loading the game with a new one.

Facebook MafiaWars Public Enemies Promo

To celebrate the release of Public Enemies, Mafia Wars has special limited-time featured jobs from the movie and will give you Public Enemies loot for fighting and doing jobs. Get the wooden gun John Dillinger used to escape prison, Agent Purvis's double triggered rifle, and much, much more. Collect all 8 items during the loot drop event. Master the featured job and get a extra-special bonus item from the movie.
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More about the Facebook MafiaWars "Public Enemies" event:

Public Enemies Loot Event: Starting Sunday, 12/6 at 12:01AM (Pacific Time) all jobs and fights have a chance to give you special Public Enemies themed loot items. Act fast, because the event ends ends on Wednesday 12/9 at 11:59PM!