Master the Prized Pigs

Are you ready to pig out? Because it's time to go whole hog. Okay, okay. We'll stop with the pig puns. So listen up, party people. Get ready for the Prized Pigs coming this evening.

Here's how Prized Pigs work. For three days only, you can send pigs to your mafia and request pigs from your mafia. There are 3 Prized Pigs to collect with a new pig being released each day. Request pigs by posting a Facebook feed or send requests to your mafia. 

Each Prized Pig has 3 levels of mastery - bronze, silver, and gold. When you collect enough pigs to complete mastery, you earn some sweet high-powered items to get stronger. Collect all the pigs for Gold Mastery to get the grand prize Oinker Vehicle (100 ATT, 128 DEF). Get ready for pigs and play Mafia Wars now.

	Curly Tail	Fresh Shank	Boss Hog
Bronze Mastery (3 Pigs each)	Garrotte Weapon (60 ATT, 31 DEF)	Fish Spear Weapon (59 ATT, 32 DEF)	Jointed Panel Armor (33 ATT, 60 DEF)
Silver Mastery (5 Pigs each)	Garrotte Weapon (67 ATT, 38 DEF)	Fish Spear Weapon (68 ATT, 37 DEF)	Jointed Panel Armor (38 ATT, 72 DEF)
Gold Mastery (10 Pigs each)	Garrotte Weapon (73 ATT, 44 DEF)	Fish Spear Weapon (72 ATT, 45 DEF)	Jointed Panel Armor (46 ATT, 74 DEF)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We hear you! Vegas will be later!

Due to an overwhelming response to allow more time for people to make arrangements, we are post-poning our Mafia Wars: MADE Las Vegas convention until early 2011!

We’ll be making an announcement in the next week about the new dates and potentially new location.  The great part about this date change is it will allow for longer planning and actually lower the ticket pricing, a savings which will be reflected in our next ticket sales.

This is going to be one amazing event done up as only Mafia Wars can do it! In the mean time...

Play Mafia Wars

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Weekend Special: Free Upgrades, Super Pigñatas, and Secret Drops

1. Free Property Upgrade

It's going to be a good weekend this weekend begins with the phrase: Free Upgrade. Starting Sept. 25 at 12:00 AM PST, you will be able to upgrade any Property in any city once for free. Save your reward points for some sweet limited edition loot and take advantage of upgrading one of your new properties like the Armory in New York or Casino Fountain in Las Vegas. Or you can step up any one of your other properties once for free. Make sure to check out your properties this weekend. This offer ends Sept. 26 at 11:59 PST.

2. Super Pigñatas 

They're back. Send Super Pigñatas to your friends or ask them to send them to you. These pigs must be busted open within 24 hours in order to get super loot.

3. Secret Drops

The secret has been revealed. Now when you rob rivals or collect from Properties, there's a good chance you'll pick up a Secret Drop, which gives you a boost. A Secret Drop holds many wonderful and amazing things like fight boosts to help you kick ass, boosts to collect twice as much money from your properties, and skill points. These Secret Drops can be shared with your mafia and they can share them with you. Just be aware that you can only open a maximum of 3 Secret Drop cases per day. 

Have a good weekend and be sure to play Mafia Wars.

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Drink Up! Challenge Mission: Dublin Offers 4X Loot

Here are four reasons to head to Dublin for the latest Challenge Mission. Quadruple.
The. Loot.

You read that right. We're giving away FOUR times the rewards in Challenge Mission: Dublin.

If you haven't started already, travel to Dublin where your mission is to rob the National Bank of Ireland. We've changed the reward system so that you receive a ridiculously sweet reward for each job you complete. In past Challenge Missions, you were required to finish all jobs in a chapter to earn a reward. Now you'll get a chapter reward for each job you complete. So if you finish all FOUR jobs in Chapter 3, you'll get FOUR powerful Dréacht Capall (pictured left). Oh snap!

Chapter 1 reward: Irish Traveler armor (Attack 52, Defense 63)

Chapter 2 reward: Black Irish weapon (Attack 84, Defense 59)

Chapter 3 reward: Dréacht Capall animal (Attack 67, Defense 111)

You have roughly two weeks left to finish all the jobs in the Challenge Mission. You'll need to to collect enough Pints of Stout to complete your Dublin jobs. Get Pints of Stout from robbing, fighting, doing jobs, and sending requests to your mafia. You'll need a lot of Pints to master the Challenge Mission, so drink up and head to Dublin.

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UPDATE: How the Armory Works

Here's a short tutorial to clear up confusion about how the new Armory in New York Properties work.

1. Once you have built your Armory with construction parts, you can make random armor in your Armory with armor parts.

2. There are two ways to gain armor parts.

(1) The Armory gives you a certain amount of armor parts to use each day.

(2) Robbing drops armor parts.

As you build up your Armory, you will be able to unlock and build higher level armor.

3. To upgrade your Armory, you must either purchase construction parts or ask friends to send you parts through feeds.

4. The Armory has 10 levels. When you reach level 10, you will have unlocked all of the possible armor builds. The top 2 armor require special parts. These are rare. One of these rare parts drops from fights. The other drops from jobs.

Now go out there and start building your Armory!

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Latest New York Property: The Armory

The Armory is coming late Thursday and it's dropping a lot of good-looking armor. As Barney Stinson would tell you, it's time to suit up.

The Armory is the newest property that makes awesome stuff for you to increase your fighting power. The Armory will appear next to your Chop Shop and Weapons Depot and churn out everything from plastic leggins to full body armor.

Your Armory functions much like your Chop Shop and Weapons Depot to help you fight stronger. Along with power boosts, you have four types of fighting forces - Weapons, Armor, Vehicles, and Animals.

Your Weapons Depot makes weapons. Your Chop Shop makes Vehicles. And now your Armory builds armor for you to take to battle. (You can currently get Animals by having friends gift them to you.) You can build a new item once a day in these three New York properties.

It's going to take some effort to build a kick-ass Armory. The only way to build an Armory is with construction parts. You can either spend reward points to build it or ask friends to send you parts. Parts will not drop from doing jobs or fighting rivals the way the Chop Shop and Weapons Depot do. The Armory has ten levels and makes more powerful arsenal each time you upgrade a level.

Look out for your newest New York property tonight. It's time to armor up and head into the fray.

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Mafia Wars Launches the Loyalty Program

Don Corleone: Do I have your loyalty?

Peter Clemenza: Yes, always Godfather.

- The Godfather, 1972

We may shoot, fight, and rob people, but if there's one thing we pride ourselves on in the mafia it's loyalty. Today Mafia Wars launched the Loyalty Program for our users to receive special perks like discounts, exclusive items, front-of-the-line access to customer support, and invitations.

The new program has several tiers: Emerald, Gold, and Platinum. You will earn loyalty points (LP) as you play more or spend more. You earn LP when you purchase reward points, play Mafia Wars, or click on Mafia Wars feeds and requests that your friends post to offer you bonuses.

You start as an Emerald Player or with a more elite status depending on your loyalty to Mafia Wars. You can achieve a higher status and earn better privileges the more you spend or the more you play.

We currently released the Loyalty Program to a small percentage of our users. Later this week we will roll out this feature to everyone when we can ensure a smooth transition. We value your loyalty as a Mafia Wars fan and are thrilled to provide you with the privileges and rewards you deserve. Play Mafia Wars now!

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Properties Get Free Upgrade This Weekend

Two words in the English language that always bring a smile to our faces: Free upgrade.

This weekend only, any of your properties in any city will get one free upgrade. Save your reward points for some sick limited edition loot and step up your Chop Shop, Weapons Depot, Vegas casino and other properties starting at 12:01 AM PDT/7:01 AM GMT Saturday. You get to upgrade only one property one time for the entire weekend. This event ends Sunday at 11:59 PM PDT/6:59 AM GMT.

Managing properties is an essential part of growing your criminal empire. You earn money from properties in all cities. You also can collect boosts from Bangkok properties and pick up extra energy and stamina from building items in your New York Chop Shop and Weapons Depot.

You can even help your mafia make money. The more stars your Casino Slots has, the more money your friends can win when they play your slots and vice versa. You can play your mafia's slots by clicking the slot machine icon below a friend's name under the "My Mafia" section on the main page.

Make sure to check out your properties this weekend. We know you love free upgrades, too. Play Mafia Wars now!

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An Even Better User Experience

First and foremost, players expect and deserve a reliable game performance. We are always open to your feedback, and the top priority for us is to fix the bugs in our game. This is why we’ve dedicated this week to have our entire team work on these issues.

On Thursday, we cleaned up a lot of bugs to improve the quality of the game. Some of these issues include cracking down on cheaters who exploited a loophole to level up infinitely in Las Vegas. We have zero tolerance for users who abuse the system to give themselves an unfair advantage. We also fixed an issue that didn’t allow some users to send or accept free gifts. Now you can send building materials to friends to upgrade casino properties and chop shops and help them finish their Challenge Mission in Mumbai.

Developers are also fixing issues with It’s On in San Juan, a new limited-time boss fight. We released It’s On In San Juan on Thursday evening. The overwhelming popularity of the event forced us to make adjustments to improve the game performance. We’ve made this our priority to ensure that the feature is reliable and ready for a full release. We will be extending the boss fight event to make sure everyone gets a chance to take down the San Juan bosses.

We have a lot of work to do and a ways to go to improve the game for our users. And we’ll continue to work towards that goal. Have a great weekend playing Mafia Wars.

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Get Ready to Beat the Bosses

The bosses are back. Last month you beat the Feds. Now it’s time to take on four crime lords from San Juan. This ten-day fight fest starts today, and it’ll take the power and dedication of you and your strongest mafia members to defeat these Puerto Rican bosses.
 
Each time you take out a boss – there’s Señor Carazco, General Vargas, Don Ramirez and Big Lou – you are rewarded with Vegas chips, experience points, victory coins and powerful loot. The more bosses you beat, the more powerful your items and bigger your bonuses become.
 
San Juan bosses give up some sweet loot when you beat them. These include: Throwing knives (highest value tops at 49 attack/87 defense), an MG Gloss 350 vehicle (57 attack/95 defense), a Night Vision Viewer armor (106 attack, 71 defense) and a Red Piranha (110 attack, 82 defense).
 
Your boss fights in San Juan won’t be easy. First, you have to finish off bosses in a specific amount of time. Once time runs out, a boss recovers to full strength, which means you’ll have to start over if you don’t win the fight. Bosses also get tougher after every time, so it’s critical that you get your mafia to help you. Friends who help beat a boss share rewards with you. Don’t forget to help your mafia too. Top helpers also collect the bosses’ loot for helping their mafia win.
 
There are three mastery levels – bronze, silver and gold. You must defeat all four bosses to receive the mastery item, an Outlander vehicle. The Outlander increases in value each time you master a new level and tops out at attack 112/defense 58.
 
Help your mafia fight the good fight to collect items, and make sure they are there to go to battle with you in San Juan. Go fight and godspeed!

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A Better User Experience

Our top priority at Mafia Wars is to listen to our users. And what you have been telling us is to fix stuff that’s broken in the game. This week’s dedicated to improving the game.
 
Our team has fixed a whole lot of bugs over the past 2 days. Some of these issues include fixing cross-promotional items that players weren’t receiving, replacing wonky error messages and stopping players from awarding themselves extra skill points when they complete jobs.
 
More than 20 million users play Mafia Wars each month. Our goal is to provide a better user experience for all our users. That’s a big task, and that’s why our entire team is working together to make it happen. Like you, we want to spend less time staring at a blinking revolver and more time playing the game.
 
Our work is far from over. And we will continue to spend the rest of the week to fix issues and update you on our progress. It’s time for us to get back to work. In the meantime, go play Mafia Wars!

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Pigs Bursting with Loot!

Get ready to send a pigñata to your favorite mafia members and make sure they gift them back to you. A pigñata (a pig piñata, get it?) may look cute, but bust one open and you’ll find deadly animals, weapons and armor to make you more powerful.

These exploding pigs won’t last forever. These limited-edition gifts must be accepted within 24 hours and it’s only happening this weekend. You won’t want to miss out on receiving these premium items: a Chain Viper animal (46 attack, 33 defense), a Twin Garza 9s weapon (53 attack, 24 defense), a Hammer 760-EK weapon (53 attack, 21 defense), a Deadly Jetpack Prototype armor (46 attack, 15 defense) and Supercharged Stock Car (45 attack, 24 defense). The luckiest mafia receive the grand daddy of all pigñatas – the Iron Titan monster truck (96 attack, 123 defense).

Help your mafia become stronger by giving them free pigñatas and make sure they know to send them back to you. 

Start playing now!

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