Mafia Wars On The iPhone

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1. Congrats on the release. I’ll look forward to playing it.I recall us having a short convo in AVC comment thread about you being bullish on Android a few months back. With all of the current news (iPhone OS 3.0, Rich Miner leaving Android team to head up Google VC, continued lack of a market accepted implementation of Android) do you still feel that way?I think the decision to formally support 3rd party hardware accessories on the iPhone via OS 3.0 is HUGE and will create a wonderful diversity of cottage industries using the iPhone/iPod Touch truly as a portable computing environment.Makes me want to say: “game, set, match”.

   1. i’ve been underwhelmed with androidnot so much the software, but the business momentum (or lack therof)on the other hand, RIMM is killing it

   2. i think android will end up as a playeras will windows mobile, rimm, and palm tooand probably nokia as wellit’s hard to say game over when iPhone only has about 10% of the market

      1. Interesting to read your updated reply. Has the reviews/interest in the Palm Pre resparked your interest on this topic?One other big of interesting news that has been pretty much “under-the-radar”: Google has finally announced (way late, it seems) the Second Android Developer’s Challenge, with some good prize money. I’ve actually thinking of throwing my hat into the ring myself – it’d be a good way to bootstrap an idea that I’ve been kicking around for a year or so.

2. Add Me! I thought it was funny that when I went to look at the comments, it was all add me spam. “This game is great! add me – ### #####” etc. It totally defeated the purpose of the iTunes rating and comment system. 🙁 Thanks for the info though, I’ll check it out.

3. A few of my friends are addicted to this game on Facebook. I’m sure it will be a big hit on the iPhone too. I’m not a big gamer myself, but the few games I play on the iPhone occasionally are almost all produced by Zynga. Live Poker is my favorite… so much more fun to play against real people than a machine. Congrats to Mark Pincus & the Zynga team on this latest launch. They’re on a roll.

4. Yes, I must admit. It’s a very cool game. I had been using iMob before Zynga launched Mafia Wars for the iPhone. Zynga is awesome!

5. hmmm…i’m hearing rumblings of litigation related to mob wars, mafia wars, etc. i presume if you/zynga are caught up in it you can’t/won’t comment. but anything to the rumors?

6. I’m totally addicted to Eliss for iPhone (see the demo video).While others worked on incrementally improving polygon counts, iPhone and Wii opened up new modes of gaming with touch, accelerometers, and always on, location aware internet.

7. I like the game. A lot. But I doubt I’ll be playing it. Here’s why:I tried it out for about an hour or two and figured out how I wanted to build my character. So I went to reset it… and I can’t. Well, I can, but I have to delete it from my phone and wait 60 days. Really.http://zynga.custhelp.com/a…So it’s deleted off my phone, because I don’t want to use the character I built in my test run, and because I need to delete it in order to do what I want. And 60 days from now, I’ll play again, if (a) I remember, (b) I still want to, and (c) I can deal with being 60 days behind those people who have been playing since when I wanted to start playing. Which is to say: Great game, would have loved to play it, but I you lost me as a customer.

   1. That’s not goodI’ll let the zynga team know about this issue

      1. Great, thanks. Let me know if they change it (I’ll have no other way of knowing) or if they want my 10-digit ID 🙂

         1. This will be addressed in the 1.1 release. I’ll find out when that is coming.

8. Wow, this version is really a big improvement from the Facebook version in terms of UX and just the entire aesthetics of it. It is also 1000x better than iMob. Very well done. One thing it needs for sure is to make use of Facebook Connect to be able to link our existing Mafia Wars accounts to the iPhone version. Other than that, congrats on the release, and good luck monetizing it!

9. Fred, I enjoy your posts and great insight. As an investor in Zynga do you worry about the rash of litigation either here or coming as it relates to intellectual properties. I think ip holders were willing to turn the other cheek while they thought these businesses weren’t making much $$$. Now that it is widely publicized how much money they are making I think the lawyers will come knocking. There is no way companies like OMGPOP will be able to avoid Tetris legal issues, mafia wars v mob wars, etc. I’d love to see Zynga make the jump to ip that isn’t so heavily influenced by other games.

   1. I am not an expert in these issues and don’t want to comment on them publicly anyway.

10. Tell Josh to add me on iMob100000288:D

11. For those who play and are looking for a place to find a nice, neat list of recruit codes, check out http://tinyurl.com/MafiaCodes !

    1. Sweet. I am sending this to josh asap

12. Would be awesome if they could create a educational game that shows users how to better do everything in there real life. And teach them things about the society they live in and how to better succeed in it instead of games that teach war and violence, games that teach peace and prosperity!

    1. They are working on that. I expect you’ll hear something soon on that front

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