Mafia Wars
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| Developer(s) | Zynga |
| Publisher(s) | Zynga |
| Platform(s) | PC, Mac OS, iPhone, mobile phone, miscellaneous internet connected device |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing, casual |
Mafia Wars was a multiplayer Social network game created by Zynga.
In Mafia Wars the players play as gangsters building their own mafia. The players fight other players online, "rob" other players, and complete jobs, missions, and operations to gain rewards and strength in the endless game. The game is a freemium game, meaning it is free to play normally but players have the option of purchasing premium content and access to customer service.
Mafia Wars was the 2009 Webby Award People's Voice Winner in the Games category.
A sequel, Mafia Wars 2, was released in October 2011, and was shut down on December 30, 2012.
On April 5, 2016 it was announced via Zynga's forums that Mafia Wars would close down on June 6, 2016. Players were informed of this via an in-game message. The game was taken offline shortly past midnight PDT on June 7, 2016.
Mafia Wars was available on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Yahoo!, and as an iPhone App and as a Google Chrome app.
On Facebook, as of August 2010, Mafia Wars had up to 45.5 million monthly accounts created. As of April, 2013, Appdata.com reports approximately 100,000 daily users out of 500,000 monthly users. As of November 18, 2014, MetricsMonk reported that the game had 450,000 monthly active users.
Mafia Wars is set with a choice of playing in New York City or Chicago with the option for players to travel to other locations, such as London, South Africa, and Mexico. Other locations were formerly available.
The game revolved around fighting and robbing other players, doing Jobs, Missions, and Operations to earn cash, building parts, weapons, attack and defense fighting skills, and experience, with the goal of establishing and advancing one's criminal empire. Players created mafias by recruiting other players or winning or buying artificial members (Hired Guns). Other players could be added to one's mafia through Facebook.
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