Mafia Wars Secret Items
Mafia Wars – the Facebook gaming success story from Zynga – with several million players now signed up world wide.
But whats the attraction? Why the popularity?
Because the graphics are near non-existent, but the game play is pretty addictive.
Personally, we think the secret items, and weapons stashes in Mafia Wars make the game appeal to the wider gaming audience.
You see, when players who sign up to the game in Facebook increase their level, improve a rank, or find a secret stash of something in Mafia Wars – the announcement instantly gets made to the rest of their friends in their facebook network.
So the addiction factor or more so, the curiosity factor of the game spreads to other people.
Thats why the age group playing mafia wars is so wide. Usually online gamers are sub 25 years old, but Facebook and more so Mafia Wars are grabbing a much wider audience and genre. This is big X Factor for Social Network gaming.
While we believe it’s the secret items in Mafia Wars helping them lead the Facebook gaming revolution, it seems FarmVille thinks the same.
They are also posting details to non-gamers inside the facebook status window, updating on level changes, success in the game, items that are found and other information.
Just looking at the most popular FB apps and games is interesting; Mafia Wars is quickly approaching top spot.
You can see a list of rankings for FB games on the following site:
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/06/02/the-top-25-facebook-games-for-june-2009-farm-town-debuts-at-4/
But for us, it’s the Mafia Wars Items that are leading the way!
Happy Gaming!
