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Cory Berry ([personal profile] csberry) wrote2009-06-09 04:02 pm
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Mafia Wars Addiction

I would spend about a quarter of the time I do on FB if I wasn't into playing Mafia Wars. I have such lovely fun as having $16.4 billion but I'm at the mercy of finding "untraceable cell phones" which I might find randomly during a fight or is one of the possible loot items I get when I do the "Rob an Electronics Store" job. But I love the game so much, that when the MW:Cuba beta opened up, I jumped right in.

In time, this addiction will pass. It's gotta!

[identity profile] outherelistenin.livejournal.com 2009-06-11 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Tell me about it. I've gone insane, friending people I've never met to get them to join my mafia... and the other Zynga games I play: Pirates! and Space and Vampire Wars. I even created a special group - NotFriends - for these people, so they have access to no information whatosever.

I need to start rationing. These games are cutting into my productivity time at work... and they're ALWAYS trying to suck you back in. My new plan: I'm allowed to touch them three times a day if I'm at work: when I first arrive, lunch, and just before I leave.

Incidentally, Cuba is flawed, but I see what they were trying to do: counteract the essential meaninglessness of money past a certain point in standard Mafia Wars.