Saturday, December 10, 2011

Mafia Wars 2, Facebook's fastest growing app, gets some housekeeping

With the new Fairy Hollow theme that's available in FarmVille, and even Christmas items already being released in the game's store, the next few months look to be pretty expensive to users that like to spend Farm Cash on limited edition trees, animals and more. To help ease the pain on your wallet, a new free Farm Cash promotion has launched under the game's gameplay area, in association with Jimmy Dean.

This particular promotion asks you to watch a commercial for Jimmy Dean breakfast products, while answering a series of survey questions. They're all incredibly basic, and surround what you and your family (where applicable) do for breakfast. As usual, there are no right or wrong answers here, so simply answer these questions in any way you'd like to get it over with as quickly as possible (since, let's face it, you're probably here just for the Farm Cash, and I can't blame you).

Once you've finished these few survey questions (the commercial will likely have completed by that point), you'll see the expected "You've earned your Farm Cash" text appear in the top right corner of the promotional activity window. Only when that appears is it safe to close this out, and you should see your in-game Farm Cash total rise by two automatically. If not, simply refresh your game and that should be enough to set things right. While two Farm Cash may not be enough to buy.. well, anything incredibly interesting, if you combine this with other activities we've seen in the past (and will likely see in the future), you could eventually afford to buy yourself something nice. Well, at least something small. But it's free, which is all that matters, right?

Have you found this promotion hanging out under your gameplay area? What will you do with ySelling drugs and killing thugs must be in style this week. Mafia Wars 2 isn't just the fastest growing game on Facebook this week, but the fastest growing app, meaning its 3.8 million new players beat all general apps on the platform, All Facebook reports. The sequel to one of Zynga's most popular game can likely chalk its success up to its recent deluge of cross-game promotions.

Well, that and the fact that the game's team of developers won't stop updating the dang thing. A new update was pushed to the game yesterday, which is rather minor. However, a number of new items have been added: New weapons are in the Boneyard Shop, some fresh ground, water, and air vehicles hit the Global Marketplace along with a few more Halloween items.

Probably the biggest change to the game sounds like the least significant. The Arena leaderboard will now reset monthly, rather than weekly. This gives players a lot more time to excel in the Arena maps and an even better chance at coming out on top. But for the top spot holders, it'll become even more challenging to remain king of the hill.

Zynga recently introduced the Armory to the game, which will be required for the upcoming 5-on-5 battles. This news in growth brings Mafia Wars 2 to 13.7 million monthly players, which for being out for nearly a month is rather slow when it comes to Zynga's games. The original game reached more than 25 million players, so MW2 has a ways to go.

Have you been playing Mafia Wars 2 since its release? What do you think so far of the game, and what about Zynga's updates to the game?ur two free Farm Cash?

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