Mafia Wars was a multiplayersocial network game created by Zynga.

Mafia Wars is the shooting game where the main character is a cowboy with a shotgun and your mission is to stop the wave of bad boys. By killing them you get some money to upgrade your weapon and unlock new characters: sniper and bomber. Zynga is releasing Mafia Wars 2, a sequel to its popular Mafia Wars game as it looks to shore up a once massively popular franchise.

In Mafia Wars the players assume the roles of gangsters building their own mafia organization. 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.^[1]

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A sequel, Mafia Wars 2, was released in October 2011 and was shut down on December 30, 2012.^[2]

On April 5, 2016, it was announced via Zynga's forums that Mafia Wars would close down on June 6, 2016.^[3] Players were informed of this via an in-game message. The game was taken offline shortly past midnight PDT on June 7, 2016.

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The game was relaunched on mobile, with revamped mechanics, in selected markets in April 2017. In July 2017, Zynga announced that all future work on the game was cancelled and the game was discontinued. Players were pushed to play Mob Wars: La Cosa Nostra, a similar mafia themed game operated by a Canadian independent gaming studio, Kano.^[4]

Platforms and gameplay[edit]

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.^[5]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.

Gameplay was limited by 3 meters. Players had limited Energy (for doing jobs), and limited Stamina and Health (for fighting or robbing other players),.^[6] The first two meters slowly recharged over time or filled in one step when Experience progress in Jobs caused the player to Level Up. Fighting other players may or may not have resulted in the theft of cash, 'Icing', or 'Killing' of the player attacked, or random gifts of Loot (weapons), building parts, or consumable job supplies. Outcomes of an attack or attempt to rob were calculated by a secret formula that took into account the respective player's fighting skill, the number and quality of 5 kinds of weapons (Weapons, Armory, Vehicles, Animals and Henchmen), and a randomizing factor. When a player won an attack, he did damage to the loser's Health and suffered a loss of Health himself (usually less than the loss of health by the loser of the attack). Players could fly between various cities which were available at different times throughout the legacy of the game.

Mafia Wars iPhone[edit]

Mafia Wars was released as an iOSapp on April 8, 2009.^[7]

Mafia Wars was renamed Mafia Wars Classic in 2011.

Mafia Wars Classic was shut down in 2012.

Mafia Wars Shakedown[edit]

Mafia Wars Shakedown was launched as a stand-alone game, unconnected from the Facebook game, on November 15, 2011. This was an iOS exclusive.^[8]

Mafia Wars Shakedown was shut down on December 30, 2012, and removed from the Apple app store.

Lawsuit[edit]

The makers of a similar online game, Mob Wars, sued Zynga over their launch of Mafia Wars, accusing Zynga of copyright infringement. Zynga made some changes to Mafia Wars so it did not resemble Mob Wars as closely, but Mob Wars creator David Maestri moved forward with his lawsuit.^[9] In September 2009, Maestri and Zynga settled the case for about $7–9 million, less than the $10 million Maestri had originally demanded.^[10]

Trademark disputes[edit]

Zynga filed its trademark for the stylized version of Mafia Wars with the U.S. Patent & Trademarks Office on July 1, 2009, months after it first launched the Mafia Wars game on the internet through Facebook.^[11] The Zynga trademark application for Mafia Wars sought to cover games for computers and wireless devices. David L. Kelejian, however on June 15, 2009, just two weeks prior to the Zynga filing, filed an intent-to-use trademark application for a stylized version of Mafia Wars which covered clothing and apparel.^[11] Zynga later began selling Mafia Wars branded clothing through Zazzle.^[11] By or before late November 2009, Zynga noticed Kelejian's pending trademark application for Mafia Wars, and filed a trademark opposition proceeding against Kelejian's trademark on December 1, 2009.^[11]

In August 2010, Digital Chocolate sued Zynga over allegations that Zynga falsely claimed it had coined the 'Mafia Wars' trademark. Digital Chocolate had previously created a cell-phone game by the same name. According to TGDaily, Zynga agreed to stop using the 'Mafia Wars' trademark but failed to follow through until 2016.^[12]

Advertising[edit]

A promotional campaign for Mafia Wars occurred in San Francisco in August 2010. Davis Elen Advertising ran the campaign, which consisted of fake $25,000 bills glued to the sidewalk promoting 'Mafia Wars: Las Vegas'. Deputy City Attorney Alex Tse called the campaign 'illegal and actionable'.^[13] Davis Elen has taken full responsibility for the promotion.^[14]

Charity[edit]

After the 2010 Haiti earthquake Zynga issued a special item for three of its games, including the Haitian Drum in Mafia Wars. The proceeds of the sale of these three items went to the Haiti Relief Fund and exceeded $1.2 million.^[15] Zynga also released some items in the marketplace after the hurricane Irene.

Movie and series advertising[edit]

• Public Enemies had a loot drop and limited time job to advertise Public Enemies coming to Blu-ray and DVD, players were able to watch video clips from the film and get items such as Purvis' rifle, Dillinger's pistols, Locket of Billie, A public enemies newspaper, a fur coat and prison stripes. (A previously released Wooden Gun was re-released.) Mastering the limited time job would give you Dillinger's sunglasses. Two items went on sale for 25 RP: Dillinger's Overcoat and a stolen police car.
• Scarface had a loot sale which players were able to acquire 'A deal gone bad' (chainsaw) 'Tony Montana's suit' (White with white vest and red shirt), a tiger and 'My Little Friend.'
• Carlito's Way also made a deal to have items appear in Mafia Wars (35 RP in the Marketplace): 'Carlito's Way' (A switchblade), Kleinfeld's boat, Benny Blanco and Carlito's Jacket.
• Miami Vice also had a promotion (35 RP in the Marketplace): Sonny's Suit, Go Fast Boat (a speed boat), Rico's Revenge (a gun) and Miami Vice (a car).
• Southland had a small promotion: players were able to send Southlander (a shotgun) to other players. There was also a promotion image that led to the Southland Facebook fan page for a trailer of the next season of Southland starting in January 2011.
• The Green Hornet also had a promotion. Objects such as the double-barreled gun, 'Kato's Bike' and the 'Black Beauty' were available.
• The Fast & Furiousseries had vehicles included, all under fictional names. Vehicles were the Ford Torino (named the Fénix GT) from the fourth film, Brian's Subaru (O'Connor's Euro Car) from the fourth film, Dom's Dodge Charger (named Dom's Supercharger) and Roman's Eclipse Spyder (named Roman's violet Spider).
• A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas had a short appearance while the characters are playing the game on the iPad.

References[edit]

1. ^'Webby Nominees'. The Webby Awards. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2009.
2. ^'Unhappy New Year: Zynga shuts down 'PetVille,' 'Mafia Wars 2,' 9 other games'. NBC News. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
3. ^'Zynga Player Forums'. forums.zynga.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
4. ^'Zynga scraps new Mafia Wars mobile title'. GamesIndustry. 2017-07-18. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
5. ^'Log In or Sign Up to View'. www.facebook.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
6. ^The Leaf Chronicle: Facebook's 'Farmville' not a laughing matter^{[dead link]}
7. ^Mafia Wars by Zynga review from AppSafari (April 7, 2009)
8. ^Zynga Commits Mafia Wars Shakedown to iOS, No Connection to Facebook Versions from Adweek.com (November 15, 2011)
9. ^Mob Wars Creator Puts A Hit Out On Zynga, Sues For Copyright Infringement from TechCrunch.com (February 14, 2009)
10. ^Zynga Settles Mob Wars Litigation As It Settles In To Playdom Fight TechCrunch.com
11. ^ ^abcdMafia Wars - Real Life Trademark Battle Inside Trademarks, February 7, 2010
12. ^Luttrell, Mike (2010-08-25). 'UPDATE: Digital Chocolate sues Facebook game giant Zynga over Mafia Wars'. TGDaily. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
13. ^Letzing, John (2010-08-20). 'Zynga Game Network Draws Heat In San Francisco Over Marketing'. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
14. ^Jamison, Peter (2010-08-23). 'Zynga Off the Hook for Mafia Wars Vandalism, S.F. City Attorney Says'. SF Weekly. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
15. ^AJ Glasser (January 14, 2010). 'Zynga raises $1.2 million in relief money for Haiti through FarmVille, Mafia Wars'. GamePro. Archived from the original on 2011-12-01.

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This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: – ( June 2008) The Second Mafia War was a conflict within the, mostly taking place from 1981 to 1983, although the first shots had been fired in 1978, and some killing continued until the end of the 1980s. It involved over a thousand.Sometimes referred to as The Great Mafia War or the Mattanza (Italian for The Slaughter), it involved the entire Mafia and radically altered the power balance within the organization. In addition to the violence within the Mafia itself, there was violence against the, including a campaign of deliberate of, and.In turn, the war resulted in a major crackdown against the Mafia, helped by the, Mafiosi who collaborated with the authorities after losing so many friends and relatives to the fighting. In effect, the conflict helped end the secrecy of the Mafia.

The slain body of judge Cesare Terranova (Photo: )Whilst the Sicilian Mafia has generally been more inclined to kill authority figures than their American counterparts, this is still usually only as a last resort. The and their allies, however, started a specific campaign of assassination of state figures.This started in 1977 with the killing of a Colonel, and continued throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. Amongst the victims (known as 'excellent cadavers') were and, and, and politicians and.Nonetheless a team of prosecutors, including, and, laboured to orchestrate a concerted effort to combat the Mafia and the rising tide of violence, as well as the flow of heroin whose control was behind the war.The war against the Mafia resulted in the of 1986, whereby hundreds of Mafiosi were convicted of a long litany of crimes. Some of the investigations and crimes had begun in the 1970s but a bulk of the charges related to the Second Mafia War. Many of the defendants, such as Riina and Provenzano, were convicted as they were still fugitives at the time of the trial.

The trial was significant as several Mafiosi on the losing side of the war, like and, took the stand and testified against their former fellow Mafiosi, known as. In February 1980, Buscetta had fled to Brazil to escape the brewing Second Mafia War instigated. On 11 September 1982, Buscetta's two sons from his first wife, Benedetto and Antonio, disappeared, which prompted his collaboration with Italian authorities. This was followed by the deaths of his brother Vincenzo, son-in-law Giuseppe Genova, brother-in-law Pietro and four of his nephews, Domenico and Benedetto Buscetta, and Orazio and Antonio D 'Amico. The war subsequently led to the deaths of many of Buscetta's allies, including. Buscetta was arrested in, Brazil once again on 23 October 1983. He was extradited to Italy on 28 June 1984, where he attempted by ingestion of; when that failed, he decided that he was utterly disillusioned with the Mafia.

Buscetta asked to talk to the anti-Mafia judge, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a. Continuing violence. By the end of 1982 the and their allies were all but triumphant, with many of the surviving members of the old clans surrendering and switching their allegiance to the victors. The killing did not end, though. The Corleonesi decided to dispose of key allies, starting with, who was killed along with over twenty of his associates and friends in late 1982, and swiftly followed by, who was strangled and dissolved in acid like many of those who had died at his hands.The violence dragged on into the latter half of the 1980s as a result of the Corleonesi's treachery and desire to ensure their hegemony throughout the Mafia. Riccobono and Marchese were already eliminated by the start of 1983. Further murders followed, primarily involving Ciaculli killers, and, and, who had switched sides from Bontade's to Riina's.

These four men were invaluable to the Corleonesi throughout the first half of the 1980s, notching up literally hundreds of murders between them, but between 1985 and 1989 they were all murdered on the orders of the Corleonesi bosses, who saw them as having outlived their usefulness and/or perceived them as too ambitious and therefore a threat. Puccio's two brothers, also Mafiosi, were likewise killed.Once again, the authorities were largely unaware of these new events in the closed world of the Mafia until they were confirmed by (brother of Agostino Marino Mannoia) in October 1989. He had been in prison since 1985 for trafficking heroin but had been kept up to date on incidents by Agostino, who visited him regularly. According to Francesco Mannoia, his brother, Vincenzo Puccio and Puccio's two brothers were killed after Riina discovered they had been plotting to overthrow him. Giuseppe Greco and Mario Prestifilippo were apparently slain because they became too ambitious.Mannoia's information was confirmed in 1992 by several more pentiti, including,. Unlike the pentiti of the mid-1980s, these men were on the winning side of the Second Mafia War, former allies of the Corleonesi.

They all complained of the same thing, that Riina and the other bosses of Corleone abandoned or eliminated their allies once they were of no further use or perceived as a potential threat. It seemed the only way to survive being an ally of Riina was to do exactly as he said. In an interview with Borsellino in 1992, Messina summed this up by stating that the Corleonesi bosses 'used us to get rid of the old bosses, then they got rid of all those who raised their heads, like Giuseppe Greco, 'the Shoe', Mario Prestifilippo and Vincenzo Puccio.all that's left are men without character, who are their puppets.' End of the 1980s The primary result of the Second Mafia War was the victory of the and its bosses,.

By the mid-1980s they were effectively in charge of much of the Mafia and by the end of the decade, after many of their allies were eliminated or in prison, they effectively had a hegemony over the criminal organization.This was summed up by who, when asked at the about the 'winners' and 'losers' of the Second Mafia War, declared: 'The winning and losing clans don't exist, because the losers don't exist. They, the Corleonesi, killed them all.' See also.References. Schneider & Schneider, Reversible Destiny, p. 59-60. Dickie, Cosa Nostra, p. 337-38.

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