Talk:Giant Octopus/@comment-72.181.114.146-20110128182932

I was wondering how long these cross-promo items will last.

And to answer the questions below, for 2-3 days, giant octopuses (octopodes, octopi) were accidentally tagged as the gift received for clicking on certain links (such as zoo rewards). Mafia Wars would normally let such things slide, but they (and I) have an issue with the dipshits who use automatic gift-grabber programs. In other words, the lady with 484 octopuses got them from a grab-program, not from playing the game. Mafia Wars corrected this by making those gift-octopuses into non-usable items. Right now, those people can look at their hundreds of octopuses and other "accidental" posting gifts (most notably the patriot vehicle), but the items do not count in the game.