Talk:Brazil Smuggling Event/@comment-3069692-20110325092037/@comment-2134436-20110326082721

Agree 100%. I am so sick of this garbage...... Zynga shows time and again they have no idea what the player community wants (or even what it is like to play their game on a daily basis, for that matter), nor do they care. Hell, not even a single day of rest between these insanely crappy events this time. What are the reasons behind this? I guess the more we click around in their application and the more request spam we send out, the more money they can make somehow?

Some aspects I'd like to add: -Pointless gifting events have nothing to do with/ no place in a game called "Mafia Wars". They just distract from the core activities, which should be fighting and doing jobs and missions. (And I have no objections to other additions such as property upgrades, slot machine, etc, as they are still part of the overall storyline in a way - but collecting carnival masks is definitely not a Mafia pastime.) If Zynga plans to continue like this, they should better rename it to "FriendGiftVille"....... :-( -The reward items in the event aren't balanced, either: 3 out of 4 have higher defense than attack stats. This was already the case with the "Fighting Irish" event as well. -These gifts are both extremely annoying and time-consuming. Especially as you are forced to accept them 1 by 1; and after getting a gold item, you cannot accept any surplus gifts you may have accumulated before you have received the mastery reward (like the Shield of Eire or the Logging Truck) and restarted the event, so they clog up your requests queue for days.