One of the dominant types of game on social networks like Facebook is the humble text role-playing game (RPG). The mafia game is a popular type of text RPG, probably owing to the popularity of the TV show The Sopranos. In mafia RPGs, players start their own mafias, staffed by members of their Facebook (or MySpace, or what-have-you) friends lists. Zynga's Mafia Wars wasn't the first mafia RPG, but it's certainly the biggest.
Zynga will no longer continue development on its soft-launched 4X game Mafia Wars.
Available from the App Stores in Canada, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan in April, the titlewas a reimagining of an early Zynga mobile hit updated with new mechanics and monetisation.
WC writes: Facebook is perhaps one of the greatest websites in the history of the internet. It has revolutionized online social media, trumping MySpace, Google+ and others in almost every aspect. At the end of September, Facebook accounted for 1.01 billion active users worldwide – that’s an astonishing 14% of the world’s population.
But for every person that uses Facebook, there’s probably an app or game. And almost every single one of those games could disappear without a trace, and the world would not bat an eyelash.
Here are just a few of those Facebook games that all of us honestly wish would just disappear.