SGN Launches Mafia: Respect and Retaliation for the iPhone
It was in January 2008 that Mob Wars was launched on Facebook by David Maestri. However, at the time of launch, Maestri was employed by Freewebs, the parent company that spun out SGN. Of course, the game became incredibly popular and has been rumored to generate over $1 million in monthly revenue, but since Maestri was employed by SGN at the time of the game’s development, ownership over the game’s IP came into question. Long story short, SGN and Maestri arrived at a settlement in December that granted Maestri the rights to Mob Wars, while SGN received an undisclosed financial settlement and the rights to produce new Mob Wars style games and applications.
With that saga behind it, SGN has just launched a new mob-based title called Mafia: Respect and Retaliation for the iPhone. Similar to the others of its genre, Mafia:R&R is a text-based RPG in which players rise through the ranks of the mob. Players fight, do jobs, purchase items, and can perform a variety of other tasks and challengesas you’d expect in any solid RPG.
However, Mafia:R&R’s game mechanic contains several new elements compared to others in the genre. One of the most unique features is SGN’s use of the iPhone’s built in accelerometer to allow players to do things like train in a virtual shooting range. In addition, players don’t actually have to have an active network connection to play, but can play offline if they so choose.
The game certainly looks pretty good, and it’s free to download from the app store. However, Mafia:R&R is also SGN’s first foray into “freemium” on the iPhone. Players can purchase items (ranging in price 99 cents to $50) to progress through the game more quickly.
Considering the growing popularity of this genre, the title could certainly become another hit for SGN. So far today, the company has an installed base of 9 million players on the iPhone and iPod Touch, including 5 million uniques on its iBowl title alone, as the company continues to pursue its live gaming strategy. We’ll be tracking Mafia:R&R in the coming months.
Add 15950 for a STRONG mob :D
Add Me 18155
I’m a boss! 2+billion in bank, 200 million an hour, 565+ casinos all the armor and cars there is to have!
Let gang up on’em!! lol
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Hey all of you peeps, I really love the new game other than the slow timing and small buttons, but other than that, it’s great. I don’t mean to offend anyone that has said a bad review about this game, but I really think it’s fun! I’m stuck first of all, and was wondering if anyone could help me out because whenever I fight someone, I can’t win because it tells me I only have a quantity of 7 for only 3 oft many weapons because I have many many copies of every single weapon and I’m a level 50 and I can’t beat a level 30 which is really depressing, and I was thinking it had to do with the number of people in my mob, but I can’t expand my mob because it keeps saying that I have an error, but anyway if you could help me with these problems, thanks, and if you could add me also that’d be helpful. I’m 122155
Well, looking at your issues, i had the same problem when i was level 41. I had to recreate my character because i was losing all the time to really low level users. I was reading on the game play information, and it states that your attributes have alot to do with fights. Of course the mobs count, but its more to do with your attributes. Where have you distributed most of your attributes? Which clan did you select upon first(initial) start point? This all counts. I was really rich at level 41, but couldn’t even beat a level 15 person. It got that frustrating, that i decided to recreate and distribute my points carefully towards my attributes. It’s nothing like Agency Wars where u can take off attributes and add it onto something else, which i find disappointing for Mob Wars.
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Any hints on how to best spread your attributes?
i try to have around 40 % more attack than defence, i’m level 52 and have 250 health and 17 endurance. 40 power.
not sure if this is the most effective combo, but i have won 741 fights and lost 602, so not too bad….
anyone else have any general hints??
why does it limit you to be able to have £2147483647 cash??
my id code is 184123 – will accept any requests.
cheers.
Add me 300456 I am a level 60. I have some of the same problems but I also have other issues.
Several of my friends and I are growing very frustrated with this game. There are several issues that need to be addressed but the most pressing issue is that every time one of us get to level 60 and around 12600 Experience Points the game resets to 10843 Experience points.
Twice I have reset the game and started over from scratch, only to reach that level 60 and experience point level and have it happen again. I have even gone as far as to delete the game from my I Phone and then reinstall it only to have the exact same thing happen again.
Please tell me why this is happening? Is there another version to down load? Or should my friends and I just delete the application and utilize a competitors version? We have way too much time invested in this game to give up on it yet. We are hoping that there is a patch or some update we can down load that will fix this glitch. Please advise me what to do?
Also there is additional issues with the Bank and money accumulation feature of this game. Is there anyway that the amount you are saving can be or amassing not be capped at the $2,147,483,647.00 amount? Also is there any plans to add additional properties or cars, guns, etc. that you can purchase? Perhaps Planes, Lear Jets. Boats, Yahts, private Islands, etc, etc…..Just some thoughts.
Please add me 300456
Hi Todd, I’ve added you.
Have you updated to the new update yet?
It allows you to get more money and the game runs smoother.
However, every time you try and fight someone, it almost always says that they’re in hospital…
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ADD ME @51253
I M A LEVEL 60
Hi my name is Jason. My screen name is Zeus 3. I am the top dog of this game and no one can beat me.. If you want to survive and not have me kill you. You better join my mob or you will be sorry. Add my code now you loosers. 328730. Dont be mad or hate me I cant help it but im that good. I will make the biggest mob ever in this game. If you dont believe me then try and hit me….I will fuck you up…
Hi,
My code is: 346395
pls add me!
I am lvl 60, nearly lvl 61..