Do Social Network Games Exploit Their Users?

Let's face it, there is no social network game that stripped of its users is worth its weight. If there are no users then there is no game.

When a user needs one more point to beat their adversary, well the game company just pops up their micro transactions screen and make payment by credit care really easy. Its just like the casinos.

I am playing Mafia Wars and no I did not use the credit card. I saw an offer by FRS that offered anti-oxidants known for helping with the kind of enormous pollution that NYC offers inside its apartment buildings.

The offer stated buy our product and we will give you 102 Mafia War God Father Points. Yes, that would do the trick. I could beat my adversary soundly and get them off my back. The ad stated within minutes and that's exactly I was wanting to do this deed. Well folks its been about two months and there have been no God Father points forthcoming. I've gone through every level of both companies. FRS throws it all on Facebook. Zynga stated that they were elevating the matter, however they were just shuffling words.

The product itself is the lamest. Its very bad for your health with the first two ingredients being sugar and corn syrup. I gave them to a friend because they made me sick and they found that the product made them sick also.

Zynga the game company that created Mafia Wars finally wrote in their customer support system:

port Request #2437651

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102 Reward Points

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Jeny said Sep 24 3:30am

Sorry but the advertiser was not able to confirm your offer completion and we are unable to credit your account. Thanks -Jeny

But wait didn't FRS give me an invoice and haven't I submitted emails from them to Zynga that confirm that?

I gave them the very link that I used.

Sounds like a lazy ass answer to me.

I've put a notice on the site that if anyone else has suffered from such problems to please inbox me. Undoubtedly there are many but they will not want others to know that they tried to get some points to get the advantage.

Game companies count on this element.

Get real there are so many people with two and three accounts on facebook that service their mafia wars needs, obvious credit card supported accounts, who cares that's just the way it is.

I say its time to do a class action on game companies that exploit their users.

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BedbugVille Continues...

So yes, I'd been ill this past week from the forced fumigation.

I'd already taken the bed bugs out with 91% rubbing alcohol, murphy's oil and constant vacuuming.

So these slimy landlords lied to me. Their info packet stated that asthmatics must leave the premises for two days for their fumigation. They ignored me. My doctor said to me after the ekg and breath test I think you have asthma. Well duh, oppressive smoke conditions from 2007-2009; yep, that would do it. As the City feigned, so many other people have the same thing and its uncomfortable; so too the slimy landlords wrote a two-page letter to the residents of which one line states, that bed bugs are just annoying, that we should scrub our floors and keep our places clean. I am quite sure I have always had the most emaculate apartment in the whole of New York City.

The exterminator lied he said oh you have asthma, well then you should stay away 3 hours. He said he would spray my leather couch. I said excuse me, you do not have my permission. That will cause grave danger to me and I am obviously here to prevent damage. He ignored me. While I was out he sprayed my couch. When I came back eight hours later the room was filled with white particles. I was sick for six days. And these creeps will get away with it. I had mentioned they gave no warning, they just came.

Today the bed bugs returned and they bit me all up. Now they are not even responding to the alcohol or murphy's oil. A month ago I made an appointment with the dermatologist and the opthamologist at my doctor's order. It takes that long to get an appointment. All 10 of my doctors referrals rejected my insurance. It took me four plus hours to find doctors.

I made a mistake on the addressing of the referrals to my doctors because my eyes cannot distinguish an 8 from a 6; that's scary.

I had perfect vision checked out by a doctor two years ago before the first extermination, before moving into this very dark apartment, this one room that I pay $1100 a month for, a room that has only one window and no ventilation. They are constantly moving in more smokers.

Trust me, when all is said and done, this will be a landmark supreme court case. Its just that I have so many other clowns to deal with right now. Soon, I'm taking them down, one by one, I am only one person amongst a dozen crooks.

The Judge will decide ...

huh, uh-uh.

Now if you are free would you want the court to decide your life, take it over and excuse me, contaminate the hell out of it as much as they possibly could?

Hell no!

The clerk said well if I were you I'd go file those papers right now. Uh uh.

I called up the ABA and got a lawyer consultation to cover a letter and the supreme court brief I've written.

The subject: This coop management company has been harassing me for 4 months because I asked them about a neighbor's claim that there were bed bugs in the apartment. They denied it and tried to turn it on me by asking "Do you have bed bugs?"

Now I am being bitten raw every night no matter what I do.

They circumvented the law by slowly taking action, first the beagle that found bed bugs at the edge of my leather sofa bed, then the notice several weeks later that bed bugs were found in my unit and the cost was going to be about $500 and triple in time and effort.

But back up I said, 4 months ago I asked you to repair the cracks in the ceilings, the walls and the floor and that is where these bugs are coming in. You must do that first, it says so in the New York Bed Bug handout.

Secondly I have lung and pulmonary disease and your pamphlet states that people with asthmatic conditions must be away for 48 hours after the fumigation; you need to put me in another apartment.

Thirdly, my leather sofa bed is infested, and its not a mattress you can encase. In all my research I have not found one single person who successfully rid bed bugs from a couch. The time and trouble of such an attempt was vastly more than the $500 my couch will cost; you need to throw out my couch and replace it.

I never to this date got an answer to those three valid points.

Instead the landlord made an appointment for the fumigation and I was home. They never showed. Then five days later I got a letter stating that if I did not provide them entry they were going to drill holes in the door and charge me. I wrote back if you drill holes then you will charge yourself because I have the set of keys your super gave me. I did not change your locks.

They replied to me in yet another five days; your failure to provide entry to the apartment is a breach of the lease. I wrote back there has been no failure and I was here.

They wrote back a few days later that I was not here.

Ok I have pictures of this apartment several times throughout the day and even at the time they were to arrive, so duh. I asked the clerk and she told me that was a trivial question and the judge would decide. Yeah that is our part of departure.

Then about three days later they say the fumigators will be at the apartment the next day. They don't show so I write two emails to the landlord stating no show for the second time and I have a deposition at 11am.

No answer.

So finally, today, and get this, because its a winner, this guy shouts at my door EPA, Environmental Department. Now that is right up there with those New York City detectives (see "Undoubtedly Women Are Better Marketers Than Men [but are they better detectives?]"). That was such a lie. He has this big magnifying glass. I tell him I taped the bugs as they came down the wall from the ceiling. Exhibit A is on the wall. I produced Exhibit B a bag of taped bugs I pulled off. I said would you like to see Exhibit C pictures of my bit off behind? He says no, he is not a doctor.

YadaYada Another coop board clowns around and you know I'm going to bust them up sooner or later.

1. We won't need a building inspector, the landlord sent a flyer stating there was an infestation, there was a beagle visit and the faux EPA was here.

2. One of the flyers states that this infestation is different than the one then 3 months ago (aha!)

3. The landlord's second harassment is clear and vivid in his emails.

4. It is clear that they simply ignored me (though their clerk acknowledged the email); their emails reveal that they were aware of a previous correspondence.

Like I said folks don't rent in a coop board, don't buy into one either. In these last two coops I have rented in the shareholders were continually unhappy. Apparently the Chief wore no clothes.

So today I actually visited a "real" doctor

They did the real stuff, and they didn't do any of the slimey stuff that prestigious hospital did. They did an EKG, a lung test and they gave me 15 doctors to see. As I was leaving the doctor who was very conservative, sensible and cautious said I think you might have asthma.

So folks I think New York City with its pathological departments that said everyone has the same problem and its just uncomfortable has a huge lawsuite ahead of them as well a withdrawal on any settlement on the record but unsigned played out by the two bully lawfirms. I told them I was just exhausted by them, their lies, the incredibly inept court and this new landlord who is clowning around with my life with these the still infested bed bugs in my apartment.

There's a live burning hell awaiting them, because I did every single patient and smart thing I could to save my life and all these people stood in my way. They took a very healthy thriving person and trashed her. So if they did it to me; who else did they do it to?

Yell out! and tell me.