Player Advisory Committee - Fly To San Fransisco!

I made this post last month about Player Advisory Committee held by Zynga!

Check my blog post here to refresh your memory of this event : Player Advisory Committee and also this one from Zynga Support page : here.

Now once you have sent your email to VIP@mafiawars.com, they will chose 50 players to represent all of us there! Including the representative of all Members of The Angry Mob from MySpace users! Daily players, old and new ones..

Here is the example of email from Zynga if you're one of the chosen players I found on Zynga Forum posted by MrSimmy :

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If you visit the thread on Zynga Forum board about Player Advisory Committee, you will find lots of comments there. Mostly they are asking about who are they lucky players that will fly to San Fransisco?

Zynga said that the players that are picked will be notified on the forum. Then they changed it due to lots of Private Message sent to the Super Moderator of the forum :

So, who are the chosen players?

Let's check the post from Here2Trade about this :

Well you are a trader so that is 1 area covered, a blogger is covered, script writer is covered, big spender is covered, the rest we will have to see. I would imagine it will people with the largest "player bases" that will be selected. That only makes sense as they gave give Zynga a larger spectrum to look at. Congrats on making it, but since you guys are allowed to share anything....

Seems like Forum 2.0, as the way it originally was stated...I thought this was to give the people a voice. Now no one can talk about what is said because of the NDA, afraid of being sat on, and they wont be on the forum. What did this accomplish?

1) Getting a scripter in there...Possible outcome...Zynga purchases DB UID's of the players who use it. Yes I know this sounds mean, but look at it from a real perspective. If offered a large enough amount of money for that list. Who is going to turn it down?

2) Traders...Spies to report back to Zynga about crazy trading that doesn't seem possible.

3) Blogger...You have someone who can tell the world that Zynga really does care and look at what they are doing to get player feedback. Though they have a forum set up for it and also a Dev sub forum.

4) Big Spenders...You of course want to keep them feeling all warm and fuzzy. This gives the illusion of being caring and looking out for them. You must keep them happy.

I could be wrong, but in lurking in the forum and playing the game. Everyone in the game has seen them take and take and not look at things from a players perspective.

There should be a statistics person(s) who touch enough people that they can get long term projections on how often loot drops from jobs, fighting, robbing... That way it can be compared to the scope of play and see if the time lines meet up.

There should be at least 8 clan leaders
2 for under 50 members
2 for under 100 members
2 for under 150 members
2 for over 150 members

Random Daily Players
2 daily playing people under level 80
2 daily playing people under level 180
2 daily playing people under level 320
2 daily playing people under level 450
2 daily playing people under level 800
2 daily playing people under over level 1000

Account types
5 pure energy accounts
5 robbing accounts
5 fighter accounts
5 admins of heavy trading sites
5 people from the forum
5 random monthly players

Then there should have been research done and checked into the community to find
5 big spenders who quit and find out what broke them
5 random people who quit at emerald and find out what broke them
5 random people who quit at gold and find out what broke them
5 random people who quit from the forum and find out what broke them

Really 50 people is but a shell of the people that needs to be added to a PAC list. When you have a DAU of 2.6 Million people, 50 people is a speck.

I gave my opinion...If Zynga cared about the game....
1) There would be 3 surveys in the game
a) easy survey for 10 RP points where you take a simple 20 question test
b) medium survey for 25 RP that has 50 questions and 100 word comment boxes.
c) complex survey that has 100+ questions and 500 word comment boxes.

You figure that at minimum your talking 1000 dollars for food, lodging, plane tickets to and from, plus having staff on hand to go over the details. You are looking at a minimum of 50,000 dollars. You could have gotten more information and used that 50,000 dollars to have been broken down by a survey analysis team and that would have given you a mountain of data points to cross reference.

I never claimed to be the smartest person. I would imagine someone else at Zynga also came up with an idea like this. That is why I say there could be alternative reasons to why people are being picked. Big business never does anything without reason.

Good point of views, Here2Trade!

It makes sense that they will choose from new players to experienced players and all levels in between. Any aspects of the game. All representative from blogger (I know that Jennifer from MWLootLady blog is the one), from TopMafia.Info admin - Da Boss (go go go!), from Trading sites, etc etc..

Within this post, I want to congratulate those who have been picked and will be attending PAC soon. Please speak from your heart! We have released lots of complaints via forum, this blog, fan pages... perhaps using this PAC there will be a new way to conclude all in one place. Face to face!

Go get them, guys! Show them what mafia family we are!!!

Source : Zynga Forum Board!