Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @09:13PM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

jamie writes with a follow-up to our recent discussion of social gaming scams: "Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar, which was like, I don't know... I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'" TechCrunch also ran a interesting tell-all from the CEO of a company specializing in Facebook advertisements, who provided some details on similarly shady operations at the popular social networking site.

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Re:Ugly things happen ... by QuoteMstr · 2009-11-12 00:02 · Score: 1, Troll

Irrational need for more and more money is a real addiction I think and should be treated as such.
Saying this won't be popular around here, but we already have a perfectly good treatment for wealth addition.
It's called a highly progressive income tax, which includes capital gains.