Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users From Day One

[Sabre]

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I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, fucking, now. Like I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business…So control your destiny. So that was a big lesson, controlling your business. So by the time we raised money we were profitable.

Asshole...

[ElZorro]

He's been taking heat from a number of sources the last couple weeks wrt the downloads, offers, etc that usually end up being scams. I did one to get some points when I first started playing, now I get 20-30 spam a day on an account that never received any before.

[Sabre]

I hate people that do crap like this.

[Mr Kleen]

I play the game but NEVER put ANYTHING back into it. maybe I should quite entirely after finding this out...

[chicken n waffles]

<-- validated in his paranoia

[Cereb Daithi]

I never played mafia wars. Purposely avoided it.

Now I'm going to avoid it like the plague.

[complacent]

I'd like to hear about how he was publicly castrated... with a spork.

Jackhole