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On the flip side, though, casual players who haven't put a massive time investment into a game are quite likely to be more fickle about whether they stick around or not. Time will tell when it comes to just how "sticky" mobster games turn out to be for players who aren't completely hardcore. But beyond attention span issues, perhaps the biggest challenge to the creators of mobster games is that there are simply too many of them already, and the companies that make them have fallen into courtroom infighting that bears an ironic resemblance to actual mob warfare.

There's an outstanding lawsuit between Zynga and Playdom, for example, over the latter's allegedly illegal use of the Mafia Wars name in advertising its own Mobsters game. So I think it will really be interesting in seeing how some of these cases play out over the next few months. As we learned in the Scrabulous-Wordscraper-Lexulous affair last year, in which the manufacturer of board game Scrabble used litigation to force a Facebook-based imitator to change its name , intellectual property laws for games are complicated, and extremely similar games may legally coexist as long as they don't share a few key features.

But it's not clear whether the mob wars over Mob Wars and its ilk will be without carnage. The playing field for mobster games, as well as any other games on social networks that make money through virtual goods and transactions, could also change dramatically when social networks start introducing payment systems of their own.

Facebook will start to do this soon , and it's also been circulated as a possible business model for Twitter. It's unclear what the rules will be in either case. But Super Rewards' Jason Bailey--whose company will be a competitor to Facebook's in-house virtual currency platform, it should be said--thinks the dominance of mobster games won't change much if Facebook brings new rules to the applications on its platform.

It may be too late for the massive social network to be the real kingpin when it comes to monetizing the likes of the mobster game craze. In the end the original game was lost. Over time, a few alternatives popped up around the internet to fill the void. An of course multiple different games catering to similar players were created. Most of them have become empty.

Most of the ones that survived have a very toxic playing environment. Mobsters is meant to be a competitive game where players try to kill or hurt each other. I mean, you are building a crime family, not a boy scout club.

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