[Begin Quote]Lets give an example.You and your friends are beating the crap out of an old woman trying to steal her purse, one of your friends decides this is not right and snitches one you. So you call him a rat. Look at it this way, that old lady was your mother you would call him a hero. So you think mobster are evil, but you like to act like one or be associated with their life style, then Henry should be a hero to you for destroying that industry and stopping the scum for stealing old ladies purses. And in reality if it wasn’t for Henry you would not have entertainment becouse most of the films and stories are all based on hear-say and not until Goodfellas was there a story that told the truth for an insider perspective. So give props to the guy who put his life on the line so you can PLAY GANGSTER. I’m not trying to break your balls as they say, just need to see it in a true light.

Another thing, have you ever been divorced? I hope not, I lost about 5 mil in mine but if that ever happens ask yourself this. You made an oath till death right.. Now you start to see the light, if you can’t stay with a woman all your life why the hell would you stay with a bunch of old decrepit men.

I’m just a coffee guy, I like Henry. The first day I met him he gave me a gift and that showed me he was about doing what was right and not just about him. I have been in the entertainment world for over 25 years, as a producer, musician and artist, I have seen and met many who think they are little gods and that you owe them. Henry was never like that, that’s why I choose to do business with him, I know how to reach, Al Capones kid and I could do a coffee with him but I choose to work with Henry. Henry has more demons chasing him that you can imagine, cut him some slack and drink some coffee.[End Quote]

Is this fucking guy kidding me? I applaud him on trying to take some sort of stance on why his friend did what he did, but these asinine examples he gave me, or reasons were craziness. Here is the difference. This mother fucker took a pledge. A promise. An oath. He swore he would never rat, and he did.

See, at least someone like me has the fucking respect for that life commitment, and for my word to know better then to even make that promise. I agree, that life is not for me. But that was not the point here. You asked me to cut your friend slack, and implied he is a hero to the law obiding citizens. And, I find that bullshit. Maybe, if he owned up to what he did, and you spoke up about it in the light it deserves to be in, and helped spread the understanding that making a promise and breaking it is wrong, I can find it in my heart to cut him slack. Because I believe in forgiveness with apology. Luckily, that ‘life’ cut him slack already, because he still lives to call into radio shows, and promote his goodfellas stuff. Somehow, you found morality in being a rat. WOW! Of course, I asked if you wanted to talk about this on my Mafia Talk Radio show, and you said no. You know where to find me if you change your mind.

Whatever,

MLC

I was born around these people. I know how they work. Most of them are very evil people to the core. The very core of their being is to be anti government, and feed the family by any means necessary.And by any means, I mean kill your loved one, rob your mother, take your legit established business and blow it to smitherenes, and much more. They do not live by the same laws that non mobsters live by, they live by their own code. All the laws the government created to ‘govern’ this land can go fuck themselves where they breath. You get the point.

You can forget religion. Sure, plenty of them pray or go to church, in the midst of all the evildoing, and maybe they call themselves devoted catholics. But, the very essense of lifestyle and beliefs conflict directly with what the bible preaches. If you ask me, it is 100% impossible to live by the bible, and be a mobster. There is no holy spirit, when it’s time to pay dues. And if the holy spirit owed them money, oooooofa! Forgetabout it.

With that said, regardless of how you or me feel about that lifestyle, there is an entertainment value that stands out with the best of the genres. How many times, do you watch the cake boss, because you want to see if he drops the cake? Do we really watch the Kardasians because we are interested in the good life they lead, or are we waiting for something dramatic to gossip about. Your a great person, and do not want people to get hurt, but yet you’ll stop and drive slow bumper to bumper because 2 people crashed their car up ahead, and your so curious to see if you can catch a glipse of that dead person in the back seat crushed. Maybe you even got your camera phone ready to send your photo to twitter. That’s what type of shit that draws attention. That is exactly what we see broadcasted to millions of viewers who cannot stop watching the trainwreck. Mafia Entertainment is the same thing. You don’t want to be the guy robbing the bank, but you’ll watch someone else do it every fucking week. You don’t want to be the guy getting his ass beat, but you’ll sit and watch people get fucked up all day long.

So let’s get this straight. I did grow up in the streets of Brooklyn, New York. I hung with the Kings Highway Boys (east side and west), Marine Park, Quentin Road, Avenue U, 52 Park, Bedford Park, Nostrand Park, and more. I did my share of graffiti, first fights, drinking fortys, smoking blunts, sniffing coke, and breaking the law. But, I never said I was in the mafia. I never said I wanted to be in the mafia. In fact, my nature is not built to be in the mafia. I care about people too much.

But, I will bring to you the best products that entertain the mob enthusiast. Mafia games, mafia movies, reality tv, blogs, magazines, books, radio broadcasts, and whatever the fuck is in style and entertains the genre. So, if your listening to my accent on a radio show or tv, or hearing me say something I heard in a movie, or some tough guy slang, or whatever the fuck. And, your assuming that I am a wanna be mobster, or that I am even pretending that I am in the mob. Your an asshole!

If not, then you ‘get’ me. And, I love you for it. I hope you enjoy my stuff, and apologize if not.

Talk soon,

MLC

Death.

In my days, when you played a game, your character died all the time. You go as long as you can without dying, and usually when you had work, or real life related events, it was a known thing that your character would die. But it was ok, because when you died, you did not lose much.

Just a simple message that said “someone killed you, try again’. The next time you logged in, you would have a chance to go redeem yourself versus the asshole who attacked you, and maybe you’d catch him off guard. Leaving him/her a nice message in the inbox that stated ‘paybacks a bitch sukka’.

Why is that not enough for Mafialife.com players?

I get tons of emails asking me how come you don’t get to steal everything off the dead bodies after you kill them. They want the victim’s businesses, and everything. They would prolly take a fucking right arm of the actual customer if they can. The end goal is to make the victim of death miserable, so they can dance on their dead body in victory, and shame them.

This mentality is the same reason why Mafialife.com is having trouble growing in numbers as fast as we would like to see. Who the hell wants to continue playing a game where they can’t ‘lose’ in fun, and come back the next day to try and compete for revenge? Who the hell wants to play a game where the few days or weeks they played building character has been cut down to a 25-100% loss, so they have to do all that hard work again? The answer is NOBODY.

Dying is the game is just a part of the daily game as living is. Get used to it. I totally understand that the person who issues a death blow to his enemy wants a spoil of victory, because they deserve it. It’s fun to get a reward for ‘winning’. But, there is a big difference between gaining a reward for winning, and penalizing the loser.

In Mafialife.com, when you kill someone, you gain random inventory and power from the game that you may not normally get from other game activities. You also get a hidden boost in your game ‘ranking’ that reflects in your game placement. The loser gets killed, and gains NOTHING. You get major bragging rights for keeping them at the same level for losing, while you advance for winning. That should be enough.

Learn how to die, and come back gracefully for revenge. And start enjoying the ‘gains’ for winning, and stop focusing on the death penalty. Death has to be a challenge too for this to work. Death has to give the desire to come back and get revenge. It is ok to die! Just try to die LESS then everyone else

That’s what makes www.mafialife.com fun.

I. To get started, your going to need to do a few things to earn a living:

1. Commit Crimes>Petty Crimes

Select the ‘petty crime’ option on the commit crimes page. Then, try 1 attempt of each crime, until you figure out which crime pays out best for the day. Petty crimes change per day, and sometimes repeat themselves. When you figure out the best petty crimes, you can use all attempts on that 1 petty, and earn your maximum pay from it.

2. Commit Crimes>Activities

Select the ‘activities’ option on the commit crimes page. Try 1 attempt of each activity the same way to determine the best one for you. You may have to check your profile each time to figure out which activity bumped up your skills the most. Activities can earn you some cash, but mostly will build up your attributes. The higher your attributes, the easier your success rate on specific features. The higher your attributes, the more jobs and actions unlock too.

3. Commit Crimes>Rob Bank

Select the ‘rob bank’ option on the crimes page. The higher your luck, the better chance to succeed at robbing the tougher banks. The counter is the easiest. Start with robbing the counter, and earn some quick cash. If you fail, and go to jail, just go to the prison, and bribe yourself out.

4. Commit Crimes>Small Jobs

When you build up some attributes, find the ‘small job’ option on the commit crimes page, so you can run some small jobs. They will earn you some inventory and cash, and even more attributes. They are fairly easy to commit, and will give you the tools to start your first big job.

5. Commit Crimes>Big Jobs

Take a few minutes to browse through the commit crimes ‘big jobs’ . Clicking each big job will break down the details of the job into organizer and participants. If you navigate inside the organizer and participants boxes, you will notice some links are expandable into more details. You can learn alot about what items and attributes are rquired to fit the organizer spot, and participants. If you have the required items, scroll down to the bottom, and setup the job. If not, you will notice a spot to ‘buy item’ in the bottom right of the page. Once you have all items purchased and placed in the slots, and all the attributes needed to organize the job, then click ‘setup big job’. After you set up the job, the page will turn into an invite page, and you just need to send all of your invites to those mobsters you want to try and participate. They will need to accept the job. You can review the bigjob page to see wh has and who hasnt accept, and when they all accept, you will find a ‘run this job’ option on the bottom right. Running the job will reveal inventory, attributes, cash, for you and your crew. You will unlock other jobs as you gain items, and attributes.

II. After you earn a few dollars, you are going to need to learn how to protect yourself, so you can join a crime family, or start your own:

1.Supply Store>Staff

Go to the ‘supply store’ and find the staff category. Based on your rank, you will have a max number of staff you can buy, so purchase the maximum bodyguards, fbi agents, and judges you can buy. Bodyguards will die instead of you when your health goes down to 0, and give you anoher 100 health. FBI agents will protect you from being hitmanned, and judges will get you out of jail, if you fail at crimes. You can use a judge to bribe, or bail yourself out of jail. Just goto the prison link, and find your name, and click bribe/bail and find where it says to use a judge. You’ll be out in no time. As you lose your staff, you have to replenish them. Check your inbox often, so you can learn who is attacking you, so you will know when you buy more staff.

2.Supply Store>Defense Items

Go to the ‘supply store’ and find the defense item category. You can buy bullet proof vests here. A vest will absorb damage from guns for 1 shot attempt. Each hit will require a new vest. So buy as many as you can afford.

III. Pay Your Salary:

1. My Bank>Make A Deposit

Go to ‘My Bank’ and make a deposit into your swiss bank. Every night at midnight, your salaries have to be paid, or the staff and tax items will leave you for good. Cars are considered tax items as well. So, make sure you have the total salary in your swiss  every day at midnight. Salary will automatically be paid using your swiss. You cannot withdraw from swiss, so put the amount in that youll need for salary only.

Mafialifers,

Round 49 is going to start soon and the elite players have taken a stand. There have been changes in the last few rounds to help draw some casual members to the game, because the game was so advanced, and intense that the casual signups got scared away within minutes of joining up. If you are an elite Mafialife player, then you know that it is not always easy to just keep yourself alive without good help from a crime family. You join the game, starting out in the streets, and before you know it, your being hunted by established crime families, and creating trouble for yourself. Then your marked the moment you get into a family, starting wars and find yourself dead because nobody would protect you. Newbies are so quick with their guns!

We thought it was best to make the game simple, and give them a place to hideout if they did not want to play, but it turns out most of them became chicken shit during wartime. By the time we knew it, that ‘hideout’ feature because a reason why active players did not need to remain active protecting themselves, and playing the game. Elite players would log in, and find 5-10 mobsters on, and nobody to fight and play with. Disheartening, and discouraging.

After hundreds of you screamed at me, that you want your game back… I have decided to do just that. In an effort to revise the features to bring back the addiction, and active mob enthusiasm, we created a group on facebook that you guys decided to name “The Mafialife Commission“. With this group we all will use your ideas and your love of the game to make whatever changes to bring back all that fire and flames you guys love so much.

From the looks of it, round 49 will make revisions to the hideout so one person may not run scared for long, and at some point must log in to protect himself or die. At the same time, it will also give the dying member a fighting chance to log in, find himself dead, and come back at those who attacked him, and avenge himself with his crime family, if he has one. We will also put a cap on how many power points can be used during war, so the playing feild is fair. I am reading about changes to the system to allow for ‘levels’, and ‘achievment badges’ . So if your mobster has enough kills, beats, robberies, pickpockets, crimes, and other stuff under his belt, he can get to level 2 where more items, weapons, jobs, crimes, dissrespect options, and businesses await you. And when you wack mobsters, you can knock them off, and hurt their chances of leveling themselves up. With the new war challenges, looks like round 49 is going to be alot of fun.

20-30 new jobs, new old school challenging payouts will return so it’s not so easy to gain the rare inventory anymore, and creates the need for family togetherness, and interaction. And tons of new shit. Check the group out if you want to give your feedback or input. Or you can simply join the new Mafialife Round 49, as soon as it begins. As always, there are details on the Mafialife.com home page, and a countdown to when the next round begins. If the countdown is not there when you look, then it only means we are clearing out the past round’s data, archiving the ‘top mobsters’ for your round results, and we will put the countdown up within the next 1-48 hours.

If you have not registered to the game, and are interested in joining the Mafialife Game, you can still register while we are pending the round 49 start. Just click here, and register. Check the countdown on the homepage, or just join the Mafialife Game Facebook Page and we will update you.

We will also be having a LIVE interactive chat session to discuss the next round, the hostile takeover, and answer questions if you have them. Click here for event details. Hope to see you there.

Join My Personal Fan Page while your at it.

Respectfully,

Mafialife Chris

You ever walk into someone’s house to see they keep a thick ass book on thier coffee table as a discussion peice? Some big book with all pages filled with comedy, drama, trivia, cooking, or just how to maintain your house? At my house you see this:

Let’s just say the conversation after seeing this book is alot funner then most. Get yourself your own copy at the Mafialife Store before they sell out. I am 100% sure this will be a collectors item. Like them on facebook by going here.

Just wanted to thank you for such the warm return to the Mafialifeblog world. It was a pity what happened to my last blog data, and it sucks having to start over, but I am glad so many of you replied with such respect to see me back. It was really nice to talk to a lot of new subscribers as well.

I linked up with a really cool marketing team to get the ball rolling, to prepare for the reality show shit, and they helped me re-invent my approach to the brand. Random Ramble has launched a new strategic marketing partnership for us, and we are proud to have them on board. It’s gonna be lot’s of fun.

I have ton’s of shit in store for this blog, like getting you all inside scoop to the reality show, special discounts on goods for the mob sites we own, and most importantly, giveaways. Stuff like Mob Movie DVD’s, the good ol ‘I Hate You All’ shirt, Mob Candy Magazines, Mob Power Points from the games, and much more.  This stuff is only going to those who truly consider themselves a fan of the mafia lifestyle genre. If your a fan of that stuff, your a fan of me!

We will do mob stories, reviews of stuff the mobster’s love, and each time we get a sponsor, i’ll make sure you get your ‘cut’. And of course, I will give you my take on anything, and everything related to mob enthusiasm. We may even issue some online blog wars with some people who are looking for trouble. I am going to need your help with that.

Go here to Join the fanpage for now. The fun starts soon.

Peace and Love,

MLC

One thing I have learned from the years of creating and working with mob theme games, are the differences between what I like to consider the casual mobster, and the elite mobster. Some of the Mafialife subscribers used to get real pissed off when I would use those terms. I’d be in a video chat room with other members who accepted an invite to the ‘Official Mafialife Room’ on Paltalk, and we would be having a session where I would ask the members questions, and answer some of the questions they had about the game, and the behind the scenes inner thoughts of why I built some of the features. I was trying to explain how ML could not be an elite only game design, because it would not be able to pay it’s bills. Many of them did not want to be classified as casual members, because they paid money to subscribe to extra features sometimes, and they considered themselves elite members. But, I was not sizing them up by skill level, and they were pretty much worried I was telling them they suck, lol

What I mean by elite or casual when I say it, is that they spend a certain amount of time on the game. That’s all. A casual member, can only jump on, in that 5-25 min window they get after they eat, or when they can jump on the PC. They want to enjoy the concept of the mafia fantasy games, without spending too much time on it. Perhaps their daily lives does not allow the time, or perhaps they are just limiting their leisure time, or time on the internet. It doesn’t matter. They are considered casual to me. And as my developer Anthony Vos would call them, they are the ‘casual mass’ because you will find that a huge portion of those who register to these games are only casual mobsters. They are the ‘masses’ you look to reach, because if you reach the casual mass, and interest them, your game will strive forever. If you spend your time catering to only the elite audience, you will find yourself stuck with a very small player base. The elite mobster is your fanatic, so you definately need to maintain them, but there are not enough of them to pay bills. These are the type of players who when you make a slight change in the settings on how much damage a weapon makes, they are already talking about it the day you add it. They learn the exploits, use them to thier advantage, and look to win by staying on longer, and playing better then everyone else.

For every 1000 signups, you will get yourself about 10-20 elite members. That means 980-990 will be casual. The casual doesnt want to sit around and learn how to navigate your site, or use the features. They want it to be simple. The elite, may take extra time reading an FAQ. Take some time to walk through the registration process and navigation of your features, and decide if a 60 yr old lady can understand how to be part of your site. At the same time, keep it a challenge once you have them hooked using those features. Your game must be able to maintain the elite’s enjoyment, and spark the interest of the casual mass. If you want to stay on top, it cannot cater so much to the elite, that the only way to win, is to stay on all day long. But, it also can not cater so much to the casual that it gives the elite no reason to be on for thier desired long periods.  Find a way to keep those elite’s playing, yet give the casual mass a fighting chance. If you plan to be the best in the business, find that medium.

Otherwise, get the fuck out of the business please, so you don’t cluster up my streets with these ugly, lopsided, copycat scripted mob games, that suck.

Thanks,

MLC

WOW. What is this world coming to, eh?

Truth be told, there is actually a man with balls that big. Actually, it’s more then a man, it’s an entire family with balls big enough to create the first mafia magazine. Can you imagine the real mobsters sitting back hearing about this, or even reading it? That’s not going to go over well, right?

You’ll be suprised. The stories are actually historical entertaining twists written from the perspective of some knock around guys, and tough guys. There are no current stories about people who are doing crimes now, and there are no naming of mobsters who are committing crimes. Just cool conversations with movie stars who played mobsters, authors who wrote books about them, chicks who dated them, people who want to be them, and pumped up articles about the old school classics like Al Capone, and Albert Anastasia that will blow your mind.

Don’t forget all the other good stuff like cars, cigars, hot chicks scantily clad, and those sneaky ‘how to commit the best crimes without getting caught’ stories. It is everything a mob enthusiast wants in a printed magazine, and more.

My Fiance’s family put’s this magazine out, with my help. We put the true meaning of ‘mom and pop’ into every single aspect of this publication. So grab yourself a copy off the official website www.mobcandymag.com, or buy it off my store www.mafialifestore.com so I can feed my son. I’ll send you the mag, and forget to give my father in law his cut

And, i’ll tell you what. If you read the mag and don’t like it, send me an email chris@mafialife.com requesting your money back, so I can respond back to shove it up your ass, haha. Just kidding man, I’ll get your money back if you tell me you don’t like the mag. That’s how sure I am. Apparently, there’s a reality show tv producer, and a huge network who agrees with me. So stay tuned. Looks like we may be on TV someday. But, I am not saying nuthin!

Talk Soon,

Mafialife Chris

Hey pals,

We lost tons of data from a crash that I carelessly, did not backup properly, so I will be starting this blog from scratch, again. With that said, there are tons of stuff I would like you to know about me, and what I do. From being a regular caller on The Ron and Fez Show, as the Soprano’s reviewer, and friend of the show, I was able to land a gig on XM Radio during one of the shows ‘night of podcasts’ bits. I remember hearing that there were time slots available while XM and Sirius merged, and they were letting Ron and Fez give listeners on air spots. I immediately texted Ron that I was interested. The world needed to hear me on the satellite radio airwaves. Not to mention, I always wanted to do radio. Here was my chance. Luckily, Ron Bennington gave me my shot. I did “The Sitdown” w/ Mafialife Chris. I had fun, and it further’d my brand name as The Don of The Internet Mafia.

Hear for yourself, if you like it or not, and please comment on here t let me know. Or as usual, you can email me chris@mafialife.com. There are more segments from that show on my youtube page. http://www.youtube.com/user/MafialifeDotCom

Regards,

Mafialife Chris