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QPSA Games Update 4/27/11

WONDERFUL CITY ON FEATURED
Wonderful City popped up on the Featured Games list this morning, so it may start attracting more people. Poker Place has been removed from Featured to make room for it, so again it looks like they’re keeping Featured at 10.

BETA
I tried to play both Wonderful City and Green Farms, both of which are in beta. They both crashed very quickly. Wonderful City crashed twice. I thought beta was to get feedback and look for the rare glitch….

ECOMAS
I also played a little with Ecomas. When you open the game, you see a scratch-off card which becomes a picture of an animal. You can keep the card or you can “gift” it. When you collect enough cards for the month “AHMSA commits to physically plant one tree” and you’re entered in the monthly prize drawing. You can get more cards by inviting Quepasa friends to join or by sending a Tweet or a Facebook comment with a link back to the game.

So, ostensibly it’s about planting trees. But if AHMSA wants to plant trees, they can go ahead and do it. So, as far as I can tell, the main purpose of the game is to let people know about the environmental work AHMSA is doing. Presumably it will also attract a few people to the prize drawings on Quepasa, Facebook, and Hi5, where it is played.

That’s it, as far as I can see. There’s really nothing to the game except the pretty animal pictures and a little social interaction if you the “gift” the cards. But you learn nothing about the environment. There is no info on the cards by which you might learn about the animals pictured or how to help them. There’s no information about trees or how they will help the environment in Coahuila, where AHMSA will be planting them. There’s not even any information about how AHMSA is doing in actually planting the trees except that if you click “Learn more about the initiative” you’ll find a description of AHMSA’s environmental projects, including this tree-planting project. There it says that the nurseries are expected to be put into operation during the first half of 2011.

GOODGAME MAFIA
Goodgame Mafia's spurt a couple of weeks ago seems to have petered out.

SMAP ME UP
Average daily sign-ups for the week are still in the mid-50k per day.

Daily Averages 
 56,910 - week ending 3/23  
 60,629 - week ending 3/30  
 61,082 - week ending 4/06  
 47,449 – week ending 4/13 (x 31 = 1,470,919 per month) 
 55,995 – week ending 4/20 (x 31 = 1,745,835 per month) 
 56,921 – week ending 4/27 (x 31 = 1,764,542 per month)