[#Erexit 1/2] eRep Admins think you are an idiot
Azure Falcon
Welcome back, dear readers!
Recap
Let me start this article by reiterating what we have achieved and by thanking each and every one of you who contributed to this process. Firstly, we have all been outraged when we learned that Admins changed the rules of pollution after the Resource War event was done. It greatly benefited one specific country, but the bigger problem is that the the other 73 countries were left in the dust with choices they made based on the old rules.
You could argue that these rules did not change significantly, but country leaders will tell you that they feel cheated that they were told different rules, and a lot of them would have chosen a different placement if they knew about these changes. These leaders, and consequently their countries were quite simply lied to.
As a next step, we massively voted up a protest article so that it smashed through any records of articles in the past few years and reached more than a thousand votes in 2 days. I have seen hundreds of players sharing this article on my shout wall, in circulars, and on IRC. As a reminder, 300 days ago it took 570 votes to keep the epic battle rules from being nerfed. We now have a smaller community and still managed to reach twice as many votes, it is an amazing achievement.
Finally we took the fight to the Forums and demanded them to own up to their shady manipulations. So many passionate comments were posted demanding fair treatment that at one point I have run into this:
Great job, everyone! Your contribution cannot be understated. Thanks to you we have managed to squeeze out an official reply from them.
Their choice
Admins saw the massive uproar from the community and realized that they cannot get away with ignoring it. Players from all around the world, regardless of alliances or any other affiliations came together and demanded a stance.
What can you do in this position? Do you give in to the demands or do you weather the storm? Really, it would have been easy to just revert the changes and emerge with the image of a caring and thoughtful leadership, like they did 300 days ago:
Instead, however, they decided to discredit me and downplay the issue.
1) They brought the writer's nationality into the issue and made it seem like a formal Hungarian point of view - because of my nationality, which I never brought up - which is a bigoted step, really. Am I allowed to write an article about Admins lying without bringing in my nationality, or do I have to keep my mouth shut because you'd bring it up anyway? Does my nationality affect the veracity of the facts presented in my article in any way? Of course it doesn't, and it shouldn't. I am not speaking for Hungary, I am speaking for all those players who voted and endorsed my article.
A later point (#8 on the Forum) simply says, if these regions are so good, why doesn't Hungary conquer them? As if conquering a region would solve the problem where all countries were exploited. This is a truly irritating response that demonstrates a lack of understanding about the gravity of the situation.
2) They misrepresented the issue as if it was the writer's personal stupidity (and fault).
Except it's not really a speculation to assume that a value is based on exactly the things they say it is based on. Assuming any further factors (be it industry, military rank or newspaper subscribers, etc.) has no basis at all --> that is real speculation! There are multiple instances of them saying the same thing over and over again about number of works, with no mention at all about any other factors. Here is one instance:
Here is another instance.
Another reason why this attempt at me is despicable is because it's clearly not about me: this is what the 1000+ votes signify! You have seen the comments. You have seen the forum posts. Attacking the messenger of a thousand voices is as pointless as a bald hedgehog
🙂It also goes on to show that you still don't understand this community.
3) Finally, Admins insulted all players who agreed with the article by calling it "a very fine piece of propaganda".
Admins say, if you voted, endorsed or shared this article, you were fooled by a propagandist: me. They think I managed to brainwash more than a thousand people with a nonexistent issue!
Basically, what they said with this is their player base is a bunch of manipulable morons who are easy to trick. This is what eRep Admins think of you.
So this is it. This is their choice. They have made it and soon I will be making mine. Please carry on to the next article to read it.
Thank you for reading!
Azure
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[#Erexit 1/2] eRep Admins think you are an idiot
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Maybe we need a document signed by other CP's all around the world. Maybe then they realize it is not about Hungary, but it is about the game itself.
Is this something you would consider organising? Good idea
Nope. This task (to form an allience for the development of this game) is up to a widely know player. Or even better a big whale.
If enough playert, whales joins maybe then we can save this game from the slow deat sentence. Advocacy should be a must for players who spend fortunes here. And to the masses, because without us whales could play in themselves. So anybody with a history on erep and a large credit card - start do something useful, organize players' advocacy.
Not today!
Guys you don't get it. The problem is that information was withhold from everyone. Or even worst, changed after the ResWar. These informations need to be told before the event not after.
Thats only more BS that Romania did the "right" thing.
Plato=idiot
#Erexit
I can't see you winning this battle...
Don't try to give up, try to keep going. Don't try to quite! You already in pain, you already hurt. GET A REWARD FOR IT!!!
"Basically, what they said with this is their player base is a bunch of manipulable morons who are easy to trick. This is what eRep Admins think of you.".
Whilst I do agree that rules (and that's for any friggin' contest) should be published BEFOREHAND, and not after a contest (I can't really think of another company that does this), which is a long 'occupation' at eRep labs, this quoted implication is just fine trolling. No, if i think of a lecture that is 'a propaganda' i don't assume 'all its readers and endorsers are a bunch of morons that are easily manipulated'.
Apparently, you do. And this is where the trolling you appears.
Why not continue sticking to the facts? You're defending name calling with...name calling?!
You said all what I wanted to say.
"Why not continue sticking to the facts? You're defending name calling with...name calling?!"
Remélem nem a játékot akarod itthagyni, mert azt román NE előtt búzás.
Everybody attack yetiland (love)
Oh, this is more fun, than erep ever was! 😃
Van erre egy jó közmondás.
Ha belefosol a ventillátorba sz@ros leszel
Meg fognak büntetni. Kérdezd csak meg a moderátorokat, hogy is megy ez.
meg... 🙂
talán 3 éve volt utoljára FP-m, már hiányzott
Only way: boycot by big goldbuyers.
You have got enough power to push them... or sg like that.
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Nothing new in erep...
but it is kinda annoying that always Romanian players, MUs or country itself has perfect timing before any change...
coincidence?
Yeah right 🙂
Admins dont call anyone ''moron'' by calling you a propagandist, you try to make us think that way, which makes you a propagandist.
On the other hand, I know that erep labs leak info to some players.I dont know if the info leaks through romanian players everytime, but im sure that it leaks somehow.
A recent event; you all know travel tickets' prices went up to double before admins announce the changes which makes travelling being used more than it used to. Similiar events happened a lot of time with weps.
Shame on you admins.
So if you say smb is propagandist, instead of speaking that: yeah your article right, we did a big mess etc... is it acceptable? 😃
I dont want to def. Azure, cuz i rly dont like his playstyle, but in this case, i can give him the real truth, cuz calling anybody with something "interesting" thing from the labs is bad. Bringing RL nationality into the game to give a reason... its bullsh*t.
What a shame...
Unban Azure Falcon xD
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Every now and then there is a rebellion and every time they make changes there is going to be a lot of people disappointed.
I don't agree every time with what you say (well..never) but I am not happy it has come to this.
Some chilling and reflection time might be worth considering 🙂
It's a pity! o7
Noooooooooo!
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bye-bye
Igazad van! Vote!
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Very nice article, sad to see such a good writer go...
Buy more gold
This is a jail.
seriously, why should they change? if you have 100000 players with 100 paying like 10000€ or 1000 and still have 100 that pays the servers
really great loss, for admin, and for players. yup, this game is dying soon
Completely shameless. It is as if they want us to leave the game.
Thanks for the tanks, btw 🙂
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Good & important article
Really admins? I`m amaized!
If he wasnt hungarian what would have been your excuse?
Do you realise that you are racist? You are insulting hungarians.
You should combine your efforts with Xavinyo and Colin, below
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-velemeny-borul-a-bili--2603669/1/20
Azure unfortunately we can protest but nothing will change. Except the community more aware of what to expect from this game, and how we all decide to play it.
Consider that, "polution rules" maybe weren't chanded, and admins specially wrrote unclear rules at begining.
Don't give up ... Never \o/