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Ako dobijem FP nije mi žao, bitno je da je tekst sjajan.


Open letter : Why I leave eRepublik.
Thus, I will hereby display the delusions I suffered through like many players during the course of last year. Maybe it will open the eyes of some of you. I of course do not expect Plato to respond ; I explain why he won’t in this text, if, of course, you have the courage to read it all.


Communication:
Once upon a time, Admins published a newspaper explaining to players their latest decisions. EI (Erepublik Insider) disappeared 8 months ago. The reason for that is simple: every time the admins published a new article, they were criticized in the comments. Instead of listening to the complaints, the Admins preferred ignoring them and closing the journal. Nice understanding effort on their behalf! Instead, our new (resurrected) friend Plato spams our our inbox with the few game changes he dares sharing with us, poor mortals. Because obviously, he forgot to tell us that the economy BOT had been activated, or that productivity had been cut in half! Thanks for letting us bliss of ignorance! To put it shortly, admins do not listen to you anymore. Look at this forum, read the threads and look at how many time Plato answers them. Admins don’t give a **** about what you think!


Translation:
The game has officially been translated into 5 languages according to the start page. I don’t know how a company, with a business-oriented mindset, can even bother to call those translations. I will only talk about the French translation, because I’m French, but I know that it is also the case in the Spanish version. So the French version is …. a nameless horror. How do you want your game to be credible to players when the “Party” tab is translated “Fête” (as in, party with friends, having fun etc...) ? And that’s without even considering the numerous bugs which are specific to each language, like the bug which makes us unable to approve friend requests from other players! It is laughable to a point that French players advise new players to play with the English version of the game. Can you imagine that? I sent many tickets about related issues and was answered that it was a high priority issue and that a new module would be implemented by the end of 2010 in order to help it being solved. We are in February, 2011, and nothing has been done about it! Please, at least for the French version, show some respect to a language that you seem to speak as if it were Korean!


Military Module:
You say you listen to players, and explained for example that you forbid publication of articles in other countries in order to prevent spamming. Why then don’t you listen when players beg you to reconsider Wellness Packs and their numbers of uses? Yes, it is sometimes funny to watch the likes of Bogdan or BattalGazi make as much damages in a battle as 1100 French players, and also, very realistic. let’s not talk as well about the suppression of the “Retreat” button, of the impossibility to launch multiple RW, to decide attacking multiple regions or to decide when a fight will start or end. We will not mention of course the suppression of the different weapons (after you decided that they should be fundamentally unbalanced), or the suppression of attack costs. Don’t you remember how important the preparation for attacking a bastion such as Lion King was ? How epic the battles were ? Now you don’t even try to correct the flawed parts of the game. You just delete them and wish for the best. Where is strategy now? That’s of course
without mentioning the fact that you divided the ranking scale by 10 from one day to the other. Of course, you did not warn us, and those who used their Mastercard during the blessed days to gain rank are now almost unreachable. And let’s not forget the scripts and bots which are used by almost all countries, as you don’t even try to do something about them. I myself spread the script which removes the “Are you still there?” window. I don’t know why players complain: you don’t do anything about it, so we’d better use the weapons of our enemies!


Economy:
From the “success” of eRepublik, economy has suffered from a crucial problem: overproduction. You started breaking that part of the game the day you decided to hide the formulas applied to it to players, and this was only the first of your disinformation in the economic module. Since then, you keep changing the formula without telling us. You deleted offers on the monetary market regularly. You even created a Bot which you told us has been deactivated. You lied to us, and it is still here, buying our money and products in order for you not to have to bother about the mechanics behind the game. You gave yourself the power only countries have: creating money. Let’s also laugh together at the resources. We are still waiting for the Stone migration. or the suppression of the Oil/MT/Hospital/House. The funniest thing with the bot is that it was implemented just after you offered the possibility for players to work in all their companies daily. Instead of recognizing this was a mistake, you tried to dissimulate how stupid that was by creating a bot which buys products on the market. I keep thinking I’m dreaming, but you really did it! The result:most country saw their currency’s value divided by 2. Spanish people must be happy: they always tried to keep their currency at a high value now have one that is worth nothing. It is probably funnier to add a popup asking you if you are still there. BRAVO! You ruined the economy!


Press:
The one module I care about. Where to start? Should I talk about censorship? The level of moderation here reaches the level of North Korea. You censor quite a lot of articles without even understanding what is written. I recently saw a Korean being warned for “vulgarity” when he had in fact written nothing wrong at all! I had 11 articles deleted or censored during my long erepublik history, despite them being massively voted by players. You censored an image from a Japanese manga and one which was a picture of a Greek statue, both for Pornography, and you banned some French players for Insult when in fact they had written nothing insulting at all. And then there is the thing you call “Public Debate”. You often censor articles which have nothing to do with public debates, like you did with one of mine which did not even include text! I remember when I started playing: there was close to no moderation. Now we have as much censorship as some of the worse regimes on the planet. You are intolerant, and hired incompetents to be your goons on that module. Do you know how much time I (and other people) invested in my newspaper? You don’t respect the efforts I put into this game, don’t ask for me to respect yours.


Justice:
No appeal before the 7th FP? Is that a joke? Sadly, it isn’t. You want me to believe it’s a fair and equal system? How many have reached those 7FP? And when we eventually reach it, putting back an article which was censored 2 months ago will not correct the wrong done by the mod who censored it. Even worse, what I witnessed last week: Nalaja complained on the forum about a stupid FP. He was pardonned and the topic was erased. Double standard much? Your system is totally unfair! How many got their article or post injustly censored? With such a system, they must have been quite a few!


IRL😕=InGame:
Among the last countries which were adde😛 FYROM/Macedonia, Egypt, Taiwan, Belarus, Cyprus, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
That’s an awful lot of IRL-conflicted countries! and of course emirates with high numbers of Visa/Mastercard owners. Do you have fun watching people torn apart almost exclusively because of IRL conflicts? I for one think it is disgusting! Of course, I am not against the creation of those countries, but why them? Why all at once? Not only are you good at making player hate you, but you also make them hate one another! You have a true gift!


Hack/Bugs/Cheats:
Your game is a gruyère. Your tools are unable to track those who profit from the holes in your code. I know a French player who made 30 multies the day they could go from level 1 to 21 in a few steps, and made 400G doing so. Guess what? He was never botheredand keeps playing using those fake golds. About hacks now: I myself enjoyed buying many Q5 Helicopters and Tanks for nothing when a player made those available at a fraction of the price. And you did nothing about it! You can’t do anything about it! lately, you discovered a flaw in the advertising module. Did you correct it? NO! You suppressed the ability for players to use it and used it as a way to promote gold offers! Once more, I have to clap with both hands. And I’m not even talking about the numerous bugs that every single player has met at least once or twice.

I’d have so much to tell about the many disappointments I had with this game, but it would be a far too colossal topic, so I’ll stop here. You know why I waited that long to stop playing? Up until recently, I candidly thought there were some chances for the game to improve. Now, I think it is doomed.

So goodbye, and thank you for ruining the good concept which was there three years ago.