You said "Special offer" ?

Day 1,803, 06:05 • Published in USA Argentina • by Leuch


Special offers are a way for Plato to "force" you to buy gold with real money.
Well, even if eRepublik is a free game, it’s normal that admins want to make profit in order to pay their bills.
Special offers give you real advantage in the game face to the others players who don't pay.
They are in eRepublik since the beginning, and they are always proposed for a limited duration. A special offer often introduce a new game mechanics (new company, new building, new weapon).
This article will try to analyse 2.5 months of special offer.

Who bet for a FP for this article ? Even if I don't violate one of the Republik laws ?


You will find here a short resume of special offers from day 1729 to day 1803 (75 days):
(One colour = one type of offer)



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Some interestings informations:
27 offers in 75 days
Max duration for offer: 122h
Min duration for offer: 24h
Most seen offer: 30% more gold
8 differents types of offers
2 076 hours of offers = 86.5 days ! Reminder: I analyzed 75 days.


You will find below the detail of the 2 076 hours of offers by type of offer:




You will find below the number of apparation of each offers in 75 days:



Finally, the calendar of "special offers".



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Personal analysis about Special Offer:
Few months ago, a special offer was really... a special offer. We used to see one offer per week, for a very limited duration.
Now, you can easily bet on a special offer (or 2 or 3 cumulated) every week, for a period which increase more and more.
I’m totally agree with the fact that admins need RL money to keep this game free for everyone. Because yes, nobody is forced to buy golds and they are lots of players who played this game since 4 years without spend 1 euro/dollar.

If I had published this article few days ago, I will have wrote than Admins use all their energy to create special offers instead of fix/implement news games updates.
The last updates about wellness, congress elections, government titles, creation (useless) of the battle of Alliances.. enable me to think that, maybe, all is not over here.

I’m less agree with the fact that now, if you don’t spend money here, it’s impossible for a player to become “someone” (you can check my last article if you don’t understand).
Moreover, it seems that we passed from "limited offer" to "offer everyday"... After the creation of lots of contests on Facebook in order to convince players to join the official eRepublik Facebook page, admins tried to implement Special Offer on Facebook...

So, what will be the next step ?

You said "Special offer" ?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2146079/1/20