Break Out Your Visa Cards

Day 2,576, 07:57 • Published in United Kingdom USA • by Jude Conners

Good day. I'm Jude Conners and I uhhh... want to talk to you for a few minutes about the uhhh... changes to three rewards and uhhh... more specifically, how it will affect uhhh... both you and me.

If you are a low strength fighter in your division, especially in Divisions 3 and 4... you may have found that freedom fighting is an outstanding way of collecting both the Freedom fighting medals and the mercenary medals. A few of you may be True Patriot fighters. Either way, a low strength fighter has a hard time trying to capture a Battle Hero medal.

Since my return to the game in February, I have collected 59 Freedom Fighter medals and 10 Mercenary medals. From this I have collected 345 gold. I have used this to sustain a modest eLife, using it to buy food and Q7 weapons. In contrast, I have only won FIVE Battle Hero medals in the same time, netting me only 20 gold. Freedom fighting has been a great way for me - a low strength fighter in Division Three - to play the game.

Yeah... It's Kinda Like This

BUY GOLD! BUY GOLD! BUY GOLD!
Let's just face the fact that this game has become increasingly harder and harder for anyone but gold buyers to play and sustain themselves. Some of us may have been relying completely on these medals to survive in the New World. I know I am pretty much one of those people. But how much has my 69 FF / Merc medals cost eRepublik Labs? Well, a gold pack of 300 gold (at regular prices) costs a player $120.25 USD / 99.9€. Since I haven't bought a lick of gold since my return in February, I can see why eRepublik Labs would want to make the change from gold rewards to CC rewards. After all, I alone have cost them over 100€. Financially, it makes sense for the company to make the changes.

eRepublik Labs Cares Only About These

Not a Gold Buyer?
If you used the gold rewards from these medals to sustain your gameplay and aren't a gold buyer, you're pretty much hosed. This is yet another move in the continued company movement to convert all players into gold buyers by making the game too hard without purchasing gold. Even though the game loses players daily, these players are usually free-to-play players so the company isn't worried about that. Ad-supported companies need a large player base, not one driven by the sale of in-game currency. Clearly, if the company cared about it's players, it would would made the Resistance War Hero reward 1000 cc, since it is a loss of cc already. There is no way to sugarcoat this: eRepublik Labs really doesn't give a damn about you as a player unless you buy gold! It's really that simple.

Personal Thanks to My Readers
In other news, today I completed my Senior Journalist mission. THis is the one that requires you to have three articles with at least 25 different players comment on the article. Many people just write crappy spam articles with no content and pass this mission. I wanted to do it right and finished today.

Thank you for helping me achieve this new milestone!


As always, it's been your pleasure. Now eat your damned oatmeal!

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