I Am Upset [You Too?]
Thedillpickl
Hi kids!
I'm upset, I see than many of you are also upset. There's a lot of talk and even threats. Before we all drop to the floor kicking and screaming because we did not get a candy bar at checkout...
I thought about what has me upset. I have many complaints about the game design and purpose but that's personal preference. No, what's upsetting is paying good money for some gold to buy EB's, be right in the middle of fighting for a BH or some such and having the game go down. WTF? "We'll be back any second!", 2 hours later I give up and go to bed, wasting my EB's and time spent using them. To be plain, stuff like this is bull crap.
If we could just have a damn admin that would quit hiding behind a headless chicken and be upfront on repairs to the game it would help immensely. I don't want to see "Back in 5 minutes." up for an hour. If you need an hour just say so. Also a little compensation for items that are lost through no fault of the players would be nice. We put a lot of effort into this game. Seems like poor marketing to make customers pay to stand in line and then tell them if they don't like it they can leave. Bring me a cookie and soda, tell me you apologize for my wait. Don't act like I should expect this and must live with it.
If you agree with me and want to send in a similar ticket here is a link to the GDoc:
http://tinyurl.com/Tournament-Response
Feel free to edit or add your own words. (Don't forget to put your nickname at the end.)
Comments
First World Problems
Is Romania First World now? lol
Well now that their Banks failed a stress test, I guess not.
This first bit of the thread gave me wood.
Perhaps first world should be redefined as areas ables to waste time and resources on fake bullshit like erepublik.
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oh.., fuck Plato. Do you really want a timer that says how long it will take them to hire programmers to fix the problems that the grade-school retards they have created? That would be a fugly timer.
???😛iss off
12:30
1:20
never:24-7
Ask-:-your mom
screw-:-you
Nice timer😛lato......
They spend less on this game than we put in. Simple. Every time you see someone write that they wouldn't pay for this game if their ass was on fire and the ointment was on sale for 3 dollars the Admins kill a billion brain cells in budget cuts.
I came here from a shittier version of the old V1. When I got here I read some of the V1 papers and there were quite a few people that did bug reports and suggested ways to improve the game. The shitty versions did not try to improve, they just got worse. Back in the old days we played with the admin, now we only play against them. That is what is killing this game. I payed for the shitty rip off and I have payed for this. I like this one better and just wish there was more than guns that I could make in factories.
Oh yeah, fuck plato. I would tell him that stuff but he doesn't listen unless you say FUCK!. Report this as accurate profanity and I will get an FP and you may get change.
Wow, I just wanted to get them to be honest with us instead of pretending noting was wrong. I get pissed at the state of the game too but damn... if it makes you that upset you really should consider quitting. Not being a smart ass, just being honest. It ain't worth it to raise your blood pressure.
Definition of the Struggle.
why bother?
Why not? Rage quitting and flaming articles don't seem to get a good response.
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There has got to be at least one sour Pickle in every jar.
I like the really sour ones. They make you squint so hard you squeeze out a tear and you suck air in the corner of your mouth. 😃
The worst sour pickles give you herpes. Watch out for them.
o7
I agree
What I wonder is: are they aware there is an alliance called Asteria, an alliance called Aurora, that Serbia versus Chile was a long-awaited war between two of the strongest countries in the game, and that people from both sides dumped legendary amounts of damage in it....only for the thing to be determined by a feckin' bug! That and the fact they seem singularly incapable of handling something when it goes wrong is what I'm pissed at.
When you read one of their crap apology PMs they never mention any meta elements, they seem totally divorced from what motivates people to continue playing this cack game, as tho they think we play this to get the kind of mindless fun you might get from CoD or something. There's a player-created narrative to this game, and at this point its consigned almost entirely to the war mod, this is the reason most people stick around in this game. Saturday's fight was important to that narrative, but it turned to shit because they've obviously cheaped out when renting a host for this game. Its pathetic when you think that some games can comfortably manage tens of thousands of players online at once but this game crashes when a fraction of that log in to fight in the same war.
Good point.
The agitated version of what I was getting at.
That legendary amount of damage is likely what caused the slow down of the servers. They definitely should have shut things down and frozen things until they could get more servers online to handle the load.
That the game was whittled down to only a war mod and they can not handle that is disturbing. No more Econ, politics is down to five people in an off-site forum....I can not wait till the battles are fought on farmville. Q5 pumpkins only 120 USD!
The only reason so much damage there was it was the only EPIC battle going on most of the day - Most people didn't even look at what side they were fighting for and dumping damage as fast as they could before the battle ended
"Most people didn't even look at what side they were fighting for..." In a Serbia-Chile war? Nah, not likely. That battle split the e-world along alliance lines as well as any war could. Chile is basically the only country that unites Aurora and Sirius, and it had their full backing. Yeah, it's epic status counts for some of the damage spent there, but that percentage must be miniscule next to those hitting on both sides wanting to win.
I agree. I know the game has problems. You would have to be a special kind of slow not to notice that. But when I could fight in the UK, and the battle continued, I took to the ticket system (which I knew I wouldn't get satisfaction from but wanted to vent anyway) and found the ticket system was also broken. Guess I've been thickheaded, but that really told me that they just don't give a damn. I'm off the gold train for the time being. No sense throwing good money after bad.
The decline is in their attitude. They screwed up, we bitched, they fixed it....eventually. Many players got sick of bitching and quit. No admin quit because they get bitched at, they get payed so they just stopped listening. Christ, I am tired now.
nice written.
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voted, feel the same as PP, for the 2nd month I have troubles, and now appears a rule, created by admin´s to justify the mess that the game is.
You waited for 2 hours?
All your coolness has dispersed into the ether. And you didn't have much.
That's because today I feel like hot & spicy pickle!
http://www.thoughts.swalrus.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid-IMAG0996.jpg
That was some lame sauce Papa Pickle.
Grow some fucking gonads and take this tyke to the yard or I am showing MazzyCat your shame.
Logged in this weekend for the first time in over a year.
It's a ghost town around these parts.
Nice to see some things never change, Plato.
I'd say nice to have you back...
New forum,
http://ecan.forumotion.com/
don't know if anything there interests you.
Oh, there are still many old faces, fear not.
The game is buggy and the meta game is a crippled shell, but I'm pleased to see so many familiar names.
Spare yourself and go back into hibernation LOL
BOo!
o7
I actually thought about following your lead and submitting a ticket but when you wait for months and then get their standard response http://prntscr.com/50jcks it all seems a little bit pointless.
Much like logging on everyday
I tried being upset, but, it was too much work. eRepublik is perfect just the way it is. Its an excellent game and is well worth the hundreds of dollars a month it will cost for a new player to be relevant.
lol
Well said Dill. This pretty much sums up how most of us feel right now.
we will be back any second. Thank u for ur patience. we like ur passion.
I hate this game and can't wait to quit.
I'll be back any second....