Why is now a good time to stop playing?
Day 3,055, 07:17
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by Stevearino
For a long time many have argued that erepublik is in terminal decline and an ever dwindling player base shows that something is fundamentally wrong.
Many of us cling on in the hope that things will change, that there will be improvements to the game, something to give us a little hope that there is still a reason to log in each day and spend many hours playing.
For me personally there has been the belief that in time through effort or attrition we could still achieve something or that if we wait long enough the people running it must inevitably conclude they need to do something positive while there are still players left.
Sadly today it has become clear that not only do the people running erepublik not care about their community, they are still actively trying to destroy it.
Just look at this fiasco - http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/latest-updates/0/261
What's perhaps equally as worrying as the people running the game thinking this is funny is the fact that so few people who play the game seem to care! I bet if the latest Xbox game had been corrupted and someone's effort in a game over months was wiped 'for a laugh' they would soon complain.
So today marks for me the time to call it quits - I just cannot see why I should spend my time, effort and money when the people running erepublik think it's a joke.
Good luck to those that remain - it seems you are going to need it.
P.S. There are apparently battles now continuing past when they are supposed to have finished - unbelievable!
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A massive loss to the eUK, no way we can change your mind?
Late april fools Paul...it was an april fools right? RIGHT!?!??!
It's a farce really, God knows how the liberation campaign is going to suffer from it
Sorry to see you go - am hoping this is an april fools 🙁
Please stay mate. Please! 🙁
Have a good April Fools my dude
Hope this was an April Fool. Sorry to see you go if it wasn't...
Plato is a twat
No Paul please don"t leave,find yourself motivation continuimg to play 🙁
Paul you are joking,right.RIGHT PAUL?!?!.Tell me that you are joking.This is April Fools and you are joking 🙂-
That is really good joke your article,really it is 😛.
It"s sad day today if it"s not April fools and your joke Paul 🙁 . UK will lose one of the best tankman and one of best UKers I know and one of the best palls I had as you are Paul.I"ve regret being pain in ass towards you and with everyone else.
The game is shit. Anyone who thinks its ever going to improve is deluded. But that's something that has been obvious to me for years. I don't log in for gameplay or in the vain hope there'll be improvements, its just a place to hangout on, (like the old social media networks Bebo or MySpace, before social media networks got shit too with Fb). When you treat this turdfest of a game as just another social media tab you have open, then it becomes accaptable -- but expecting anything more, or getting piffed at all the regular money-grab missions or w/e, then your gonna be royally narked all the time.
Btw if this is a (late) April Fools, then hahahaha, you got me, nice one!
Can't have some fun for one day? K bye
Instead of fighting Plato with their bare hands they take the easy anarchist way out. Let's unite and fight Plato instead! We can win!
You have been like a brother to me,don't go.
kinky
It's bad news that you're leaving Paul. You're one of the good guys. Very sorry to see you go.
Oh, actually I can't quit yet - I still have 20 days of Gold to collect, which I have already paid for.
Please don't go. You're one of the few hopes we have left!
From where I am sitting - it is the sheer randomness of stunts like the April Folls Day Troll EPIC Battle thing which continue to make Erepublim fun to play with. Anything that disrupts the 'Old World' order and makes for fun is good in my book!
To be honest, I think the majority of players play either because of:
a) force of habit. I am thinking of the two clickers here.
b) not really playing but just use the game systems as a backdrop to interact with a handfull of friends.
Plato killed the game around 2010-2011 when he
a) scrapped national currency (moving exchange rates stopped the bigger countries from flooding smaller countries thanks to their big country bonuses). This killed the economic module.
😎 everyone had a generic worker skill. Before people specialised in a skill in the resource gathering or manufacturing of food or weapons or hospitals etc. By specialising in a rarer skill, there was plenty of opportunities to get good wages.
c) Ignoring the different battle modules, in the past you had to move to the region you wished to fight in, but if you had a job then you couldn't move out of the country you worked in. Hence you needed to specialise as either a worker or solder with the former providing the taxes to supply and pay the later. The significance of these rules was that if your neighbour was twice as big as you in population and they wanted to invade, only half their players could attack you as half would need to be workers. And since your workers could fight as they would be located in your country then there was a large equalising of military power. It was harder for a large nation to dominate and allies were more important.
The game caught the cancer then and has been in decline since. Where there used to be a lot of strategy and it was an actual game it was great. And then Plato started to creep in a lot of mobile game app "pay to win" stuff. Gold buying always helped but nowhere near as now. Sad thing is, if Plato had not mucked around with the game, he would make more money with 100k players donating an average of £1 per week than 100 players paying £100 per week. Pretty clear from Pluto's rush to get other "could easily be a mobile game" games out that
they know their Erepublik game is dying and they need to have other streams of income. They will only keep the servers live for as long as the few gold buyers continue to donate enough to pay for the servers. Plato himself is now only doing enough to recycle their "one off special events" have a slightly different skin and name.....
Damn that game sounds awesome