Advice for admins[en/hu] [Update: George Lemnaru answered!]
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UPDATE: FOR GEORGE LEMNARU'S ANSWERS, LOOK AT THE COMMENTS!
Dear admins,
If you are wondering, how to make this game more popular, here are my advices.
Do what players like. Why? It's sometimes hard to understand that TEMPORARILY you'll get less money but here's a simple reason: if people like your changes, they'll invite other people to eRepublik. More people means more money. You definitely must try this.
Remove the golds, have ads or premium items, etc. I think you'll get more money again because of the increasing number of users. But I'm sure that the players'll be happier. So number of them will increase, up to 400000. Isn't it better?
Decide: 200000 unhappy or 400000 happy players.
Tisztelt adminok,
Ha épp azon gondolkoztok, hogy tehetnétek a játékott népszerűbbé, itt vannak a tanácsaim.
Tegyétek, amit a játékosok akarnak. Miért? Ugyan néha nehéz megérteni, hogy IDEIGLENESEN kevesebb pénz fog befolyni, de itt az ok: ha az emberek szeretik a változtatásaitokat, meg fognak hívni másokat is játszani. Több ember = több pénz. Muszáj egy próbát tenni.
Hagyjátok el a goldokat, vezessetek be reklámokat, prémium cuccokat, stb. Úgy gondolom, több pénzetek lesz, megint a userszám növekedése miatt. Viszont az biztos, hogy a játékosok boldogabbak lesznek. Tehát számuk megint nő: akár 400000-ig. Nem jobb?
Rajtatok áll: 200000 szomorú vagy 400000 boldog játékos.
Dear admins,
If you are wondering, how to make this game more popular, here are my advices.
Do what players like. Why? It's sometimes hard to understand that TEMPORARILY you'll get less money but here's a simple reason: if people like your changes, they'll invite other people to eRepublik. More people means more money. You definitely must try this.
Remove the golds, have ads or premium items, etc. I think you'll get more money again because of the increasing number of users. But I'm sure that the players'll be happier. So number of them will increase, up to 400000. Isn't it better?
Decide: 200000 unhappy or 400000 happy players.
Tisztelt adminok,
Ha épp azon gondolkoztok, hogy tehetnétek a játékott népszerűbbé, itt vannak a tanácsaim.
Tegyétek, amit a játékosok akarnak. Miért? Ugyan néha nehéz megérteni, hogy IDEIGLENESEN kevesebb pénz fog befolyni, de itt az ok: ha az emberek szeretik a változtatásaitokat, meg fognak hívni másokat is játszani. Több ember = több pénz. Muszáj egy próbát tenni.
Hagyjátok el a goldokat, vezessetek be reklámokat, prémium cuccokat, stb. Úgy gondolom, több pénzetek lesz, megint a userszám növekedése miatt. Viszont az biztos, hogy a játékosok boldogabbak lesznek. Tehát számuk megint nő: akár 400000-ig. Nem jobb?
Rajtatok áll: 200000 szomorú vagy 400000 boldog játékos.
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Tisztelt adminkák?
Méghogy tisztelt!!! Ne idegesítsél már!!
: )
Thanks for the feedback, BNGY6000.
We're constantly watching the forums for suggestions and feedback. Also polls are helpful (although we haven't done one since quite a lot of time).
Not focusing on making everybody happy as it would be impossible to do. Knowing there are 250k active citizens, many of them with divergent interests.
^
nice to see reply from admin : )
Lemnnaru, have an admin have a meeting with the Presidents and actually talk!
@Pierre - my inbox is always available. I manage quite often to respond although I receive tons of messages.
Oops, a real breakthrough. Admin is answering to a suggestion article instead of simply deleting it. Nice!
"Knowing there are 250k active citizens"
WTF? 250K? Half of them is fake. Fakes make your numbers look better, and you can advertise this game as a highly visited online game.
But we all know the headcount is lower. Much lower. You supported fakes with your so called developments. Removing donate list, new players reach easier next levels, and golds, the friend bonuses etc.
@Nalaja - I personally try to respond whenever the tone is normal and there are people willing to help and offer feedback.
@White - if you have a list with multies please post a ticket. Is easy to say half of them are fakes but harder to help solve the issue. Anyway, I know you have good intentions. 🙂
250k lol
@George Lemnaru - are you going to unlock ads? If yes - when? : P
@George Lemnaru - are you going to unlock ads? If yes - when? : P x2
@George Lemnaru: I send you the text of my deleted article from 2 days ago, hope its tone can be considered 'normal'. Perhaps friendly. However, it was deleted in one minute. (smiley)
@Mixliarder - thanks for the question. I would really like to know more about your opinion about ads.
Why are they helpful for you, first of all?
How do you think that we can prevent explicit content on them?
I have some thoughts about it as I got more (quite different) opinions, but would be interesting to get your opinion too.
Why would i send you a list? To receive a message from you saying that you check thenlist and you found everything OK? It happned with me. Anyway, you removed donate lists... it is harder to prove it, even if we know it.
When bogdan hit on our side in RWs and he made the last few fights on resistance side knowing there was a system error and all his hits were counted on res. side what happened? Did you ban him using system exploits? No. You should have done.
@Nalaja - fast mods, uh? 🙂
Lemnaru talks! Thats nice! Good to see!
@George - well, they're helpful `cause people/parties/others can advertise their content in ads. Moreover, actually GOLD in parties is totally useless as it was before ads were implemented. Explicit content, hmmm, no idea atm.
@Mixliarder - gold unspent in parties - now that's a problem. Any suggestions how we should allow to use that gold (besides citizen ads) is welcome.
@George - simple, give us a possibility to donate it to citizen🙂
I agree about make premium item or things for micro payments i think 30-50% players here are students or college stundents , they cant afford much gold even if they buy it's only to be used for few days. just when i though extra inventory are useful after taste it for free last christmas, admin stop selling extra inventory, only Gold left.
George: You have mods who can take care of pr0n too, I don't see the problem.
@George Lemnaru: yep, perhaps the fast mods. However it is nice to see here that there are other ways from your side, and this very article is not deleted but normally answered and debated by you.
If this is the new policy of eRepublik, I'd be very happy with that.
@Matahari - we're working right now on offering solutions for the inventory issue.
to counter the ads problem u could also let every request be screened by mod (sure u might need to hire 2-3 extra mods for this), but then u have an good running ads system which is just an extre element of this game.
@Lemanru:
"We're constantly watching the forums for suggestions and feedback"
Apparently only to see what to delete...
"Also polls are helpful (although we haven't done one since quite a lot of time)."
Well, not the kind of pointed polls that let us only answer what you wanted to do anyway.
"Not focusing on making everybody happy as it would be impossible to do. Knowing there are 250k active citizens, many of them with divergent interests. "
When 43 out of the 50 elcted, legitimate country presidents sign a petition, that does represent the majority of players.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hX8qcG62sWiNpKj8WzdvYgmWYHP6r492sUiouFUJtYQ/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMjhxsYM#
George Lemnaru you were always the admin with the most heart :3 That is why I loved you in unusual ways back in v1. I still do 😘
glad to see it 🙂
@Tazsam - a few of those presidents will lose some rl earning sources because of our latest announced changes. Normally they are pissed off and trying to create a shitstorm.
@Briggs - 🙂
Briggs: That's gay...
Nice talk with eR users btw, admins:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12apTO493q2U9aByRy3m8oTRH2XyruIsXKWzEjyeJcoo/edit?pli=1#
sorry, quoting it from here:
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/User:Jan_Baykara/2011_Erepublik_Rebellion
@Taszam - poor Belea. I sometimes believe he has the toughest job in the world.
I am not saying that many of these things are not problems that we have to solve (some of them we are even working on).
I think the problem you have to solve is that you ignore feedback from players.
@Lemnaru: all of those problems have one root: not communicating with users. And in that field Belea did a wretched job, by choosing runaway cenzorship and a sissy leaving of the meeting instead of trying to finally listen. Can you do better?
hajaaaaaaaar
@Hinokai - we don't ignore, we just don't know very well how to make it obvious that we are taking it in to consideration.
maybe do some changes, asked by users, instead of making it even worse ?
I have a way to make it obvious - listen and act on it.
@George Firstly thanks for the effort to respond! You can't believe how just this simple gesture of talking to us, makes an impact.
Our focus of most of the suggestions were simply better communication & retention = mutual interest. Its in both the Admin & the player's interest to promote something they actually like & are excited about, rather than something they are on, just because they are addicted (which is why we can't quit really, & everyone knows that), yet becoming frustrated with their beloved game diminishing in value.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-way-forward--1701268/1/20
This is a suggestion from a good friend of mine, game developer & ardent player, (a loyal customer one might say given he's spent loads on this) Ashwamedh. You might want to look at it.
Looking forward to more fruitful communication. Cheers!
Btw, I'm getting reports for public debates and vulgarity because of my comments. 😁)
Problem is that the reports are legit and I really care about my account so I should stop here.
For other questions and suggestions pm me. I might be able to respond.
Thanks a lot and have fun! 🙂
lol how many FP you have now George ?
so... apparently not.... too bad. we had hopes for a few second.
George: No offense, but you're working on these problems since I registered, and I see no step forward in it. You keep focusing on the military module, but you haven't done anything to the political and the media module since the game came out of beta. You could just put a man on these, give him the greasemonkey scripts we use, and implement them in the game. Shouldn't be a big deal, and one man less isn't going to delay the other projects significantly.
One more question:
What do you think of a MU-Barcelona football match, where the referee is running out onto the pitch in a Barcelona T-shirt?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/group-show/1
Admins dont get FP's 😃
@luis-paulo
congratz XD
LOL, George Lemnaru got Famous Point xD
He doesnt need Famous Points , he already Famous XD
Maybe you don't ignore everything, but you do ignore the biggest problems. Limitation of welness packs. Requested for months from general public, 72 forum pages of signs and finally requested by 43 presidents and you still try to do everything to avoid this issue (latest one being 10gold limitaton on donations and market, which does not solve the core problem at all).
Lol Famous points ftw!