Crossroads (an open letter to Plato)
HMS Dreadnought
Dear Plato!
It's been a long time. In fact after my family and a very few friends you are the next in line with the longest relationship I've ever had with. Yeah.
You influenced my life. Well with positive thoughts mostly in the beginning but an influence is an influence you can't make it disappear. Why I'm saying this is because I'm highly disappointed. Big news ha? Like you didn't know already.
The reason I'm writing this letter is my last attempt to save this relationship. I've tried it several and hundreds of times. Dozens of tickets, dozens of articles, shouts and comments on them, forum posts...
Your answer was always the same: silence, bullshit or ctrl+v:
"Hello,
Thank you very much for taking time to send us your suggestions. We will take into consideration your opinion and we will see how we can implement these ideas to the current game strategy.
Have a nice day ahead,
Your eRepublik team"
Yeah... That's all you got. And you know what is sad? We know we are in a capitalistic world and that only one thing keeps this piece of crap planet moving, money. We don't have illusions. We all do the shit to gain some money and suffer from the consequences. But guess what! From time to time we got some quality shit in return for our sacrifice, something we can say: "It was worth the money".
Well erep isn't anything like that anyomre. And you know what? I'm still saying this with the best intentions. I'm not trying to escalate downside feelings, I'm trying to fix it...
Do you know what is the biggest difference in a man's life imaginable?
The difference between who he is and who he could be...
Why I'm saying this? Because with a little effort you could make twice, three times, five times, ten times the money you make now.
All you have to do is to look up all the tons of ideas we planted in the community in the past years and start applying them. Yes. You don't even have to think or brainstorm. You just have to DO. And you have to make sure you do it right this time because this is your very last chance...
Your community is dying and will disappear soon if you don't start to do things right.
Just look up this article for instance and do just 1 thing. Just ONE. Pick something, anything and your community will be happy. Then do another thing then one more, rethink your business model and start giving, not just waiting to get.
Yours sincerely,
Golika
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Crossroads (an open letter to Plato)
erepublik.com/en/article/2461568
Comments
A big big Vote for a great article : )
I cant agree more
Indeed. o7
Great article
Agree...
they know the game is almost dead, they are just trying to make some money untill the end
this is the main reason, if they want to continue for years, they already make changes
until now i don't believe on it, but is starting to get clear in my head
Yeah, I have the same feeling they want to let erepublik die, so their other new projects can get more new players.
The game is hosted in Usa servers 🙂 They have places in Dublin,Buckarest and Madrid
Perfectly pointed.
Agree ...
o7
Plato, listen to me
To get rid of the guy that wrote this Article:
Do one thing in that other Article
--> Polish "manage workers" page, set salary for all, fire all
Its simple, takes a few minutes and you got rid of him
You see?
Just add a "select all" button and you fixed the economy
it won't fix the economy, just pretending a changing attitude, that tha mods are pay attention on this game, and not just get money to finishing that another pile of sh1t (something mobile game)
BIG vote!
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He doesn't give a damn about this community, all the money he gets from this community he uses to develop another game, Tactical Heroes or something like that. They get huge amounts of money from community yet they cannot afford better servers, yesterday they couldn't fix servers but they managed to delete several articles. Their arrogance is only bigger than their stupidity.
Not some mate ,a shit load of articles lasts no more than 30secs.he is idiot for sure 🙂
Basically every article he didn't liked got deleted, democracy and freedom of speech by Plato.
Plot twist: After "Tactical Heroes" is finished, he will have time to implement all the ideas to improve the game, and we will have an amazing, v5(or 6,7? i lost count) eRepublik!
Yeee
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voted I agree 100% and I made a decision:I leave this game forever
Vote!
Somebody please tell me in which country Plato works RL?
Madrid,Spain : ) They open the new office there....
So the servers there?
I dont know about that. I saw they are looking for people to work there...
Who knows...maybe even the servers are there...
thanks for the answer
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Gondold végig mit tehetnek:
a, Bezárják a játékot lelövik a szervert -
nem teszik, mert pénzt hoz még mindig és többet, mint amennyibe fáj a fenntartása
b, Meghallgatják a kéréseket és elindítják a széleskörű, elengedhetetlenül szükséges változások folyamatát -
nem teszik, mert ez erőforrás-igényes lenne, új tervezők, programozók csapatát kéne felvenniük hisz a régiek kudarcot vallottak és nyilvánvalóan ötletük sincs.
Ez sok pénzbe és munkába kerül, az eRep, mint termék az termék életciklusának végefelé jár - értelmetlen lenne jelentős összegeket beleinvesztálni. Ráadásul ott az új netes játékuk a Tactical Heroes, amin már legalább egy éve mindenki dolgozik, amibe minden pénzt és erőforrást belepasszíroznak jelenleg, ugyan miért veszkődnének a nagygenerállal.
Már három éve sem tettek semmit sem a legutóbbi "lázadás" idején, és azóta a játékosok száma már a töredékére esett. Szóval marad a szokásos ügymenet, lapulnak, néha adnak egy csokit a szádba, hogy örűjjé', a főkolomposokat meg elhallgattatják a helyi szobaparancsnokokkal, a makacsabbakat meg kibannolják a vérbe.
Évek óta ez megy, ugyan mi változna, mi változhatna meg. Aki tegnap nézte a Clopayarur gyerek TV-jét, ott is csak jajongtak és fogalma se volt senkinek, mit lehetne tenni bármilyen változásért. Ott volt az eRep fő pénzköltőinek, hangadóinak színe-virága, és csak ment az értelmetlen sírás - pedig ők románok, a kiválasztott nép.
Marad minden, ahogy eddig a függők úgyis lenyelnek bármit és nem mennek el, újak meg nem jönnek. Írtam már eleget erről.
Sajnos itt az igazság. Ideje értékesíteni egyetlen tőkénket, az erős karakterünket. Pontosabban az okosabbak már rég megtették.
Tuti te írtad azokat a cikkeket Murlockij? 😉
Sajnos igen...
very nicely put article
I'm signing this open letter
o7
Big vote!
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o7
79 / 1229
couldn't agree more .... big vote for this article thats right on the money
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good read.
voted and shouted
o7
VOTED HARD!
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... pity we ...
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couldn't agree more mate.. nicely written
So true. Voted.
Voted 🙂 :Clap Clap:
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Plato why dont you fix the game?
R: I dont give a shit for erepublik, I started a new one with new players without ticket button.
I will not buy more gold or packs.
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Revolution i say 🙂