My First and Last Article
Xvidian
Hello citizens of erepublik.
As I'm writing this, the first and last article I'll ever write here, eRepublik is down, and has been almost completely for the last 16 hours or so. I'd have to copy and paste such large article anyway because if I tried to write it all in game, I will receive a CSRF attack notification, and if I click back, I'll find I've been logged out losing everything, like many times before in Private messages.
The main purpose of this article is to first and foremost apologize to the friends I've made and the commitments to them I've decided to undertake during my short time here. There are a lot of passionate people constantly disappointed at the current state of eRepublik. It's hard to see something so engaging, with so much potential, be governed with the mindset of making the most amount of money with the least amount of effort first, and appeasing it's customers and players second.
My decision is really a matter of principle. The bugs that are rampant throughout erepublik have never been a priority, and I'm dumbstruck that in a social game like erepublik, you get timed out for writing too long, and your private messages are deleted after two weeks. All the while, and lets stop calling them by iconic names, the philosopher Plato doesn't deserve our anger; eRepublik Labs Limited puts forth missions which are almost impossible to finish without using gold IN CONJUNCTION with gold sales! It's blatant cash grabbing and unwillingness to fix even minor bugs is just too much for me, and so, after sending a message to erep labs about why, I'm liquidating my companies, selling my stock and donating what I have to these people in eRep that were the only reasons I stayed as long as I did. I'm ashamed to admit but I spent hundreds of dollars here, and all that buys is nice customer service who drag your comments, qualms, and suggestions to the delete bin.
Comments
Good luck bro. You've hit the nail on the head here.
Thanks dude 🙂 gl in this crazy eworld 😛
take a day off.. then come back
This decision was a long time in the making. But thanks 🙂
I am so sad to see you go. You were what I would call a close friend and a positive person in this Country as well as my party.
The country is lessened with your departure and I am upset that you must go but I understand and cannot blame you.
Thank you for bringing joy and fun to us in this game while you were here..
Thanks Oinyo. I only wish things were better for us in this life. We'll meet again in our next life, when we're both cats.
you can do what I want but I would not downgrade your stuff and give it away until you leave for a bit and are positive you never want to come back.
Sad to see you go
I'm fairly positive.. I'm going to spend the next day or two goodbyeing people then I'll evanescence 😛 Just an eco tip ^ ^ Buy the 3rd raw resource factory for 10 gold over the second one worth 3000CAD. It's actually cheaper and produces more 😛 I'll miss you, you crazy
as long as its the good kind of crazy haha
Aye, give it a breather.
I'll miss you too. You headed the best MU i've ever been in, and are an all around great guy 😃
I didn't mean that in a go away tone, I meant give it a breather and come back! 😛 And thank you, I plan to return to it at some point just need to sort out finances. Thanks for all the help you have given in the past. o7
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o7 gl out there CCY.
glad to have been able to talk with you
o7
You were a cool and interesting player Dierios. I hope u make CP one day
at his rate he will be CP of UAE in 2 months
Kick back, chill out and enjoy RL mate o7
That's the plan ^ ^ I forgot what grass looked like
The gold you sent me will be put towards eCanada, not me o7
Perfectly understandable. I personally stay only for the friends I've made. The game is a travesty and it's owners should be both shamed and embarrassed of it's current state. I wish you the best and it's been a pleasure to know you. Take care Xvidian.
Thanks Firefox, you make an excellent friend and browser
Lol, thank you. o7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxfire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp
LOL
Best wishes, Xvidian. There's more to life for you to discover than headless chickens and CSRF attack notifications. GL HF! o/
I hope so! Thnx Mary! 🙂
There IS more to see, more to learn, and more to explore in life, just keep an open mind and keep trying new things. Even in eRepublik, I do hope that you have taken something from here whether it is interacting with the community, or a few fun times.
Sad to see you leaving.
Good luck in RL!
Take care!
Didn't get to know you too well, shame.
Best of luck in the real world 🙂
O/
I, as your friend and mentor, am extremely saddened to hear you are leaving and not returning. I do hope you stick your head in once in a while. see you round X.
Good luck in RL!
ahhh shiite, another one bites the dust
good luck!
Best wishes!
Be happy in real life, not here 🙂
I hope you have a great time.
Nice to meet you 😉
Kisses! 🙂
Clear and true.
Best of luck!
gl in rl..
Like you I can't fathom why a 'social' game makes it so bloody difficult to be just that.
Take care and best of luck.
Nooooooooooo 🙁
Best of luck in the future man! o/
I will miss you my friend ! 🙁 I do hope that you enjoy your RL life... and If you felt that u need to talk to someone, I will be here waiting for your comeback 🙂
I don't see any game-breaking bugs here. Every game in the world has bugs, and if you ever tried to code anything you'd know why.
You're only lvl 27, you've hardly been here. I'm not discouraging you from leaving, time is always better spent away from distractions. I see no problem with the game at this point. The rewards from the missions are never worth the Gold anyways, so it is completely optional. If you have your first 2 training facilities, you have 5 free Gold coming in every 11 days. There ARE ways to make Gold, you don't have to buy it. I only ever bought the combat stash once, and my supply pack when I came back to eRepublick - $30 at most.
If the game doesn't implement ways to make money then they will not be here. How many other browser-based games do you see that have been around this long? They aren't good investments to begin with.
But anyways, as you will. I'm not flaming you, its just that people harp on this game saying its shit all the time. But they stay in the end. I guess you're at least acting on your opinion, which I can respect at least.
While I hear what you mean about coding being incredibly difficult - I'm in contact with our developers every time there's a problem with our web-based service - I do think that there are plenty of faults in the game. Many are purely mechanical and just seem to be because the Admins don't want to invest the time and money into fixing these long obsolete features.
The most obvious example I can think of are moving tickets, defense systems and hospitals. They should be removed from this game. Then there are old voting options like printing money and declaring war. Nobody declares war directly anymore, they open one when they declare a natural enemy or are declared a natural enemy by someone else. There is an argument to be said about keeping it around but removing the gold cost, especially since gold is not added to the treasury anymore.
Then of course there's the log-out CSRF attacks for PMs. Actually for me that's the most glaring bug.
Of course, unrelated to the bugs their customer service just plain sucks, but that's beside the point.
Well said. Good Luck.