Why bother playing?!?!
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by WhydoIbother
Over the course of the last few weeks I have found myself lacking motiviation to bother to even log into this game, let alone work and train. If it wasn't for the DICKtator airstriking FYROMacedonia, I wouldn't have even bothered to click the shiny red button..
This got me to wondering... Why did I bother to log in and work/train? Was it out of some sense of loyalty to the eUSA? Was it for the benefit of the EZC Commune system? Was it because I am an addict that needed his daily "fix?"
I am not sure what makes me log into this game every single day and click some buttons. I don't log into the game for the community because that is all housed outside the little website on IRC or the eUS forum, or in my case, on the EZC forum.
Maybe that is what kept me coming here, because I feel some sense of belonging, albiet a small one (except the EZC community) to the community outside of the game. I honestly believe if I wasn't active within the EZC forum, I would have stopped playing long ago. I would have joined the eDead with no fanfare, much like countless newer citizens that find this game boring and pedantic.. Too boring to bother to come back for a few clicks.
We are an instant gratification society. With facebook, twitter, instagram, pornhub, redtube, periscope, tinder, snapchat... anything we want can be found in an instant.. why come to some half thougtout browser game that, in all honesty, sucks?
I believe those of us that have stuck around longer than that first week do so because we found a communtiy. War Inc, EZC, eUS forums, IRC, blah blah.. we found a place where we got to communicate with others and that piqued our interests and kept us coming back.
I know my first go round with this game, I stuck with it because of the old Libs and the Mobile Infantry.. My first ever IRC experience was Daphne Lilac welcoming me to the Lib channel on IRC and getting me involved. Like the Libs, the Mobile Infantry was good to me.. They made me feel like I belonged.
What is the point of my rambling article? Who knows.. I guess I just wish this game was something more akin to what I had hoped it would be all those years ago when I first started playing.. but its not. It is just a place I come to click a few buttons and continue my virtual existence.
In the comment section below, let the eWorld know why you bother to continue playing this otherwise shit tier browser game. No prizes, no giveaways, just a simple request for people to tell others what this place means to him or her.
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First reserved for Why the hell do I bother playing this game anymore?
+10 energy recovery day 2
BB
What about me babe!
Not even saying it back? Lol
inb4Aramec.
like Aramec will comment on my article... nice to see you WJ
The red headed girl is his go to image in his articles.
HI WHY DO I BOTHER, I'VE NOT BOTHERED MISSING YOU UNTIL NOW
she was the best option in "Hot Redhead Pondering" of google images..
As she always has been. 😁
It's a dye job.
I like clicking the little red button, and I love the people (well some of them).
I log in to stare at your profile...you have some nice decorations and medals!
EZC, cool people, to see what will happen next... Yeah, honestly, I have a lot of reasons.
Lately, I've come to the conclusion that there are way too many interesting people in this game that I know, but I don't really know, so there's yet another reason.
Don't you hate it when you bite down on the cyanide capsule, but it doesn't kill you?
I stay because of the community in SFP
Habit, and to follow some story lines that haven't quite played out.
Nice to see you still around George.
BARKER RAGE
I stay because of community, but it's a dynamic, changing community. The people who kept me here in the past, many of them, are long gone. I have almost left several times and have been drawn again by new people or old people who have become more important to me. The buttons are okay, but my level of interest in them depending on the community I'm identifying with and my perceived role in it. I do agree with RG, though, that there are still a lot of interesting people to get to know.
I stayed because many friends do stay. I think a lot about selling all I have and donate it to some cool communities that support the young ones like one of my now eDead friends did. We will see what dies first, the eRepublik or Niemand. o/
I kept playing because when I joined, the eUSA was in trouble. Out of loyalty to my eNation, I kept playing to help. Since then I've met some pleasant people and actually playing takes very little time unless you're involved in politics. I can work, train and scan new media articles rather quickly.
Summary: Doesn't take much time, some new online friends and bizarre loyalty to my cyber country. 🙂
I guess i`m still here because i can write articles about what i want and nobody can judge me,then there`s the trolling also...uh and lets not forget feeding the ego,its easier to be somebody here than it is in RL
p.s:Why there`s no changes,our politicians are burring this game with their behavior!Remember people,this is a game for fun not for staring at some yellow pixels
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-the-truth-2531501/1/20
I'm stuck here.
Hi KB!
I stick around to make fun of you all.
Partly habit, partly because there are a handful of people who I only know through this game and have lost contact with...and every so often someone pops back and we can swap e-mails. Daph is one of those. She won't come back, but I'd love to know how she's doing. I could list off a bunch of names, but people are bored of that by now.
Let me get your digits.
the only game my pc and internet can run
...because of the community of citizens in the SFP.
I'm playing now because I got bored one day and came back for he 8th time, but for the first time in a while I feel, for a lack of a better word, a connection with people.
That would be me, dear. Just keep quiet about our relationship and nobody could ever possibly figure it out 😉
Not just you ya butt
Wow you can take more than just one in y- err...
dont make me call my father to come beat your ass 😛
Wouldn't be the first time...
😉
I don't know why I sign on to be honest, and I don't know why I ever came back after I signed up initially. I am not a part of any type of network within the game, the only messages I get are mass mailers to vote for this or that person, and as far as relationships with people within the game I have none. My military unit hasn't been active in a year or better. I don't delve into the political spectrum in the slightest. For the most part my war abilities are insignificant as I have poor strength to level ratio.
Ultimately the only real reason I even signed up was to help 3mBaRg0 in some way or another as he posted the link on a game I believe he has since gone inactive from..... Maybe its the fact I am a creature of habit, maybe its because I don't like to quit anything, or maybe I'm just a blind lemming.
With all things considered perhaps this should be my last day signing on because I literally get nothing out of this game in any way.
Hi there if you still around come chat with me in irc #Carhugar1 I'm on around 15:30
There are military units and parties that are not dead. Join one of them, register on their forum, say something on their ingame feed every now and then, maybe even join their irc channel, and you'll get to know people soon enough.
I do not know....maybe this is the time to quit this &$#@!! Game
Because I can
I quit a while ago, best decision ever!
Because my party put me in charge of the hookers and blow program
now this is a great answer.
I don't.
because I must dance on the winds of failure to reach the sun and get burned
voted man, gj
I log in hoping each day that there will have been a server update that will have radically changed the game dynamics and made all my efforts worth something!
I like all the cool/fun people here and being able to work together toward our goals! That and the game itself is at least decent.
I still have some free time to play. And i don't dislike this game.