growing from 138.000 visits in November 2010 (???) to 120 million total last May

maybe Paul the Octopus predicted this

120 million accumulated total.

Yes to be more specific, in the month of May we had a little over 10 million visits to eRepublik (from slightly mire than 2 million uniques). 120 million visits is the cumulated number since the launch.

Also one note, all videos (including the 2 above) just like 99% of the content in eRepublik are user generated. So thanks to the users

Most of the players hate the new war module, it sucks big time.. in the matter of fact..the war modules always sucked a lot. The only problem fixed with the new war module is that users can fight now without the servers crashing non stop. (like it used to be since the beginning of erepublik beta back a few years ago)

They say there are 1.8 mil users, but more than 50% of them are inactive accounts, dead citizens or banned accounts. (not counting the huge number of clones… usually 1 players controls at least 10 users , but sometimes 1 user controls hundreds of clones with specific user made software).

Since the beginning … the game is in a continous beta .. full of bugs and it was almost never a pleasure to play. The admins were never fair with the players, they took advantage of the first communities and when the game evolved they didnt cared about fairness.. they only cared about making money )

The only good things in this game are the communities. Players can be very creative and friendships were bound for a very long time.

Hopefully the game will get better and better in the future. The admins have now some experience based on the past years, if they’ll listen to the community they will create an amazing online strategy game.

The Rising version is very cool!

Hello adleras,

I thought you already forgot about eRepublik as your citizen adleras has been banned 1 year ago for Multiple Accounts, but I guess you have another account, no?
However, as you are still playing eRepublik, your comment is not only untrue and disgraceful for the eRepublik as a company, but it also hits the COMMUNITY you love so much.
DAMN! I probably lost some future best eFriends :/ due to your vindictive comment.

Posting a message like that won’t get for sure your account unbanned, but unfortunately it can make people think you are telling the truth.

“The admins were never fair with the players, ….. , they didnt cared about fairness.. they only cared about making money”

Sounds strange coming from a player who was banned because he broke some rules that most of us are trying to respect.

Coming back to the article (that I was so glad to read after finding out about it) I must say that v2 is way over my expectations and I can’t wait to beat some Hungarians <333 in the new military module that I definitely love !

I need to complete my opinion by quoting Emerick "Finally, the game is looking polished and professional, finally it’s becoming more of a game that requires a bit of thought into strategy put into it by each and every player, not just the war strategizers and the scheming politicians. Finally, it’s a game where each player is important on an individual scale and a game where each player can feel a sense of importance just by participating in a battle".
(Source : http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/v2-review-1447400/1/20 )

An optimistic eRepublik player !

hi Alexis. Believe or not, 3 years ago I had exactly same idea, I even made detailed sketch & plan. But I postponed idea for another project (because of lack of time).

Anyway, best luck with this project

The new military module rocks!!! Not we can say that it’s a game because until now that wall it was a silly game.

So, every guy interested in playing a real strategy game on-line please come and join the USA Army!

eRepublik it’s better than never! :X:X:X

At the beginning I was not sure that the new modules are OK, but know they really got me!

I have played in the wars for hours and hours and I really like how the new economic modules looks now!

In 4 word: I like eRepublik Rising!

War module is way to complicated and time consuming.

Best part of eRep is a community. But as a eRep Ex-Moderator i can say without any hesitation eRepublik does not offer any user service . Not to mention poor structural system and organized rules.

So yea not maybe Admins , but Moderators did a big blow in creating negative view of eRep Team.

That should change. So most people when say about unfair Admins , they simply do not have upper knowledge about eRep Team system.

I do. So adleras is not wrong, just ignorant.

So your comment is more cynical then you think “Mr.Happy eRepublik Citizen “

V2 sucks hard.

Admin want from us only money.

This game now is shit.

Great game concept, but very poor execution. Unquestionably strong user-loyalty kept this ship afloat for a long time.
BUT.

The operations in this company have been a mess for a very long time. Tickets aren’t answered, moderators are surely biaised (lol to anyone who thinks they are not…puh-lease!) game availability /stability is poor, security is almost non-existent, technical delivery/quality control is sketchy, and testing? Hello? Ha, the migration was a fiasco.

The company’s control of moderator behaviour is laughable, as we all saw from the mod rage-quit scenario and porn-posting-fest just before the “rising” launch. There is talent in the team, but they are so disconnected, they can’t be expected to deliver anything of quality, anyway.

Despite all of this, the very strong user community has forged friendships beyond the game which is being reflected in the mass exodus to other alternatives now. Yeah, there goes some revenue…

I find it sad that the official company line is always to behave like “we have no problems, everyone’s happy, everyone’s involved”. Truly, that’s so removed from the sentiment of the money-spending players who have now run out of patience.
Would be interesting to see just how the revenue and (real) subs numbers have dropped since the new version was introduced.

Let’s face it, we all know that VCs have to see value for money, but I think the focus on increasing subscriber ARPU (translating to needing to buy game-gold just to stay healthy/happy) has taken this venture waaaay off track.

Sad. I loved the game, but I’m gone now. Giving my credit card a rest, anyway.
Hope sometime they’ll see some sense.

As a player involved deeply in the social network that eRepublik has become i can only state a few thoughts:

The is a severe lack of performance, diplomacy and finishing touches to the game.

It feels like a perpetual-beta. Everyone has more then one user, everyone brags about this, each day there is another bug, tickets are not answered in time.

It just feels out of place. There is no more grand global scale, there is no more simplicity, there is just something that blends with the other games out there to create a pile of anonimity.

And to think they could have done such a good job, they just din’t care enough, or respect their own time invested.

Ok. My previous post was out of the line.

I want to apologize to the people inside eRep.team who really did they work and helped greatly community. As such are Belea and Xtasia Wallachian , QJ Lincoln , Suhy and many others that i forgot to mention

What did I wanted to say is ” Not everything is perfect”

Mainly problem

As I said before customer service did not exist. EVER! As a matter of fact. A
nd I simply cannot bear cynical comments.

And you sir. Happy eRepublik Citizen. And the best of it.

I’ve been playing this game since 18 months, I’ve use my credit card to access faster to some features, to grow faster.
I’ve shifted during the months from happy to unhappy user. I haven’t used my credit car for months now : support, justice, improvements are missing too much. Tickets for problems (that will affect entire community and users who invested hours of their time) can wait for weeks and having nothing more than a “we haven’t found any problem there”.

Bringing a new glossy version won’t change injustice, won’t make dissapear the chaos of the migration from v1 to v2.

Erep exec, team, support should focus back on customer service, on support, on communication and maybe the community will stay. We’ve seen many players who were here since years, leaving the game, the rest of the community could follow the same road.

Happy eRepublik Citizen no comment to you except that I have played this game a long time before you, and you dont know the facts that you are speaking of. (you cant speak without knowledge)

The main reason this game is not a HUGE success is because it was made by people who had absolutely no experience with this stuff. They received tons of usefull feedback but they didnt knew how to use it in time. They were against the community vaguely trying to listen to the its real needs.

They tried to force the community to create more than 90% of the content of the game but they couldnt control it. It all become chaotic and out of the admins hands.

They had clear evidence of cheating but admins didnt do nothing about it..because a greater goal was in their mind. They want to be able to say that eRepublik has more than 1.8 mil users …but they forget to mention that more than 75% its not active or its not real (clones).

Business Angels and other sponsors need to see facts, improuvments..and this was their goals, by showing the numbers (not real) to the world.

Inside sources (ex admins) told me and showed me the real situation. The huge number of clones .. the big number of cheating players. The HUGE number of bugs.

After I saw all this..I had no more interest in the game. I also started cheating as others were doing to see how long it will take untill I get discovered. It took a long time. And I didnt even tried to cheat carefully … I tried more to be clumsy .. and not hide my actions. (for a few moments I really believed they really dont care if I cheat or not).

But the truth was they couldnt handle so much cheating. The admins are bounch full of people who cant face the huge requests of the game.

That is the reason the game is not profitable yet. it is full of bugs, there is almost no support, nobody gets answers in time, people can cheat very easily, there are 75% clones, the servers used to crash everyday, the graphics sucked, there were almost no new or fixed features for most of the time, no future plans, the list is almost endless.

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No offense dude, but the game DOES suck bigtime. Gold is expensive.
About 80-90% of the players usually leave the game after a couple of weeks (I have no idea from where Bonte took the 50%)
and whatever people say, the game is still in beta, full of random bugs.
Support sucks, they closed my tickets twice, saying that they have no time for me because they work on V2.
They ban people randomly for multi accounting. If you appeal, they take the ban off. If you don’t, then it means that you’re one of the multi accounts. Very nice logic, but it’s not so good for business.

The game had/has potential, but the support is even worse than in some random chinese MMO.

This is not a serious article, just advertisement. If you had tried this game only for a week you would have noticed that the game cannot be played for now. Balances sucks, economy sucks ass, and old players are fooled. Anyway when they will see their player living the game maybe they will listen to what they say.

Oh, and one more thing about the 1.8 million users.

The game has about 450k ACTIVE users. Also, considering the fact that there is a huge amount of fake characters (let’s take the percentage of adleras), we get a more realistic number (though I still doubt that there are 110k active people on eRepublik).

The rest are dead chars, being very useful for showing off to the investors.

@alexis: “… videos (including the 2 above) just like 99% of the content in eRepublik are user generated. So thanks to the users ”

You are welcome

Who paid other player to say it’s great ???
New economic module is a joke, war module is a giant bugg (impossible to follow a battle without F5 every rounds…)
The best thing in erep, and the only thing makes i stay in, are peoples meet here…
To all the one i spend time with, thanx…
To admins… change your job…

Good to see eRepublik back on TC. Can’t play at work here due to big brother dept. Would like to see economics module enhancements! Us business enthusiasts are craving for more!!

@Alexis: are you hiring?

Ideas are worthless. The art lies in execution.

Hmm I can only agree with your first post Blackeye, and I wonder why you apologize. You stayed polite and fair.

Facts :
-War module is way more time consuming than a commoner can afford
-War module requires a big organization, thus excluding from the real fun all the “2 clickers”, id est the people who like to come and spend 5 or 10 minutes on erep every day
Just as an example, I’m far from being a “2 clicker” as In 4 or 5 months time, I have built an economic empire (even though I sold half of it before V2, feeling the drawbacks of this new version) weighing around 3000g in value plus hundreds of golds cash. But even though, I don’t fight anymore. Too laggy, too long, too boring if you re not on a Voice IP software with hundreds of regular soldiers.
-The launch of Rising (V2) is a mistake as they hadn’t fixed the productivity formulas, resulting in a total mess and hundreds of golds lost for many gms.
-V2 military module presents a huge problem in my opinion : the time schedule. What sort of battle is it when you have Serbia for example that attacks without any opponent for 10 hours a US region, and then, when eSerbian are sleeping, Americans are connecting and playing… It seems so strange to me. It was already the case before but it wasn’t a problem as everything was represented as a whole.

But on the other hand I must say I’ve had a better experience than most – apparently – concerning the efficiency of the support. I lost 130g in a bug 4 days ago, got an answer the same day and received my golds the day after. So a big +++ for that.
People from the support have been kind and polite.

Oh and contrary to what several said, not everyone has an other or many other accounts. I don’t. And that didn’t bother me to get rich without buying a single gold pack.

So yeah the game has problems, yeah the communication is not always good (even though it’s WAY BETTER than in most f2p games), but I think you really can enjoy it if you play fair and smart. Or if you like to use your credit card due to a lack of time/smartness/patience. The first golds are the hardest to get, afterwards if you are a good manager and have a little time, golds will keep flowing, no matter the economic situation (economic mayhem = a lot of money to be made on the monetary markets for example, or good opportunity of buying some cheap companies, etc etc.)

there is alot of passion for this kind of distraction ! is there a game that simulates the starting of NGO’s and charity organisations where people can create supply chains for food and the transfer of wealthy?

wake up to reality

@davor tks! @Dr B tks for the constructive feedback and yes the migration is not easy and we are working on the balancing issues. @albert yes we are hiring http://jobs.erepublik.com/ and some of these jobs are in our community support team. @Grainne like all people that are trying to builds things and execute we do have problems, its hard to build something like eRepublik so far we have had more success than failures but some things we did wrong and we have no problem admitting them and fixing them.

@ Alexis, ach, if only that were true :-/
(but your reply is exactly the sort I predicted, and doesn’t reflect my personal experience of playing this game for more hours than I’d like to admit, every day, for almost 18 months)
I wonder if you have any idea how many people play the game whom are skilled in this sector, with deep skills from business operations, investment, and relevant technology expertise?
Our complete adoration of what you’d created allowed us to overlook all the wee foibles, but seriously, this time, you guys just threw the baby out with the bathwater.
All the same, I wish you luck.
You should remember some of your original principles though, the 15 minute idea, the “we’re all in this together” attitude to feature development. In dropping them, (I imagine in a panic to show results one year after the VC injection), you will see your customer loyalty haemorrhaging away.
I’m not speaking solo here, myself and more than 20 former senior players are already elsewhere, and there are more joining us every day.
eRep in the future? Well….. It can be fantastic, but a serious shake-up is needed. I surely don’t need to tell you that every tech-savvy player can see you are never gonna be able to scale. And ouch, that hurts. So simple to fix. If you wanted to, that is……… IF.
(btw, yes you are hiring, but you could do with some expertise to help you define what skills you actually need to hire…sorry to be blunt…but hey, sometimes we can’t see what’s directly under our noses.)

@grainne we must have done something right if you played 18 months, but clearly not right enough if you have decided to stop playing. Can we get in touch directly? If so could you DM or @ me on twitter with your email would love to talk about the feedback that is behind the…. I’m on twitter.com/alexis alternatively let me know how I can reach you.

another Happy eRepublik Citizen, omg, that makes 2 of us. I always felt sooooo alone down here.

*applause*
Thanks.
I’ll be in touch. Appreciate the openness.

(oh, in the meantime.. any chance of getting my (bugged and undelivered) RW medal, TM, and an answer to my (still open) ticket?
Then you will look like you mean it….)

sorry that is twitter.com/alexisbonte

Yeah, I know :p

I think the point he was making is that November 2010 has not occured… it is currently July 2010, November is still a few months away yet…

I think he aims to have you fix the typo in your post from November 2010 to November 2009.

I’ve been playing this game for almost 2,5 years so i think you can say i’ve seen almost everything. First of all, the new modules are a big improvement compared to v1. Finally we have some diversity and from the boring 2-clicking and hitting the wall, it has evolved to something that actually requires thinking and considering various things before doing anything. The concept is great, execution aint that good though. Huge requirements for the war module (2,4 Ghz for the browser-based game? Come on), poor migration of skills, basically releasing Beta and calling it a final version. Im sure though you’ll be working on this and at some point i’ll have a chance to say that Rising is great.

However customer service in this company is a disaster. Extremely long response time, thousands of obvious multi accounts that still aren’t banned. At some point i was a member of the moderators team and i can say that this community department has one rule “it’s better to ignore problem than to solve it”. There are rules changed and no one is notified about it. There are open letters signed by several thousands players on the forum and there’s absolutely no answer. There are many questions asked and there’s no one willing to reply. The “official announcements” show up maybe once a month and they usually concern the things the eRepublik Team screwed up. And when there’s finally an answer, it sounds like players were communicating with a machine, not a human being. Finally there’s a huge amount of feedback being sent wherever its possible and eventually ignored. The general opinion about the admins is that they implement almost only they own ideas, ignore criticism and hope that after a few months community will eventually get used to them. The concepts originating from player’s feedback are maybe 5-10%, while in a professional social game it should be exactly opposite. If it doesn’t change, the population of eRepublik citizens will be most likely still getting smaller and smaller.

The last thing i wanna point out is the fact that despite of eRepublik being a 24/7 game, the customer service and guys from bugs department are (usually) only available during Romanian working hours from Monday to Friday. Imagine the situation where your country is losing a war because of some nasty bugs that occurred on Friday evening and you have to wait till Monday for this to be fixed. True story. Or a spectacular ragequit of the game moderator that got several hundreds users banned. Of course in the middle of Romanian night.

eRepublik has a great potential and it could be a really great game with satisfactory customer service and community that will actually appreciate admins’ job. Right now you have lots of work to do to make this happen. I hope you’ll be successful.

@alexis how come a few years ago when I desperately tried to offer feedback to the admins (on yahoo messenger), or on forums.. and I have also wrote directly to you in the game, nothing happened.

I was willing to offer any kind of assistance from withing the game when I saw how wrong everything is and all the admins and you ignored me.

All the romanian community was also offering very precious feedback and they were also ignored.. and in the end nobody cared about our efforts and useless, countless hours spent in the game.

How should I have proceeded to get in touch with somebody who could have actually improved something, to give some very useful help that you needed and still need?

ah..forgot to mention, I have also tried to talk with Lemnaru ..hoped maybe he would do something.. I thought you might be to busy with Trilulilu and the guys from Cluj…still no answer and total ignorance.

Also tried to point out stuff on twitter …still no answer. I think this might be the biggest problem from the eRepublik team. The ignorance to what the community asked and still asks.

I’ve played for over a year now (Hi, Grainne!), and while I like V2 in a lot of ways, I’d gladly trade in all their new interfaces and modules for better security and admin awareness. A lot of my e-friends have quit this game in recent months because their complaint tickets go unanswered, yet the same cats who are supposed to be policing the e-world are spending their time creating shiny new distractions.

I’ve seen presidents of e-countries get their profiles hacked into, outrageous violations of the law perpetrated, and the only thing the president can do is access one of his orgs and beg Congress to impeach him immediately, thus killing access to his presidential powers, because it’s a foregone conclusion that the admins won’t deal with it until they’re good and ready. Truly, it took a week for the admins to get around to dealing with such an episode in eSouth Korea.

THOSE are the things that make eRepublik unplayable at times, and V2 only makes the problems more complex.

We’ve all seen elections turn because trolls create multi’s, possibly the worst crime in the game, and stuff ballot boxes, and many more times than not, the admins are either so overwhelmed with this tactic, the PTO, being used so often, or they’re nowhere to be found.

Most famously, about three weeks ago, a player-admin got bored and chose to publish his admin passwords publicly, allowing trolls to completely run amok, banning over 80 players at their whim. I was one of them, and you can imagine my surprise when I come in to log on, see I’m banned, and the reason I read for it is “I’m a faggot”, over and over and over.

Many people get their profiles hacked into, some with having thousands in gold stolen from them. They’ll go through the process of writing out a ticket and submitting it to the admins, and they’re lucky if they ever get a response.

I like the game, because it is a social game, first and foremost. People like to refer to it as a war game, but that’s just one facet to it, because you can only be successful at war if you’re in a decently organized army and working with other such armies in other countries. That means organization and social graces come first. I’ve made friends around both the e-world and the real world through this game, I’m addicted and will keep playing.

I do think, however, the admins have their attention pointed in the wrong direction completely, and instead of new modules, they need a new attitude. The in-game laws are meaningless if the admins can’t or won’t enforce them, and people will continue to leave the game for this singular reason.

I like v2. although my country is loosing all fucking regions

When did the Russians take over D.C.? Surly you mean the state of Washington.

Gamers truth http://www.picturelot.com/viewer.php?file=32741282773955572609.jpg

tks @anarion and @arjay for the feedback. Providing top level customer service in a company that is growing as fast as ours is really hard but we all agree we can and should do better. We recently introduced a night shift with people on call 24/7 for the most important issues and we have also hired (from the community) a new community manager who is reinforcing the exiting team and are revising the moderator rules and selection process. We apologize if our service was not up to your expectations and will do better.

Amusing collection of fiction and lies, Mr. Bonte. I wonder if you really believe what was written or if you’re just ignorant of the state of your game? Well, you’re a businessman. I think that answers that. Just out of curiosity, are you actually making money with this product you so fervently applaud? No? I am shocked and amazed…

I love how this article was started. “Russia invaded Washington D.C!” “Oh my lord, this is exciting! I can’t wait to try this game and fight to liberate the US capital!”

Lets return back to reality. Russia invaded the state of Washington. They are in entirely opposite sides of the US. In truth, the game doesn’t even have Washington D.C.! That’s right. The game is so professional it actually forgot to add the capital of the United States. And even if it did exist, it wouldn’t be the in-game capital. Florida is.

I wonder if this slip up was intentional to fool the rich Americans to join the game, or if basic geography is something that they didn’t teach in Scammer school?

The 50% retention rate figure is obviously pulled out of the proverbial donkey. The homepage boasts over 1 million users that have tested the game and at the same time it lists that there is roughly 330 000 “active users” as in not dead as defined by the game mechanics. Even if we leave out the fact that the actual active number of users is less than half of that figure, how exactly do you end up with 50% retention rate using those two figures? Or are you perhaps inventing some new, exciting ways of calculating it in a manner that makes the game seem like less than an utter failure?

As for this eRepublik Rising.. The only thing it managed to rise was the anger of the community, the number of people who quit the game, critical bugs, and the lack of faith towards the administration.

There was no possible way to make the implementation process worse than it was. Users were urinated upon making their 3 year investment in this game completely worthless in a matter of one day, communication between the admins and users was and is appalling, the bugs and badly designed modules that lead to the loss of thousands of gold globally remain unfixed, and the users are not compensated for any of the losses that occur during the time the staff treat them as worthless cattle.

There is practically NO customer service at all. It doesn’t matter what issue you have to report to the administration. You wont receive an answer until after a month. Not so bad waiting time, you say? Well, that answer is generated automatically with a script. And it asks you to resend the ticket you sent month ago. Once every month. In an eternal loop.

The one thing that the admins do do is censor comments and articles that criticize them but lately they have even been unable to do that. This accidental positive side-effect was unfortunately accompanied by uncensored racist and otherwise offensive articles.

You know what is worst thing about the game? It’s not the appalling state of the administration that thinks that flipping the bird to the user passes as customer service. It is not the crippling bugs that make any major battle feel like running the gauntlet organized by Britain’s national cricket team wielding boards with rusty nails struck through while you’re forced to listen to Celine Dion on never ending record. It is not even the increasingly ridiculous new implementations that are given both seconds of consideration before being pushed out to virtually rape all the users for no apparent, logical reason.

No, the worst part is how the staff keeps on lying that those issues don’t exist and how they keep on treating the users like they are retards! Have you no freaking shame at all?! Truly the legacy of Ceausescu lives on in you.

Why do I keep on playing if it is so bad, you ask? Elementary, dear Watson. I am monitoring how gross mismanagement of a browser game will affect the community, how the on-the-net image is born and how fast does an online company based on exploitation and illusions go bankrupt.

That, and I am rather fond of the community itself. The game itself is a necessary evil and a joke. A very, very bad joke.

Ps. Oh, and the admins do try to mold the image by posting fake positive comments about their game. My article might be overly negative, but if you see a comment that calls the game a piece of Eden, you can be sure it’s an admin.

Pss. Mr. Bonte. Sell the game to someone who actually cares and makes it better. Stop our torment and yours.

Thanks for the DC correction.

“Boasting 1.8 million registered users”

You’ve got to be kidding me. Anyone who actually plays knows eRepublik has a huge problem with player retention – ya, 1.8 million have signed up, but how many of those are multi accounts, and how many accounts are dead?

The eRep admins do very little in communicating with their players.

They do even less when it comes to fixing ongoing, widespread, known bugs. It’s pathetic. Ask any player about the “headless chicken” and you’ll find out what I mean.

I hope you read this Bonte – maybe it’s just you’re understaffed, or maybe you hired underqualified staff, or maybe you just don’t care – but whatever the reasons, you really need to put more resources into quality control.

At the end of the day, people only play for the community – and you guys will never be able to monetize IRC.

I hope you improve, otherwise eRepublik won’t be around in 5 years time.

I have been playing eRepublik for over a year.

Since the switch to Rising, problems and errors in game mechanics have increased exponentially. Every day, without fail, I encounter the following troubles:

- I cannot work, train, study, or relax without opening an entirely different browser
- I cannot view Organization profiles (including those that I own)
- I cannot create new ads
- I cannot search for users whenever I’m browsing the media module pages
- I cannot buy *anything* – including food, which is essential for survival in the game
- I cannot have the combat module open without crashing my broswer repeatedly

Rising has the potential to be a successful game. But, because of a rushed Beta and a severe miscalculation of how this switch would affect the site, the only things Rising are complaints.

As an administrator for an online gaming site which has millions of players, I can understand the pressure for the eRep Staff to ‘put a product on the shelf’. But, ultimately, the problems that eRepublik faces will not be solved by Rising. These problems will only be solved by a Staff that respects (and listens to) its players.

If you don’t have the time to liase with players yourself, hire (or get volunteers) who have the time. You’ll gain a better understanding of player concerns, and in the long run you’ll have a better product.

But hey, at least they have nice curtains in their new office. >.>

The community of friends you will meet it is #1 reason to play this game. It’s not the silly new modules, the pretend “bells and whistles”, the erratic decision making by admin and mods…

The community that has developed outside of the main erepublik.com page is why we continue to play (and in my case, pay).

Thanks, Alexis, for providing this platform and the opportunity I’ve had to meet the people I now call friends. For the love of all things, please stop responding to the legitimate concerns and criticisms here as though you are a politician The talking points are getting old!

Hugs and Kisses,

TemujinBC

Interesting thread. All I’ll say on citizen retention figures is that the eUnited States government has a dedicated group of 10 citizens who Message every new citizen born in the state within their first hour of eLife. They then send them food, direct them to the forums and introduce them to our own community run mentorship program. We send them two more follow up Messages in their first week to try and keep them involved. Our figures show that this leads to a retention rate through the first week of 15% instead of the 10% if we didn’t do anything. Most quit after the first week regardless. All I know is that when a game’s players put more effort into promoting and keeping new players in the game then the owners, it’s not a stable business strategy.

Of course,rising is cool.New military module is really great,if servers get to work better.

I also understand that eRepublik needs advertisiment to announce its name and get new citizens but I think,eRepublik needs to keep its current citizens before advertisiment.

There are still mathematical problems in rising formulas and it is getting the global economy down.

Of course,eRepublik deserves to sell Gold with RL money but it mustn’t be the most important thing in front of developers.When eRepublik gets more citizens,eRepublik sells more Gold with RL money.It is so simple:you have to keep the motivation of current citizens high to get more new citizens.

Now,noone has a greed to make a babyboom in the New World.You need better communcation with people.You should better listen their ideas and set the things according to these.You’re doing this but not enough and you’re not successfull to show that you’re working according to ideas from citizens.

Better communication:faster solutions for issues.Issues are usual in a game like eRepublik (it is the best web based game ever anyway) but again you need 4 times-5 times better communication.I don’t know how you’ll success it;get more personals,provide really better communication etc.

If you listen the ideas of current citizens,eRepublik will be greater.Because,since they’re playing,they know better how to improve it.

If it doesn’t get over 1 million active citizens then you can close the website ) (150.000 active citizens currently)

Good luck in next 2 years!

The game is dying and the article have so many misleading facts. DO NOT BOTHER AND WASTE YOUR TIME on this eRebuglik scam. AGF Private Equities and whoever invested in this are wasting their clients’ money..

St Krems:”All I know is that when a game’s players put more effort into promoting and keeping new players in the game then the owners, it’s not a stable business strategy.”

That’s the point.eRepublik’s luck is that players of the game think more for eRepublik’s future than its developers;trust in me

Unless you’re willing to spend stupid amounts on Gold in-game, the new version fails hard. Its buggy, it I can’t do anything really because my welness and happiness are constantly declining, (even if I do work the minimum each day, if I don’t work for a day before anyone suggests that, I can no longer afford to buy food).

And not only this, but on an old account I once used, I was banned without real proof to back it up. I know this has happened to hundreds of people I have come into contact with in-game before, the Admins don’t listen to the pleas or provide evidence, they just send an automated message to appeals.

Overall, if you want an opinion not under the influence of the game’s creators, I wouldn’t recommend this game; if you were to play it, don’t waste your money in it. You’ll be hit by bugs, inability to do much and you’ll fall into that 30% of active players who are banned likely due to bugs in the game’s anti-cheat systems.

Hopefully there’ll be some better customer service and a fix for how screwed the game is in the near future!

I wish they’d stop fabricating player numbers. 1.8 million players? Really? Where are they hiding?
Don’t get me wrong, Erepublik has people playing it, there’s something intriguing about it that makes it hard to quit, as much as it is a money-grab. I suppose it’s just hard to let a game’s convoluted mechanics “beat you”, so you press on determined to show it a thing or two. But the fact of the matter is that almost every new player that starts the game, ends up abandoning it, because it simply is relentless in how the mechanics of the game make it so hard to make any fun of the game without feeding the site your real-world money just to get some in-game gold and attempt to do something, just anything that’s remotely interesting.
For me, it’s a challenge. I don’t pay to play, but play to spite the designers who obviously designed it specifically to grab money. I see my continued presence a kind of rebellion against their fat-cat capitalist ideals.

Completely FALSE:
I’m going to have to disagree with some of the information that Mr. Bonte provided.
AS A SIDE NOTE, THE GAME IS NOW OUT OF THE BETA STAGE, AND MY COMPLAINTS ARE BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE FINAL PRODUCT.

1. The game has 1.8 million registered users, BUT ONLY 328,337 (18%) OF THEM ARE ACTIVE.

2. Administrators DO NOT REPLY TO USER FEEDBACK OR REPORTS OF CERTAIN BUGS IN THE GAME. THEY SIMPLY DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHAT THE USER WANTS.

3. IN NO WAY IS IT POSSIBLE FOR 90,000 TO SIMULTANEOUSLY FIGHT IN BATTLE. THE WHOLE BATTLE (WAR) MODULE CONSTANTLY CRASHES AND IS FULL OF BUGS WITH ONLY 500 PLAYERS USING IT.

The only difference between the first version of the game and this one is that THIS ONE IS FAR MORE EXPENSIVE. It requires users, especially if they are new to the game, TO PAY LARGE AMOUNTS OF REAL LIFE MONEY TO BUY IN GAME GOLD TO SIMPLY SURVIVE IN THE GAME. New and a number of advanced players are now forced to spend large amounts of real money to play this game. Therefore it is very safe to say that this game is NOT FREE ANYMORE.

Non-stop bugs especially in the war module.
Tons of illegal bots, and scripts.
Focusing more on shiny features instead of fixing a game.
Funny biased article full of deceit.
alexis doing damage control.

I hardly play the game anymore, I only organize stuff for the community.

A weel know tshirt of Alexis claims that he failed as president of efrance but still is CEO of erep.

I’m quite sad to answer him as a efrench player : vous nous avez tué. (you killed us)

Look at some old french users and you’ll have the perfect example on how the game is :
- take a top 5 world player, he creates a new player to see what the game looks like when you are a new and not a 18 months year old player who was here since the first days of this game/business. He gets banned in a matter of days for “multiaccounting”. On the other side hundreds of polish, russian bots and multiaccounts can live in the game for months … and admins do nothing despite tickets !!
- take 2 very old french players, one of them is president and decides at the end of the month of presidency to leave the country and take thousands of country gold. We’ve seen people banned for less than this … but of course having a an erep ambassador banned won’t look good.

Injustice ? Lack of community support ?

If I left a nice comment could I get my tkts from last month looked at?

There are serious customer service issues and those numbers above are extremely exaggerated, but as you can tell by the comments, there is a large and passionate player base. The social aspects of the game normally overcome the game itself and keep those that get involved coming back.

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/rl-media-tricked-by-erep-founder-alexis-bonte-1462442/1/20

’nuff said

ha! They removed the article (http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/rl-media-tricked-by-erep-founder-alexis-bonte-1462442/1/20).

There was nothing offensive in that article, no bad language, no porn. Only fair and honest criticism of the eRep team.

Erepublik fails as much as their spelling of republic.

Erepublik = FAIL

FAIL = Erepublik

Same shit, different name.

No doubt, we will soon hear expressions like “Yo, that t-shirt fails as much as Erepublik” or “Yo, that t-shirt is soo Erepublik”.

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Erepublik fails as much as their spelling of republic.

Erepublik = FAIL

FAIL = Erepublik

Same sh*t, different name.

No doubt, we will soon hear expressions like “Yo, that t-shirt fails as much as Erepublik” or “Yo, that t-shirt is soo Erepublik”.

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Erepublik fails as much as their spelling of republic.

Erepublik = FAIL

FAIL = Erepublik

Same $#!*, different name.

No doubt, we will soon hear expressions like “Yo, that t-shirt fails as much as Erepublik” or “Yo, that t-shirt is soo Erepublik”.

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V2 was not launched with the support of the erep community – it was launched and continues to lurch and splutter along in the face of strong objections from the vast majority of the community

WTF, I just watched that video – it does not represent the gameplay style. That video makes it look like some kind of action packed strategy game – which it really isn’t.

Bonte fails to answer even to the questions asked here. This should be the perfect example how they manahe things in the game. As CEO as game.

Marina Zaliznyak even if this was a payed article..to advertise eRepublik (because they desperately needed some good things to be said about them) I would still be ashamed if I was in your position. To write such a crappy article .. with more than 50% missleading informations… its a fiasco for TechCrunch. I used to respect and like this news site, but now it sucks big time.

I am both disappointed in, and skeptical of Marina Zaliznyak’s abilities as a journalist. It is painfully obvious that no research, first hand experience, or effort in general were put into ensuring the truth and validity of this article.

The game does not boast 1.8 million users. This figure encompasses a collection of multis and dead accounts which have been accumulated over the past 3 years. The actual active user base is only a small percentage of your stated number, and should be represented as such.

Erepublik rising is not the player designed web based utopia Bonte claims it to be. I assure you that little to no collaboration took place between admin and the players in the creation of eRep Rising. In fact, the Admin of this game are renowned for their complete and total neglect towards us players. I’m honestly dumbfounded as to why our forums have sections dedicated to admin/player conversation given that Admin does not actually even read, reply, or resolve the posts. As many other people have said, even their internal ticket system goes neglected or becomes a dead end of automation. This being said, do you honestly believe they “polled” over 14,000 of us? Do you honestly believe we personally asked them to incorporate countless new ways to force us to spend gold, and as a result real life money in order to play? eRepublik Rising is not a visual/strategic makeover, it’s an attempt to turn the site into an even bigger cash cow. As Bonte said, he learned a lot from facebook games, specifically how to increase revenue by making player success solely dependent on their willingness to invest money into the game.

Don’t get me wrong, eRepublik is a great game and cane be a lot of fun, but this article reeks of unreasonable promotional garbage. Your work is unfit for public eyes and you’re a disgrace to journalism. I can only hope that Bonte paid you well enough to counter the embarrassment of releasing such poor content on a once respectable news site.

The admins have GOT to be running out of employees and content players by now. Seriously, I think 30-60% of players, some coming even from the ‘official’ beta, have ragequit because of Rising. Before, the game was good; you could get by in the game without spending real world $$$; those who did became huge powerhouses, whether on the News module, the war module, or the political module. Basically, the game was good, with only an *occasional* bug happening, and, for the most part, the users were happy and spent $$$ on gold, not because they HAD to, but because they WANTED to.

The siduation today is far worse. Many of the original players, who kept the countries running, have ragequit, or been reduced to 2-clicking. The economy has imploded, as wages have been quit into tenths, while workers produce 3 times as much, and the finished product (now taking several players, instead of one) costs twice as much. For your eCitizen to survive, you basically have to have a job that you know you won’t get fired from, while having a HUGE gold stockpile, and having the best fod you can get. oh, and fighting everytime your health drops below 70, as fighting now restores health to 70.

Also, the ‘V1′ war module, while bland and tasteless, took 2 minutes on average, and one player could make a huge impact on the battle. Even a new player could do this, if the proper siduation appeared. But now, it doesn’t matter how strong you are, what makes the difference is how expensive your weapon is, or whethere you payed gold for the best ‘modifier’. And still, you have a chance of ‘dieing’ (AKA, dropping to 40 health) and having to buy health packets “for only 0.50 gold!”

So, what i’m getting at is that you have to pay real world $$$ for in-game gold, which you NEED, or else you won’t produce as much as you can, or fight as hard as possible, or gain the most experience for a new job. eRepublik ‘Rising’ is a broken, twisted, malnutriented, shadow of it’s original self. The admins know that it’s gonna last maybe two monthes, before everybody goes broke, desperately trying to keep their character running; so, they’re sucking every dollar they can out of their unhappy community (or whats left, after the random bans, the ragequitters, and the like) while ignoring the supply tickets.

I’m sure that any day now, they’ll implement a module which makes you have to spend 5 ‘gold’ to log in, and 1′gold’ per action. It’s ridiculous, and I refuse to spend a single cent on ‘gold’ until that place is fixed.

1. Admins don’t care for users, their opinion etc, even if we didn’t liked Rising and the military module they still add it. Not to mention their slow or no response to tickets, hacks, tons of bugs (I still have a ticket from 1 year ago who they closed without answering)

2. It’s not free anymore, u need to pay to do everything. (you cant survive without, can’t fight etc)

3. ~300.000 players are active, most of them in the process of quitting after Rising launched (it needs some time to die in-game because u can’t delete your account)

+a lot more but too lazy to write

The article is now back up, after having been deleted without any comment by the admins.

You cannot stop us Alexis. The media will find out how you ACTUALLY run your company.

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/erep-ceo-caught-bsing-in-rl-media-the-admins-don-t-want-you-to-know–1462748/1/20

Well interesting, but how about confessing what is behind numbers? I do not want to flame, just expressing my experience – I have been playing over 1 year.

Erep states it has 328k citizens – including dead citizens – as I can say, my country, eSlovakia, has officially approximatelly 1000 citizens, however we know that there are max 250 active (not dead, at least 2clicking) including about 50 multiaccounts… so please, big numbers are great, why dont you present that you have more than 25 million mouseclicks everyday ! That number is moar boasting and moar interesting for investors, for sure !

Regarding multiaccounts, why dont you confess that most of your “citizens”are illegal multiaccounts? In my career I have reported over 300 multies with proofs, succesfully. There are known Rubots which are able to automatically generate fake accounts, take gold from them and sell it.. less experienced “farmers” are using macro based scripts… but you know they are necessary, erep is based on rising number of players/gold, which is done by new citizens and multies – otherwise it will crash…

Regarding selling, why are 1year+ old accounts from Poland being sold on allegro? And why you can buy there vast amounts of gold? Why sold accounts (Mossad, shoot…) are not banned? or is that part of your income too?

Regarding migration, it has not been properly explained, nor tested… why even the best hospital lasts fro 5 hours ? Why presidents can not deploy new? Why battles lag even when 600 people are deployed? Why is sql server either losing connection or giving extraordinary bugs?

And if you want to talk about community, why are our tickets only “automatically” responded, however not solved?

If you ommit greedy owners, n00b admins (i know some of them , ZERO support, v2 battlefield lags and crashes, overproducing economy then it might be a good game…

otherwise it is just poorly designed, bad scripted, extensive MMO pay2play game full of bugs. And you dare to ask money for that? lulz, I wouldnt dare…

PS: I understand that you are doing it for profit, well that is acceptable, but soon only admins, designers and multies will be playing – and none of them paying. Think about it.

It is a good game but rather than an overhaul they just needed to react to the comments from the users. Lots of potential here and I hope they begin to react to user requests to avoid further loss of players

Then install a new browser

This web based game experiences all the problems that full fledged commercial titles for consoles or PC does. However, unlike these commercial titles, eRepublik’s problems are not fixed immediately. The few major issues that are eventually resolved, come so late, that players have already adapted to game breaking issue.

It seems that the dev team released a broken game to the public, even though they knew it would not work. Why? Perhaps they felt that they would be able to keep up with all the problems arising, but I think that the sheer number of replies this article has garnered proves otherwise. Maybe they do have their reasons, but as players, we know nothing of these, since we are kept in the dark about nearly every development that goes on. After all, we are merely players, and our only purpose is to spend our money. This prevailing attitude of the game admins, the fact that they seem to completely ignore the playerbase is one major reason that many prominent players in the game are leaving.

Even acknowledging that they are ignoring “support” tickets from players for the time being, simply because they want to focus on fixing a major problem in the game, would be acceptable. Yet the admins continue to ignore tickets, and not fix the problems in the game. Quite frankly, I don’t think that eRepublik has much of a future unless the higher up people can get things moving and clean up their act.

Wow, in the 5 minutes I spent reading this the community recieved more Employee feedback than in the past 2+ years combined – talk about failed damage control.

LIES.
LIE NUMBER 1
“the web based social strategy game, boasts 1.8 million registered users.”
Even the main page of eRepublik shows:
“328,337 active citizens”
, and about 50% of them are banned, multis or dead.
LIE NUMBER 2
“polled over 14,000 players”
ORLY? Nobody said he was polled in any way.

BTW
“The new generation of the game is a complete makeover not just in terms of the visual interface which goes from flat to a much more graphic rich backdrop”
Also, it’s a complete makeover in terms of $$$ needed to be good.

Freedom of press is also a serious problem. According to Rules “Freedom of press is absolute”. However there’s also another rule.

“The channel for contacting the eRepublik Team is the official contact form.
Any accusations or complaints brought to the eRepublik Team via a channel other than the official one is prohibited and will not be addressed.
complaints about Game Moderators/Community Officers or eRepublik should be sent through the contact page (department: “Feedback”)”

So pretty much saying “i found a bug” or “they still haven’t fixed the war module” is against the Rules and players can be even banned for this. Don’t you find it ridiculous? And removing the article that was just pointing out the lies from this article? Just pathetic. If you actually care about your players, maybe you should start respecting their opinion instead of deleting everything you disagree with.

eRepublik is a very good game, but contrary to what this article implies, the Admins of eRep have not listened to their players very much at all and have consistently ignored what most of the players want. The biggest difference between eRepublik Rising and the old version is that eRepublik Rising gives a much greater advantage to those who have lots of gold, the in-game currency. The only good way to get lots of gold is to buy it with real money.

Also, the battle module is slow, VERY prone to bugs, and suseptible to hacking or DDoS. The reason we in the eUS lost Washington state is beacuse multiple American turns were skipped, while the eRussians were almost uneffected.

I find this comment thread hilariously true. lets be honest. Its true that the value here is 100% in the players and 0% in the game platform.

If a competitor opened up offer a better platform with similar community foundations you would see mass migrations.

kthxbai

Simple truth of eRepublik is that the business running it is absurdly inept. Customer service is non existent and the product itself is the most unreliable bit of software I’ve ever seen (and I’ve used windows vista). If you can make friends in game it can be a good time, not because of the game but in spite of it. I would never spend money on this, its simply too risky and its a good bet that any money spent on this game will be worthless due to frequent crashes, bugs, and completely non existent customer service. Quite frankly this article is a sham, nothing is represented accurately, and Bonte is lying through his teeth to make up for the embarrassment that is eRepublik Rising.

Seriously “Happy eRepublik Citizen”… who the crap payed you to say that?? Or is it just someone part of the company who commented? HUH?

Anyways, first, NO OTHER GAME, or WEBSITE that I have visited or played, is as poorly maintained. Going offline was a once every couple week thing even before the new Modules. (Every couple days now).

The war Module?? Thousand of people can testify that every time it was the U.S.’s turn to move, the server would go offline, and work perfectly during the russian’s turns. I have nothing personal against russia, they were on the good side of the glitch… and the U.S. wasn’t, this has nothing to do with my nationalism. I have numerous screenshots and several hour video of this very effect, (going offline for the U.S.) in action!!

I ALSO HATE, that that second video in the CEOs thread was utter bullshit. Period.

“Tickets”, are requests for a variety of things that can be sent in regarding bugs and others. MY ticket, about a bug that prevent me, a party president from posting ingame article advertisements. I am not the only one, this is apparently happening to ALL party presidents. Sent in a ticket to their “High Council” for bugs. 2 weeks later, nothing. Nada. No reply.

But that could be that they are to busy getting strangled by their freakily bugged war module.

Wow, I couldnt figure out why there was so many rants here…..but now as I review my post…. I have a pretty big one to…. people are just that pissed of….. go figure.

The problem with the game is the lack of consistent moderation and the perceived bias.

The game doesn’t fully work, there are still bugs, but they affect the individual not the entire game. For example, during the battle sequences, the flash player will frequently time-out, but the actually game will continue. Meaning you may be sitting there waiting for the result of one turn, while your enemies are attacking you, and you dont even know it.

The administrators do not even follow their own rules. For example, a battle ends when certain criteria are met, but when that criteria was met at the end of battles, they introduced a new rule, dubbed the “fat lady” a battle isn’t over till the fat lady sings, meaning a battle was over when they feel like turning it off. This obviously would affect certain sides and add to the perceived bias.

Whatever you may quote it is generally felt througout the game that V2 is a flop-the economic module is lopsided and the housing market is in shambles, the titanium market prices are extremely low and cannot support themselves with the rate of cost for employees out on the open harverster market because Iron on the other hand is doing extremely well!

The new hospital system makes them worthless to try to get-and makes buying gold only more important.

Many players, prominent players, are leaving the game because of V2. This is to be expected somewhat. THe bigger problem is that many younger players are leaving the game as well because to support oneself on the new basis of “happiness” is extremely difficult on a day to day basis and extremely difficult for “health” whenever one tries to enter battle.

The idea wasn’t a bad one but it was implemented badly. WIth bugs, pages that don’t work consistently especially the war module which I have seen do nothing but flop for me save one battle attack that I made where I could actually fight…

This game has obviously become centered around people buying gold more and more. In fact that is the only thing that has come out of V2 consistently and patently ‘correct’.

Most other ideas have simply made this game weirder, less appealing ESPECIALLY to new players whom the hardships are greatest on and are the heart and future of the game, and that the administration is only interested in their personal gain. Do they listen to our tickets? in time they do, though they ignore some. But do they listen to our ideas? No. Do they have “120 million” users? HECK NO. That is what they are trying to imply and it’s simply incorrect. On a day to day basis they have about 300 users and falling.

An example of how horrible this game is can be found in the titles of the most recently posted-in threads on the eUSA forum:
“Battle of the Black Screen. I mean Oregon”
“Yeah, v2 is boring”
“Say Goodbye to Colin Lantrip”
“Mass Ticket Submitting Requested”
You get the point.

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Just wanted to throw my voice in here as well.

The criticisms are absolutely true. There are certainly NOT 1.8 million players active, the admins don’t respond to player suggestions/complaints/petitions (yes, we’ve resorted to creating in-game forum petitions to get their attention), and the premature publishing of V2 was an absolute bungle. The world economy is in ruins, the war module (upon which a HUGE part of our economy depends) is cumbersome and broken, and the need for in-game gold to get on your feet is prohibitive to new players wanting to check out a “free” browser game.

The ONLY redeeming qualities of this game are the extensive community, and brilliant user-created content. An example of the second: we have a stock market. A friggin’ stock market!–how cool is that? But the admins have NEVER acknowledged ERX, despite it being a huge topic at its inception.

THAT is the kind of company Mr. Bonte runs. Buyer beware.

I am involved in a lot of browser based games and Erep Rising has made a huge mistake. Players will pay to support a good game but they will not pay when they feel that they have to pay more than what is reasonable just to survive in the game. The changes are coming across as too much of a cash grab and both the military and economic modules are deeply flawed. People are quitting in droves.

I meant 300k users

Russia only took washington because the game bugged out during the eUS’s turns. Try making a working game and we’ll see how it goes for ya.

I’ve been playing eRep for over a year. Though I appreciate that the owners have packed these comments with friends, a bit of reality should be offered as well.

The new version was designed for one purpose: profit. Each step of the game is now geared to encourage the spending of personal funds in order to meet with optimum success. This is incredibly off-putting for younger or less affluent players and is forcing people to leave the game; in some strata of experience 60-70% have already quit.

Further, Rising was launched too early and is filled with bugs, some of which were never properly addressed in its first full version. That it was rolled out for public consumption rather than being kept in beta another month so the myriad bugs could be addressed speaks a great deal to the greed of the owners as well as their lack of consideration for the players on whom they depend.

I continue to make good friends in the game – that it the only reason I’m still involved. however, where I used to regularly spend real money on the game I now refuse and will gladly allow my account to “die” before doing so. Perhaps, if the owners step back a bit from their bank accounts and consider their market, I might change.

Though I appreciate that the game is being publicized in good publications such as this, I believe the other side of the matter should be represented. Thank you for the opportunity.

MAYBE… too melodramatic.

This article is full of crap. Alexis doesn’t listen to us, the players.

10% of the eRepublik users are active.
Everyone hates the admins, because they don’t listen to us.
the proof: http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/GF_Day

We say we only want the bugs worked out of the game, and for them to learn basic coding. They come out with V2, with many, many bugs.

We say give us a button to mass message our entire party, they say they will and then do not.

The admins (Alexis) are incompetent as they are stupid. They are in debt because of their inability to make money from the game. They think the best way to make money off it is to have a war module that breaks down (see the battle of washington where Americans COULD NOT fight) where you can buy gold. Of they had any sense they wouldn’t try to get us to spend money on the game, and would focus on selling ads and keeping us playing the game. Many games and websites make their money like that.

See: Facebook, Evony, Miniclip, Pawngame etc.

Alexis, you should try LISTENING to what YOUR PLAYERS have to say, and maybe we won’t ban you from your own game again.

This article LIES!

Well.. i’ve been playing for 7 months now. And honestly, the old battle system is much better then the new war module.

I like how they changed the economy by adding more specialized jobs.

I dont like how they lied to the community giving false information about new changes with ePublik Rising. We were told our stockpiles would transfer over to the new system. Not true many of us lost our huge stockpiles. I sold my helicopter company because of it.

the game can be very fun, especially owning a company. The war module is poor.
The battle system is screwy, seems like all the power is tipped towards Tanks.

Want to fight more then Once a day?
then you gotta dish out Gold to heal yourself, otherwise its a 3 day long process of not working, not training, just buying expensive Health bonus food.

You can survive the game without spending any RL money, but in V2 you can tell that the programmers focused all their attention on making it LOOK shiny and new, when actually they ignored the real problems with bugs, server crashes, and last but not least implementing new options to spend your RL money on the game hah!
but Alas i still play it for now..

The new version of the game is terribly unbalanced. The war module in particular is plagued with connection timeouts and various other bugs, which the company either is unwilling to fix or refuses to fix. The game should still be in beta for at least a few more months.

I do not recommend spending your money on this game until all of the bugs and balancing issues are resolved.

all i have to say about this game is lots of RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE against the Admin. join if you want, but be prepared to get anally raped by the admins. The concept is great, but there are so many bugs, flaws and quick cash grabs for the Admin that many people left because of the “upgrade” to V2. Admin, fix the game, don’t break it more. Roll back to V1, fix V2, THEN “upgrade” please.

Please save two minutes to read my last article in erepublik… maybe you’ll find it interesting:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/suggestions-for-erepublik-serious-article-please-share-your-opinion–1461869/1/20

eRepublik Falling (not rising).. 60% of the players already left the game, more are leaving each day.. Only admin will be left there to play with his kids (moderator team, if they can be called a mod), and those little kids that like to spam..

Worst thing in this game is a battle system which is so stupid that even admin don’t want to play with it. Happiness too? After 4 days of playing you’ll go down to 0, and if you don’t have gold you’re screwed because you can’t work or do shit without gold.

Whoever is thinking about investing money in this shit, don’t bother you’ll just lose everything.

want more information apart from aggressive rants? have a look…

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/results-of-the-2nd-survey-erepublik-v2-migration-aftermath–1461016/1/all

“This new version allows up to 90,000 simultaneous players to fight in user initiated battles for enemy territories with machinery and weapons produced by other users.”
HAHAHAHAHAHHA
HAH
LOL
the game crashes when there are 300 players fighting…

“Today eRepublik launches a major new release, eRepublik Rising, that’s just entered public beta.” lol?

This is not a beta, this is a final and very buggy final version imposible to play where thousands of players are cheating.

The data about players is also false, there are not such amount of people actively playing, and therey less everyday cause of all this big mess.

I’m not sure how do this people catch money for this game and where do they invest the money when their admins do a very poor work, their programmers make a very shitty code and like the 90% of players are against the decisions they take. This is exactly the opposite thing they present to the media.

YES! IT ROCKS! You can spend gold just EVERYWHERE and pwn EVERYBODY !

All you really need to know about Erebuglik (our pet name for it) is this story:

There once was a player, a God among mere mortals, who was granted moderator status. He used his status fairly and justly, smiting the wicked and protecting the innocent. Finally, after years of mistreatment from the actual game staff, he snapped. His wrath fell upon the whole of the game. His password was released to the most depraved of the community, and the bans fell as rain from the sky. Country Presidents, Media Moguls, and even the almighty admin fell to this onslaught. When you run your game so poorly that someone outside of your control 1) has the power to devastate the game, if only temporarily, and 2) was pushed to that point by incompetence, it is a serious mark of bureaucratic idiocy.

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/erep-ceo-caught-bsing-in-rl-media-the-admins-don-t-want-you-to-know–1462748/1/20

typical alexis bonte bullshit

I want to add my voice to to many others who have expressed their frustration over service issues, inaccuracies in Alexis’ remarks, system bugs, failures in security resulting in hacking, DDoS attacks, significant amount of cheating using ‘multi’ players, and the 2 things that bother me the most; Real world
unabated prejudice and unfair play against certain nations reinforced by the actions and inaction on the part of game moderators and lastly, a flawed business model that fails to utilize external ads or other income producing means for game creators, thus resting almost the entirety of its income stream on players using RL money to buy game gold. In V1 the game gold simply enhanced options for players seeking advantage, in V2 is takes on much greater importance and can define survival or not. In either case, the extreme emphasis on game gold only reinforces the power of RL wealthy nations, thus adding to the prejudices and minimizes opportunities for all players who lack the means to buy gold, thus further shrinking the active player population. Without a reorientation and refocus of the uses of game gold this game is guaranteed to slowly wither and die, not unlike the citizens within it.

I can’t be bothered reading all the other comments, but I would assume they say similar things.

V2, or Rising, is a complete piece of crap. Admins ignored the largest open letter in erepublik, ‘We don’t want V2′ and released the game after taking no heed of anything wrong with beta.

All Rising is is a massive grab for money, and it will do nothing but drive away new and old players. Many people I know have already quit, and I know it’s inevitable many more will.

I have no idea where Bonte got his pipe dream figure of 1.8 million registered users or 90k people in a battle. There wouldn’t even be 60000 active players (no including the hoards of multi accounts that admins disregard, while banning the legitimate players).

@TemujinBC: They may have new curtains, but, do the carpets match the drapes? Furthermore, I’m not your friend, buddy!

I all seriousness though; I have been playing this game for over a year now and the only reason I am still playing is because of the people that I have met in-game. There is really nothing else special about eRepublik. It has simple graphics, poor customer service, numerous bugs, and rampant cheating. This was fine before as I played it as the free game it was and have never put a RL cent towards it. With the “upgrade” to eReublik Rising (aka: V2) the graphics may have improved and batles may be more interesting, but, now I am almost forced to use my credit card to maintain my eCitizens wellbeing after battles while none of the other problems have been resolved. It has simply become a matter of whether or not this game is worth paying for.

Regards,

Duke of Bruno

Terrible customer service and the admins of the game do not care at all about this. I have several tickets outstanding that they have never bothered to answer. The oldest is over 2 months old now with no answer at all. These tickets have been sent in to report bugsi no reply, cheating- no reply etc. I only keep playing anymore in the hope that someone that knows what they are doing will buy out the erep team and fix everything. I no longer spend any money to play this game, it’s just not worth it.

eReBUGlik Ri$ing is a disaster. Never seen so much bugs at one place.

The idea ob eR V2 aka Rising was brilliant. But the way how you implementd it is a terrible shame.

Military module is bugged, formulas are even more than funny (the most expensive helicopters are the weakest weapon on the battlefield), server is laggin and not responding, etc. etc…

Moreover your servers is loosing data

Your monetary exchange offer consisting in 1879.7 of USD at exchange rate of 1 USD = 0.025 GOLD has expired and the money have returned into your account. Visit again the monetary market to post a new offer.

Woah! Nobody warned me that if I won’t sell my currencies on the monetary market on time they’ll go /dev/null. [!]

The idea of Ri$ing was to stop deflation and overproduced goods. But… Raws are going down every hour, wages are pretty funny (especially “not-land” wages). We have the same situation as at the sunset of V1. Guys, is it really SO HARD to hire RL economist and balance this sick game?

Yes, We’re still there. Even with all this terrible BUGS, even with your incompetent MOD’s and administrators, you managed to get alltogether brilliant communities from all over the world. We are here for each other – for the people we know. and this is LAST thing keeping us playing this BUG. Because it’s not a game now. It’s creeping BUG. Do something before it’s too late…

smrtan
former enthusiast of eRepublik
currently extremely disappointed of the game

The ereplabs Ceo try to make damage control there is no 1.8 mill user they wasted 3 mill euros in the last update the game concept is good but all communities that people mentioned work out side of erepublik they try to make a forum inside the game but dont work good people hardly used it .
Is tru that 99% of content is user created but if you log in into erepublik almos the 80% of that content is about frustrating feelings about new version.
If you are invertor think tice if you will put money in ereplabs .
Regards

The ONLY thing that keeps this game going is the community links that have been forged off-site in IRC and National Forums.

Requests like allowing Country Presidents or Party presidents to mass-mail and furthur engage the community on-site are ignored.

Many are leaving and the communities which are loyal to themselves and not the game are moving away to sites such as VNations.

The concept of the game is great but without a basic, stable platform on which to build these ideas the game just doesn’t work.

only bugs are rising and greed

This game is one of the most bugged I ve ever played. Admins never respond to players questions and they turn this game into cash eating machine.

I’m grateful for the friends I’ve made through eRep as well, but this article discusses the game, which is a bit of a mess. Right now I can’t even log on without reloading the page and that gets frustrating.

We don’t need eRep to continue our friendships – We have irc and forums so we can continue to interact. That’s what many of us are turning to as the game creates as much anger as enjoyment.

I understand that this is a fun bit of fluffy reporting, but it should read “advertisement” at the top of the page as it isn’t realistically representing the game and its players. eRep is a profit center, not a gathering place or a community. At times it’s a fun game, but I find that I spend less and less time on it as good people rage quit and the bugs are left untended.

If it’s to survive, those who play it must be heard as loudly as those who look at the income statement or, in the near future, both may disappear.

eRepublik Rising? A million words couldn’t accurately describe how I feel about it. So I’ll sumarize-

What a crock of motherfucking shit.

A lot of the new features added sounded pretty awesome when they where writing about it but when implemented only caused more bugs(war module) or only where minorly amusing (time management module) or just annoyed me (new economic module).

deleting that first ingame article only keeps showing how much bonte fails in treating his costumers…

the only good thing about this shitty game’s the community, wich’s not supported or created by bonte…

and the comunity is us… so the only good here is us, but amazingly we are treated like trash…

erepublik labs’s really one of the worst companyes I’ve ever dealed with…

eRep has tanked really fast. Admin are only interested in taking the cash, they don’t respond to tickets and don’t sort out the cheats and the multis.

I’d take their numbers on active players with a grain of salt – there are so many players with multiple accounts (looking at you eIndonesia) that its become a joke.

If you’re planning on funding this game with more venture capital, you really need to take a long, hard look at the actions of these developers and their unethical behavior towards the game players – if they treat their customers so badly, imagine how they’ll treat people who invest money.

FAKE

Sorry for posting more then once but I have a couple more thoughts.

Not every thing on eRepublik is bad, the community is great but the game itself becomes rather repetitive.

Also from the entry labeled “Alexis Bonte”

“eRepublik is revolutionizing the way strategy games are created, distributed and played by leveraging the power of communities and the Web.”

You mean by taking away the power of the community right? I’ve had a friend who previously had no infractions banned for making a joke about using multiple accounts. Everyone knew that he was joking. Several people sent in tickets explaining the situation. Nothing was reversed. The Washington battle the article mentions may have been different if the new war module hadn’t had a major bug outbreak.

My list of bad experiences and good experiences with eRepublik goes on and on but one trend emerged.

The good experiences where due to the community. The bad experiences where often due to the game itself.

Again sorry for posting more then once. I promise this is the last post .

eRepublik idea is good… but there are TOOO MANY BUGSSSSSSS in this game.

And the ADmins want one thing …MONEY… nothing else. So if you want to lose your money and get angry.
JOIN e-REPUBLIK.

I have been playing this game for 12 months and it is full of bugs that do not get resolved.
You do not respond to players feedback about the game and thus the game sucks.
You have allowed cheaters with bots to destroy the game and allow them to prosper.
It is not a free game anymore, you need to spend RL money in order to advance in the game.
The new War Module sucks and crahes all the time.
Keep feeding everyone those lies management.

Admins ignore players’ feedback, they didn’t include most of the suggested changes in v2 (Rising). In the new version only happiness and time management are not heavily criticized. With the beggining of v2, the number of votes to articles immediatly got lowered – I think 30-40% of players resigned, because we cannot play the game without paying for it. Creating multiaccounts is now really simple, without captcha on registration. eRepublik fell into decline, more and more players choose clones of it. They exist, they are better than original.

I played eR since Jan 09 and I can’t resign, because something keeps me on the game But it’s not the game itself, it’s the community. I’m not 10-clicking, I prefer clones.

People is getting cheated by this article. The game has several major bugs which haven’t been addressed on the Beta version. Game lacks of a way to prevent massive botting as we have seen previously. Decisions are made “on the run” after damage has been done (remember “Isn’t over till the fat lady sings”?) blowing up months of work and tons of gold spent by the community. I stopped played but still hanging around for the community and the occasional trolling. The only user-generated content present in the game are the tons of rage articles against eRepublik administration, we didn’t asked for this war module to come up.

eRepublik has one of the most thought provoking, potentially entertaining and successful game ideas around. Unfortunately, the execution is poor, at best. The game hardly works, even though it is in a relatively simplistic state (compared to many other games out there, even other browser games that are more advanced, technologically and graphically). The game needs better servers, needs better programing, needs better ideas. It also needs customer service. The eRepublik Team seems to take their success for granted, and seems to believe that they “got big” on their own. Oh the contrary, dear Admins.

It is, in fact, the eRepublik community that has made their terribly executed game plan so successful. The Admins, however, like to completely disregard their community, which is also their customers, and where they get their money. They never answer customer support tickets, and when they do you get some completely vague response that does not help in any way, shape, or form. Nor do they listen to the community at all. They take no feedback from us. They do not listen to our ideas. All they do is focus on making more money. If only they realized that if they actually supported the great community of eRepublik then it would probably pay off in the end. When the customers are satisfied, the money flows.

Finally, the eRepublik Community. The game itself is hardly entertaining. The military module often crashes. The website itself is often down, even. The community, however… is really one of the only reasons to actually play this game. The game itself is pretty basic. The community has built upon it, adding non-eRepublik official aspects. Such as political ones. The community invented the Presidential cabinet. There is no option to have a cabinet on the website itself, only a President and a Congress. However, the community created this. The community has also created Ambassador programs. Furthermore the community has created official militaries, paramilitaries, militias, operation groups, etc. The community is so inventive and creative, and overall awesome. Unfortunately, the community receives little to no support from the eRepublik Team. Which is disappointing, as it is really the only good thing about the game.

All in all, eRepublik has an amazing concept, but lacks pretty much any successful execution. The only thing that is really positive about the whole thing is the community. In all honesty, I wish someone else thought of this idea before, maybe then it would be executed to its full potential.

-Alex

P.S. Perhaps you can learn something from Facebook games, like, I don’t know, how to listen to your community, or maybe how to just keep your servers actually running. Do that, then improve your game, please, Admins.

It’s a great idea with a lot of potential, eRep v1 was as well and v2 is, in theory, an improvement.

But there seem to be a lot of balancing issues and I don’t look forward to seeing what happens to new player retention in the next few months. I don’t know how a new player could ever be expected to fend for himself in this new version.

I’m level 21 and I can’t even afford the food required to keep my stats up, I’m burning through the money I saved trying to keep up.

The only way a new player can possibly get by is to be totally dependent on the in-game government. The in-game government and all the programs that take care of these new people are all created and run by users. The Alex does nothing to make the game available to these people.

In order for a new player to successfully integrate into the community, they must first recognize the potential of the game and seek out the off-site resources (often googleDocs) in order to discover the thing that will really keep them coming back. The community of players dedicated to their causes and working hard to further them.

The game is difficult to navigate, poorly explained (or not explained at all) and it’s difficult to recover from mistakes early on that happen because of these things. eRepublik Rising was a good idea, but as has been said, only compounds these problems.

Alex, you owe the users a great debt as we have done more to make this strong than you ever have. The first wave of legendary player quits have gone and the next wave is building. Rising can be an explosion or a collapse and which it will be is a direct reflection of the responsibility you and your team take for these and many other problems.

I see that the founder Alexis Bonte is a hipocrit.The erepublik Rising was made to suck up more money from the users,everything costs in erepublik in order to be stronger,you can’t maintain your wellness,so you are obvious obligated to go and buy gold with real money, to make Alexis Bonte a rich guy.I don’t know why he is lying in this article, i suggest him to hire more people that can manage erepublik because it crashes every hour, there are bugs everywhere,in big battles like 1000 players vs.1000 players the server is completly down.Make the game better(without those problems)and you will deserve our money Alexis Bonte. Sorry for my bad english.

You’re lying, Alexis. Your game sux a lot due to bugs and shitty war module. Thousands of players are leaving the game.
Give us back v1 military module.

1.8 milion registered ? Two words: multiple accounts. About 310 thousand are active and this is a sharp drop since May 2010 when eRepublik had over 330 thousand active users. Where did the twenty thousand users go ? eJahan, vNations and others of the kind…

With the “new war module with exhilarating graphics”, closely resembling something taken from Panzer General way back in 1994 who can blame them ?

All faulty features, bugs, poorly crafted modules can be forgiven if the staff shows any will to fix them or even contact their players.

How are matters in this subject ? The only way of contacting any of the administrators is by way of “Tickets”, which are sent… and eventually replied to (let’s say in a few months). Problems concerning the functioning of whole eCountries are often put off until they solve themselves or the applicants find a way to circumvent their problems.

Can a player criticise the staff in any way ? Both negative and positive ? A prime example is the article:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/rl-media-tricked-by-erep-founder-alexis-bonte-1462442/1/20

…which had contained both positive and negative critique (as can be seen in the title).

Regards, Anja (probably not a player for much longer)

It appears that Alexis Bonte, CEO of eRepublik, offered a job to the writer of this article over her twitter page earlier this year:

http://twitter.com/alexisbonte/statuses/7475080949

(screenshot: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2553/currofilealexis.png )

It’s likely that Marina Zaliznyak is a paid PR spokesperson to disseminate positive press and disinformation for a failing game.

Alexis, if you are going to practice bad business, at least disguise it better from the public.

Not really, erepublik sucks. Admins are morons

Some of you might know me, some of you might not. Anyways, thats not what matters. I am a player who has seen the dark side of the game, for sure. Let me tell you the story of a guy sitting in an Administrator seat right now:
A few months ago, me and a few friends planned to make a takeover of South Korea (yes, we succeeded). Then, the South Koreans started hunting for fakes on our side. They found someone with really strange donations. about 30*5gold from various characters to himself. It looked really strange to them, so they reported this guy, who was actually a moderator too. A few hours after, this moderator guy comes on our chat, saying that he got away with it with just his multies banned. They didn’t even take his gold. A few weeks after, this exact same guy got promoted to Administrator.
Does this game look fair to you guys? Do you all want to play a game like this?

“polled over 14,000 players, studied behavior, online forums and constant flow of feedback to come up with the new version.”

Haha, that’s great. Please start answering tickets, fixing damage done to people by constant bugs.
And start to communicate with players! What are the current errors, when will be fixed, what to do with them. That will make people sent less tickets and organize better.

And… oh, it’s so much criticize.

No he has it about right, that’s how many there will be in November 2010

I’m an old player, one of the (ex) beta giant.

I wrote many tickets and that’s the answer (after one month…) :

“Hello,

Unfortunately due to several issues we were not able to reply to your ticket sooner as the process has been delayed.
If the problem you reported is still present we kindly ask you to provide additional info.

Thank you in advance,
The eRepublik Support Team”

And its just one example.

I will not say v2 really sucks, many people already said it.

Just one thing…
I always used NAPOLEON since the first day admin implemented it.
I spent like 400 gold in napoleon for what?
Now with V2 str is useless so thank you admin, I wasted 400 gold.

Greedy admin….

Lack of proper game support, ignoring the community, bias of erep team, ignoring hacking of ingame congressional elections, and now designing the new game that is everything but free, and of course bugs, bugs, bugs are things that erep team can say they did since the beginning.

Alexis Bonte’s statement is ridiculous… 1.8 million users? Oh come on, even with all the multies you can’t get to that number. 90000 users in battles?! Each and every time war module had crashed when it had over 2000 users.
Regarding the extensive polling of v1 users, i can say even if you polled smaller part of users, you absolutely ignored each and every suggestion you got from them, as ussual…

That’s the whole thing, the makers of the game can’t have anything that’s not “nice”. I’m not one of the people who thinks the game completely sucks, yes it does have some bad things but there are enough good things too. But what really annoys me is the point that the Admins just do not seem to listen to whatever everyone says. Top Articles with 1000′s of votes (which means people agree) and they just get ignored or deleted? Come on!

1.8 billion players registered. Yes, but only about 1 mil actually play.

This is simply because any kid that has his dad’s credit card in hand immediately can rise to a pro level, simply by buying into everything. Any free player is instantly disadvantaged. And free players make up 75% of the 1 mil that actually play. #

Take, for example, the new military module. A free player has to work for around 4 days with a good job to get enough money for a weapon. Not a good one, just the bare minimum. Even if this player has trained for half a year, the person with the credit card will still win.

As soon as they get in, they can buy gold, and, in turn, the best weapons on the market. They already have cut out a mass amount of time, and probably hit more already too. Then, when they actually enter a battle, they can use the leftover gold to buy health packs. This instantly enables them to take out 2, 3, or even more free players (depending on how much they spend).

Overall, eRepublik claims to be a free game. Yes, in it’s core, it is free. But any paying player can instantly bypass all the extra time a free player spends. It simply doesn’t work.

Oops, 1.8 mil are registered, 300,000 actually play.

Unfortunately, because of the bot system used for banning, and the “you’re guilty until proven innocent” approach, there is no credibility in any of the actions taken by the admins to curtail unfair gaming. Furthermore the practice of tolerating “paying” customers is one of the reason why the administration is not trusted to make fair and unbiased decisions.

Not to mention the nonexistent customer service, where submited tickets are not answered for weeks, and at the end another bot sends a message that the ticket is outdated.

1.8Mil registered users is a shameless lie, as the game has 130K players at most, another 200K multi and dead acounts, and inumerous accounts that only registered and never even klicked a button.

The 50% drop out rate on day one is greatly “underestimated” to say the least, but to be frank is another direct lie, as they have the statistics, and it’s less than 20% that stay in the game for any length of time.

Not to mention that distribution of resources are done in a discriminatory way, thus favoring certain nations within the game.

All in all I’ll say that this article is a slap in the face to the whole player community, as it shows the emphasis of the administration of the game to fool new customers into buying a flawed product, rather than concentrate on fixing it for the customers they already have. The player community is the one that has created 95% of the content of the game and in return it has received little, no customers will stay for such a treatment for long.

eRepublik sucks and the admins suck too. The jews that make up the eRepublik staff make every edit possible to suck all the hard-earned money from your wallet, without any attempt to make the actual game fun and worth any amount of time. The only reason to join is to waste your time and to make some kike a very wealthy man. Thanks for listening.

-Stiefel_und_Hosentraager

I play this game for awhile now, and i must say that this v2 is the buggiest and the crappiest game i ever played in my entire life, first this flash is full of bugs, second the game is asking for too much money, third admins and developers of this “thing” don’t know how to write simple formulas for the economy so they screw players that invested a decent amount of money in this game, everything in the game comes to one thing and that is buying gold….

Did you EVER tested the military module with 90.000 players on it?
Really?

So how is it possible that it crashes all the time not letting me even to join, not to mention moving on the battlefield?
It happens all the time when several hundred of players are on. How is it supposed to handle over 1.000 players when there are thousands willing to join but cannot because of the BUGS?
People started to believe you want to get rid of us – less players and the servers may not crash anymore…

Very good movie about a military module. I wonder which war game it shows, because it is NOT eRepublik…
Yeah, it shows real battlefield for a second, but I think that You hope nobody will notice

I’ve played eRepublik for over a year now, and I have to say, that this statement that Rising has boosted retention is absolute rubbish, we’re losing citizens left right and center and although your figures (Which count dead citizens and the oh so numerous multi accounts) say we’ve had quite a large rise since I began, the reality is that some countries are seeing drops of up to 60% in their active citizenship, election figures tell you this (Unless they’re another eRepublik bug, which wouldn’t suprise me at all). The figures here are also grossly exaggerated, eRepublik has never had over 100,000 players it can call active, nevermind 1.8 million, that’s an outright lie.

Furthermore, the way citizens are treated has gone from fairly bad to disgusting. Tickets are ignored, accounts are banned for no reason, multis run riot, people who conduct gross misconduct are ignored. And this is a regular process, we are also now lumbered with a new battle module, designed to take our gold away from us (So we buy more of course), the military aspect is what attracted many people and I know of at least 50 citizens who are leaving because of it, and there are plenty more out there, but it won’t get fixed, it will just continue exploiting older players and killing new ones altogether.

eRepublik is a mess but the administration team refuse to sort it because they’re more interested in financial gain.
But this is a simple formula which they must pay attention to:
No Customers= No gain.

Retention is down hugely, the economic module made a once stable global economy fall into a massive unintentional depression, citizens are being treated like dirt by admins and old citizens are leaving in their droves.
Fix this, please, or face an empty game.

There is a new one:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/erep-ceo-caught-bsing-in-rl-media-the-admins-don-t-want-you-to-know–1462748/1/20

Let’s see how long this one survives

eRepublik Rising is FULL OF BUGS, crashing more then couple of times during the day (every day since release), and has many bugs in economic and military module.

Since new version it has become much more time consuming, and expensive. V2 requires much more gold and has bugs (or maybe these arent bugs at all) that take your gold for boosters or smthing but dont give you the effect!

GOLD – you get couple of gold from treasure maps (around 5-10 in a month), but you can buy gold for RL money with every possible Internet payment method. example: 3 gold = 3€, but you can spend them in matter of seconds (on about 25 different boosters of which you can choose only 2-3 for your 3 gold) so its not FUN to play against rich (in Real Life) players.

FOR NEW PLAYERS – BUG that takes your gold???

- when you register there is a tutorial that helps you get around. Through that tutorial you get around different places and need to get a job, work, train and such to open next step in tutorial.
- when you reach level 6 (in around 2 minutes) you get awarded A treasure map and it teches you how to use it – You use that map and get around 5 gold and you are happy
- BUT next step leads you to residential district and teaches you how to use a booster. It has automatically chosen MOST EXPENSIVE BOOSTER and takes your gold and gives you 40 happiness although you need only around 10.

That is a MAJOR SCAM from CREATORS OF GAME!

Game is only good because of COMMUNITY!

So if you choose to play this game, be aware of bugs and spend your gold wisely

Or go outside and play ball or something… it’s much more FUN XD

The new eRepublik version is a bag of shit , don’t register, don’t play , i’m a 2 year old player and i can tell you , you are better off not registering. Bring back V1 even beta was better then this shit , and i am sorry for the vulgar language i used.Hail EDEN.

Well said!

Im playing thise game for 2 years now and i loved it but the new v2 is a ****** ****** ******. The admins only made v2 to make money, to survive you need to buy gold and when you buy hope that you get it. The new war modul is full of bugs not balanced and it needs to change. Every 3 player is leaving the game and that is telling you all that you need to now. So if you are planing to play thise game dont until they made it work and and easy to play.

Admins completely lost control over their servers.

- money disappears from monetary market
- cheaters are not banned
- tickets with critical importance (also the one wrote by COUNTRY PRESIDENTS) are NOT answered from over TWO MONTHS
- and last but not least… today all citizens got (by default) citizenship of country they currently stay

Jeeeeez…. Turn this ***** OFF. Test it. Repair it. FIx it. And THEN give it back to us.

BUHAUHAUHA THIS ereBUGlig! THIS GAME HAVE A LOT OF BUGS! They destroy this game.

Many bugs! Admin don’t answer for ticket! You destroy game!

Ok, I’m starting to feel bad for Alexis now, as maybe this is the first time he has seen the unleashed wrath of the community. The fact that so many common themes are repeated here should indicate that they are indeed tangible and real issues that are causing subscribers to leave, and revenue to leak away. (Ironic that the title of this article was actually about player retention.)
As I offered earlier, I would like to open some dialogue to see if the company would benefit from some focused help on the business side of things. One thing is clear, there is a very strong community of committed customers/players, who might actually stay or re-join if issues were adressed…. where there’s life, there’s hope.
I’ll ping you Alexis. I hope you still want to explore options.

Let us go to vacation. Take a month or 2, FIX THIS BUGGY GAME and let us swim on adriatic coast or smthin

You cant go on vacation because theres no such thing in erep and your citizen DIES!

Good community game ..needs improvments

The communities are great ..the game needs the improvments

Considering that a great portion of eRepublik – Rising is as bug-friendly as it is, it should really have been released much later than it was. The war module is non-functioning as it has about a 90% chance to freeze up during the “processing turn” phase if the battlefield has any more than like 150 people in it.

Also, in an above comment I would like to quote ‘John’

“1. The game has 1.8 million registered users, BUT ONLY 328,337 (18%) OF THEM ARE ACTIVE.”

That number really shows the customer satisfaction that this game provides doesn’t it. If you want to keep people in the game, you have to respond to “Support Tickets” and actually do something about the problems that occur. If you don’t fix these problems that are reported, and keep up ignoring player feedback, soon you won’t have any players left.

Sorry, but EREP v2 sucks!

Ladies and Gentlemen here at Techcrunch,

I would like to bring an article by the administration of eRepublik to your fine attention:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/plato-s-retirement-by-carla–1464193/1/20

While most of the lecture is not to be found worthwhile, a single excerpt from the text in my opinion would summarise the attitude towards players very well:

“As your Advisor, I would advise you not to complain in media about every technical issue.”

I leave this to your good judgement..

PS: The aforementioned article that had been deleted was published yet again at this location:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/erep-ceo-caught-bsing-in-rl-media-the-admins-don-t-want-you-to-know-1-1464100/1/20

Regards, Anja

well, this game is not meant to be played…it’s meant to be buggy!

and it is! so many bugs, bots, dead players, cheats…

and they say its all good working???

what the hell???

This game is bugged so much, and runs so slow, it is not worth playing..also the military module of a web browser game, has requirments of Fallout 3…
I strongy DISCOURAGE you all from playing, until it’s fixed.

In the game 1800000 players were never. The game has a lot bug, and an admin is an stupid.

This article is misleading, terribly so. There may be 1.8 million registered users, but only 300K are active. There has been serious outcry by players about Rising, there was a campaign ran by players to quit the game, and there has been hundreds if not thousands of articles written describing disappointment of the latest changes. The war part of the game has also been criticized heavily, 90,000 simultaneous players at once? eRepublik has had trouble keeping any of the battles going, yet alone 90K players. This article is shallow, nothing to it.

Regardless of how well the developers think their game has come along, the fact is: The majority of active players do not like Rising, and it is the players who play the game, not the developers.

There’s 100k active players at max overall, considering two clickers and not considering fakes.

I quit the game already, due to the trashy V2. I’ve been played the game since almost the beginning until last week.
With V2 the Dear Mr Bonte, you officially killed the game.

I was curious about the shiny new “features” you’ve mentioned, i logged in a few minutes ago, here is what i did:
-i clicked on market
-i clicked on gold collection
-i clicked on My places- Uptown

Guess what’s happened….
NOTHING
All i got was the startpage after login.

Dear Mr. Bonte, don’t you have enough proof to admit that this game is a huge piece of s*it in this way? I know how important the marketing is, but please stop the desinformation.

The IMPORTANT FACT in all this discussion should be:
- How the fk did Alexis got so much money and how is he going to give it back?

PS: Assuming, obviously, that nobody will pay for playing a eRepublik Version 2 full of bugs.

Moderators, are part of the team administrating the game, so the fall within the “admins”, it is none of our concern how they divide tasks and so on, as long as the job is done, and frankly it is not getting done. However nothing changes, so it is the administration of the game that is ultimately at fault.

@Grainne

Indeed, Bonte wouldn’t have expected the kind of torrent of feedback he’s just received in such a public place.

If you’re still playing, contact me in-game. I wrote the article that put this one in the news, and if you’re in touch with Bonte I’d love to discuss those obvious, tangible themes that have come up over there 160+ comments.

SELLING EREPUBLIK VETERAN* AIR UNIT ACCOUNT!!!

V2 sucks hard.

Admin want from us only money.

This game now is shit. (x2)

eRepublik V2 is not just boring, lame copy-cat project but it also do not work properlly…you will just keep losing gamers if you do not give them back the V1 version wich was a huge succes. Simple, social evry day game for adults. V2 is as cool as mineswepper…

@erep account seller:

who could be interested in buying an account that can be easily beaten by 5/6th level tanker?

Greetings
Also Air Unit [11] Veteran*

LAWL! Fuckin’ lie, eRep team DOESN’T listen to us, we send billions of ticket regarding bugs, and they’ve sold an unfinished product to us, RISING is the proof of that, formulas are changed every day, the salary is completely irregular, military module is bugged, repetitive and laggy, gold is expensive and hard to get, tresure maps are every time giving us less amounts of gold, COUNTRIES!! Are getting busted because of bugs.
techcrunch, DELETE THIS LIER ARTICLE!!!

Military module is a garbage. Admins decided to use FLASH (the most crashing unstable solution available) so it looks like it – constant crashes, not being able to stay for longer than few minutes connected or not able to join battle at all. Erep screwed economic module as well providing wellness/happiness options for gold effectively killing the house market. Raw materials are consumed in thousands, everywhere is hyperdeflation and no solution to it any close. Whole V2 module is full of bugs & the great concept used for V1 is completely lost in the mess.

There are some quality comments here that really describe the current state of the game well. Anarion and Grainne highlighted the problems the community faces very well.

I like Rising and I will continue to play for the foreseeable future but it is getting painful to play the more I realise all the things wrong in this game since rising. So many players are very annoyed in game and are expressing it to the deaf ears of the admin which is turning their annoyance into anger.

Personally I hope the rollback V2 and start it again. I will be extremely surprised if they do this. People lost so much gold and didn’t do their migrations properly I am not surprised that they quit. In game gold becomes so valuable that people are willing to pay real money for it. So when a player works and plans and studies erep markets etc. for hours then loses all that gold they worked for during migrations it us understandably frustrating. This game is good but it is being held back by an administration that needs to start listening more to its players. Then we can get on the road to recovery and a truly epic game.

If the Rising keeps going the way it is now there will be nobody left but Mr. Bouinte & his group of poorly competent admins playing each other with several hundred multies. V2 was unprepared for launch, complete disaster in all aspects, no module is working as it should. You can pretend it is a competition to Facebook games but the huge difference in Facebook game is that THEY WORK while eRep engine is …. junk. No money from my pocket will ever go to this until they really hire somebody who understands how to administer servers.

And execution of V2 Rising is more like V2 Failing.

I’d like to mention that eRepublik is full of people with Nazi and KKK nicknames, newspapers and avatars, and they don’t get banned for that, despite many tickets sent.

eRepublik is a safe playground for fascist and racists.

V2 only wants our money. A lot of pleople are leaving Erepublik.

Like we say in Erepublik: V2= EPIC FAIL

erepublik rising sux very hard. Just “spend money”, admins love our moneys but game is still hard bugged.

New military module sux too. I cant play more

The bugs we are experiencing within V2 are overwhelming even the most advanced players.

Does anybody find it odd that the only way we could get a response from any eRep admin was to call them out in a public forum ?

You have an extremely dedicated player base and making them point out all the problems you seem to have been ignoring is completely unacceptable.

I have been borderline quiting for a month, but my brother keeps convincing me to give it one more chance. After seeing this, there may not be any more chances left.

This article sounds ridiculous, given the tons of lies provided by Mr Bonte.
The new V2 version is a complete failure. As many citizens in erepublik can confirm, I was the owner of one of the largest group in the game, with a nearly 20.000 gold value (if I had bought that amount I would have spent nearly 8000 €, but fortunately I’ve never spent a single cent for the game).
Before the V2 was launched, a beta version was activated for nearly one month to help citizens to get familiar with new game feature. The 14000 polled players may be the ones who logged in in the beta version, but it’s a shame to stated that they were polled…
Anyway, once the V2 was launched only 41% of active players (that is only 87.000 players) did migrate their skills: the other players had their PGs disrupted.
Moreover, the economic feature were completely changed from beta version to V2, making tons of companies completely useless. Wages are falling and citizens are leaving.
The arrogance Admins used in changing the game and their complete inability to understand their own formula (!!!) have brought many players to give up with the game.
Mr Bonte and his team have destroyed this game, pushed by their greediness. They completely forget players are not only a source of profit, but that they are first of all customers.
I don’t want to spend a single word about bugs, multiaccounts, cheating and so on.
I hope this site can highlight the failure of V2 in Erepublik.

I want to post an article, made on erepublik by me. If it is not permitted on this site, please forgive me and delete this link.

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/admins-we-were-your-customers–1450425/1/20

Best regards.

colly

Alexis Bonte is a businessman and he knows how badly the game is run, because he had to put “Marina Zaliznyak” on the pay-roll in order to publish this fantasy piece. There is evidence that Alexis Bonte at least offered a job to “Marina Zaliznyak”, the author of this article.

Stop paying off people to lie for you and get your employees to actually FIX eRepublik and to actually provide any sort of line of communication to them/customer service.

I like the game only for community, try to fix him.

Read this article http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-to-admin-erepublik-closed-ro-en–1462615/1/20 and read the comment of players.

This is an example, but are more like this in epress. Every day oldplayers leave this game and the new one stop playing after a week or just look around an leave. A newbourn cant survive without help of old palyers or baying gold whit realy money. Now honestly, who give real money when its start to play a new game online? Nobody. Its much easier to find a new game online to play. I tried to invite people in V1, but now whit V2/Rising I will not advise/invite anyone to play.

Welcom to eBuglandia = V2 = fail (that I think about V2/Rising). Not only me, all my frends from game think the same thing.

I think everything was said about the bugs and the huge fail V2 is. No need to go deeper.

I would like to point out an interesting fact. There was a player, who at one point was president of Romania, and had tons of insulting comments towards Hungarians, called us migrants, barbarians, using curse words and such. Did he get banned for this? No, he was hired as a community manager. Talk about fair.

It most be noted that the admin staff is 100% Romanian. They all play the game, thier friends and girlfriends play the game and has huge advantages when it comes to info and advantages (bugs hurting them negativly are resolved in minutes).

The moment a similar game will apera that can be competitive (as in a stable server), most people will leave.

The way that you would have to play the game is so that you can either be in the economic sector or the military.

It is no longer viable to be involved in both the economic and military modules at the same time, because with the new military module you lose your health much too easily and therefore are less productive as a worker.

unless you spend gold, this will not be your game. (good thing I was two-clicking for half a year to save up for this point.

i think teh game will die out, if the admins wont do a bit for the community

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mr Bonte-just hire new and capable programmers and maybe you’ll have the chance to solve all issues.if not, you’ll have a dead game and a 0 value business

Well, most of the active users read the top articles inside eRepublik itself, the number of comments HERE will most likely represent ~50% of really active users. The rest are innactive or left the game because of bugs, greedy admins etc. Alex dosen’t care what us players want in the game, he only cares about his profits, and, we, the customers got fed up. Most are leaving the game because this “rising” is Fed up and dull money milking cow.

Oh please, with all due respect, how many times GMs wrote about economy module and offered various ideas on how to make it better? How many times it was said that salaries need to be based on production, not plain wages? And what your team does? They implement $/hour system with no regard to actual productivity, they even add boosters that do not benefit the worker. ALL GMs hate giving salaries like this, we complained for over a year, and after all that time – you fix nothing. :/ Sure, new economy module is more interesting in some areas but it is also very bad in some others. Don’t even get me started on removing “my companies” link from the upper menu to force us to hit 3-4 pages instead of 1-2.
You are forcing our clicks, our actions etc. That is very BAD and you should know that, Sir.

Economy module is now making us big GMs unable to manage more than 3-4 companies. The result? Not enough job offers.

I know you were hoping for deflation of gold with new system, Lana was just a test and it proved “ok” as a concept (it did what it was intended to do for you, not for players) but you took a “bit” too far this time. You now have a large imbalance, happiness and wellness costs differ (VERY BAD thing because you gave us a different picture in beta and made us, unintentionally, to make wrong choices), you will have to change “your mind” for the third time about RAW consumption etc. Actually, it is so bad that I lost any hope of being a GM in V2 and all my companies are for sale (17 of them, 12 were/are Q5).

and this is all said with me excluding bugs with productivity, being unable to see job market offers properly from an org and so on.

eRepublik admins have violated the 19th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by deleting and supressing all form of constructive criticism to the game eRepublik.

We are being silenced. Most of us, eRepublik players, are disagree about the treatment they have gave to us. They don’t listen to ours demands, ours preferences.

A game that promised to be a “New World” have become in a parallel Earth, and Bonte, together with admins, are the dictators in eRepublik.

They have deleted various articles where we express our dissapointment with the V2, and also the articles where we propose some ideas and constructive criticism.

Can’t you see it? Bonte just want money and money. Before, we just paid to get Gold, universal eRepublik currency, but getting Gold wasn’t a factor to play. Now, we must use lots and lots of Gold to play, and more Gold if we want to fight the battles you mentioned in the very first line of the article. Who wins? Bonte. Who earns real money? Bonte. Who lose? Us.

We are the customers, and we must be listened to. Bonte and the admins haven’t done that, so… you still want to play eRepublik?

Think about it twice, and get ready your credit card…

Wow, Alexis, are you posting using an alias?

It is only CEO’s dream to have that much players. eRepublik team needs to fix foundations of the game and not just provide temporary fixes and bandages for serious disease eRep has. Instead of improving game mechanics eRep team introduced 4 girls (each one looks like a whore from the street) in blind belief their poor dress will cover the huge problems the whole game has. Please, we are not 13 year old teenagers opening mouth over every chick on the street. Many players (and most important the ones with the $) are much older than 25 and they don’t want to see any poorly dressed chicks. The players want to have functional game with clear (not-changing every other week) rules and war module allowing more than 300 lucky people to attend the battlefield (using Flash for war module is crazy). If you manage this the players will stay and then you have a chance for a good start. eRep Rai$ing now looks like a bad parody of online game asking to pay money on every step you move providing very little in exchange.

How much Gold did Bonte and the admins promised you to say that?

Yeah, and I like how you waste the money on your credit card! Naive…

Sure he’s hiring, but in a few months, after eRepublik go bankrupt…

Stop tweeting! Why don’t you fix all bugs, and make eR a good game as before?

Damm…

I was so excited when I heard that V2 is coming.
I said to myself: “Finally, I will play a better version of this game”.

Boy, I was wrong.

They implemented flash for the war module, which is basically a HUGE FAIL.

Bonte/George, please, talk to IT consulting companies before you make these failing steps.

Today, FLASH is outdated and buggy. It is not good enough. There is a reason why apple does not allow flash on iPhones. When I try to go to the battle on eRepublik, my browser freezes. And I swear a god, this does not happen often on my macbook pro.

So, please drop some bucks to professional IT consulting companies like Accenture. I know you guys have some experience with previous startups, but this is something bigger. So sacrifice.

Also, a good thing would be to look into Zynga’s way of doing things. I bet you have heard of this gaming company. Also, if you do things the way you do them right now, I guarantee that Zynga will come up with something like My Empire and nobody will hear about you.

And this is coming from a user who like eRepublik but annoyed with the quality of the game.

Oh, and some facts.

1. Bots do exists. There are tons of them. A single user can control 100 bots to eat, vote, buy, and fight at a specific time. However, not all people have bots. There is no need to have bots to achieve something in this game.

2. Only players with money win. Again, the game is free and you can beat anyone who uses credit card. Just be active, run for congress, or become Minister of Defense. There is plenty of Country gold that was taxed from bots

I was so excited when I heard that V2 is coming.
I said to myself: “Finally, I will play a better version of this game”.

Boy, I was wrong.

They implemented flash for the war module, which is basically a HUGE FAIL.

Bonte/George, please, talk to IT consulting companies before you make these failing steps.

Today, FLASH is outdated and buggy. It is not good enough. There is a reason why apple does not allow flash on iPhones. When I try to go to the battle on eRepublik, my browser freezes. And I swear a god, this does not happen often on my macbook pro.

So, please drop some bucks to professional IT consulting companies like Accenture. I know you guys have some experience with previous startups, but this is something bigger. So sacrifice.

Also, a good thing would be to look into Zynga’s way of doing things. I bet you have heard of this gaming company. Also, if you do things the way you do them right now, I guarantee that Zynga will come up with something like My Empire and nobody will hear about you.

And this is coming from a user who likes eRepublik but annoyed with the quality of the game.

Oh, and some facts.

1. Bots do exists. There are tons of them. A single user can control 100 bots to eat, vote, buy, and fight at a specific time. However, not all people have bots. There is no need to have bots to achieve something in this game.

2. Only players with money win. Again, the game is free and you can beat anyone who uses credit card. Just be active, run for congress, or become Minister of Defense. There is plenty of Country gold that was taxed from bots

Well, I joined this game because it was a very easy to play and it didn’t take much time.

Although I understand that everyone needs to make money to keep the company going, version 2 of this game, is taking that credit real money for in game gold to the extreme.

The only thing good about the game is the community.

V2 Sucks

The economic module isn’t real, i have a lot of food in stock around 800 in v1 i sell what i produce everyday.

Now the salaries are lower, de prices are lower, it’s look like the crash in 1929.

We need to spend gold in almost everything, but the gold income is lower that we spent, how we solve this?

the currencies value less, everything is crashing.

have fun…

Wow this is a joke. The admins have never once looked at our complaints or feedback. They just do whatever they want and most of the time screw over the players.

Don’t you guys see! The admins are tough on rules because people keep breaking them to get the admins’ attention! If you stop trying to get the admins’ attention then they would be nicer towards you!

Do you like Economic module? Because I do not like it. I have 3 companies and I just can not make any profit like before – since the start of V2 I have lost about 50 gold already. Bugs with extreme RAW consumption, loss of buying power of the players with new module, bug with 1 unit of local currency as a minimal wage per hour …… no exact formulas for production, loss of thousands of RAWS after V2 start, wrong productivity formulas, erratic money market with offers expiring and no gold/currency returning to the companies/orgs.
And military module? Pure disaster, you can consider yourself lucky if you connect to battle and won’t loose connection after few minutes. The simplicity of V1 military module is lost, fighting requires spending extensive amount of time, mostly just waiting for the end of turn or just reconnecting. I want to play about 10 minutes a day and go – no time for sitting at the battle for an hour or two. Again – terrible concept and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS, BUGS – that’s what eRep V2 is. It looks like they just launched it with a plan to “somehow fix it on a way”. This will cost you many players and the result will be ZERO profit.

Bring back V1 and launch V2 later, after all bugs are fixed.

@alexis

Are you seriously trying to tell us that the eRepublik team as currently staffed actually works?

I was part of the closed beta then the farce of an open beta. I sent in quite a few bug reports via email as asked. Do you want to know what I got back in reply? Nothing.

I’ve played at this point for over a year and I have not spent one dime on the game. I have very specific reasons for this.

1. In the first few months of eLife, I watched the Admin staff bungle one decision after another, allowing cheaters and multi-accounters to rule the eWorld.

2. The average time to get a reply on my tickets (Other than closed) is sitting at 1 to 3 months depending on how I rank the tickets (Strangely, LOW has the fastest reply time, High the longest)

3. Admin interaction is non-existent. When errors pop up they are either swept under the rug or a new “Rule” is placed that “prohibits” the error/bugs use while it still remains available to use.

4. The “Anti-Cheating” Project farce. When I can take note of over 100 multi accounts being created and yet the admins cant seem to eliminate the 100 extra votes they granted while spending “6 hours verifying” there is a problem.

5. Customer Service is a Joke. As I mentioned earlier, the average ticket time is horrid. If you mail the admin via email, you get no reply even if reporting a critical bug (I.e. Spoofing roughly 200k gold into the economy). Really this is a big issue that has already lost you a lot of business.

When I first joined eRepublik, I encouraged all my friends to join the game so that we could be part of a community.

Now, after a year of non-communication, bungled admin work, Mod Rage-quits that were never fully corrected, piss poor customer service, a year and a half of Multi-Accounters winning elections and battles by cheating and general neglect from the admins and staff I warn my friends NOT to enter into the eWorld. When they ask why, I give them an honest run down of the issues that plague the game.

If you ever want this game to be anything to be proud of, you NEED to listen to your customers. Read the games Forums (Before the moderation team removes anything critical of new features/bugs/themselves/their inaction).

You have a lot to learn from Facebook and successful games and frankly right now your not doing it right. Overly complex games with poorly working modules and poor customer service can be found all over the internet, usually closed down and bankrupt. Fix eRepublik before it becomes yet another foot note of a failed game.

Please sell to someone who cares about this game!

After reading through the comments, I had a few more observations about your product if your even listening anymore.

@Grainne… Please god make them listen and fix their errors. If theres any one person I’ve met in this game with the ability to do so, its you.

@alexis bonte

Please, Tell me your still reading the replies about your game. Please tell me that in seeing them, possibly for the first time, You are going to for once listen to your customer base.

I’ve beta tested quite a few games. Some major (WoW, D&D:O, TribalWars, Call of Duty: WaW PC, I can continue but those are the most recent) and some so small they wouldnt even register on your radar. In my many years of testing and playing computer and web games, eRepublik is the ONLY game I have ever felt like my opinion as a tester did not matter at all.

We went into Beta testing hopeful that the Administration would listen, take their time and that V2 would help eRepublik keep players that were leaving.

What we got was totally different that what we tested, what we were told to expect and what we were told to migrate our skills with. We got a product that I roughly estimate is only 65% out of what would be considered ALPHA status (Not even a beta yet).

IF you wish to make this right and start treating the customers like more than a credit card number, I have twittered you.

My name will be the same as it is here and is in eRepublik (Until someone on the administration team reads my comments and bans me for not respecting eRepublik law off site or just assigns random forfeit points because they dislike my opinion)

I’m more than willing to give you my insight and years of beta testing opinions and all I would ask in return is that you actually LISTEN and perhaps roll back some of your “Changes” until they are properly tested and working (Note: The Flash Combat module will NEVER work correctly based on how Flash itself works and can be crashed easily enough. For now the Wall system needs to be brought back and battles that were lost to bugs and glitches reversed before they cost you MORE customers)

Mr. Alexis,

I have been playing your game, eRepublik, for almost a year now, and I have to say I just wasted a year of my life staring blankly at the grave built for your company.

When I first joined eRepublik it seemed as though the game was traveling upwards, new countries were added, a bug or two taken out of the system, and some nice graphic features were properly implemented into the game. There were still my grudges of course, but I had just joined; and being a civil servant to your customers, I assumed your team would do everything possible to answer to the growing demand of the players. Of course, the greatest aspect was the community, the social interaction between the players, not the nice bread graphics or Plato popping in and out reminding us to eat, but the forums of countries and the IRC of nations.

I could have hardly imagined what a disaster late 2009 and the year 2010 turned out to be. Lets now fast-forward to “eRepublik Rising”, a game that declares “the future is in your hands”:

-A military module that has citizens crying out for the return of the dreadful “wall”.

This system has numerous bugs with its booster packs not working correctly, a hospital system that is angering players, resistance war timings that keep showing incorret times, and tanks beating helicopters…something that an erepublik insider claims is not supposed to happen. Above all, it is an overly time consuming venture, do you really think that I can be on that battle all day? I do have something known as a LIFE, and I would prefer having sometime to myself. Furthermore, your battlefields boast horrific graphics, for all the time your team spent on this, I would have expected 3D images out of my computer screen…its absolutely pathetic. If this doesn’t make you cringe Mr. Bonte, a module that your team spent almost a year designing, flaunting its greatness, and testing, then I can’t seriously help you. It is rated a bug filled FLOP, by players.

And while your reading, don’t make me go into the irresponsible move of adding “Lana” to the game.

-An Failing Economic module designed to prop up the Military module.

The administration, for some hysterical reason, decided that instead of adding in new resources and new items altogether, they would tear up profitable materials, give them new names, put them in the same regions, and leave it at that. Granted, the now ex-gifts module was broken, but with a few good tweaks it would have been a more cohesive system. Granted, the job market was looking pale and stiff, but now it is over flooded with worthless positions and labor costs are rising. I had a very high skill in one sector, but now I find that my particular job is absolutely worthless, and I had to become something I investing no points in when the game’s experience turned over to V2…it was disappointing.

The working system is now based on Hours of Work, not actual productivity, and idea that…once again your team ignored from Company owners who have been screaming “Pay for Productivity!”. Costs to produce goods have increased as well as employee wages, inflation to prices has resulted, and now economies are almost entirely driven to produce war materials. Has your team Mr. Bonte ever, even for a slightest moment…wondered if there is a large portion of your gaming community which likes war, but would prefer not fighting one every single day?

This new economy module will have peacetime national economies going into severe economic slumps, simply unfair for not wishing to fight in the latest war.

-Prostitutes at Every Turn

When Plato was up at the top of my screen, he proved to be quite useful, reminding me if I forgot anything to do that day. Buy food, eat, vote, work, train, etc. But now the helpful advice of Plato has been turned into an all you can see “eRepublik Rising strip club”. No offense to Carla, who seems like the more conservative type, but her counterparts at the Work, Train, Library, and Residential District all are all poor attempts of female pictures to try and arouse the male community of the game from the ages of 13-21. Do you honestly think Alexis that I am going to stare at some pixelized boobs while I click the “study, train, work,” and “relax” buttons? ….If you are still trying to guess the answer, it is HECK NO.

If your staff had any decency, they would realize how this is demeaning to not only the women who play the game, but how it also disgusts those of us who are under the age of consent.

-Stagnate Political Systems

I have been a personal advocate of more choice within the political system of erepublik, writing tickets, articles, and posts on the forums for changing up the cookie cutter system of weak presidents, 40 member congresses, and limited proposals. This has been an area of slack for me, since the political system was formed more out of a necessity for the economy and military modules than popular demand.

But ever since its inception, nothing has moved, everything has almost stayed the exact same. Sure your teams has added “presidential goals”, and “monuments”…but is anything actually different? Countries in RL have varying political systems, and erepublik, as the “new world” should reflect that.

Most of the things now: Cabinet ministers, parliamentary procedures, Speakers of Congress, Presidential Authority, Constitutions, heck…even bicameral legislatures, are now solely forum based ventures. Erepublik needs a major catch up to the community from the political sector. You could add civil wars, dictatorships, varying monthly terms of presidents and congresses, presidential/congressional name changes, more law proposals, Westminster systems, referendums, Veto’es….the list goes on and on and on. For the one sector with the most possibilities and add-ons, you fail to even see what is right in front of you.

-Multies Running Rampant

Do I even need to explain? This simply just needs fixing period…and don’t think a few captcha’s here and there will help. Actually responding to a few tickets can cut down dramatically on this instead of the usual “we will look into it” response. (ie “we don’t give a care” in player speak)

-A Unfree Press; Ignored Community

“Freedom of press is absolute (without breaking amendments 2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and 3.2)” -Erepublik Citizen Laws.

This is probably the most widely disrespected rule in the game, but no, not by the players, but by your own administrators Mr. Bonte. Back when the team decided to jack up the price of MPP’s for countries, a famous South African politician wrote a passionate article defending small countries and criticizing the decision. But what did your team do? Instead of offering their own feedback on the article, instead of respecting the right of a citizen in this “free society” to speak their minds, your administration DELETED THE ARTICLE and all other articles related to it. Then the admins proceeded to delete forum topics opposed to their decision and glorified their own topic to lash back at public outcry.

This was the first time I saw this happen, but it didn’t stop there, Lana’s inaugural was met with this same result, as well as announcement of the new modules. The administration is critiqued fairly, deletes the critique, and pretends it didn’t happen.

So, is your team is above criticism, it is above doubt, it is above all form of slander by the press of the erepublik community? It just decides to rule us from the top of Mt. Erepublik.Labs, making up rules to cover up bugs, circumvent your own regulations, and to silence anything said negatively about the administrations “lollipop’s, unicorns, and rainbow EUtopia”?

Ontop of it all, forum petitions with thousands of signatures are often dismissed, and tickets are left for months on autopilot “ignore”. If this arrogance is a reflection of how you would like to personally treat your customers, then I don’t see why I should play any longer.

I understand Mr. Bonte that you are trying to run a company, a company that seeks a profit from trying to create an online social and strategy game. But there are other ways to do so than by ignoring your own community of players, who want to have a good time, but are willing to compromise. If you just LISTEN TO US FOR A CHANGE, you and your team just might find we are full of a few good ideas, and willing to make a few concessions to have a good time.

I could get use to a few outside advertisements on the sidebar.

With all due respect,

MK

The “time management” is an interesting feature, but the new war module completely and totally blows chunks. I get kicked repeatedly, and as people above have pointed out, weapons and healing are stupid expensive.

Essentially , what the admins have done is try to rework their product into a game where you have to pay to play (for example, by removing the gifts of v1, which increased health) and by now forcing people to buy “wellness packs”.

The economic module is totally FUBARed (such as resource stockpiles disappearing and production formulas poorly tested), with little assistance from the admins to fix this.

Erep v2 is like a beta, except the admins took a playable, if not simple game, and screwed it up in the interests of money. These actions will cause many, many players to leave erep. Not to mention that the “facts” in the article are all dead wrong (as mentioned, the numbers are off, and v2 was “user-tested” in that we were sort of thrown in and asked to make the best of it).

If eRepublik had been designed and run by a competent, skilled team. Instead of the hugely incompetent, skilless morons that continually ignore us.

This would be the best browser game out there.

V2 sux. bring back V1

Fix bugs! I’m playing this game for over a year, and now it’s more buggy then ever. So, do your job and fix bugs admins!

I have to say, the game is terrible. I have played it for 2 years- I got addicted – and am quitting now, finally. But the admins are terrible:
-They can’t even code properly;
-They don’t respond to feedback;
-They don’t stop rampant cheating (which saps their profits!!);
-They don’t fix bugs quickly;
-Their bans are silly (a friend got banned for “bad grammar”);
-And still more! Ask any eRepublik user and he WILL tell you all this. The game lags, bugs, and the admins rushed out V2 without even fixing many bugs encountered in its Beta. In addition, they still can’t handle many users in a battle; the server will crash.

The game, in conclusion, is terrible. FOR GOD’S SAKE DON’T LET IT WASTE YOUR TIME TOO.

this is a bullshit! nothing in this game going well.
The name of game should be erebuglig ri$$i.asfjk
some failure:
booster in military module doesn’t work
Economics Module
sux!
evry word in this article are lies or they are talking about other game

with Regards

As someone mentioned above, the game seems to be in perpetual beta. There was not even a complete V1 (by a full version number you imply a stable release) before “V2″ came along, which is essentially just some nice gradient shades over an inherently instable architecture and application.

Those managing eRep and its direction seem to me just a bit too inexperienced and misguided in their running of things. Their changes usually run to 3x the specified time with no updates to users. They are too transparent in their hounding of players for real life cash; nobody likes to feel they are being ripped off and the vast majority will always just walk away.

That being said, those that do invest real life money into the game are paying customers. As a paying customer one would expect a relatively stable and supported product, with accessible channels of communication and assistance in resolving any difficulties.
eRep provides nothing similar to the quality one would expect to receive in return for handing over their cash.

This is a great game, and a great concept with a vibrant community. It shouldn’t be too hard to monetize – use Google ads instead of internal ads, for one – without just throwing shiny, cobbled-together, UNTESTED software at the customers and then jacking the prices up to I don’t know what degree.

A new CEO, some new vision, some experience in managing both a business and its clients; that is what eRepublik needs. I wouldn’t invest a cent of any currency until they step it up a few levels.

So much truth in these critical comments, many from people who have devoted countless hours to the game.

I hope the eRep Labs team takes them to heart.

I’ve long had an interest in social simulations… all the way back to B. Fuller’s World Game… and so was very intrigued when I first discovered eRepublik. Been playing for over a year.

Despite all the bugs and problems, I’ve stuck with it because it is still the best product in this class.

I’ll keep my observations limited to the technical aspects:
* The choice of Flash for the new war module is very troubling, imho, and reveals perhaps a deeper issue with both architectural decision-making and quality control.
* The oddities and inconsistencies in some of the API data structures demonstrates a need for improved design oversight and more rigorous testing.
* The lack of clearly-defined incident and problem ticket management system reveals some organizational immaturity around process definitions.

Despite these challenges, the overall project is a very interesting one. I wonder if eRep Labs might do better pursuing an open source approach to code & function development. “Enough eyes make all bugs trivial.”

Here is not like in eR, where you can delete all articles who said the true about this game. That de V2, rising its a Buglandia , that not worst baying gold whit realy money.

V2=fall, eR will die soon, if you dont change or repar quicly the things. My frend and I are we looking for a new game, something like this to migrate all.
Sorry for my bad english

Alexis is playing with the figures for marketing reasons. But reality is far away of what he claims. New version is crap, customer support is almost missing, game is on the brink of extinction… he is just spreading lies to keep ppl coming to his crap of game, while he should instead fire the incompetents that designed the new version. And the 300+ k active players they claim on the login page??? nobody can say how they number those, nor is that figure somehow audited…
If the owner is such liar, what would you expect about his game, in the end???

Alexis is a crook, by the way. He creates small start-up companies, puts out phony positive press by paying off small-time writers for blogs such as this, then sells to the first clueless buyer who believes the hype. He doesn’t care about the product–he only cares about lining his pockets. He has absolutely no experience with actually running a website the size and of the scope of eRepublik.

Please give up some of the money that you’re raking in and actually consult outside IT people to make this game playable. The current programmers are in WAY over their heads. Trust me, in the long run, you will make more money than by your usual dash-and-run strategy of business.

V2 has TRUE potential, but I really don’t see it coming to fruition when know-nothing scam artists like Bronte is behind things.

The only thing, that shows eRepublik in it’s real is the fact, that players have to complain HERE to admins, and not inside the game to even hope for there complaints beeing seen.

I am a spanish eRepublik user, i’ve been playing this game for 7 months and i have to say that this launching has killed eRepublik. Now it has turn to the worst browser game i have ever played, as it’s full of bugs, and now there is no diversion. Furthermore, my friends and me have recently stopped playing. Before, it was a wanderfull game, now it’s boring, and only for people who pay for Gold.

The open source approach is definitely interesting. I wonder if an OS clone is not already in the works.

Hello Alexis !

I am multi, one of many in your poorly secured game… but we are rather called “1.8 million users” My father is called “iMacros Plugin” and I have so many brothers and sisters, that even russian phonebook is not a sufficient source of our names. So my father gives us also number

Due to your awesome anticheating policy I have to reach 100 exp, my father told me so. Everyday I work, study, train and rest, because that makes me 8 XP a day. Yesterday father gave me a present ! It was treasue map, my father was very proud when I opened it and there was 5.3 gold

Anyway, my father said I will have more brothers and sisters, because this makes him happy… each day 10 more siblings are born and we are happy family which lives on separate PC… when I go to work, my father has to clean up mess after my other siblings – MAC, IP, cookies.

I have heard about mystic policeman… it is said he can see 2 month old logs about us, wow, father said that if we wait 2 months, noone will see what we are doing… but I trust me father, he has given life to more than two thousand of us !

Tomorrow are elections, father said I will have to vote for him in Kaliningrad, because he deserves it. I will do so, because I love my father.

Sometimes my brothers and I start doing something special, we try to connect to work so fast and so many times, that some of our sisters are not able to enjoy their flight over battlefield.. I dunno why are we doing it, but father said he gets free food for us if we do it.

Alexis, my father will be happy to meet you, you seem to be very clever guy, however not as much as my daddy is

Alexis you ruined the game with the V2

The launch of the “rising” is a very sad story in the history of the browser games. I don’t have time to write everything I’d like to say so I leave it to this.

erepublik is dieing!!

I really do not understand why such simple game like erepublik need 2.5 million euro to develop? http://www.ejahan.com, the clone of erepublik, which developed by small team with development cost not even more than 10k euro. This is a proof that Bonte is a very smart lie that cheat money from vc. Now the stupid vc now keep pushing him, so he had to make the game suck big real money from players.

“eRepublik closed a $2 million Series A round last year and has experienced exponential growth, growing from 138.000 visits in November 2010 to 120 million total last May”

lol

Are you kidding?
eRepublik rising will become soon eRepublik downing if it keeps going this way! It’s a shitty game, very poorly programmed, with a TONS of bugs! And for that crappy thing, they want us (the players) to pay … Well, I can tell you, that ain’t going to happend! I’ve seen this “anti-eRepublik rising” all over the “eWorld” and for sure, if you don’t change something and make the game playable, will be a total failure!

FIX the BUGS and make it a much more LOGICAL game !!1

At least BP had the good sense to send it’s failed CEO to Siberia.

Bronte, you, your management team and development team need stop the disaster you have created, roll back to V1 or a hybrid, which returns us to V1 War module, and perhaps a modified v2 economy and then pray.

Pray for an investor who sees the value and loyalty of the thousands of players who honestly want to continue to play this game if it is made fair and not solely dependent on taking money from college students and regular working class people, just to have a few minutes of escapism and fun.

Pray for an investor who will then send all of you to Siberia or or the Adriatic coast, anywhere but e-Republik Labs.

Pray your investor will set up a proper sidebar advertising so that the reliance on players to support you is reduced, thus smoothing out the inequities between RL nations on the EURO, or who live in RL nations with poverty in terms of currency valuation or the numerous other impediments to an actual fun game.

Pray that your investor values player input and perhaps most of all, is sophisticated in securing platforms from all variety of multi uses, ranging from automated software utilizing proxy networks generating 100′s of bot multis launched from individually generated IPs, to some dude sitting in his basement controlling a dozen fighters named dude 1, dude 2, dude3 etc. The use of multis especially the large scale generation of bot multi is nearly as destructive as the actions of admin.

Pray that this dream investor also see racism and fascism as some of the worse behaviors of mankind and that players who use names, images, shouts and advertising and article messages that promote hatred are actually perma banned so i never need to see some bastard using images of someones dead grandparents and other victims of the Holocaust or other genocidal horror, see Balkans, armenia, Rwanda etc. in some stupid article written to inflame and troll others.

Lastly, pray that your investor never ever lets you near e-rep again and that you never say such idiotic stupid lies as you have said in this interview ever again. A man is only as valuable as the credibility of his words. Your team’s failures over the last 2 years have shown all players that your words have meant nothing. Now you have publicly proven it for all the world to see.

Pray that one day, with a quality replacement team at the helm, this game will actually fulfill the greatness that every dedicated player knows it can. Good day, and hopefully, Good bye.

http://www.freemmostation.com/2010/07/erepublik-exclusive-interview.html

really unbelievable. read it.
ignoring feedbak here and writing more empty rhethoric elsewhere isn’t going to solve this.
is it?

I’m about to turn one year old in eRep and about to dump it…

After about 9 months of spending up to 12 hours a day via my phone and computer haunting it, building friends ships etc I deployed to the RL war zone… I even had friends take care of me while I was abroad so my character would live…

Then I come back to find out that all the hard work, dedication etc all boiled down to streamlined money grabbing and a total lack of QA.

Damn you eRep. You really did wreck a good thing.

You killed eCroatia with your bugged Resistance Wars. Pretty soon the game will die.

@Marina: You still haven’t fixed the Washington DC issue. Pages linking here still have the wrong information.

LOL! 105 redstars rate it bad. no single comment let through by the moderator yet. (and there are lots from this community.)
but gagging your customers doesnt bringem bak.
censorship :rulez:
naaaaah.

this was left by a prominent eCitizen IN GAME!!!

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Good Evening to Alexis and the citizens of eRepublik.

For Alexis and others who may not know me, I’m CrowdedHouse, a soon to be former paying customer of the game we know as eRepublik.

Alexis, tonight from my home here in real life Melbourne, Australia, I will outline what I loved about this game, my commitment to it and wear you went off the rails.

This is in response to the interviews you gave as eRepublik CEO HERE and HERE

May I first outline my commitment to the game that I did have….

1) I was the first person in eRepublik (at least eAustralia) to create a professional news podcast. This podcast featured interviews, news and even ads! Yes, eRepublik Ads in a podcast!

2) I also created the first english language 24 hour eRepublik Internet Radio Station. I was paying with my own real life dollars to create something that had hourly eRepublik news, music and shows.

Both the above projects would end up ceasing as I did not have enough volunteer support (or monetary support from eRepublik) to keep them going.

3) I was a PAYING customer. I use to buy gold to help promote my articles, set up companies for the party I was in and on occasions fund others tanking in battles.

However your poor customer service let me down in the end… I shall explain shortly.

This Open Letter is on behalf of ALL the fed up players in eAustralia that are leaving the game.

It will pick through your recent interviews and explain why we the players are angry with you.

Trust me Alexis, I know how to see through spin… after-all I work in PR in Real Life and use to work in radio before that (and yes there will be grammar errors, I’ve just finished a long day at work).

Let’s start with your quotes from Free MMO Station…

…eRepublik is a multiplayer strategy game world and we think it is so appealing to players because 100% of the game-play is based on their interaction with other citizens…

That sir is incorrect. Since the release of eRepublik Rising a fair % now depends on purchasing gold from eRepublik. As seen in the Military Module, to really have any effect on the battlefield, a player requires boosters. These boosters are purchased from eRepublik, thus gold being taken out of the market place. No interaction with another player is required here.

…Social interaction is part of the game’s DNA and many goals within the game cannot be achieved without the help and collaboration of other citizens…

I ask ‘what collaboration with citizens’? I and many others were not asked if we would like V2 instead of V1. The numbers clearly show many long-term players are now leaving the game because you changed it from what it used to be. Why ruin a good thing, when all you needed to do was listen to the players about fixing bugs?

We will keep listening to our citizens in order to evolve and provide them with the best game experience.

You have rarely listened to the citizens. The citizens said ‘fix the bugs’, but you ignored us and continued with building V2. One of your ultimate failures was the Battle (bug) of Western Australia. Despite Video, Screen Cap and Data proof, you ignored the players and created a grey area with the stupid ‘it ain’t over til the fat lady sings’ rule.

eRepublik Rising provides users with more tools to change and rewrite the course of history in the New World… …They have received the new version with enthusiasm and it is yet too early to know their reaction.

Sir, the criticism of eRepublik Rising has been damning. You’ll notice less open letters on the forum, simple because everyone is giving up. You have made eRepublik too time consuming with all the added extras. You have forgotten the KISS philosophy Keep It Simple Stupid

We have given so much importance to players feedback and involvement because a game can only be as big and good as its community of players, that is what is making eRepublik so good

What makes eRepublik so good is the players and the off-site forums. The staff of eRepublik have proven to lack customer service and the understanding of what players want.
I ask, why not run eRepublik V1 and Rising at the same time, allowing players to choose the game they wish to play?
You have FORCED players into eRepublik Rising, and at the moment Alexis, they are giving you the middle finger salute.

Let’s now see what was said in the Tech Crunch Europe interview/article…

…boasts 1.8 million registered users….

The question is, how many of them are illegal mutli accounts? The ones that players are complaining about, over and over again? The ones that now even fair rule abiding players are considering making because their own country has not been protected by admins.

…According to Bonte, the company polled over 14,000 players…

So 14,000 can make the decision for 1.8 Million? I point out this poll never asked if players would prefer to play Rising or V1 – so a classic case of PR Spin Fail.

…Rising allows users to decide exactly how the game will evolve…

Are you seriously kidding? You have not listened to the players on most occasions, so why now?
Players are complaining are your greedy gold grab and how the game takes longer to play, but still you do nothing except put out a pathetic Q & A insider. You have not learned.

Alexis, let me explain how this game has rapidly gone downhill in the past 2 months for the citizens of eAustralia.

Back in May there was 5 solid candidates running for Country President (Prime Minister) of the nation. There was excellent debate going on about leadership and what style of leader the country needed. Australia in a political, economical and recruiting sense was starting to go places.

THEN came the first serious Indonesian PTO attempt. This forced Australians to back one candidate only to save the country. It succeeded but since then the PTO kept on coming.

First few times a number of Indonesian Multi Accounts were banned… then later a similar and stronger number were not. What annoyed Australians is you did not explain your decisions. You did not point out any evidence of why these accounts in the PTO were different from the last.

Thus we lost our country without any genuine answer… we were screwed like the whole Western Australia battle bug all over again.

We hung on for version 2, but once we saw Rising was a money sucking game, players started jumping ship left right and centre.

Alexis, you must remember that eAustralians have been some of your most loyal players since the game started. We were dealt a raw deal early, our country was invaded and we had to wait for the RW feature to start trying to get our land back.

We had a bigger neighbour in our backyard and not much way around them (unlike the multiple options other countries had).

Finally, eRepublik Insider rarely acknowledged eAustralia – despite regaining our territory after a record 18 month enemy occupation and leading the defence it what was at the time the biggest battle in eRepublik History (the famous Battle Bug of Western Australia), not a word was written about us.

So now eAustralians… especially me are putting away our dollar and looking for a different game.

You have a very short space of time (a few days) to win us back and stop us leaving.

Australian money you’ll no longer be seeing

This Open Letter will be placed in the forums for you to sign.

I ask players PLEASE not to report this article, as its my third last as I leave the game and I don’t want the ban yet because of my next article. (maybe someone can make a back-up in case it gets deleted)

My next article (2nd last in the game) will be me saying goodbye to all my eRepublik friends and thanking them for the good times.

I would like to acknowledge, pjcosta1969, Skyra and Golgavar for donating funds to help me promote my last few articles – more gold or ads linking to my final articles would be nice

To the eRepublik players – maintain the rage against Alexis Bonte… remember it’s our time and it’s our money that make this game.

CrowdedHouse

this game is a scam, sucks big time, and full of cheats… tons of graphic PORNOGRAPHY as well

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This game is an utter failure!

Constant bugs creep up, for example
last week i was robbed of currency amounting to 130 GOLD (286 EURO) by the game itself, because of a bug.

No reply about the bug report i sent for a week…

eRepublik is affected by serious hacking attacks during the last week and the game administration seems to be unable to handle the situation. According to in-game estimations of different ‘e-countries’, the loss of the active players is between 20 and 50 percent and decrease still continues. It is balanced by the growing number of ‘fakes’, player characters generated by programs, for getting game advantages or expressing real-world political opinions.

eRepublik is dead, the economy is broken, battles are hardly functional now that theres a large decline in active players.

Countries are stolen and controlled by multies.. And guess what.. Admin don’t give a rats ass

1 example, the Ad module hacks had 900 gold stolen from e-Australia’s treasury, Admin only deigned to restore 100 gold of the stolen money.

@alexis bonte, If your still reading these (God knows you dont answer twitters or emails after providing your contact information to us for “Feedback”)

The War module is a dismal failure. Being coded in flash its easily hit with a form of DDoS attacks and the Admins are powerless to stop it. They claim they have fixed it but 5 minutes and an open battle proves they have done nothing of the sort. Its still just as buggy and still just as crashable (I.e. Turn Denials for defenders via modified Flash DDoS).

The Economic module is utter trash. Back before “Rising” a person got paid a daily wage based upon their skill which ONLY came from working. The more you worked, the better you were at your job. Now the market is in the toilet because not only were skills migrated POORLY, but you can train up skills for other jobs. You are now paid hourly and let me tell you, as someone who used to make 45 in game cash a day I now am lucky to get paid 1 dollar per hour for working.

The game is full of bugs Alexis and your development team doesnt know how to fix them properly. The last 2 weeks in the game have been ruled by hackers who have broken your pathetic attempt at security and continue to start wars/cause disruptions all over the game. The disruptions dont get fixed in any set way or on a decent enough timeline.

Hell the development team/admins cant even figure out how to re-enable Captcha at regestration which has lead to some 400k accounts being made just to farm materials and gold or win wars/elections.

I honestly hope your still reading these alexis bonte because its becoming clear that your administration and development staff are lapsing back into their 2 year norm of ignoring or abusing the end user. The Survey was a nice touch but then the results were skewed to attempt to sell a bogus product to a crowd of people who gave nothing but honesty about how bad the game was and got “The players like the game”.

If you do not fix the bugs/modules I suspect more people will leave for eJahan or vNations and less and less will ever even hear the name eRepublik in anything but a bad light (I.e. eRepublik is horrid, stay away from it)

V2 is good now, i have forgotten about V1

but!

THE FUCKIN HUNGARIAN PRICKS PTO’ed atleast 3 countries now using multis, one guy in particular called: Stadler City, he has created over 70 multis and he is draining countries money and resources, all of his mmultis have been perm banned but him LIKE WTF!!!

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lol.. its crap.  I am shocked this is still active.  This game is kept alive by multi-account holders who have figured out how to use proxys and MAC spoofing.  Look folks – for the price of buying WoW and playing for 3 months, you can get – well, not really much of anything.  You can get enough gold to click the highest training multiplier and maybe buy a couple of companies and afford to hire a few employees for a couple of months.  (I know – sounds like mad fun, no?) You can buy a few weapons and fight in a few wars. Well..   Not really – you click a little button that says “fight”.  If you want to take advantage of the social media aspect, you can have your pick of the litter of 14 yr olds, frat boys, and racists. I am surprised that no legitimate game reviewer has said – “This is crap” – maybe that’s because no legitimate gaming resources acknowledge this as a game.  

Bottom line – visit if you like.  there’s not much to see but it is a pretty well done site from a UI perspective.  They have an eerily similar feel to facebook – not sure if that’s completely by accident.  Probably isn’t.  All tolled, its pretty ineffective at keeping a person interested.  I’d love to see metrics on how many of those 1.8 million users are either dead or banned multi-accounts. I’m willing to bet eRepublik Labs won’t actually release that!  

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