Why do we play this game?
Pat Harper
Today I stood in my kitchen making a lasagne.
A thought came to my head, why do I play eRepublik? I have been playing the game since January 2012, and I still have no idea why I stuck with it. I am a lover of RTS games such as the total war series, which I have found that other players also love, but maybe it's just coincidence?
I was first invited to the game by a friend who wanted to get the Society Builder medal, and my initial intention was to get to level 10 and quit. My friend was shortly banned afterwards, but I still continued playing. What I can’t understand is what kept me going? In my early days of eRep I had no real friends, I wasn’t involved in the community at all and had no idea how to play, yet I still clicked away every day.
The economy was much better then, gold was selling for about 3000 CC and as I had no guidance I spent it all on health. Don’t laugh, you all did it once too. Anyway I continued clicking away until about July time when I became Captain of my military unit. I became a little more involved with discussion within the MU but that was it.
The first time I actually got playing properly was August time. I still had a Q1 free training centre, say is why I have such low strength, however since I have got involved in discussion and it safe to say the MAIN reason I am still playing the game is the community, however there must be something else to make me carry on for over half a year without having a clue. Personal merit? Everyone loves showing others what achievements they have been awarded, which is the main reason we get so annoyed when someone takes a battle hero which you were going for. People like evidence of the hard work they put in.
I have been recently elected as PP of my party and am the previous 2nd commander + commander of 2 different MU’s. Is it the fact we have the opportunity to be part of political and military organisations which we will never have the chance to do in real life? It is human nature to want to be the best, and in the confines of society the average person will never be a leader of a party or General of the Army, yet along a country president.
What about the stupid missions? We are constantly being played with by the admins. ‘Lol guys this will really piss off the community but the fools will still buy gold to get it done.’
Yes they are all mocking you. Every single post on their facebook page is spammed with ‘FIX ECONOMY’. Yes, the admins know full well that the economy is screwed, shouting about it isn’t going to fix anything. Through all of this we STILL keep playing this game. Another thing is the servers. I have had this screen for the past 40 minutes:
So, we watch people sensible enough to leave but do nothing ourselves. Why? Why do we continue playing? It isn’t fun, especially being wiped by Spain. We put up daily with internet keyboard warriors, people scaring people out the game with mass PM’s and insults. People complain, people buy votes people still fill up the eLab bank accounts. I have probably spent around £250 on this game, I ask myself why every time. Because it says ‘NEW OFFER ONE TIME ONLY’? Or is it something more?
It’s food for thought at the least. I know for a fact I will continue playing this game even though I criticize it daily.
TLDR: Why do we play this damn game?
- Pat Harper
Comments
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I think you would have enjoyed V1 version of this game ..
I heard it was a lot better
yea it was fun
..but yea this version is eVisapublik
It annoys me the missions require gold..
Or even beta. It was a mess, but the community has never been as good as it was back then.
It was the best. Rising drove me to quit, but yet I came back. The current game is better than rising, but not by much.. lol
Just try and enjoy it the best you can ye soppy git
You are the reason 🙂
*cries* Don't hold me responsible! I won't be able to sleep tonight!
i was a 2 clicker for 2 years and a bit hmmmm if i knew how to tap into 2 clickers i would be keeping that very secret.....
V1 was much better, I miss it.
and : http://tinyurl.com/oxl2gfz :3
Especially when there are better games to play! 😉
see: http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/4480645
I haven't had the time to take too deep a look at World Alpha. It's basically eRep v2, no?
Having a go at it now
Strength and Honour
erep has been messing up big.
But when you end up with that screen, be sure to erase the s in https so it's not trying to enter a secure website. It's been working for me when that happens.
The explanation for completing missions and daily tasks, achieving accomplishments, continuing streaks, etc. is the same reason why people play Farmville.
There is a feeling of accomplishment when we receive an award for completing a task. Even when the task is meaningless, the amount of reward associated with monetizes, and thus values, the worth of the task.
But I stopped playing FarmVille 🙁
That's when you realized it's a waste of time and you have better things to do.
Like eRep? 😛
There was a President of eCan once that made youtube videos, I watched em all the time. I remember him being a good president
'Twas Jacobi, the God Emperor of eCanada.
right, I quit near the end of his term(s)
A good player with a nice fedora. IIRC in one of his campaign videos, he did it all in French. Of course, this was back when there was a prominent francophone population in eCanada (and when eCan articles were available in both official languages). Good ol' days.
Seems like there was an actual game with strategies back then, seems nowadays there isn't any strategy
great article Pat
I think I keep playing this by sticking to the hope that at some point in the future this game will return to its less crappy state of a few years ago.
We all share the same delusion.
STFU, Noob, and buy gold
http://www.erepublik.com/en/get-gold/gold
~_^
When one considers the heights of glory this game had acheived (the first and second battles of Ontario, California, When Poland first conquered France, the battles of Heilongjiang and Karnataka....
One can only facepalm... sigh... weep openly at what has followed.
;___;
IIRC I joined the game during Hello Kitty
I read this with the scary feeling my mind was being read. WHY AM I STILL DOING THIS? I keep thinking "It could be Soooooooooooooo much better and mebbe if'n I waits around a bit it will get there..."
How much longer will I wait ....
Stay tuned (or iz dat tooned!?)
After repeatedly smashing my head against my computer screen I have come to the conclusion your "Stress Reduction Kit" is faulty.
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really interesting
erepublik is one of those games you love to hate but can't stop playing, or it is for me anyway
Oh bugRepublik. It wouldn't let me vote this article up.
I still play this game because I still believe that one day the community is going to be able to set aside all the pettiness and just work together for the common good. I know this might seem fairly naïve, especially considering where we've come from and gone through, but I look at our MUs and the generosity of eCanadians and my hope is restored.
Really, if we pooled all our resources together - especially those of gold buyers - and had a fully bonussed ally willing to take some of us in, it would only be a matter of months before we had everyone fighting and gaining strength at the near maximum that can be done without buying gold. I'm talking having all the food we need for fighting and only using Q7s and even using the three cheapest training centers maxed out every day.
You're right, and the Spanish wipe isn't doing anything to help that. I think once we are free again we will see some activity and real advancement, as well ofcourse as learning from our mistakes.
I train and work then log off.. 🙂
we can tell
I play cuz of you Pat...
And I play cuz of you Wayne. We are eFamily init
I got all my sisters with me...
Dunno, Leo is one of those Aunts that buys the wrong present and calls you fat.
he buys em just to piss you off and truth be told, you have been piling on the pounds lately. It's just his sick, twisted humour. But who are we to judge how a man gets his kicks?
Some men Mr.Wayne, just want to watch the world burn.
That sentence worked on so many levels
Posted this on their page. I know whining won't solve shit, but I can't be the only one that thinks that a paying customer (Mind you I haven't much lately, but I've dumped quite the number of dollars into ereplabs bank account) should have a right to voice his displeasure of the product he's paying into.
"We want a revamped economy. Not Global Warming. Not A Kidnapped NPC no one cares about. Certainly not missions that only Visa warriors can complete. We don't want Guerilla Warfare, or anymore Qualities of food and weapons. We don't want a new map that's buggy as all hell. We, as paying customers, want a fixed economy. Without us, your game fails. Yet time and time again, you shaft the everloving shit out of us. You give us *Promotions* that only benefit the rich. You shaft the smaller countries to put a smile on the superpowers. WHAT THE FUCK PLATO? I've poured a good amount of money into this game. It's not right that you put bandaids on the shit that's not broken, and let the shit that is broken simply bleed out."
And it will just fall onto deaf ears.