1.5 Million players design the new version of eRepublik: “eRepublik Rising”
(22.07.2010, 23:04:43) eRepublik, the multiplayer strategy game world, has announced today the launch of its new version, ?eRepublik Rising?, which is mostly based on the feedback of its more than 1.5 million registered users. The first major upgrade (?eRepublik V1?) went live one year after the original launch based on the feedback of over 40,000 citizens.
Rather than taking the classic development approach for a new game -investing millions upfront before launching and rely exclusively on an internal team of experts- eRepublik decided to launch in 2008 with a team of 6 people and only the core functionality of its concept ("eRepublik beta") and to complete the game over the following 3 years based on its players behaviour and feedback. Today over 50 people are part of the eRepublik team, the game has over 300,000 active citizens and a huge community of fans.
Four distinct traits differentiate eRepublik from other online games:
eRepublik is the most social game on the Web: with 99% of its contents being generated by its users and 100% of the game-play being based on user interaction and not on any kind of artificial intelligence.
eRepublik is among the first of a third generation of online social games, whose growth does not depend on social networks but on their virality, which is built in the game's own concept and mechanics. "It is a mix between a social network, a strategy game and a virtual world with a much deeper experience than actual social games", states Alexis Bonte, co-founder and CEO of eRepublik. "It perfectly combines social interaction with fun game play objectives you can only achieve with the help of your friends and other players in the game", ends Bonte.
eRepublik also has one of the highest stickiness or DAU / MAU (Daily Average Users / Monthly Average Users) ratios in the online games industry, 42%, which means that its citizens play an average of 13 days out of 30 every month.
eRepublik offers online gamers a set of unique values. Players love eRepublik because it offers them the opportunity to play in a mirror version of the real world, feeling they are part of their e-countries and being able to become what they always wanted to be in the real world and make a difference in this new world.
eRepublik Rising provides users with more tools to change and rewrite the course of history in the New World. "Players will find new strategies, new industries and product customization, new professions, a new war module including new weapons and Player vs Player fights, and an improved time management tool to organize their daily activity", explains George Lemnaru, eRepublik co-founder and COO.
The new version of eRepublik is the result of many inputs:
One year of marketing research through surveys.
eRepublik Insiders (official in game bulletin with more than 140,000 subscribers and thousands of feedback comments per article).
Monitoring of the most voted articles: More than 50.000 newspapers in eRepublik.
Monitoring external forums, chats and blogs: There are hundreds of external fan sites
Follow up of Twitter.com/erepublik and Facebook.com/erepublik fan pages feedback.
Practical lessons from the launch of new features: trial & error learnings.
eRepublik ist ein Massively Multiplayer Online Game, soziales Netzwerk und strategisches Browsergame. eRepublik beruht auf einer parallelen Welt, auch The New World genannt, in der Spieler, die als "Bürger" bezeichnet werden, lokalen und nationalen Parteien beitreten, Wirtschaftspolitik vorgeben, Zeitungen schreiben, Unternehmen gründen, arbeiten, an den Märkten spekulieren, trainieren und Kriege mit anderen Ländern führen können.
eRepublik verbindet Social Networking und Strategie in einem einzige browserbasierenden Spiel, in dem Spieler vor dem beitreten das Land wählt in dem er gerne spielen würde. Jeder dieser Staaten ist nach einem einem echten Land benannt und an der selben Stelle platziert.
Das eRepublik Team steht im engen Kontakt mit der Community um das Spiel ständig zu verbessern.
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