Madrid, Spain based startup Erepublik is aiming to make its mark in the online gaming community with a model that combines MMOG and social network.
At its core, Erepublik is a massive online multiplayer social strategy that aims to be intricate and accelerated enough “to attract a spectrum of both fanatical and casual gamers.” Players can be politicians, soldiers, entrepreneurs or journalists in different countries, and much of the environment is user generated. The game is still in invite only beta testing, but has 10,000 beta testers from 43 countries currently playing the game. A key pitch of Erupblik is the time required to play the game: 14 minutes a day.
Erepublik’s business model is based on a mixture of the sale of virtual goods, and advertising.
Erepublik has taken €200,000 in angel funding to date and is in the process of closing a further €550,000 round. Management includes CEO Alexis Bonte from lastminute.com and CTO George Lemnaru from Tevin Solutions.
It wont appeal to hard core gamers but that’s not the target market; a time poor MySpace/ Facebook generation who prefers their gaming less full on seems to be the target. It will be interesting to see how it grows in the coming year once it fully opens to the public.
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I play Erepublik since the beginning, that’s a great and very promising web game.
If you want an invit, email-me at jonathan_fh (at) yahoo.fr
m a nucomer in erepublik.so almost novice.it is written above in wiki pages dat “A key pitch of Erupblik is the time required to play the game: 14 minutes a day.” wud u plz inform me wat does it mean?? actually i have seen dat it needs an entire day to complete a day not only 14 minutes.plz inform me.whether there is any misunderstanding in my mind?
It’s fairly similar to what we’re doing at socialbang.com in mixing social networking and MMOG style play. Social Bang has a dynamic real time graphical interface so in some ways it more game like, but it’s less of a strategy game than erepublik seems to be, so I think we targeting a slightly different market.
Socialbang has only very recently been made available online, but it’s open to public now in Beta at socialbang.com
It will be interesting to see how this space develops over the next few years.
We are in need of french citizens =) Got invites email me : meza404 -at- gmail
13 invites stand for YOU !
Mail me : purplehaze.whooper “at” gamil.com
Si buscas una invitación, envíame un mail a lintkaurea@teleline.es
Además obtendrás salud extra!
Everything seems turnable into social networking these days…
I will be in san francisco from the 14th to the 26th if you want to meet mail me alexis AT erepublik COM
I love these types of sites and think they have a good future. I think they will become bigger as the mobile web starts to rise.
I am working on one at the moment so I am biased but the overhead is a lot lower than building a tradiional computer game.
Very cool and interesting concept, can someone email me an invite please? henry@collegemogul.com, would love to play with around with it.
http://www.collegemogul.com
3 invitations left, give me a mail howtobewebmaster@gmail.com
2 start ups from spain in 2 days!!! Hooraaay!
Opa España!!
Great game, join us in the new world.
Invites available at http://www.myerepublik.com
if anyone has invite left please send me at atencorps (at) mail dot com
thanks
@meza: why is there such a big need for French Citizens? You guys want to invade Germany?
I’am love erepublik!!! i have 2 companys
Erepublik certainly has a lot of potential, I can definatley see it being the world’s number 1 browser-based MMO game.
@Cristi : you just ruin my effort to keep the invasion top secret.
how’s that spain based? George Lemnaru is romanian and Alexis Bronte is french doing some business in romania too…
They have offices in Madrid ( http://www.erep...ublik-stickers/ )
Could someone send me an invite, if they’ve any left?
Cheers-Co
post a email adress and i will send you an invite
i also have 4 invites left…if someone needs one, mail me at arko_ovidiu@yahoo.co.uk
I’ve been playing for a couple of weeks now. The game started out OK, but after the war module was introduced, and the USA started getting their butts kicked, the admins of the game stepped in and started cheating in favour of the Americans. Believe it or not.
The game isn’t fun anymore, the admins don’t want to lose their American customers, so they’re doing all they can to help them, included allowing the USA to cheat unpunished, giving them extra gold, and pausing wars for days so Americans don’t get swept off the map. The game turned into a travesty over the last few days. I’ve decided to quit the game because of American favouritism. I urge you not to waste your time playing a game where the makers have put the ‘fix’ in.
@Honest John
Hello there! I am myself an active user on eRepublik and although I’m neither american, nor a fan of americans, I do not agree with your comments (are you canadian, by chance?…btw, the war he was talking about is between USA and Canada). It was a bug in the system related to the war module which needed to be fixed before resuming the war and that was the reason for temporary suspending the battle.
Nevertheless, despite the existing bugs of the system, I still find this game very interesting and complex.
If any of the readers need an invite, please send me an e-mail at musketi@yahoo.com .
All the best.
@Honest John – there has been some bug exploitation on both sides, I’m sure you know that. Putting the war on hold was a fair way to give the admins time to fix some of the bugs, I certainly don’t see any favouritism in the way things have been handled.
Yes, there have been a fair few bugs in the beta that have been a real pain – but no-one has tried a game of this type before and it’s quite tricky to know what implication even small changes can have when you are dealing with thousands of real people being the actors in the game. There is no ‘AI’ at all.
If anyone need an invite, send me an e-mail at dave_db at gmx.de
But why so few nations? Not even Singapore???
I have 5 invitations for 5 people intersting in erepublic game.
Mail at liviu_np@yahoo.com
I contest the “first massive online social strategy game”, to begin with. All strategy games that are meant to be played online specifically against other users, and happen to be Government Simulators as well, are social networks as well. I take for, for example, Cybernations, Simcountry and, to some extend, NationStates. These games live from their playerbase, not from their functions.
What you are doing is to taking it to the next and not much further, I must say… The only thing that I see has an improvement is the friends list, unless I’m missing something.
Also, perhaps it’s just me, but I would say the management does not possess the experience or the skills to manage a game of this genera or size. They have made several mistakes as admins, they do not have their limits or premises prioritized, they keep doing the same mistakes.
The concept of the game is nice. The game itself is not too shallow or deep. It’s rather simple, to be honest.
It focuses mainly on the interaction between players, and that is usually said to be unlimited, so the game will be as interesting as its players and as limited as they wish. However, that interaction has been fuelled by hate and strife for a long time now, and the players that are already established may gain a tendency to reject the ones, as it happens with all games.
Nevertheless, it is a welcome addition to the internet.
Timeu
send me a message at onuadryann@yahoo.com
I play Erepublik since the beginning, that’s a great and very promising web game.
If you want an invit, email-me at:
GHAFOURI.MOHAMMADREZA@GMAIL.COM
Erepublik is a good experiment gone bad. It is probably the most «bugged» online game around, and it is based on a distorted society model, where the only way to survive is going to War.
Also, it became a world network of hate, where nations are randomly created, and can be taken over if a number of citizens decides it.
In Erepublik, citizens can’t die, but the main objective of the game is to go to war.
As a political simulation it is a disaster.
As a wargame it is the worst in History.
Astonishing, how much the development has been costing.
But I think the political online game http://www.ars-regendi.com should also be mentioned
After leaving the game 9 months ago, I decided to give eRepublik another look just a couple of days ago to see if things had changed for the better yet. It couldn’t have been better timing.
The game is in a shambles because the admins have allowed cheating to run rampant. It seems some ’snakes’ have been exploiting a bug where they can create in-game gold out of thin air. They’ve been doing it since forever and the game admins have only figured it out a couple of days ago. The game economy is in the dumper, wars have been won and lost because of phony gold subsidies, and most of the worlds development has been founded on dirty money.
Ultimately the honest folks that played the game correctly this long, are the ones that’ll be punished. Months ago, I reported obvious cheats, explained to admins how they were cheating, as well as a few other things. My pleas fell on deaf ears, and I decided to just walk away.
The admins currently have 2 choices, restart everything from scratch, or continue with a world that’s been formed and is still run by the cheats.
/begin Nelson laugh
Too many bugs, haters and cheaters.
If you have to start no worth your time.
This game sucks. It takes a really long time to get started and there is almost nothing to do. I found it more interesting to create multiple user accounts and play different characters in different cities during this slow stage. This resulted in a permanent ban.
Crazy. The only way to make the game NOT BORING, results in a permanent ban, with no warning. You lose everything, all your time, etc, money you paid something for it, etc
Stay away. This game is a joke and probably some excuse for Romanians to steal your credit card info. I’m telling everyone I know not to waste their time & money.
It’s a shame because the game was actually FUN with multiple accounts. With one, its tedious
Join the game, but first ask for invitation at my e-mail: portikk@yahoo.com
Thank You
billybobbruno,
I dont agree you, multi account spoil the fun of game.
But i totally agree you that, a boring and take your life time to play type game like Erepublik, without using multi account = no life
That is not your problem, it is game design problem. I do what you did, I tell everyone i know stay away from this boring game.
Btw, I am waiting another game from Travian company, which similar to Erepublik. but it is not boring, even a new player will be guaranteed few hours play time. I am not sure the detail but someone working there told me
Great idea, bad implementation.
Game bugs, game team ignorance, server hacks,… all that is enough not to pay for their in game add-ons and not to play game any more.
Really disappointed after 6 months of play and huge promises from admins how they will repair and control the game mechanics. Big words, no implementations!
Better find other game to play.
Trust me, Erepublik is boring. It is definitely wont become the world first MMO browser game.
If you are new player, you can do only 2 things “work” and “train” within few weeks.
And this game has nothing, suck game play , suck technical, suck coding, but it is very smart to use players love feeling to their real life country.
160k active players are consider very moderate, and some more this game already running more than 1 year.
One example, a simple game in facebook: mafia wars, it got 4 million active players per day. So 160k is actually a very small figure compare to that.
Oh, btw, Erepublik soon will got a strong competitor, a similar web game from Travian company but it is more fun, it got what Erepublik has and it got even more, soon this October it will be released.
I’ve been playing for a few months, and I agree with the above – erepublik is a really good idea that suffers from bad coding and poor execution. It’s also really, really boring for new players – Not to mention the level of customer support provided – it leads to an atmosphere where nobody really trusts the administrative team. It might get better in a few years, but it’s worth giving it a wide birth for now.
suks bein a new player but has more thngs to do when u lvl and some fun i gess…