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I don't see graphics being an issue, ppl still play RO even. I'd say Sro graphics are already outdated though, but most ppl don't choose a game based on graphics, as long as it doesn't look too bad.

• Getting to level cap in WoW is actually harder than SRO since it involves reading comprehension or some traveling, actual use of your brain a little, not just find a spot without bots then start pressing 123 for infinite times. Just because it takes less time to reach cap in WoW than SRO doesn't mean it's any easier.
• It isn't just the management that sucks in SRO, the whole concept and content in that shit frankly just stinks. I wouldn't call the whole trade and thieve crap scenario anything close to content.
• Character builds in WoW is clearly more superior than in SRO, and also cost way less to reset builds.
• Not only the end game content is virtually unreachable, it is also non-existent.
• No rated PvP, fighting in shit colored capes outside of a town is nothing close to decent (or anyhow near balanced) PvP.
• PvE practically consists of braindead tank & spank, kill whatever you can as many times you can, including bosses.

TheKnight, actually play WoW before comparing it with SRO. Whatever you listed for WoW made you look like you never even tried WoW trial, arguing base on surface knowledge... urgh.

Check the most populated MMO list, notice how P2P MMOs are listed at the top? That's because F2P MMO gaming concept is just pure failboat. Blizzard won't even take a peek at SRO or anything similar. Fact is good game requires stuff such as actual content and maintenance, and those require a steady inflow of cash.

Sure there's people who stills play RO with 2D graphics and tiles system, but I bet the numbers were much higher back in 2000 than now. Most people actually want better graphics, if not we would stuck with 8 bit crap now still. Like PI said, nostalgic factor. That's what SRO is hanging on now as well (and perhaps addiction as well), but it's a dead end market and a very thin thread to be hanging on.

All I gotta say is...

WoW 15 bucks a month for
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-No bots and no constant gold seller spammers. They do advertise but they have to create an account for each time they advertise litteraly as the accts are banned instantly.
-Balanced builds with a large variety of skills
-Massive areas to explore. Flying in the game is one of the fastest ways to travel and some of the flight paths from one place to another can take 15+ minutes travel time.
-More customizable characters. 8 races both genders with several different configurable bits.
-Multiple instanced dungeons which require well put together and run groups to succesfuly complete. Lots of good rewards to be had on each run.
-Multiple any time raids as well as daily raids. Lots of goodies from these.
-Several monthly events as well as seasonal events all of which give neat or unique rewards like the kind you wish you got on SRO.
-Achievements. Always something to do.
-Massive battle grounds many supporting well over 32 players with fortifications tanks cannons and all sorts of fun toys with ranking and rewards.
-Arena battle system for those that like closer more intimate PVP also with ranking and special rewards.
-Actual workable job system. Whore your skills out for cash and fame. Great way to make money and some of the best items in game can only be made and are not dropped.
-Interesting and varied quest lines involving all sorts of different items and scheems. Not just the same thing over and over.
-Managable and reasonable gear upgrade and enhancement system.
-Reasonable EXP requirements to level and lots of EXP from quests. Also no way to loose EXP.
-Open PK all the time no down side on PVP servers. Total free for all.(SRO job wars lol how quaint)
-Generaly no real rude or obnoxios people like "many" though not all of the turks on SRO.

I am sure I forgot some things and I could go on. But I am sure if there were any important someone will add them.

SRO(lets be honest you have to pay a minimum of about 15 a month to really play)
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-Massive gold and playerbot infestations on every server making it near impossible to log in without premium and hard to play once yo do get in. As well as familliar gold spammers in every town that hardly ever get banned.
-No real ballance to builds. What rocked this cap will likely suck the next as there is not a lot of planning going in to things.
-Fairly tiny map to explore. You should be able to cover the whole map from const to jang in less than 10-15 min at most on a lvl 60 horse.
-Very limited character customization. Woot I can change their height.
-Closest thing to instanced dungeons I have ever heard of might be CTF but it is hardly the same and not nearly avalible as often. Also shitty rewards I hear.
-Closest thing to raids are fort wars which are only avalible once a month or so and at really odd hours. Also no real good rewards to speak of other than gold.
-Maybe what 3 events a year with really crappy rewards?
-Achievement unlocked. Botted to cap! No wait no such thing as achievements in SRO really.
-Closest thing to battle grounds would be fort wars again but all the same cons apply and it is hardly the same really.
-No arena setup in SRO. Just 2 12 year olds shit talking about how great they are and no stats to back it up.
-Unique and innovative job system that absolutely no one really uses.
-Repetitive and soul crushing quests. Ride here, kill these, gather those. And really huge amounts of each. Not to mention shit for rewards and almost no EXP.
-Gear upgrade and enhancement system is unreliable at best. You will fail more often than you succeed and even when you succeed you often still fail.
-Insane EXP requirements. And if you die in any way you loose EXP.
-Crappy PK system. You better be sure you wanna kill that person because you will be flagged for everyone to kill and they will whack you like a pinyata hoping to get your gear. Have to either work or die it off taking away from actual training or fun time or loosing exp again.
-Tons of rude and obnoxious people to interact with like swarms of Turks other turks are reluctant to accept as turks they are so rude. And general self entitled 12 year old mentality english speaking players.

I am sure I forgot some things and I could go on. But I am sure if there were any important someone will add them.

Also to add. Suggest something to joymax to add or change you can be sure they will ignore it. Suggest the same to blizzard and they might actually add or change it. Hell I would not mind some sort of trade system in WoW. Running supplies from origmar to thunder bluff etc or sailing a load from darnassus to stormwind. It would be very doable and fit well withing the game setting. IE something they might actually do.

Finally I keep hearing about how WoW is graphically inferior to SRO. I am not going to flood pics to show just 1 but anyone who honestly things SRO is better graphically than WoW is taking some pretty potent hallucinogens.


One thing I will give you is that the edges tend to be a bit harder as there is at best minimal bloom effect like SRO though if you turn on antialiasing in your hardware it will fix that I just like max FPS. The player models are proportioned a bit different but over all are more detailed and OMG no mitten hands. Also detailed shadows work flawlessly and put minimal strain on the system. I would honestly be interested in hearing points as to how SRO is graphically superior. I really don't see it though.

No bots? Misleading. There are some, but it's just unreasonable to use them.

Every game will have a botters no matter what you do, but it's how you control it.

Effectively there are no bots in use. I have yet to see anything that could be identified as a bot. So technically yes there are such things as bots for WoW just almost no one is dumb enough to use them. So yes No bots really. Hardly misleading.

Sro(Game) >>> Wow(Game)

this is a fact that will NEVER change..
its just GAYmax, that THINK wow is better than sro and trying to make like them... why? maybe because people play wow more than sro.. why? because sro is farked by gold bots..
and what joymax(gay) does?
1st. make like wow
2nd. ITEM MALLL!!!!

instead of

1st. keep the game in its way..
2nd. Xp Sp req go less
3rd. **** Gold Bots
if jm do these 3 things.. only "Stupid" will play wow AND leave sro..

I have the same 60% mount but in white, but now I have the ruby drake.


Wow has a lot of stuff to do, but I did have a lot fun in silk road. I hate raiding in wow, I find it boring and pointless. Sure you get good gear, but all you do is raid with it. I like pvping in wow.

I can honestly say I did have a lot of fun thieving and robbing people in silk road. I was in my own little world when I would hide behind something and wait for traders to come buy, really fun.

And because stupid accounts for not wanting to play a game where the end game content is non-existent and leveling method is dumb as hell while the developers seems to be more interested in milking a near dead cow by introducing new avatar sets than adding any sort of decent content, let alone balance the classes and races.

It's not just the fucking bots and massive XP/SP requirements, the whole concept behind SRO can easily be described in just one sentence.

the graphics debate is due to personal preferance, the cartoon colour of wow isnt in some peoples tastes and the more realistic look of sro is what they like. they have 2 very different styles so comparing them is kinda silly imo

I couldn't find any SRO rock... sry

Spoken like someone who has truly never given WoW a chance. The one and only thing SRO has over WoW is the job system that no one who plays SRO uses. And it is something they could add to WoW.



Yes it can be a matter of preference and yes we are looking at an asian style and setting Vs a more european/western one. But Sro is hardly more realistic. I mean come on really. And about the only really cartony colored areas are in outland where the pic I posted happened to be taken. Most of the settings look quite realistic and like something you might see in SRO. So all these graphics arguments are BS really.

Honestly I like SRO and think it could be fun. Just not fun the way it has become. SRO has possibility it will never achieve and it is sad. However as a whole WoW "IS" a better more complete game with actual end game content decent quests and always something to do. I invested alot in iSRO and it was hard to leave. But I am glad I did and glad I gave other games a real chance.

It's a shame WoW isn't free or I'd check it out. I simply don't have enough time to dedicate to a game to make it worth paying a monthly fee. There for a while before I stopped playing SRO, I only put in maybe an hour or 2 a week.

ok well i've played wow and its hella homo not to mention it looks hella homo

Didn't say you didn't play. Just never gave it a chance. You went in to it not wanting to like it and surprise you didn't. Self fulfilling prophecy. And keep telling yourself about that homo BS as obviously you have never been near the end game content and likely not out of the starting areas in azeroth lol.

Yeah true that, the game is awesome, Especially the jobbing part, but I have bought 200 silk 2 days ago, and I am still trying to login, the new login system made it even more worse than it was before.
If I am not able to login today, Ima switch to another game.
one with better services and more active GM's.

And I think I'm not the only one.

I keep trying to quit, each time i come back it's even worse then what it was when i left. Every game i attempt to play is somehow inferior to silkroad. no matter how bad sro is with bots, 2vs1 pvpers, language barriers, nothing surpasses it.

WoW is superior to SRO in every way.

Just face it silkroad fanboys.

I'm guessing you've never won a debate?

It's addiction/nostalgia plain and simple. Unless you have friends etc that you keep going back for. Especially bad if they are addicts as well. As games go SRO is over all mediocre at best. It will always have a place in my heart as it was the first MMO I ever did and have 3 years of memories there and my char still as well. Every time I go back on the server it just ruins the memory that much more. As a result last time I even tried to log in to talk with anyone might have been February?

Dollar for dollar you get less with SRO than any other MMO out there. And those that don't pay get less still. There are times I do miss the fisher price PVP system SRO has. just pres a button and your character takes care of most of the navigation and will always turn to face your opponent. It has made PVPing in WoW that much more challenging coming from a PVP system like SROs which took so little skill. But I am getting better day by day and enjoying it much more than SROs. Just so much more balanced than SRO's. Plus it is fun to turn the other guy in to a sheep and play with them while they are out of control. lol

Any how new content update coming out new races, new places, flying on azeroth woot! And best of all still no bot problem. Will gladly pay for the WoW content upgrade but will never spend another dime on SRO.