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What's the deal with so many online game websites not calling out Joymax? It's not slander if all they post is facts or post interviews with actual players. Game review websites like mmo, ign, etc. should do a story of how shitty JM is. This recent fiasco with the password proves how shitty they are. I've tried several time to send them suggestions for stories, but every time SRO comes up with a new article, it's how they are working so hard to make a fun game for ppl... Is all mmo and ign good for is posting bullshit coming out of a retarded bull?

Very good question.

Not too long ago, a game site ACTUALLY did exactly what u said.
Problems with JM, lag, bot, bad support n etc.
Forgot the address tho.

Anyways, reason sites don't do that its because it will only means less inside information nxt time n bad relationship between them n the games companies.
Which is what they don't want.

Das tru... In order for these video game review sites to attract attention and maintain popularity its best for them to be in good standing with some of these MMO companies out there right now. So in other words they don't mind sucking on the d**ks of these game companies even when the game company is as crappy as joymax. Everyone selling out.

If I found a game review site that ACTUALLY reviewed games and called out the bad ones, I'd actually register with them. I already deleted my mmo and ign accounts due to annoyance with their shitty coverage of games. I only go on there to read User Reviews. I think a good game review site would ACTUALLY be quite successful if done right. Get some good games to promote them and soon, getting the site's seal of approval will actually help business making them good and popular.

lol, the wiki page for sro used to have every negative point on the game you can think of from huge lags to hacking to botting, and they were all true facts.

So far, the only game reviews that i find fun are.
AVGN game reviews lol.
Whats AVGN? ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD xD
Funny to watch, lots of swearing, but thats his style.
Hes actually not that vulgar lol.

+1 the wikipedia page for SRO was really good back in the day

The ones i find that are pretty accurate are AVGN and CAD's Tim Buckley.

O yea, I wonder what happened. Did JM pay Wiki to clean it? O the scandals

you act like it would do anything anyways dude..

thats why on everyone of those site I never read the reveiw itself , I scroll down to the bottom where the comments are and find out whats really up

Actually it would. I can't imagine any new players joining SRO if they can just read a true review of it. "Game sucks, can't log in, no GM, all bots. Only about 10-20 real players that talk in english, rest just go afk botting or don't speak english and pk all that do."

I think of a popular site called JM out and pointed out all it's flaws, it would have 2 options. Fix them or hope that they have enough addicted hard-core players to feed their income since no new player with a brain would join. If you saw on ABC news that all XBOX 360 came with a time chip that would explode from the machine and eat your dick if you played more than 30 hours with it, would you still bother to buy it just to test it out?

That's just isro version. If you talk about all sro in general, that's different.

because sro is not joymax's game. hence were behind quite a kit...
so basically.. they dont call Joymax. the call silkroad.
silkroad online is in the top 5 games ive ever played. there are points that let it down. these can easily be resolved however one of us is going to have to either have a good rant at the jm headquaters OR..... hunger strike.
id rather the later

Lame news outlets are payed by the companies they claim to evaluate impartially.

Not very different from the mainstream media
They ARE selling you crap, look at their advertising.

I suppose the sites you're refering to are just lame, lamer, lamest.
There are decent gaming sites out there, just not IGN.



Game doesn't suck : find me a better f2p game and i'll leave sro in a heartbeat.
Can log in : the auto login system is a great improvement. 1 to 2 hours max, unattended.
All bots : not. There are at least 500 players per server. Same deal, find me a better community in a f2p game.
Anarchy Online, alright. Another one? AO bores me.


I would join and encourage newbies to join.
SRO is still one of the best free mmo gaming deals out there.


You've been burned, disappointed and angry. But the anger comes from the good that you lost. There was some good in the game or you wouldn't be so angry.
I had the same story, some people pissed me off in sro (the venus pseudo-legits... now they're gone to infect aion, god help the aion players).

The game itself remains good and the community also despite of all the problems.

Its kinda interesting to note that out of all the active accounts per server there is a very small amount that are joymax's customers..I'd say under 20%. In other words joymax's success rides on that 20%. The other 80% are gold bots that are supplying service to part of the active 20%.

If we (the 20%) stopped buying silk for a few months I bet you'd see some changes to the game immediately...you'd see joymax scrambling like a headless chicken reaching out to us with new adds and on the spot changes to the game..mid week server inspection to boost up sales again....we have the power...not joymax....but it seems we prefer to be united on getting screwed and complain about it and remain separate on actually doing something to force joymax's hand.

In other words... individualism and our own reluctance to do anything is the reason why joymax can continue without giving a f*ck.