SilkRoad Popularity

diotron123 · **Joined:** Nov 2008 **Posts:** 133 **Location:**

Well, now that the gold bot companies have given up (for the moment at least) we can see just how popular and active silkroad really is:

Total servers capacity together: 85,575/145,700 ~58.7%

Just from this we can see that a whopping 42% of the "online" players were goldbots. The 58% people that are left are probably mostly all old players as well. Silkroad NEEDS new players or it will be dead in a few years (Surprised it's lasted this long)

Luckily for Joymax the older players are hookedd for life, because this game is SO DAM ADICTING!

devxcil · **Joined:** Aug 2010 **Posts:** 23 **Location:**

Ofcourse there weren't any more players... because everyone else couldn't play because they couldn't log in! :sohappy:

Now the game has a chance to actually get more players, although they should've done this years back when the game was still fresh.

diotron123 · **Joined:** Nov 2008 **Posts:** 133 **Location:**

ALL the gameplay content for the game now is aimed for people lvl 100+ (the temples, FW, Triangular conflict, Battle Arena) so new players will have to make do with shitty quests and LOTS of lvling before they can join in with the Bigboys of the servers.

Dante · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 390 **Location:** Germany

i guess you can subtract at least 50% of that(or more)
Because these 50% are the 2nd/3rd/4th/... characters of most of the botters. And/or their personal goldbots.

Many Botters got around 5 characters or more running at a time because modern PCs can handle them easily.

yoyoyo8 · **Joined:** Aug 2008 **Posts:** 294 **Location:** ITALY

this is great news and we dont need prem anymore but JOYMAAX losing money lol

Pan_Raider(`_´) · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 4737 **Location:**

Dante wrote:

i guess you can subtract at least 50% of that(or more)
Because these 50% are the 2nd/3rd/4th/... characters of most of the botters. And/or their personal goldbots.

Many Botters got around 5 characters or more running at a time because modern PCs can handle them easily.

so true

PR0METHEUS · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 4093 **Location:** Earth

I'd love to come back and play, but for some reason my SRO client won't load. I'm running it in Linux and after the Silkroad Guard comes up, it just goes back to the launcher. I don't want to have to put Windows XP back on my system just to play SRO.

Mupf9 · **Joined:** Mar 2010 **Posts:** 112 **Location:**

There are still some gbots at ice (just noticed at Oasis). I think they just take another route to trainingplace instead of the way to Karakoram (Entrance at Mujigi/Ujigi spot I mean which is full of bot traps).
Plus some old players who just log in when its possible joined too I think.
But ya there are mostly bot players plus their 2nd, 3rd chars.. Still Joymax should earn a nice amount of money monthly...

Pan_Raider(`_´) · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 4737 **Location:**

PR0METHEUS wrote:

I'd love to come back and play, but for some reason my SRO client won't load. I'm running it in Linux and after the Silkroad Guard comes up, it just goes back to the launcher. I don't want to have to put Windows XP back on my system just to play SRO.

it worked on my bro's computer using wine, no idea if it works with gameguard now though

WirSindPapst · **Joined:** Mar 2009 **Posts:** 65 **Location:**

diotron123 wrote:

Well, now that the gold bot companies have given up (for the moment at least)

Well i got a MSG in my Inbox today which was like "buy 1 billion on our gold site and you earn free plvl" xD
I dun rly think they gave up anythin^^

XesoS · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:07 pm

Now u can log in but try to lvl to 110

this is bs

Die sro die

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

PR0METHEUS wrote:

I'd love to come back and play, but for some reason my SRO client won't load. I'm running it in Linux and after the Silkroad Guard comes up, it just goes back to the launcher. I don't want to have to put Windows XP back on my system just to play SRO.

Get a reasonable priced laptop and load Linux on that and use your current machine for SRO.

OT: I think what we will see here is a huge spike again of real players (mostly new ones) entering the game and bringing it back to life. But only if Joymax keeps this thing up which it looks like they will. Us veteran players will once again see how the game used to be when it was buzzing with players.

_Equal_ · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:17 pm

I'm already seeing an influx of "100kplyz" players.

William-CL · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 7363 **Location:** N/A

yoyoyo8 wrote:

this is great news and we dont need prem anymore but JOYMAAX losing money lol

I am still gonna get one.. It has a lot more perks than just the login.

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