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How much disposable income are you willing to dispose of...Hmm?????? Otherwise it's a total waste and a tedious exercise in futility. I just visit the forum occasionally. My son wants to give it a go and I'm trying to talk him out of it

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dont listen to noobs that hvnt gotten over lvl 70 in their whole career.

We don't need to get to lvl 70 in a korean mmorpg to be logical.

Get to 90+ then tell me its worth playing this game.
- No free grind spots
- Unbelievable KS
- Weeks to get just 1 level
- Ridiculous price of gear
- Need Prem + Devil to pvp and Grab pet to level.

Seriously i play this game for my guild and the fun i have with them. Otherwise i'd be long gone.

If you take only 2 days to lv it would be too easy don't you think so?

U dont need to get to lvl 70 to be illogical either which most are been nowadays, imo rename the forum to something else or gtfo if u hate the game so much.

People buy premiums just to get into this game which costs what? Bout 15$/month right? (I can't even confirm that since I can't even get on their site). You guys pay to get into the game, and then complain about bots, shit service, lack of gms, all of which Joymax could care less, cause they're raking in the money from you guys anyways (lulz).

And then theres a game called World of Warcraft (just one of the many I could have chose from) which also costs 15$ a month with no bots, pretty damn good service if you ask me, and active gms (I would assume). +You won't have to keep pouring money out to give your character an advantage because everybody is equal without a cashshop to give you 2x xp or any of that shit.

I don't hate SRO, im just keeping people informed (Which in this case, I got asked to)
Now tell me whos illogical.

Yeh, it's a "Catch 22". It is a great game, I can't argue with that. And there is no "fee" to play, but that's just for argument's sake. Truth is that you can not compete long term unless you have, and are in a group that has, lots of cash and time. The best thing for just plain old enjoying the game is to not have high expectations of grandeur, but move to new servers and enjoy trading and guild building while you can. That usually lasts a good while before things get bogged down and lop-sided. And I don't blame anyone for playing and I'm not dissing the gamne as you can tell. So...whatever trips your trigger...

Made it to 80. Then went to play other games That are actually managed and free. Sro is a joke with no punchline. If you like to job or dislike bot packed servers and training spots then there is no sense starting back or starting at all.There is precious little jobbing to be had and as stated not even worth it to try much below lvl 90 or without 90ish escorts. This is not a direct accusation so not a violation of the rules but the people that are telling you it is worth going back to are not being honest. They likely either bot in secret(this includes bot plvl) or have non game reasons for still being there themselves. That's just the brutal honest truth.

I personally don't need to be high lvl to enjoy the game nor do I mind working to achieve my lvl much to the contrast of the children that have ruined the game. They destroy what fun could be had at lower levels and take away the achievement of actually obtaining a high lvl. The game has some nice points all but lost to the majority that play it. It is just not worth the investment.

Not worth it.. gop try new game call Aion, its worth to try

Find me a better F2P game than SRO and I wont play SRO anymore. I've tried a bunch of them and nothing came close to SRO. The login barrier was horrible and pushed me many times towards quitting in disgust but now it's over. I conclude therefore, in response to the OP, that this is a great time to come back to SRO.

This auto login system is nothing short of a revolution in the history of sro. I hope they keep it up. I'm even surprised they implemented it. I thought their cash came from the players who were disgusted because they couldnt login and ended up buying premium tickets.
Premiums have suddenly lost much of their appeal. This is quite a radical move from joymax which may not be so gaymax after all.

About the F2P market again, I recently tried Jade Dynasty because I read an SRF poster recommending it as a cure from SRO. Excuse me but I've seen nothing in there to compete with SRO although I admit JD is better than the other F2P game I tried before.

>.> why do all these is it worth returning to SRO popping up. Common sense is to read the threads or use the search function to look at other is worth coming back thread

EXACTLY.

That's exactly how I saw it when I left. I never played a game with a monthly fee ... due to principle. I'm an "old" gamer - in my 20s - been playing for years. When I started out, NO game was monthly fee - online or offline.

So - I played, it was cool. Then it got so damn slow, I couldn't move a single level without playing for a WEEK or a MONTH - what gives?

Get a gold ticket. Oh, the pace picked up. But wait - I see myself moving from free, to pay. Pay. Pay for this service? For this non-service, and bot haven?

When you're paying as much as you do ( ^ up there, $1K on paypal? LOL? ) for this game - compare it to World of Warcraft.

Who wins the fight? This game is garbage compared to WoW. Compare it to AioN. Does SRO come close?

I think, SRO doesn't even come close to the dog crap that WoW or AioN scrapes off the bottom of their shoes. WoW/AioN's shit is better than SRO - there is no comparison, no contest. [ Say, do my metaphors fly over your head, or not? Because they will fly over the "yes, no" oneliners heads - definitely. ]

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So - if you've got friends playing, consider SRO an overglorified IRC client. Don't pay joymax or the black market a cent. ( and suggest your friends on SRO get a real IRC client, and play a real MMO - you'll save money. )

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On another side note - sitting in a chair, doing the same boring thing over and over, for hours on end ... with no end in sight. What does this sound like?

Yeah. Sounds like WORK to me.

I don't play "WORK: THE GAME". Right after I stopped SRO - I picked up one of those games where you can start playing at 100% within 5-10 minutes of starting the game. I had *FUN* and I enjoyed it. After wasting time with SRO for like a year - it was like waking up from a really long sleep. At least, that's how I saw it.




Last off - let me bring my combinatorics into play. That's binary logic for the rest of you.

- User posts to forum.
- Forum has rule: you cheat, you are banned.
- User posts record of paypal to show off foolishness.
- User blacks out a portion of paypal record with "xxxxxx"
- "xxxxxx" is not a valid retailer, therefore - this must be a name of a retailer blacked out for some reason.
- (This one is a whopper.) If the user spent $1800, it can be assumed the user has a job. The user must use their Paypal account/credit card for other uses. If the user has other transactions, the irrelevant transactions have already been removed. They are irrelevant to the topic of silkroad online. The information posted is not a complete statement.
- "xxxxxx" is related to cost of Silkroad online, or it would not be posted to this forum.
- The only legitimate retailer for Silkroad online - is Joymax.
- If you are buying from a legitimate retailer, why do you need to black out the name?
- Therefore, user who posted blacked out paypal record is a cheater / rule breaker - who is insulting our intelligence by posting the above list of transactions right here.

In the real world, we call it "probable cause".

Like the guy with a bag of weed sitting in the front seat of his car, that he just stepped out of.
"Officer, why are you busting me for drug possession? I don't got any on me!"

Uh-huh.

[ On a side note: $1800 on a game? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? ]



Because there are 500 future former players on each server who will be asking the same question soon.

Multiply this by 4-5 years of people quitting due to the failure to control bots and produce a decent game.

This is at least, over 9000 people who have quit, and might be interested to see, "Say, I wonder if this game has improved in the weeks/months/years since I left. Nobody can fail THAT bad."

Well guess what, there's always Joymax to be the first to fail THIS bad.

To produce a game that's decent, and let it go completely to hell - and not give a flying f---.

yeah WOW SUXS AND IS P2P

The guy with the $1800 credit card bill paid for 10 years worth of WoW ... to a "free to play" game.

That's pretty expensive for "free".

Free to play.

Except, if you want to login - you've got to buy a $15 premium ticket.

Free to play, pay to login. Sounds free to me!

Hey - if that's the case, WoW is free to play too. But, you've got to pay $14.95 a month if you want to login. Same thing as SRO! You've got to pay if you want to login!

My 20/6 internet connection is free to use too. It's just $70 a month if I want to be able to access the ISP's DNS server.

Ah, the magic of the English language.

I logged on last night to say Hi to old friends. It was fun to be on Rome again. Winter is on it's way and maybe I'll see how it goes trying to get the rest of the way to 100. But I will not fall into the same trap I did before spending $$$. If I can que up a login and wait for a slot, that's way better than how it was before. And by the way, Chronicles Of Spellborne is a very very cool game but it is fee based albeit nominal...

common sense again is to look at the rant threads that pop up every few minutes

lol. WoW is 15 USD/Month. Silkroad is:

[x]20 USD Premium
[x]?? Revive for pick-up pet
[x]?? Devil Suit
[x]?? x Amount of Mounts
[x]?? x Amount of Bonus Goodies
[x]?? x Amount of Globals

In 1 month. Another comparison:

Requiem: Bloody Mare. FTP, essentially a really bloody version of WoW +/- some things and without the childish, albeit aesthetically pleasing, graphics.

Free User: No Region Chat, Normal Exp, Normal Drops.
Basic User: 6 USD Region Chat (globals) +30% exp. Normal Drops.
Premium User: 15 USD Region Chat (globals) +50% exp +30% drops.

Level 1-42ish (if you do it like me) is all questing + pvp + raiding for gear that will last you from 20/5-44/66 if you decide to go full Ulterious.
Level 43-45/7ish is grinding + Raiding for mid-end game gear + PvP mid-end game gear.
Level 48-55ish is a mix of questing/grinding + Raiding & PvP to break the monotony of "Talk to this person then this person kill 5 of these talk to this person."
55-60+ Quest + Raid Bosses & Dungeons for end-game Gear + PvP for end-game gear
71: You're 1337. Time to PvP on Battle Grounds all day or Raid if you're into PvE. Make some twinks for the low-Mid level PvP brackets if you have the gold or time to manipulate party levels and join in low level raiding. xD

Let's see SRO:

Grind Level 1-100 Get KSed by gold bots & player bots.
Buy Gear at inflated values due to gold bots.
Spend a hell of a lot more than 0-15 USD to compete with other players.
Rage Quit or stay because of addiction/friends.
Piss Poor attempt at bosses & raiding.
Cape PvP with no reward.
Jobbing is dead, and you sure as hell better not try it below level 90.
Fortress War is good if you want to grind level 1-85ish before standing a snowballs chance in hell.

Yeah, OP GO FOR IT! SRO IS A GREAT GAME(it is), RUN BY A GREAT(lol) COMPANY!

That's why the first thing that comes to mind for me, is sad.

Because SRO is a decent game - that could be great if it were run by a company.

( Calling Joymax a company, is an insult to real companies. )

The only thing that saves it from being completely dead - are the users. I would have quit playing after L15 or so - if I didn't meet up with a bunch of people I liked.

And I would have kept playing past L69 - if those same people were still there, and hadn't tired of the game themselves. ( SO - to keep a long story short - if you've still got people you like on the server, sure- go back- talk to them, encourage them to get IM/IRC so you can hang out ... without wasting time with SRO - and maybe find another game to play - where you have something that SRO majorly lacks: fun. )

Tell me did you play any of these games you "tried" up to a decent lvl like your SRO char? No? Wouldn't surprise me. So what is the point in me telling you of other F2P MMO when you keep trying apples to oranges comparisons? I am playing WoW right now and let me tell you low level char suck. The gear has sucky stats looks like ass and you can't kill fast and have hardly any skills. Compare that to my 80 blade on SRO that has sexy gear with great stats ans lots of skills etc bam SRO wins. Now compare my 70+ Warlock to my 80 Blade on SRO or my SRO warlock at 62. WoW wins hands down in basically every way. Better looking gear. More interesting fun and cool looking skills. Much more challenging PVP. Events almost every month. Massive dungeons and raids daily. Compare that to fort war on SRO or the dead jobbing scene or the pot matches oops sorry PVP matches outside town gates.

You are just clinging to what you have afraid to let go. Seriously go out there and pick a game and give it a good solit 2 weeks at least.



Eh the log in situation was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I can afford to buy premium etc if I needed to get in. But the problem was not that the login system was keeping me from logging in to play a great game. The login system was another shity part of an even shittier run game. In the end it became "I have to pay or fight to get in to be mistreated and put up with this bs?"

Truth is the login issues are a symptom only. Under normal circumstances there is nothing better about the log in system they have now as opposed to any log in system they had before. The issues with logging in was not a problem with the system but had more to do with the fact that JOYMAX LIES TO YOUR FACE ABOUT BANNING AND WANTING TO BAN BOTS AND LOVES THE CROWDED SERVERS. So woopty doo botters now don't have a huge advantage logging in over me. They are still there so tell me how this is really better?



No Still gaymax. 2 Words for you. Magic Pop. Joymax will only sell one premium per acct per month or so at best but the addicts are burning through real money for a chance to win special pixels. But they can only do that if they can log in. So the new login system makes perfect sense. The only part that might not is why didn't they implement it when they did magic pop. In SRO magic pop > premium.



JD and the other game eh? You only tried 2? ROTFLMAO. Honestly google MMO + F2P find one that looks good and give it a solid month. You will not miss SRO.

requiem owns
wow suxs

Just for argument sake, explain why WoW sucks.

Edit:

Wait. Heres a better question: Have you played it?

You could give up now and just say its just your opinion.