The software is only 50% of the game. Joymax made only half of a game.
If you want success, you hire people like a previous post said. With good game management, game idea and game play, you have yourself a great game.
Joymax can make a lot more money by spending more money in hire the necessary people it takes to run a game properly. There are few games that have great gameplay and game management. If you have both, game will be a huge success. If you only have one, its gonna die, aka Silkroad.
What do former Silkroad Players who have quit want?
- They want game rules and fair play to be enforced. They want improved gameplay, aka more than SP Farming and stupid job fights in front of DW Gates.
- Castle Seige is just a simple suggestion.
- Arena Style 5 v 5 Tournament style play (aka WoW and 2Moons).
- Instances (Many MMOs have this, because its fun).
- More Uniques that use skills, spawn more, with higher HP and more Def.
- Improve the alchemy system so people don't waste 50% of their time playing screaming at the computer over failures.
- Get rid of mercs and the new job system (I don't know anyone that likes these two systems)
- Improved Party System. (Like Lineage or WoW, 8 people parties for PvP events is idiotic. Need more than 8 people. Need to see their HPs on the screen, not just party window.) This will improve gameplay greatly for healers and buffers
- Events. More Events.
What is it that Joymax does WRONG, what makes them MORONS.
Look at the games that have had success.
Game Development. Make the F**king game. Then you do updates and maintenance. Far less cost. Look at any MMORPG, they release the game with race/races and classes. That's it. There is no more game development. After that its just updates to improve game play, aka new skills, new uniques, grind areas, events.
Joymax the MORONS still haven't developed a game. They are still creating new race with classes. How dumb can you be, there are few people who want to play an incomplete game.
Game Environment. Maintain the game environment. Ban the bots. Enforce game rules. This way if you make more item mall items, players will buy them. Instead of paying 1K to gold botters, they will spend hundreds on your stupid item mall items. That simple. Not only will you have more player paying for GT and Monkey. Some who have extra cash will buy tons of stupid crap like scrolls and whatever items Joymax can think of.
NONE OF THEM CREATE ENTIRE NEW RACES AND CLASSES AFTER GAME HAS BEEN DEVELOPED. They do updates. Look at Blizzard. They only have 2 factions. There is no new faction. During Burning Crusade they introduced 2 new races, Dreinei and Blood Elf. One for each faction. There are no new classes. And for leveling, you level 1-20 in of those races area, but they have to level 20-70 same area as the rest of the races. They don't have entire new race with entire new classes like Joymax did, its f**king stupid to do that.
Blizzard's next update will be the 80 cap. 1 new class added. Death Knight. They don't have entire new race with 5 new classes. Why, cause its f**king stupid to do that, they would be like idiot Joymax then. They will have new zones to level, new quests.
For Joymax, you have Euro vs Chinese vs Arabic. Differences, you give each race racial abilities. Simple as that. They have different skins, appearance. You have game play setup so they are at odds, some sort of war scenario. You don't need New Classes and New Skills for each race. No one does this. New updates will be new skills at level caps and better game play.
***Examples: Each race starts with different STR and INT. So one race may start of 10 Extra STR. Another with 10 extra INT. Another balanced, 5 STR 5 INT).
***Example: Each race has special skill tree. So you have a Euro Skill tree (Passives). So you level 4 Trees. Your Racial Skill/Passive Tree, 1 Weapon, 2 Elemental. Increase the Masteries to 400. Make level cap 100. Focus on events, gameplay and maintenance. With profits, can start to develop new game instead constantly developing a game that might already be 5-10 years old.
Leveling. Its a grind, granted. But make the grind more enjoyable. Quests. More freaken Quests that do more than give 20K Gold with 50K XP when you need 400Million XP. More mobs. More areas. As we know, most games have more than 1 city and 1 grind area for the levels. This is where instances help. Uniques help. Boss hunting. More dungeons.
Alchemy. Instead of making alchemy, items somewhat easy to get with low success rate. You introduce professions or jobs. WoW isn't the only game to do this. Look at Rose Online for example. Lineage. Its a way for players to make money. But makes crafting also fun. You make the items hard to get, secondly, player's character has to have the skills to do it. Make success rate higher, much more enjoyable crafting. Current system only tells players, buy tons of gold, bot for alchemy items.
And yes, botting. Only Joymax is left with no real solution or method to anti-botting. Blizzard and NCSoft have made botting an issue and been trying to tackle it.
There is no permanent solution. Its a freaken war. You can't just quit. Gotta make constant update or you hire people to watch for bots and actually ban them.
Secondly. Game management. There are few companies that run the game for both Korean and International versions. Joymax should license the game. Have someone else run international. Someone who has more ambition to create the best game possible. Let this company translate, since Joymax can't translate anyways. Let this company hire people to run the game. Joymax should just stick with development, because they don't know how to manage a game anyways.
FOR THOSE WHO CRY ITS FREE GAME
Fine, if you want to cry about that. Then everyone play for free. Lets see how long Silkroad will be around.
Will you be crying its a free game then?
Cause its certainly not free. Someone is paying to keep the game alive. Those of us who pay, want more from the game.
If you say the lack of support and management is because its a free game. Then lets see what happens when everyone plays it for free. Douchebag morons
PS: Quit the game dudes. There are far better games with far better support. If its a free game you want play games like Guild Wars where you buy the game/expansion once, play monthly for free.
Private servers. For WoW, not so great. But for Lineage 2, they are actually quite good. Some of them have 10K players. Lineage 2 servers are unbelieveable, they can support 10X more players than a Silkroad server can. Silkroad has what 5K players maybe, lineage more like 50K on 1 server.
Warhammer Online and Age of Conan, SUN Online all due out early 2008. Blizzard, NCSoft and Webzen are all major successes. Both in game management and game development.
Game to wait and see: Fury. Supposedly enhanced PvP style MMORPG. I'll wait and see what the reviews are.
http://www.unleashthefury.com/
For game in development: Watch out for Project Offset. New crew, small crew. They created their own engine. MMORPG FPS style. Still using classes like rogues, warriors, but the play is like FPS. Hard to explain, here is a demo movie that was leaked.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rqEm-3MFcvs
always cheers me up.
