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which method of playing would you chose?

a) pay like WoW per month for $20ish
b) (i thought of) pay like a ticket for hours of playing so maybe 1 hour for $1ish?

Pros:
-alot less botters since they can't play 24/7 unless they pay that much but they lose money since their profits are less than the amount they sell for if powerleveling others
-most of you don't play 24/7 everyday so would be a waste of the other hours you paid for
-if you went on vaction, you don't lose any money that you already paid

Cons:
-expensive if you play alot (if you got no life )
-you can dc when your payment suddenly runs out

overall, when you pay either way, sro will eventually be equal to WoW with alot of uncrowed servers (except market servers) and less botters and more updates and events

stop playing.. silkroad is fun but not that much.. you think i will pay for all dc and pay if i can't connect due to traffic cause of bot... no thanks..

lol that's what i wouldve picked too, i only play games since it's a game and not to be the best by paying

i'd just quit lol, it's good but not THAT good

Simple fact is, it WONT go p2p. They make money via item mail, so they will keep it how it is.

most of you don't play 24/7 everyday so would be a waste of the other hours you paid for

Are u sure about that mate?? ALOT of people just afk stall an account.. and leave it on all the time *except server inspections*.

tedtwilliger wrote:Simple fact is, it WONT go p2p. They make money via item mail, so they will keep it how it is.

most of you don't play 24/7 everyday so would be a waste of the other hours you paid for

Are u sure about that mate?? ALOT of people just afk stall an account.. and leave it on all the time *except server inspections*.

with more updates, there can be a auction house so no more or less stallers

i would like a single payment. 50 usd sound fair.

if it was a monthly fee i'll probably quit

Blame it on you. W00t?

WoW has... whats it called, oh yeah a story line, and gms who care!

shadowman20875 wrote:WoW has... whats it called, oh yeah a story line, and gms who care!

People always need everything handed to them on a platter...
(this is a joke by the way, not a flame )

You didnt give the option Id pick.

Option C: Quit if SRO goes p2p

Option C: None of the above

Saberdude wrote:Option C: None of the above

Yeah.

I sure as heck aren't going to pay $1 an hour... for me that would be like $250-$300 a month!!

Ok apparently you are all running on rampant speculation and read nothing of the thread that started this all. For those of you just joining us SRO is already pay to play. It is pay to play "by choice". You are free to buy gold ticket or not. They are simply proposing that those who purchase gold and silver tickets have access to special services and or servers. You are not gonna have to pay to connect and play. For those fo you that don't pay it is all much the same as it is now.

jyro wrote:

shadowman20875 wrote:WoW has... whats it called, oh yeah a story line, and gms who care!

People always need everything handed to them on a platter...
(this is a joke by the way, not a flame )

silver's for losers, i like my platters gold

Cons:
-expensive if you play alot (if you got no life )
-you can dc when your payment suddenly runs out

your already putting down your idea there.

If Sro goes p2p I'll quit playing

SRO sucks, plain and simple... there are so many other good games out there. just quit, i did and i dont miss it at all

If SRO becomes P2P, I just play on my lvl 70 warrior in a raiding guild, not that I still dont play atm.

Its never going P2P it didnt last year and it wont this year or the next.

Unless u count the Gold ticket as P2P, item mall is here to stay.

ping_lo wrote:Ok apparently you are all running on rampant speculation and read nothing of the thread that started this all. For those of you just joining us SRO is already pay to play. It is pay to play "by choice". You are free to buy gold ticket or not. They are simply proposing that those who purchase gold and silver tickets have access to special services and or servers. You are not gonna have to pay to connect and play. For those fo you that don't pay it is all much the same as it is now.

1. Item mall is not p2p. Those are "extras" that you may or may not use.

2. If they implement what they are suggesting, it may turn into p2p because if enough ppl pay, there wont be room on the servers for non paying players or non paying players will be bumped for paying ones, which would make the game basically p2p. If it will take me twice as long as it does now to log in or I pay, then there is no other word for it, its p2p.

3. Anyone who spends money on this game the way it is at the moment is a fool. I dont tip for substandard service in a restraunt, Im certainly not going to pad the pockets of a company that cant update, control it's users, follow it's own ToS, provide GMs, provide security or even simple events. The game itself is OK, nice graphics, half decent game play. The service is so terrible it is a joke to even call it service. Buying something in the item mall is like tipping for self service.

Lol switch to a diff MMO or keep playing if it's a cheap rate. For SRO I'd say... $10 a month? Maybe? And include gt and monkey lol as automatic things. Yeah.
Not gonna happen though.

then i would sooooo quit this game LOL
what makes u think p2p would make this game better?

firefirefire1989 wrote:then i would sooooo quit this game LOL
what makes u think p2p would make this game better?

they ensure 100% that you can log in first try.

Dude, id pay 10 bucks for month to play this game but not 20, thats too much, and its stupid when ksro is free and its such a gd game.
So that wouldnt be fair at all, i cant chose any of ur choices since they seem to be quite stupid to me.
Im nopt trying to flame, im just speaking my mind.

nightbloom wrote:1. Item mall is not p2p. Those are "extras" that you may or may not use.

In this case it is. Or rather it is what is being referred to when morningdew mentions P2P. Not my semantics. it is theirs. And it is redundant in relation to the quote you were responding to.

ping_lo wrote:...For those of you just joining us SRO is already pay to play. It is pay to play "by choice". You are free to buy gold ticket or not. They are simply proposing that those who purchase gold and silver tickets have access to special services and or servers. You are not gonna have to pay to connect and play. For those fo you that don't pay it is all much the same as it is now....

nightbloom wrote:2. If they implement what they are suggesting, it may turn into p2p
because if enough ppl pay, there wont be room on the servers for non paying players or non paying players will be bumped for paying ones, which would make the game basically p2p. If it will take me twice as long as it does now to log in or I pay, then there is no other word for it, its p2p.

Actually if they implement what they are talking about all that would happen is that GT users would have a special server they could log in to grind on. And ultimatly would have no effect on the regular servers at all. As morningdew themself put it. It would more or less be there to assure gold ticket users that they can use their ticket time. The server would basically be there for quest and grind. No PVP or jobbing.

nightbloom wrote:3. Anyone who spends money on this game the way it is at the moment is a fool. I dont tip for substandard service in a restraunt, Im certainly not going to pad the pockets of a company that cant update, control it's users, follow it's own ToS, provide GMs, provide security or even simple events. The game itself is OK, nice graphics, half decent game play. The service is so terrible it is a joke to even call it service. Buying something in the item mall is like tipping for self service.

Not gonna argue with you on the service part. Just the part of calling people fools. Ultimatly it is quite possibly foolish to purchase any virtual expendable item. It does not really exist and in the end you really get nothing from it. Just a loss of real money. But it is all our choice for our entertainment. Some like myself still manage to stay legit and find enough fun in the game to make it worth it to me. Though as a paying customer I will keep prodding joymax to action as I can. Since as you said service is the one thing you don't get with this game yet.

The original thread is here. Everyone take the time to read morningdew's replies. Most the other responses can be ignored as they are people over reacting in much the same way as here.

I'd simply quit this bot fest.

none of the above

I would stop immedeately.

I wouldn't pay 1$ for this game. There are countless better p2p and f2p games.