The downfall of CSRO
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:11 pm
As much as this pains me, I think CSRO is completely ruined. Why? And how? ... read on
Start
When I just started on CSRO, this was because I simply could not login to ISRO anymore. I could try for like an hour but still no game. I read a post on the official SRO forum about CSRO, the official Chinese SRO version, which did not have a bot problem.
I made an account, joined a server in one try, and loved it. Soon I met other people who were sick of isro and its bot, and a nice community was born. These were the ...
Good Days
Everything was shiny and fun back then. Nobody knew how to buy silk, and nobody really needed it either. We leveled, everyone by hand, and soon we earned enough money by leveling and trading to buy some nice SOS, perhaps a pickup pet, and life was good.
But things started to get less nice... the first working pservers were released, and since the group of people i played with were lvls 30-45, some people decided to leave CSRO and goto a pserver. Also a good friend got banned for buying a stolen item, which is still an offense that is typical for CSRO, kinda of a legal way to scam people.
Slow Decay
After this I joined a group of germans who were playing on CSRO since the euro update or so. They were in a Chinese guild, with 2 Chinese people who spoke english pretty well. All was fun again, since they could really help with some trades, and with the gold I could buy some plvl. At the same time, this is where it started slipping. Up to now everyone was playing themselves, but it became obvious that the easier way was to buy plvl. New people who came to CSRO were different from the people who started with me. Some begged for plvl, others tried to get bots working. The latter group didnt succeed for quite some time. Some Chinese explained to me how to buy silk through paypal, and I told some friends, and within notime many people knew how to buy silk. Some people started buying massive ammounts of silk, and selling silk items to gain easy money. I cant help but feel a bit guilty for this ... since the ability to buy silk attracted this new breed of players who used the silk to get gold, and thus get plvl in return. Somehow I cant help but feel that silkbuying contributed to ...
The Downfall
Chinese were botting all the time, most of them 24/7, and nobody got banned. Some Chinese tried to give, or even sell the bot to non-Chinese players, and this became increasingly populair. Slowly more and more people starting using 3rd party programs, and around this time I took a 6 month break from SRO. When I returned, everything changed. CSRO lost its innocence, something a Chinese friend warned me would happen a long time ago. By helping non-Chinese people to get access to bots, the Chinese ruined the international community. A new ISRO is born, and has now attracted some programmers to program fully english bots for csro, which are, just like in isro, pay-per-month.
The End
Personally I am sick of CSRO, and I wish that some things could have gone different. Silk items have idiotic prices now. Some people buy 1k silk a month just to get some advantage or to 'legally' buy gold by selling silk items. Nobody even plays themselves anymore below lvl70, and the ong hills are filled with people getting pfarmed. In the end, the login problems, or the goldbots, werent the things that chased me away from isro. The people who botted, plvled, and didnt play the game themselves did. And now they are on the brink of chasing me away from CSRO.
Be warned though, although TSRO or whatever foreign SRO version you play may seem like heaven now, it might be slipping through your fingers before you even notice.
Start
When I just started on CSRO, this was because I simply could not login to ISRO anymore. I could try for like an hour but still no game. I read a post on the official SRO forum about CSRO, the official Chinese SRO version, which did not have a bot problem.
I made an account, joined a server in one try, and loved it. Soon I met other people who were sick of isro and its bot, and a nice community was born. These were the ...
Good Days
Everything was shiny and fun back then. Nobody knew how to buy silk, and nobody really needed it either. We leveled, everyone by hand, and soon we earned enough money by leveling and trading to buy some nice SOS, perhaps a pickup pet, and life was good.
But things started to get less nice... the first working pservers were released, and since the group of people i played with were lvls 30-45, some people decided to leave CSRO and goto a pserver. Also a good friend got banned for buying a stolen item, which is still an offense that is typical for CSRO, kinda of a legal way to scam people.
Slow Decay
After this I joined a group of germans who were playing on CSRO since the euro update or so. They were in a Chinese guild, with 2 Chinese people who spoke english pretty well. All was fun again, since they could really help with some trades, and with the gold I could buy some plvl. At the same time, this is where it started slipping. Up to now everyone was playing themselves, but it became obvious that the easier way was to buy plvl. New people who came to CSRO were different from the people who started with me. Some begged for plvl, others tried to get bots working. The latter group didnt succeed for quite some time. Some Chinese explained to me how to buy silk through paypal, and I told some friends, and within notime many people knew how to buy silk. Some people started buying massive ammounts of silk, and selling silk items to gain easy money. I cant help but feel a bit guilty for this ... since the ability to buy silk attracted this new breed of players who used the silk to get gold, and thus get plvl in return. Somehow I cant help but feel that silkbuying contributed to ...
The Downfall
Chinese were botting all the time, most of them 24/7, and nobody got banned. Some Chinese tried to give, or even sell the bot to non-Chinese players, and this became increasingly populair. Slowly more and more people starting using 3rd party programs, and around this time I took a 6 month break from SRO. When I returned, everything changed. CSRO lost its innocence, something a Chinese friend warned me would happen a long time ago. By helping non-Chinese people to get access to bots, the Chinese ruined the international community. A new ISRO is born, and has now attracted some programmers to program fully english bots for csro, which are, just like in isro, pay-per-month.
The End
Personally I am sick of CSRO, and I wish that some things could have gone different. Silk items have idiotic prices now. Some people buy 1k silk a month just to get some advantage or to 'legally' buy gold by selling silk items. Nobody even plays themselves anymore below lvl70, and the ong hills are filled with people getting pfarmed. In the end, the login problems, or the goldbots, werent the things that chased me away from isro. The people who botted, plvled, and didnt play the game themselves did. And now they are on the brink of chasing me away from CSRO.
Be warned though, although TSRO or whatever foreign SRO version you play may seem like heaven now, it might be slipping through your fingers before you even notice.
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