wildmanfrost wrote:4. Have you ever heard of subsidiary? Coke, Pepsi, GM all own subsidiaries that do business under DIFFERENT names. Those company's profit go to the parent company. Cold it be that Joymax owns the bot company?
5. After botting for 10 months, buying all that silk, if my friend was banned, not only would he charge back, but he would quit the game. He bots not because he is addicted, as some fools who are suggest, but rather because he wants to play and has better things to do with his life.
6. Joymax has designed game play to encourage botting. Like a 1* lvl 41 being an open target to high levels is fair? Once he hits lvl 41, his fun of trading stops until he get up to 76+.
7. If we want to stop player botting, then we need to demand a fairer game play. One where the star level of the trade determines the level difference of engagement. God knows that the thieves have to get bored following my lvl 39 around. I do, I would love to be able to battle it out with thieves my level.
4: Joymax doesn't own the bot company. If they did, they would sell the program it in the item mall. Majority of the bots are Gold bots as stated. Gold bots don't buy silk. They make ZERO dollars off of a gold bot.
5: Then he should have just quit SRO. The point of a game is to play it.
6: The design isn't to encourage botting. GRINDING is a staple in Korean MMOS. The time it takes you to level keeps you playing = spend more money on cash items/longer subscription = more money for the company in the long run. If the game was like an Xbox game, finishing in 10 hours, there would be no more revenue after you've completed the game.
7: This is incorrect. Players bot. Only the PLAYER can stop botting. You don't have a right to demand anything from the company.
With all that said and done. I've reviewed the bot ban lists and they are a huge joke. You guy's never cease to amaze me with all the complaints about bots, server traffic etc etc. 10000 bot's banned, 10000 new accounts are signed up the very next day. It is a NEVER ending cycle that keeps your Silkroad economy flowing and CCU (concurrent users) high for company statistics. All of you are nothing more than a mear statastic. Game service is a business. If they can't profit off the business, there is no game. If you want Silkroad to survive another year or two continue to bot. They won't ban any PAYING player. The largest micro-transaction payment service in the world is Paypal (owned by eBay). If there is a massive chargeback (due to a paying silk customer ban) which tips the scale of projected losses Paypal will close Joymax's account as a paypal merchant. When that happens the company can no longer sustain its self unless you all start using ClicknBuy. It will never end. Eventually the game will die. Its nothing what it used to be 2 years ago because Koreans are negligent in consumer service.
