TL;DR version: I'm quitting SRO and will probably not come back given the state of the game's awful in-game community and going back to what I was doing before revisiting SRO.
I've had my fair share of good and bad experience with the last few months on SRO, most of them being bad. Despite the in-game community being non-legit for the most part, I still tried to have fun in the game and actually did have fun at first. I even bought ~$175 worth of Silk items in my re-attempt to get back into the game to speed up the process. I got a Rogue and a Warrior to the 4Xs and messed around with two Chinese builds and although I do desire to reach the level cap and have super awesome epic gear and stats, I realized it would drain me of a tremendous amount of my time (and therefore money) to do so. I have always been legit from the start and stayed legit to the end and I put up with so much trash from the in-game community that I decided to play SRO less and other games to reduce the stress I got from playing SRO. As one former member of Avalon told me (not the exact quote but similar): "SRO should be fun not stressful". For me, SRO has reached the point where playing it induces stress within me. I despise having to put up with spambots constantly remaking accounts, goldbots taking all the server space and ruining the economy, playerbots and powerlevelers taking all the good spots, the majority of the in-game community not knowing how to play properly in parties, the lag in the servers, the scammers attempting to scam me, the lack of low level parties, the general acceptance or apathy for the non-legit of the in-game community, [insert more stuff that I hate and probably forgot to mention], and most of all: the greed, incompetence, and lack of caring JOYMAX has shown in their development of the game. This was my first MMORPG when I first played it (around 1-2 months after Europeans were introduced) and looking back now I do not understand why I allowed myself to still get absorbed in a game that went so far downhill from what it originally was. I will not put up with it anymore and officially announce my resignation from the game and the community. Goodbye, SRO. For those that have always been legit in the game from the start, I hope they accomplish their goals they set for themselves in SRO.
Now, back to procrastinating from my studies by playing Minecraft, browsing Reddit, and playing other games casually.
