I can see why so many people quit playing this game. I have a list of complaints and if these issues are not fixed soon, I am quitting this game to play games I can actually log onto and play. World of Warcraft is by far more popular than Silkroad and yet I can always get on that game. Hmm, who are these brainiac coders behind Joymax?
1. Server traffic is my #1 complaint. With the new premium tickets out now, I can never seem to get on to play when I want to, even tho Joymax says this problem has been fixed. If this is true, why can I never get online anymore?
2. Bots, bots, and more bots. They ban 4,000+ bots, and as soon as the servers are back up, there are 4,000+ new bots. Why are there no bot-traps in Silkroad as there are in so many other MMO's? It's obvious to me the bots make money for Joymax as the very programs they use were made for their own GM's. I've never used one but there are links to videos that show you exactly how to use one and no I am not posting any of those links here.
3. No in-game GM interactivity (unless GM account names are created by regular users only to warn people of the impersonations 10,000 times a day). I think we got it the first 100 times. I am sick of seeing these "Notices" in-game over and over and over again. Apparently not many people go to their website if they must repeat themselves so many times, and it's funny to see people trying to talk to these "BOT" GM's. I always get a chuckle, as if they really expect any of them to reply. In my time of playing Silkroad for a little over a year now, I've only seen two GM's interact with players. This totally gives me the impression that the GM's of Silkroad could really care less about what goes on in their game and with the people who abuse the global chats on a daily basis.
4. No customer support. I have been blocked from sending bug reports through the Silkroad website yet I am still allowed to buy their precious silk? Makes no sense to me. I was not told why I was blocked and I now have no means to contact Joymax unless i create a character nameon my Silkroad account and post on their "unsecure" forum from that name. I am not about to do that as I know a user's actual ID can be exposed when omeone replies to any topic on that forum. It's the most unsecure thing anyone could ever do and I use to wonder why so many people got hacked before but then I once almost relied to a topic on their forum and saw my own user ID exposed. Screw that shit.
5. The chat system blows totally. Who makes a chat client with no option of copying, pasting, or even standard editting. I've made chat clients and they all are fully editable texting applications. Ever try to hold a conversation in a town with so much lag going on it slows down cursor movement and takes forever to backup to fix a typo? Ever find yourself in the wrong chats? Ever type out a full sentence only to get cencored because you have a "variation" of a word in it that Joymax considers a violation? Try typing in the words grass, glass, assign, etc. It's stupid and irritating to have to type it all out again and then change up words to make it so it outputs to the users. Sometimes I have to do this several times just to get one simple point across. Why not put the cencored text back in the textbox so it can be editted instead of entirely removed? This really pisses me off sometimes.
6. High level players think they are gods on this game and choose to do whatever they want to whoever they want and don't have to fear any type of punishment from a GM simply because there is never a GM around! Friends of mine quit playing this game because they were singled out by certain high levels that would not back off of them and let them play the game. I was under the impression this fell under the "Game Play Interference" policy in Joymax's so-called Terms of Service Agreement, but nothing ever gets done about this kind of game play so why should anyone stick around to have to go through it when all they are trying to do is play a damn game.
7. Joymax adds stupid new shit to the game when they should be concentrating on server issues and much less server inspections. These so-called server inspections have never really done anything to "improve the game play experience" that I have seen. They are more of a pain in the ass than anything if you ask me. Most of the time they lie to users such as one time they said they were going to be doing a server inspection and actually did a massive bot ban. Also, Joymax never states exactly what they do (such as list fixes) during these server inspections. All you get from them is "Server Inspection Completed" at such and such time. I NEVER know what to expect to come back to after a server inspection with the exception that once the servers come back on, this is the ONLY time I can log into the game befreo the servers become packed and I can't get on.
8. Game freezes and errors. All I wanted to do tonight was de-level my alternate character. I tried, many times. Every single time I died and tried to res back to town, the game locks up and I am disconnected from the server until eventually I wasn't able to get back on at all. I quit. I am just so sick and tired of trying to get on just to play this game. It's made me consider other possibilities for games and if I do find a better one, Silkroad will be nothing more than a distant memory to me.
9. Lag Fixed? Where? Even with the graphics turned all the way down, I still lag like hell everytime I enter a town. A few times now Joymax has announced server upgrade equipment and fixes for lag, yet to this day I still lag just like I did when i began playing this game. And yes all my video drivers are updated. I have an ATI 512MB video card that plays all my other games just fine. Yet Silkroad lags like hell and sometimes it just pisses me off more.
10. I have never had so many problems and concerns with one single game until this game. I'm getting to the point to where I'm willing to let the bots have the game, as to me, it appears 70% of the gamer are bots anyway. I can spot a bot like within every 20 steps I take in this game no matter what part of the world I am in. Frankly I'm starting to find this game boring as all it really is anymore is a botfest and a grindfest and my fingers and my free time spent really don't feel like doing it anymore. I miss my Need For Speed games. Maybe I will put them back on here and re-live some memories. I always had a kickass time with those games and I can ALWAYS get online. Sux to be Silkroad right now.
That's all I have for now. I am tired, I have a life, a job, and no more time to bitch about Joymax and it's game that I think is going straight to hell. I really don't expect anyone to reply to this as Joymax never responds to anything I write them. But in the future if you don't see Bloodie around, you'll know why.
well i dont know.. i havnt dl'd the game yet. But when nightbloom mentioned the name of his server, i assumed it meant there was more than one. Otherwise it is kinda pointless naming his server
yeap .. me too .. slowing down on sro ... not spending more silks. no point since i cant log in to use pet/GT. PT? no thx. discriminating. all paying customers shld get a better chance to log in ... and not juz PT.
and @ Bloodie ... it's all joymax fault in short ... all that u have listed ... joymax's fault.
Artem wrote:Was wrong sorry.. 2 servers Cervantes and Caracci
i was right
DS^ wrote:lol, you guys aren't serieus about playing GE, right ?
I know i am serious about it, by the sound of things other people are aswell. Ive been pondering going to it for about 2 weeks now. I stumbled across it a little bit ago and liked what i saw.
Seeing that you only have 15 posts, I never noticed you to begin with.
Seriously, we should have a sticky of all the rants and whining of SRO so that the forum isn't filled with all this spam. It gets boring reading the same old rants over and over again.
GE is indeed really fun, I just started playing it 1 hour ago, the female wizard looks hawt D=>
I still like SRO, but my biggest complain will probably not change, and that is the absurd exp gain rate, it has taken me quite a while to get to lv56, with gt, if I hadnt to go to university or have occasional free-lance jobs I will probably be higher lv, but I do not want to give up doing regular stuff just to play a game and not be nearly strong enough than players that "afk level" because I do not have the time to grind so much to get me a sosun, neither I am willing to pay $200+ for a sosun.
Take a break from SRO. It's good for you. I'm on "vacation" and I gotta say it's nice to not have a video game piss you off. And yes, GE is pretty good. I just hope that game doesn't get ruined too...
With better rates, and a good community.
And then we get supported by Microsoft giving us a zillion of üBER servers to overrule JM, so then JMs servers will be private!
I must admit, you've said everything that i rant about on ventrilo for the last god knows how many weeks. I have managed to log in 2x in 3 days. How swell.
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Level 4x Spear Fire/Light Int 2:1 Hybrid
No GT! :[
