Ever seen a GM in game?

[Mirrrorman]

It has been brought to my attention that other MMORPGs have 'game masters' who have characters in each server and they actually go around the maps, amongst players, experiencing the game environment for themselves.

Occasionally I'll see a player send out a naive global chat message along the lines of 'If there is any GM on, please come to...." Being new to these games I have often found this laughable in it's futility, as aside from the automated anti- credit card fraud and server inspection announcements, I have seen absolutely no involvement from Joymax GMs within the Silkroad Online game environment.

Note: I have played almost daily, 2-6 hours per day, for approximately 6 months.

But then someone told me that other games have official GM characters who perform exactly this role- addressing issues in game. If Joymax claim to have in game GMs who operate in this capacity, I for one have never seen one, nor seen any addressing of issues, bot patrol, bugs, glitches, helping with advice etc. NEVER!

Now I'm not bad mouthing Joymax, it is after all a free game and being a non-silk user, frankly you get what you pay for- laggy servers, bot infestations, no official GM activity. If I ever play a game with monthly subscription, I would vehemently demand these problems dealt with or I'll take my business elsewhere, but i just don't take my current time wasting on Silkroad Online that much of a priority.


So, you ever seen, or had any interactions with an official GM???

[Heie]

no...

EVEN THEY CANT LOG IN

[Vibrator]

no...

EVEN THEY CANT LOG IN

WRONG Gms have a special space reserved..

[Heie]

no...

EVEN THEY CANT LOG IN

WRONG Gms have a special space reserved..

oh really!

[firefox6]

gms can go invisible. they do this now cose when people see a gm, a few high lvls will come and try to or kill the gm also they get nearly all the server around them and makes them useless. now if they could not be killed or even count not be attacked, then maybe they would show there face more.
the fact is if there were always gms in game there would not be so many bots witch would fix the lag and the login issues.

the problem with this is that they are under staffed and greedy.

[MastaChiefX]

Didnt read what you said so..
Yes, I have seen a GM in game.
The very first thing I did, even before yelling in union that there was a GM, was KNOCK THAT BITCH DOWN ON THE GROUND.

Lol only did like 1000 dmg tho :/.

[Disconn3cted]

Didnt read what you said so..
Yes, I have seen a GM in game.
The very first thing I did, even before yelling in union that there was a GM, was KNOCK THAT BITCH DOWN ON THE GROUND.

Lol only did like 1000 dmg tho :/.

and that is why we never see them xD

[13g]

yep, one day she was there, i used to know her on 14G =)
just standing there getting followed

again =)

blade =)

im standing next to her lol =)

about to get the shit stabbed out of her

[John_Doe]

GM looks sex y i might say. Haven't seen any male GMs though anyone seen any?

[Mirrrorman]

Thank you firefox6 and disconnected for responses which shed some light on my question.

Clearly Joymax are understaffed, and assuming their only source of revenue from Silkroad is from players who buy silk, then it is completely understandable why they can't have human GMs in game regularly. They are evidently treated like trashy Hollywood celebrities being followed around by obsessed paparazzi, rendering them unable to perform their duties.

In an ideal world they'd be as commonplace as the regularly spawning unique monsters, but the reality is while they are so rare, people will want to follow them, crowd around, get a screen shot, attack, spam etc should they ever appear in 'visible' mode.

IF it were a priority, Joymax ought to offer some sort of Deputy GM status to a few regular players who prove themselves as honest, fair, legitimate and helpful, and make them accountable to avoid abuses of power, so the deputies can do those GM tasks that clearly existing Joymax staff are currently unable or unwilling to manage.

There must be at least half a dozen legitimate, worthy leaders of level 5 guilds/ unions on each server that could do this.

[Doppleganger]

Didnt read what you said so..
Yes, I have seen a GM in game.

lol same.
I've seen one in game before but there's 100+ people around most of the time and its hard to see.

[Key-J]

Yup seen a couple of GMs online.

Said Hi to Gargamel Once

[MrFudge]

haha they got killed by normal players.

[Midori]

haha they got killed by normal players.

that's usually because they don't have pots...

[SuicideGrl]

these were taken almost exactly a year ago, June 25th 2006.

i haven't seen a GM in-game since.

[William-CL]

I seen Crayon Only once, but he didn't say nothing to me just passed by.

[Ashikiheyun]

That's cool SG, you two seemed tight

Don't think I've ever seen a GM on Olympus, though someone once globaled there was one PVPing at south gate JG but I thought it was a joke and I guess it wasn't

[SuicideGrl]

That's cool SG, you two seemed tight :P

we used to PM occasionally, when he was actually in-game. excellent english, funny guy, nice as could be. shame he moved onto better things.

[TheRealAnswer1]

Thank you firefox6 and disconnected for responses which shed some light on my question.

Clearly Joymax are understaffed, and assuming their only source of revenue from Silkroad is from players who buy silk, then it is completely understandable why they can't have human GMs in game regularly. They are evidently treated like trashy Hollywood celebrities being followed around by obsessed paparazzi, rendering them unable to perform their duties.

In an ideal world they'd be as commonplace as the regularly spawning unique monsters, but the reality is while they are so rare, people will want to follow them, crowd around, get a screen shot, attack, spam etc should they ever appear in 'visible' mode.

IF it were a priority, Joymax ought to offer some sort of Deputy GM status to a few regular players who prove themselves as honest, fair, legitimate and helpful, and make them accountable to avoid abuses of power, so the deputies can do those GM tasks that clearly existing Joymax staff are currently unable or unwilling to manage.

There must be at least half a dozen legitimate, worthy leaders of level 5 guilds/ unions on each server that could do this.

Then those people would go around and start banning anyone they disliked or whoever trashtalked them.

[MrFudge]

OMG I WANT GM'S BLESSING.

[[SD]Kratos]

Sui u're SO lucky "come to me" and he appears T_T

[TheRealAnswer1]

Is that the new 9D sword that she has equipped?

[Key-J]

Is that the new 9D sword that she has equipped?

Lol nope, Crayon had the 1stD Sword eqquiped.

[poehalcho]

haven't seen one but i once got a pm from gargamel saying: ''Hi'' and '':D''

[Kitt]

That's cool SG, you two seemed tight

Don't think I've ever seen a GM on Olympus, though someone once globaled there was one PVPing at south gate JG but I thought it was a joke and I guess it wasn't

Nope GM was really there ~_~ i got a few screenies before a bunch of people came and lagged me out XD

[gamef]

last time i saw a gm was about a year ago on babel when isy spawned i think it was gargamel who came on

[Cresta]

i seen [GM]ladyasiana once

[Vandango]

Yea ive only seen 1 in person

[Doron]

Vandango... i've seen that picture before... i think..

[Design]

Never seen a gm ingame