Should Silkroad switch to pay to play?

Super8 · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 119 **Location:**

How many people still play without buying silk?
I'm curious..

I think that by switching to P2P there would be less gold bots, meaning less server traffic.. because I don't believe that one gold bot would be able to make enough income to get them any profit.

Then again.. lots of people would probably just go play "WoW" because it's alot more well known

InsertName · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 2188 **Location:** Canada

isnt it already p2p with premium tickets?

wat bout WoW? its p2p and lots of gold bots

l05tfr33k7 · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 970 **Location:**

eh tons of topics on this already dude.

RogueKiller · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1893 **Location:**

InsertName wrote:

wat bout WoW? its p2p and lots of gold bots

Theyre working on that by sueing the gold bot companies

Shameless · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:21 pm

Yes it should.

RogueKiller · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1893 **Location:**

Already is a p2p game for a lot of people. $20 a month

InsertName · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 2188 **Location:** Canada

RogueKiller wrote:

InsertName wrote:

wat bout WoW? its p2p and lots of gold bots

Theyre working on that by sueing the gold bot companies

too bad joymax wont sue gold bot companies

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Most p2p games are 15-20$....alot of people pay that much or more on SRO

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:43 pm

yes, p2p good idea
-> less bots

I bet those Farking multiclient user wont be able to afford 40 accounts a month

Airbeat · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 942

Joymax wont make it p2p, coz then they will have to start work ;p .. Banning goldbots/player bots, and they will have to make customer service..
Why would they do such a thing, when they already make tons of money from item mall + they dont have to do SHIT ?

Fly · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 2114 **Location:**

p2p games blow. guilds and communities are unstable. one day your guild is full, next day 10 ppl are missing because they forgot to renew subscription. most players do not play past cap. on sro you buy tickets and shit to get capped, once 80 a ticket is useless, and only then do you really play for free. on a p2p game you pay to get cap, once caped no smart person pays for no extra service. even with awesome end game average player plays a month or so after cap before quitting.

with so meny ppl coming and going, no guild can keep its core members around for too long. once your core is gone, your skrewed.

thats why almost all games released in the past 2 years have been f2p and the number is increasing. f2p with item mall is the new standard for mmorps. subscription based games have become something of a cult thing for nerds.

crazy_foo · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1387 **Location:**

$5 a month is max I would pay for sro and only if server traffic and bugs are fixed. In other words no gold bots

subzero · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 352 **Location:**

no i alrdy pay 20 bucks a month to play
premium ftw

marjin_boo · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 400 **Location:** Australia

If switch to p2p, all premium item should be able to buy with gold.

Zero_Doom · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 1572 **Location:**

Fly wrote:

p2p games blow. guilds and communities are unstable. one day your guild is full, next day 10 ppl are missing because they forgot to renew subscription. most players do not play past cap. on sro you buy tickets and shit to get capped, once 80 a ticket is useless, and only then do you really play for free. on a p2p game you pay to get cap, once caped no smart person pays for no extra service. even with awesome end game average player plays a month or so after cap before quitting.

with so meny ppl coming and going, no guild can keep its core members around for too long. once your core is gone, your skrewed.

thats why almost all games released in the past 2 years have been f2p and the number is increasing. f2p with item mall is the new standard for mmorps. subscription based games have become something of a cult thing for nerds.

Gonna have to raise the bs flag here. WoW's community may be 100% nerds, but it is no where close to just a cult. World of Warcraft boasts the most players subscribed for any game ever. You need to check your facts about the p2p clients falling out of favor with capped players. Most players on WoW, once capped, twink lower level characters, and start raking up the battlegrounds and stuff.

Also, at the people who say there are bots and stuff on WoW. That may be true, I dunno, I can't find any for the life of me. There might be gold sold, wouldn't doubt it, but whats the point in buying gold so you can get the best gear, if the best gear is BoP? Not to mention the fact that Blizzard sues the pants off anyone that tries to do anything like that.

In response to the thread starter, I am all for P2P on sro. Most people already spend $30+ a month on it, I only spend $12 a month solid and don't have to worry about all the shit you would on sro.

Logik · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 432 **Location:**

would lose bunch of players and if they decide to go p2p they have to add some other updates cuz the ones they have now isnt worth paying for as a p2p game they have so little to do so they have to add a bunch of stuff before they even think on going to p2p

buster5995 · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 444 **Location:**

Definetly need to be p2p.

Aiyas · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:25 am

crazy_foo wrote:

$5 a month is max I would pay for sro and only if server traffic and bugs are fixed. In other words no gold bots

+1

Wouldn't pay a cent for the status quo.

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:09 am

Logik wrote:

would lose bunch of players and if they decide to go p2p they have to add some other updates cuz the ones they have now isnt worth paying for as a p2p game they have so little to do so they have to add a bunch of stuff before they even think on going to p2p

And? I prefer losing 5 legits than winning 50 multiclients bots

ColourBlind · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 1389 **Location:** JRPGs

Yeah seeing most of us are already paying a monthly fee cause of Premium.

DaZzY · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 1357

Yes, there wouldn't be server traffic, no gold bots (well not an 1/8 of what there is now) i pay over £40 a month for my two characters so iam kinda p2ping

BloodyBlade · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:57 pm

I won't pay for this game..

heroo · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 6618 **Location:**

this question has been asked a trillion times.

OT: i think they should make it P2P, if they improve theur service with 100000000%, i would play for this game.

Berto · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 835 **Location:**

Depends on the price, if it were less than $10 I think it would do more good in terms of customer support and the bot situation finally meeting some progress. Then again, I don't want to think about paying extra for Joymax to stop being lazy. We already spend enough money on the item mall. Customer support should start with the company.

zZh4ku · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 693 **Location:**

if you are capped and farmed, u dont need 20$ premium... rofl 150 silk premium is enough

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