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 Post subject: Re: What will happen if they ban player botters...
PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:04 am 
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They won't ban player bots.

SRO = 30mil registered users. Let's say 20mil buy silk.
20mil people, charging back an avg of $200 = 100,000 instantly taken from the company. (I know several people who have spent well over $1k, so the number's just a rough estimate.)
JM has around 200 employees totaled.

They'd go bankrupt before long, resulting in no SRo.


lol @ 30 mill number. 99.999% of them are gold bots.

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id say around 150k REAL players are regestered for silkroad, less then 20k active at any given time with anywhere from 500k - 2 million active gold bots. add in all inactive gold bots + inactive player accounts over a period of 3 years, and thats where the 30 mill comes from.

now with that said, you can only chargeback on paypal up to 45 days of the purchase.

ban every single whiny botter, and you will lose around 18k players worth of income for a period of 2 months if ALL the bots chargeback. wont happen. kids dont chargeback. majority of sro botters are kids.

average silk spent by a player is $20 on a prem per month. thats $40 for every bot banned. banning all active bots wont hurt them 1 bit. they make back the money 2 months later...


True, but it is a Business.. Number 1 Goal is $$, not the satisfaction of players.. You might be saying what about WoW, they have great customer service!! Well they are mult-million dollar coroporation, who has the funds to do something about it, but as for Silkroad, its F2P, That company only relies on Item Mall which not everyone pays for.
Like you stated Only Couple Thousand ppl play.. So obviously the customer service is gonna be horrible.

And also to all the other people who say they will go bankrupt, WRONG, their main profit isnt from ISRO!! Mainly the tend to server the Asian population (Ksro,Csro,Jsro) if u havent notice how well kept these Silkroad games are kept.. Silkroad Online is very mainstream in Korea, trust me i lived their and yes im Korean ^^ (and too all u geeks :D hehe their is all 24/7 tournament game tv show like CS 1.6 & starcraft leagues on tv all day lol)

So all you need to STHU all the Legits & Botters Stop whining if you hate it dont play it.

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 Post subject: Re: What will happen if they ban player botters...
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I would like to log in without a Premium. Player bots are a problem but lets be thanful if they can fight the goldbots and we can log in to play.


Exactly one of the many reasons why JoyMax wont ban Player-Bots lol.


u should of seen the 60 cap. 100% legit servers. 100% full all the time. server traffic was 10x worse then it is right now.

with the right management, they can fill the servers with legits and still have traffic to make people buy premium.

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 Post subject: Re: What will happen if they ban player botters...
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I would like to log in without a Premium. Player bots are a problem but lets be thanful if they can fight the goldbots and we can log in to play.


Exactly one of the many reasons why JoyMax wont ban Player-Bots lol.


u should of seen the 60 cap. 100% legit servers. 100% full all the time. server traffic was 10x worse then it is right now.

with the right management, they can fill the servers with legits and still have traffic to make people buy premium.


Well yes with the right managment, but they would actually lose money instead of gaining profit.
As you know Silkroad isnt mainstream, not alot of people know about it other than us Online Geeks :D.. They would have too advertise this to the International Crowd, which would cost money, they would have to bann all botters weekly or monthly which will cost money.. etc etc list goes on. I Highly doubt anything will be done about it.

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Skipped to page 4 and saw the graph. What the hell is going on? @_@


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Skipped to page 4 and saw the graph. What the hell is going on? @_@


joymax is lieing about there 30 million players. most games dont go over 2 mill, with only wow able to even come close to 10 mill. no mmorpg has or ever had 30 million players.

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 Post subject: Re: What will happen if they ban player botters...
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JM doesnt ban player bots that buy silk. Never have, Never will.

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How do you think they ran this game before the item mall
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Funds from their other games? But that was when they only had to run a server. Not 30

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How do you think they ran this game before the item mall
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Funds from their other games? But that was when they only had to run a server. Not 30

What's to stop them banning the player and goldbots, then condensing the current servers with the leftover legits? Less maintenance costs for them and more income because people will see them doing something.

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I think the best way to do now is implement a flagging bot system. If a bot is put flag, after 10 mins he doesnt remove it, his name will turn red. Then free kill :wink:
Of course u can put flag on someone if only they are in combat state, not when have cape.

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Answer to Thread Title - People either make new characters, wait for another server to open and make new characters, or Quit.

Lock thread now plz...


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So you have the ultimate say? As soon as you say something, the discussion is over?

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JM doesnt ban player bots that buy silk. Never have, Never will.

Yes they do.

Just remember back to the HUGE player bot ban.

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there will be no cap players

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Skipped to page 4 and saw the graph. What the hell is going on? @_@


joymax is lieing about there 30 million players. most games dont go over 2 mill, with only wow able to even come close to 10 mill. no mmorpg has or ever had 30 million players.


It seems as though that I am the only person who agrees with you, fly, and mini-fly about mostly everything you type about.

:( :(

Anyways, I am sick and tired of people saying they are in the safe zone if they bot and buy silk. Every time there is a bot ban, I always get into that arguement.

But I guess I am dillusional to think that silk buyers don't get banned when numerous of my sro friends have been banned in the past and DID buy silk.

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I think the best way to do now is implement a flagging bot system. If a bot is put flag, after 10 mins he doesnt remove it, his name will turn red. Then free kill :wink:
Of course u can put flag on someone if they are in combat state, not when have cape.


What about if they are AFK? Not AFK botting but AFK standing.

Instead of a flag, they should just update and TURN GAME GAURD ON.

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What about if they are AFK? Not AFK botting but AFK standing.

Instead of a flag, they should just update and TURN GAME GAURD ON.

Then better not afk outside the town, or u'll suffer the same fate as botter. After u're killed, name become normal again.
Instead of wasting a slot in the server, log of and let other ppl the change to play :D

Gameguard is easy to bypass, just some modifying code in sro_client :D

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What will happen: The planet will explode and re-explode (if that can happen?) and dinosaurs will roam the planet once again. Then, of course, the whole cycle of damnation comes about, dino goes bye-bye, and you got two legged creatures running about shouting "blasphemy!," and stabbing one another with shiny sticks that are really sharp. Then you get a group of people from South Korea that started developing a MMORPG. They decided to call it Silkroad Online and released it to the public. Etc., etc., etc., one thing leads to another, they go international. They decide to ban every single bot, because they felt sorry for the little legit people and the planet explodes again. An vicious endless cycle of doom when/if we decide to ban all the bots.

So, moral of story: don't ban every bot, or the planet goes boom and dinosaurs will roam the planet after it re-explodes itself.. ?


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What about if they are AFK? Not AFK botting but AFK standing.

Instead of a flag, they should just update and TURN GAME GAURD ON.

Then better not afk outside the town, or u'll suffer the same fate as botter. After u're killed, name become normal again.
Instead of wasting a slot in the server, log of and let other ppl the change to play :D

Gameguard is easy to bypass, just some modifying code in sro_client :D


Well, I don't think you should be able to get killed just because you have to go to the bathroom and had to sit on the toilet for 15-20 mins.

They should just make you get DC rather then having people kill you.

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What about if they are AFK? Not AFK botting but AFK standing.

Instead of a flag, they should just update and TURN GAME GAURD ON.

Then better not afk outside the town, or u'll suffer the same fate as botter. After u're killed, name become normal again.
Instead of wasting a slot in the server, log of and let other ppl the change to play :D

Gameguard is easy to bypass, just some modifying code in sro_client :D


Well, I don't think you should be able to get killed just because you have to go to the bathroom and had to sit on the toilet for 15-20 mins.

They should just make you get DC rather then having people kill you.

For that to work though, you'd need an auction house system like WoW, seeing you couldn't stall then. But JM said they wouldn't do that, so... *shrugs*

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For that to work though, you'd need an auction house system like WoW, seeing you couldn't stall then. But JM said they wouldn't do that, so... *shrugs*


I agree but I personally think that they should just do a major bot ban, update and enhance GameGaurd, then combine all servers.

Not only does that cut down gold companies revenue but it also makes it easier for Joymax to locate and distinguish bots. If you cut down the servers to say maybe 5 you can have more control, since I assume isro is understaffed. And besides, I doubt there are enough real people to fill 30 servers. 5 should do.

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Is it just me or are the servers really populated at this time of the day?

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I would like to log in without a Premium. Player bots are a problem but lets be thanful if they can fight the goldbots and we can log in to play.


Exactly one of the many reasons why JoyMax wont ban Player-Bots lol.


u should of seen the 60 cap. 100% legit servers. 100% full all the time. server traffic was 10x worse then it is right now.

with the right management, they can fill the servers with legits and still have traffic to make people buy premium.


If the servers were crowded because of legit players I would buy a premium but since they are crowded 24/7 with bots and getting wrose with horrible management their's no way in hell I am going to buy a premium..but that's just me..


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If the servers were crowded because of legit players I would buy a premium but since they are crowded 24/7 with bots and getting wrose with horrible management their's no way in hell I am going to buy a premium..but that's just me..

I think I said something similar to that before, that a lot of people would buy silk because JM is actually doing something. While chargeback from player bots would cause a small revenue loss in the here and now, the potential gain from it would be much greater.

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Let the botters chargeback their accounts. Good for them, who the f*ck cares?


Ever the heard the expression "Don't bite the hand that feeds you?"

You are not very bright are you? (No offense)


Botters? Buy silk? ROFL.

All they do is use a login script, and bot. Even if they DID buy silk, they would be capped in 2 months, while a legit chinese takes longer = more silk.


Banning botters will infact make more money for Joymax, 90% of the bots are stupid dumbshits. They wont chargeback, they'll just restart their chars and bot more, buy more silk. Its like a farm, once the crops are grown, reap what you sow, and then plant the seeds again.


Ban bots, after they just bought 1000 silk to get a 100 silk bonus, then ban their accounts. Now they gotta spend $100+ on a new account, after they cant use their 1100 silk they just bought. GG....

For ****'s sake, can you be any more ignorant? For someone that claims to know shit and claims to be "in tune" with SRO, you really seem to be dumb as a log. If you ever even spoke with a player bot, or if you have been around more than 6 months you would know that they aren't that stupid.

The majority of the player bots = buy premo's monthly, which is why you see all these botters pvp'ing at south don so constantly. Cuz they spend the cash to continue playing.

As far as not knowing about chargebacks, I guess you weren't around when you could sell via stall item mall goods, or shortly after Astral and Immortal was introduced to the item mall. CCF ran rampant, people would make new accounts with 874982742 CCF'ed silk to sell astral. Where do you think all these sos 64 +7 or even +9 weapons came from?

Stop acting like a badass on a forums just because you belong to a group of pricks named Avalon.

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How do you think they ran this game before the item mall
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Funds from their other games? But that was when they only had to run a server. Not 30

What's to stop them banning the player and goldbots, then condensing the current servers with the leftover legits? Less maintenance costs for them and more income because people will see them doing something.


If you ban all the botters and gold bots the server will have less than 500 people on. Joymax will still have to pay for the cost of 30 servers. Less funds = little servers. Little servers = less people. Less people = less funds. There won't be an increase in income if they ban them.

See how that cycle works out? If you ran Silkroad, would ban the player botters than give you the most funds?

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If you ban all the botters and gold bots the server will have less than 500 people on. Joymax will still have to pay for the cost of 30 servers. Less funds = little servers. Little servers = less people. Less people = less funds. There won't be an increase in income if they ban them.

See how that cycle works out? If you ran Silkroad, would ban the player botters than give you the most funds?

That's why I said condense the servers, exactly like they did on kSRO.

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Well, then sue me, cause i'm buying silk! But not for premiums, but only for the new outfits... but i didn't do the angel and wizard... Failure for me :banghead:

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They won't do it because it isn't increasing their funds. They did it to ksro because the players stopped playing. isro is a different story where its hella lot of player bots funding sro.

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Do you think they would consider banning players who got power leveled by a bot for a while? If so, then hardly any "legit" players would remain in the server, for Olympus at least. Donwhang Cave, Taklamakan, Karakoram, all I see is a taxi following a bot. I'm just wondering if they would ban those players as well.

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joymax never took botting out of the user agreement. you just forgot how to read english properly. its ok, having ur face stuffed up botters ass has that effect on alot of people.


JM even acknowledged the change in TOS FFS. besides, no where in there does it define "illegal" programs. They have watered down their TOS


awww, did i hurt your feelings?

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kthxbai.

with your bot friends gone, whos ass will you stick ur nose up next? :( sad day for you indeed.


Wow, you really are as dumb as you sound. You can quote from their posts all you want, but those are not legally binding agreements, unlike the user agreements and TOS..In which there is no mention of a bot program or anything resembling a definition of what "illegal" means. this was done on purpose you Farking idiot, so that they cannot be legally held responsible for being in cahoots with bot/gold companies. They will post a BS bot ban list, and you know it. If you're stupid enough to think this will be substantive list, then you should be banned for being a complete shmuck.[/quote]

Can't believe I'm saying this...but...I agree with Jack...Fly ur high! Even in ur quote...they are "asking" not to use bots. Dude...you gotta be smoking some heavy stuff to still think that they actualy gonna take action against bots. Its been 2 years since SRO started...and 2 years its been full of bots and no action has been taken...conclusion:

You guys are HOPELESS...100% Go get a life...or use your brains...they will NEVER EVER!!!! NNNNOOOOTTT EEEEVVVVEEERRRRR ban player bots... no need for your tiny brain to try and speculate reasons...just accept it...it ain't gonna happen PERIOD!


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IMO If they ban alot of Player bots a majority of them will quit...

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I think hell will break loose at joymax office. Every bot player will try to bomb their office :twisted:

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