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In advertising you know what is the single most effective and overused word ? it is FREE.

SRO is free to play if you want to be a weak character with no possibility of winning job wars, in pvp, or a FW.

And to get back OT. My answer is YES. Magic Pop has ruined iSRO. I am moving to Fembria bc of it. I would not be surprised if there is legal action taken against Joymax at some time in the near future as Magic Pop is basically gambling. Online gambling is not permited in some countries. Could get messy. Imagine all the IP Addresses from your county getting banned bc of Magic Pop.

Plus, back to first sentence, free to play, pfffft. By the end of this Magic Pop deal, CCFers who have full sun gear and weapons will rule all servers. Turks will end up ruling your server. You just won't be able to compete.

Most likely this will be avoided by the fact that even if you lose in Magic POP you win. You still get an item no matter what. In something such as poker, you can win, but if you lose you get nothing.
Now granted an elixir or a subscription card may not be the ideal thing to win, it is still enough to keep JM from getting sued most likely.
Then again I don't know the specifics for internet gambling so I could be completely wrong

Too much text =[

In conclusion. Just wait a few months. CCFers with full sun sets will rule all servers. This game will be dead soon.

Hm... a competitve player in sro, that's leveling normally in sro:

Premium Gold Ticket (required to login) 290 silk - (of course there's the option of getting the silver version, but I've never seen someone use one. With as much exp you need to get to level from 94+, it would be maddening for your average handgrinder.)

SP Ticket 78 Silk (optional, but with the sheer amount of skill points needed at the higher levels most people will use these monthly)

Revival Scroll for pet(s) 48 silk - (I had two pets since its too troublesome to go back and forth emptying your pet, then go back to a cave that takes an hour to work around to your grinding spot, or wastes reverse scrolls)

Reverse Return Scrolls 14 Silk? (going by memory here) - With as long as it takes to navigate through the caves, lets not kid ourselves, we're all getting tons of these, so this one is probably a real money maker atm.

Monthly Devil Suit revival scroll 78 silk... I think - I've rarely seen a high lvl without one.

Then you're left with like 20 or so silk you can't really do much with. If you're a global whore you'll probably get one, or you'll look at the pop cards (like this >_>;;;) and you'll try your luck and buy 2. Both will fail and you will probably just go and buy 100 extra silk to give it 10 more tries, all 10 will fail then you'll feel like a bucket of crap.

Lets do the monthly total...

290
78
48
14
78
20 (factoring in usual left over)
100 (magic pop addiction charge :p)
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628 silk a month ($62.80 USD to play monthly, I didn't factor in the new avatars that people switch out at every opportunity)

Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to emphasize the current condition of this game. I think that adding the magic pop was a very horrible move on joymax's part, but not for it's creation. I, too, was looking forward to the magic pop system several caps ago, when joymax had a better relationship with the players. With all the shit that Joymax has created after they downsized on what little support they provided (during the 60 and 70 caps you'd see a GM appear to talk to players, I hadn't seen a GM since then) so they can rack in some serious profit without wasting even a single dime to make the players feel that there is a human being out there that's managing the game, they suddenly just throw in the magic pop crap when the game is in complete turmoil.

To be honest only a damned fool would continue to play this game, you waste hours and hours grinding and SP farming, and what? DW south gate to fight turks who gank you in groups of 5? Bot unions who make it impossible to competitively battle for the fort? The sheer imbalance between the advantage of botting and being legit is so ridiculous that the only people who can stand against the bots are no lifers who dont mind hitting 123123 for 5 - 10 hrs a day.

Despite the fact that Turks at large are the most open botters, and the biggest jerks to ever hit the game (there is always a race that was considered the server "enemy" I miss the days when it was the Viets, though they botted atleast they were fun to play with.) Joymax tries its very best to appeal to them because they dont mind spending the arm and leg amounts required to play this game, they don't complain about anything.

You know what I think? Ultimately Joymax wants you all to leave so isro can be 100% turkish; the ultimate cash cow, since they buy everything they can without a complain. Afterall they have the most methods of payment available.

You can call me racist if you want (and I'm not, I think the turkish people are quite beautiful, somehow all the jerks ended up congregating to this game), but you know what I'm saying is true.

This game isn't "dying", it's already dead. All you people are doing is kicking a dead horse lol, if you've got so much money to waste on paypal why dont you send me the cash instead, I'll put it to better use.

Keep hoping, if you think this game is dead then I'm sure you already know what Joymax thinks of it as well. The moment GMs started quitting left and right, and the so called San Jose staff, who truly intended to help this game get some much needed support, thought the game and community was a joke and either left or were fired themselves.

Once again, sorry for the very long post.

You cannot complete a sun set, but you can get a couple pieces. Big deal. Buy gold and get yourself sun pieces. Nothing different.

The game won't be dead because of magic pop cock. It'll be dead, because of the users doing nothing. Can't start something if no one is willing to.

Everything that gives players advantages ruins the game.

u guys still play this??!?!

lol. No. Just no. If you're paying for something extra in the game, why shouldn't you have an advantage over people who don't buy it.

Common sense gives people an advantage in game. I guess that ruins the game too.

lol heya brownie. And nope no playing it here XD

Well said dude. You are right. I just went back to check on silkroad and guess what. Everyone is bascially a bot, and no chatting, all auto texts in yellows. You can §t kill monsters that are good for grinding anymore.

The worst thing is, the Market ecconmy on silkroad sucks sooo bad. SO you can §t make money, unless you got lv9 stones. Wow, this sucks.

The guy who play, you are mad. Wait you are bots, or new servers or a turk. lol.

hi browntyger , I talked to bossytycoon recently , what are you playing now? I think I will join Aion when the international ver arrives.

pff u better not!



WABBAZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!
I've been playing the korean version of aion since like nov-dec 2008. As for international, the community managers of NCSoft did mention that the NA will have separate servers from EU so no international which sux, but i don't mind playing on the EU servers so i can play with everyone. Aion will come out Fall 2009...so i'll try to get in touch with everyone when the exact date of release date is announced and i'll make a recruting topic somewhere in other games or off topic. I would like to play with other players from srf, people i'm familiar with and anyone from dE who's been waiting for this.

I agree 100%

Edit: Bit off topic but..
Which is prob why most people use loaders and bots, loaders being free and have no dc clients, bots being they don't have to be there at the computer and are half the price of premium where they can be lazy asshats and bot all day long for weeks (now have auto login feature -.-"). And in the end JM doesn't ban the player bots because if a player is botting, they'll most likely try to cap out and end up buying silk items any way like astral/immortal/globals/pets anything else on there, so either way JM is making $$ and doesn't care what you do as long as they get a cut. I wouldn't be suprised if JM is behind all the botting.