Silkroad Online Review

i wouldnt recomend it realy but ya’know

I give this a 0 because of one very simple and obvious reason.

Can’t get on the game.

Honestly, all these reviews that tell us “OMG THESE NOOBS SUCK!11” and “DON’T LISTEN TO THEM!!” are just saying that THEY like the game and played it at a time where they could actually log on.

I’ve played this game before, but I quit for some reason. I decided to download this game again. From what I remember, the game has detailed graphic, complicated gameplay, and a very nice job system. Skills and levels are linked, yet seperated. The game requires a lot of grinding, yet at the same time it does not.

This all means jack of course.

As I said above, NONE, I repeat, NONE of these things matter if you can’t get on the game in the first place.Silkroad will die, eventually. Even veternan players will quit at some time. New players will not join because of the ridiculous lack of space on servers. The way to get on servers with ease is to buy a premium ticket with real money. Now, who in their right mind would buy something from a game they haven’t even EXPERIENCED yet?

Honestly, this game would be better if Joymax decided to, instead of added more game content, resolve problems already there.

Goodbye to Silkroad and all of my toons. It’s too late, I’ve moved on to Atlantica and Runes of Magic. 🙁

it kinda seems this game is very popular but actualy its full of bots

THANK ALL

this game is just gr8 u hve to try it its the best out there with some problem but it isnt worth not trying

now most people hate the fact its over run with bots,my self included. there are many reasons that joymax dose not correct the issue, and one of the reasons is that people no matter what will pay real money for items to login when the server is full. and because they know people are willing to do this they will not fix the game. the jobbing is fun at first over my years of playing it has changed alot. I remember the good old days where the game was fun I would job and pvp all day.. and when my friends and I were on together we would grind or job.. it was great untill the release of gold bots.

it takes a long time to lvl which is the downside of the game, sure you can lvl from 1-20 in a day if you try really hard.

the items in game are so expencive because of the gold bots so its hard to get good gear. I was last playing about a week ago and I noticed no matter where I went I would talk in all chat and maybe two or three people in any given are were not bots. which means 99.99% of all server traffic is bots

joymax is now saying they are going to implament a new program to ban bots after the release of Sbot which would allow a botter to have 1-15 clientless bots running on one computer.

and joymax has never really stood by the real players, I am sure if they suceed in the process of removing the gold bots and start looking after the game it will be in the top ten mmos.

as far as it being free.. it can be for most but for me it cost about 15-20 a month in USD. I have to have a pet to pick up my drops which saves you time but cost 10,USE to buy and then 5USD a month to keep. and there are other items I like to buy to go with it. I would say to get full potential out of the game you would have to pay about 20-30 USD a month.

if not its going to be a long borning time for you..lol

if you are going to try the game I would say your best time to logon is right after the server inspection which is every week posted on the silkroadonline site.

good luck

well i gotta do an essay on why the us broke away from the british colonies which is due in 3 hours cya

RATE 9

So sad, the developers instead of fixing this problem decides to create an item shop ticket to get onto the servers despite its crowdedness, thus showing their greed and with a broken game and no-one to fix it, it cant be played. End of story.

I loved the three way system of thieves, hunters and merchants. It made the game feel so adventorous, all wasted, if only a better company had managed the game this game would be hoarding a 9.5 no problem.

The grind is just hopeless without prem tickets. If by some magic you get into the servers without prem, the INSANE grind past 70 will force you to buy one.

You will also probably get into cheating as well. I really would say close to 100% of the playerbase bots. It’s just that type of environment.

I rate 0.

The bad:
Grind grind grind!!
The most unoriginal and unrewarding quests EVAR
too many bots
there were server limits, really tiny server imits, so 90% the time, I COULDNT EVEN PLAY!! The game REQUIRES that youre on hours on end because of its UNBELIEVABLY tedious grinding, but no, you gotta reopen the game everytime the login fails, which on average is around 50 times T.T dont bother, seriously.

Customer service is horrible!! If you have any problems with the game, good luck getting help. For instance, they redesigned their website not too long ago. Now I can’t log in to my account, which is needed to purchase silk. I can log in to the game though and play just fine. I’ve posted a trouble call in their forum and bumped it 4 times so far without a response. It’s pathetic.

It’s not a bad game. Just pray that you don’t need customer service.

Pros:

There are alot of people online, which means, more fun.
The battle system isnt too bad.
The graphics are pretty good.
has PVP.

Cons:

Gets very grindy
No character custimization
Pretty bad lag in town.

Music:8/10(matches every location you visit)

Skills:10/10(a large variety)

PVP:7/10

Comunity:1/10(there’s like 30% gold bots broadcasting spam 24/7 and 50% killing bots that whipe out every monster they encounter 24/7)

I have been playing this game for a few years I could say it could have a shot a beating WOW in the first year of its realease.It WAS awesome!The best free MMORPG I have ever meet!But now (if you do the math)80% of the comunity are bots,there are countless bugs and flaws(for example the CTF where there are no mobs!)and above all JOYMAX DOES NOT GIVE A DARN ABOUT PLAYER COMPLAINTS.THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT MAKING MONEY.This was a great game but not it is a ruin infested with bots and not to mention Hachers.
I will give it a 6 because of its glorious past and also of its ruined present and furure.

I WAS WRONG!!

It took FOREVER to download, FOREVER TO INSTALL, AND IT TOOK AN ETERNITY TO START. When I finally (about 15 minutes after start up) logged into the game, I created my character, logged on, and…

NOTHING HAPPENED.

I couldn’t chat, I couldn’t move, and none of the action buttons worked. I could only spin in place and read the help menus in hope of some kind of help for my problem. Sadly, there was none.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the same thing happened. Maybe it wasn’t compatible with my computer (what isn’t compatible with WinXP??) but that was the worse experience I’ve ever had with a game. I give it a 1 because I didn’t have to pay for it.

For anybody who attempts to play this game, enjoy your failgame. You’d have more fun chucking your computer out of the window and then throwing yourself out right after it.

PROS:
I liked the graphics, clothing, and the skills. I’m all about magic in MMOs and I really like the magic system in this game. Beautifully done. the music was above average, but not excellent.

CONS:
For some reason…even though this game is an above-average MMo…I found myself getting bored of it after a week of playing. Some things that really SUCK about this game is that its extremely hard to actually get into the game.(especially on weekends) the world is full of gold and item-selling bots. I’d even go so far as to say that the community is at least 70% bot. also there’s this glitch where you try to log in and it just disconnects you from the game. On some days it took me hours to actually log on, other days i could on the first try.

Overall, a slightly above average game. The only reason it gets a 6 is because of the graphics and skill system.

Grinding: Alot of fun. Huge areas to find monster in any lvl. And you can never get lonely.

Community: Great community, one of the best communities ever! 😀

Skills: Very good,. The chinese Characters can use fire, cold or electric while using other skills, this makes more attack

Graphics: Great, almosttoo good if u have crappy computer.

Servers: Suck ass. Servers are always full, you need to log on for an hour if u even want to play.

The game ios worth a try, but if u want to play seriously you should buy a gold ticket or something.

all the idiots on here who rate it a 9+ only cares about the graphics

PROS:
DECENT graphics

CONS:
-tons of gold spamming bots that takes up server slots
-GM don’t care about bots
-only good GM service when you buy items with REAL MONEY
-this is 95% of the “quests” on here…”kill X monsters, collect X items, return, repeat 3 more times”. VERY REPETITIVE
-sometimes X can be 500-1000 later on in the game
-3 “classes” or weapon choice. Spear, Glaive, Bow
-you can’t log onto server, you gotta input your login key and name only to be disconnected around 20-30 times before you’re lucky to get in
-EXP grind is sooooo slow in the higher levels. .04-.08% per monster a few levels higher than you
-forces you to buy double EXP tickets just so you can level at still a snail but faster pace

and the WORST con is

-you get to play with idiots like people in this forum who rate this game a 9+, even though they mentioned all the problems i have, all they care is graphics which they think are nice.

PLEASE do yourself a FAVOR and never ever download this piece of crap like i did. worst MMO I ever played in my life. wasted such good hours on this when Perfect World, Cabal, Last Chaos, or Rappelz are out there (other free mmo’s)

for all you people that think i can’t run this game to the max because of my system, here’s the specs

CPU – q9450 @3.2 ghz
GFX – 3870×2
RAM – 4 gb crucial ballistix ddr2 800mhz
Sound – Creative Xtreme 7.1

i run this game at max resolution and settings at all times. graphics still sucks. good game

So many bots, every time I walk in to a town I can”t chat…all it is is gold spam.

Sometimes I log in on the first try. Sometimes I get the “Cannot connect due to server traffic” error for 2 hours before I get in.

My Level 23. He gets .08% a kill. Killing level 26 mobs. That”s just bad xp.

I play the International Version, this means only a few people speak english. Throughout the few weeks I have been playing, only 3, yes THREE, people have not followed me and KSed (Stealing the things I”m killing) me. Props to them.

The trading system. One of my friends is a merchant, another friend and I are hunters to protect him. We were doing a 1 star trade, player thieves can”t attack one star trades. But apparently they can attack hunters protecting the merchant. We were standing there getting owned by a level 50+ thief while NPC thieves killed our merchant, and the thief took all our stuff. G.A.Y.

When partied your exp cuts. So I don”t get .08 per kill, I get .04! How fun!

And whoever said about the potion delay being 10 seconds, it”s not. For Europeans it”s 15 seconds, and for Chinese it”s 1 second.

SP farming. I never have any SP at all because I didn”t farm. So I can”t have my skills the moment I level.

The one good thing I can think of, is the skills look pretty nice…for the Chinese anyways.

Well, back to trying to log in. Chao.

(Rating: 1/10)

Its a pretty good game though repetitive, i like how the weather changes and its a nice little game for hardcore players.

The Graphics i’d rate about a 7 and the gameplay 7 too but i rate it overall an 8 🙂 V. hard to actually get onto a server thats the annoying thing.

The graphics are amazing.

The community is really nice, easy to learn stuff for new players.

The weapon choices are creative, Whoever thought of using a Bard as a damage dealer? That”s innovative.

The 10 second pot delay, so people can”t heal themselves like crazy like Runescape.

The pros and cons of each class. Each class has a visible strength and weakness.

The Merchant, Hunter, Thief thing. ITS AWESOME! This the gem of the game, Merchants are players who obviously trade items from city to city and reap a huge profit. They travel in caravans. Protecting the Merchants, are players called Hunters, they obviously protect the Merchant from aggressive monsters and Thieves. Thieves are players whose sole intent is to kill the Hunters and Merchants, take their loot and sell it at the Bandit Den for high profits. You cannot be more than one of these but you can switch around, You can quit, join, or rejoin any of these classes at your leisure.

The sheer area of the map is BEAST. Yes, I used the word ¡§BEAST¡¨ as an adjective.

The Stall System is nice, instead of the traditional type and retype (or just get an autotyper), players set up stalls in which you advertise your goods in the Stall Title. You can also hook up you stall to the Stall Network which works similarly to eBay. You choose a category (say Chinese Weapon), then a kind of weapon (Spear), and a degree (1-8) and click ¡§Search¡¨, your search will get you results and you can pick the item you want based on price and other attributes (blues.)

Alchemy, look it up in the SilkRoad Forums. Although not always successful, it can reap a huge profit for you. (and no, its not converting random metals into gold. FAR from it.)

The “boss” monsters such as Lord Yarkan and Isyutaryu, they are so fun and challenging. (Lord Yarkan is that guy above, and don”t be mistaken, usually an average of 70-150 people are teaming on him, its impossible to kill him by yourself because he has over 9,000,000 hp (seriously, no joke) and he has tons of high level guardian spawns. You CANNOT kill him by yourself. He is the strongest monster in the whole game (so far) and is a blast to fight (even though there is a 60% chance you will die, even at like level 70 (the cap is 80.)

The party system, although a bit simple, is really fun.

CONS:

The Bots… they are HORRIBLE, you can”t even hold a decent conversation in a city because the bots are autotexting at a HIGHLY RAPID rate. Its usually spam or advertisements for party leveling, (exp is distributed through parties and for real life cash, someone will party you and level you up. Sad isn”t it?), Silkroad money, or for Silk (in-game currency used to buy special items.) TheBots aren¡¦t only limited to spam. There are literally HUNDREDS of gold bots. Gold bots are accounts that are used to generate money, to sell for real life cash (again folks, ain¡¦t it damn sad?) by killing monsters. They litter the low level monster, city outskirts of Silkroad and are amazingly annoying. They make leveling up for beginners annoying since they always seem to get to the monsters first.

The occasional lag, not too bad at all. Not even noticeable unless you have a bad computer (which I had until a few months ago ļ)

The quests are just plain terrible. They involve just repeatedly killing monsters and getting items from them. No creativity or puzzle solving skills needed, even 3 year olds can do them.

The grinding of levling up can get tedious, its why I recommend joining a party or guild to train, conversation usually passes time faster.

The amount of monster species, I think that there should be much more monsters species.

Annoying European characters coming to China to make your life miserable. It takes 20k to get from Constantinople (main European city) to Jangan (main Chinese city), not that much in in-game currency which makes it useful for low level players and as well as the damn annoying European characters. Now don¡¦t get me wrong, European characters are fun (I have 2, a Wizard and a Bard), but when they come to China and say ¡§I IZ TEH BESTZORZ. EUROPEZ IZ TEH BETTERZ TH4N CHIN4. LOLZ NUBZ.¡¨ It gets annoying. It usually never happens though.

The weapons, pots (potions), and armor. I think we could use a little more variety.

Joymax (the Co.) almost never addresses the players concerns. Although when they update stuff and add things, its AWESOME for the gameplay.

Lack of GMs or Mods in general. They have no good mods, their mods (GM_Pizza FTW!) rarely come online using global chat (chat that everyone in the server, regadless of area they are in can see on message screen.) and tell us players obvious stuff.

Overall, the game is awesome and the Pros outweigh the Cons by a lot. Go play this game. Its just plain BEAST.

The quests are fresh to the basic ones, but can be fun and boring at the same time. I’ll overall rate this game a 3 because of the bots and the company does nothing about it. Not to mention, its trying to make a lot of money for doing nothing.

Karloff Klexion
Cleric Level 26 Pluto Server.

If your just getting off another MMO or just wanna try something new, then definetely DOWNLOAD SILK ROAD ONLINE. If you have a slower computer then the wait may take a while, but its definetely worth it. Is better than Rappelz and 9dragons.

The game SilkRoad is awesome with so many features and great variety of weapons, armors, and skillz. The graphics of it are extraordinary; the best I’ve seen! The sound is also very good. I also love the music. The gameplay is great and of course leveling will be hard as you grow! That’s the challange! Owning pets and riding transportations is extremely cool! btw i have a wolf lvl 22 😀 You can take very beautiful screenshots of the game which automatically get saved to the game folder. The rare items in it are great and special. And all this is possible for Free! There are also very cool stuff for paid but I play for free.

Now the bad part. Today I played it about 4 hours and I saw about 4000 bots! or more. The number of bots in this game are unlimited! And, I’ve tried runescape be4 and in that you could report the bots. In this it seems like they want bots cauz in the middle of everything bots commericalze powerleving, goldselligna and JOYMAX does nothig, absolutely nothing about this! You will see thousands of Bot Fighters that auto potion and auto fight 4ever! They never leave the server cauzing it to be overcrowded BAdyly! So, the logging takes from 1m to 24h! I once luckily logged in at once and another time I only logged in afted 1hour and 25mins!!!

So, here are the summarizez:

Gameplay: 10/10
Feauters: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Monsters: 10/10
SKillz: 10/10
Jobs: 9/10 Great 3 Jobs. All very different.
BOTS: 0/10
Customer Support: 0/10
Communtiy: 5/10 To many agreesive and offenders in the game.

So over all it is a perfect game if you logged in and are doing a job, fighting, or trading.
But Sucks when you are trying to play the game
OVerall Rating: 9/10 It really deserves it. NO LESS! Could be more if the servers were cleaned and less crowded.

At first I had fun with this game, but trying to log on for about 20 minutes every time you wanted to play is not my idea of fun. Due to the simple fact of not being able to get on, I give this game 0 out of 10.

Pros:
+Very Fun
+Graphics looks great
+Character Animations are clean
+You get more than your monies worth, even though its free!

Cons:
-Can get a little laggy
-Uninspired quests
-Controls could have been a little better
-The Character customization is not good

Final Score: 9 out of 10

gameplay 7/10 the gameplay was ok but became annoying at higher lvl

jobs 3/10 the jobs are bad if you where lvl 20 to 40 you really chouldn”t do any fun jobs(trading isn”t that fun)

fighting 10/10 problly one of the only good things about the game

the bots and hackers and spamers the game is about 90% of these guys i did get hacked wasen”t that high of a lvl (lvl 42)but still they don”t really try to stop these guys

lets see if your lvl 70 to 80 the game becomes better i know this from some guys i met why playing

Guild: hard to run and hard to be in
Union: not worth the time
Party: dependes on if 4 or 8 preson party the diffrences is that a 8 preson splits exp as a 4 person(if Full) gives you more exp

Quest 3/10 they are terrible and take to long at higher lvls like kill 1000 flowers (secret message while 3000 bots swarm the area) there not worth the time

so overall i give it 5/10 good game but it has its ups and downs

the only not good in this game is the publisher aka JOYMAX,
they so corrupt,
they are behind all botter site,
they are selling gold,

This game is nice if you can make it work, but you have to get it working first. full servers, lags. ect.
Now the ratings

Gameplay: 7-10
its all right, above average. i love the fighting.

Graphics: 8-10
Great i love it , well above average

Sound: 7-10
Its all right, above average. i love the music 😛

The greatest thing I have experienced in this game is with my Chinese spearman. The game lets you choose what weapon skills to use, but also lets any Chinese character use magic as a modifier to the weapon. I’m impressed by that because it provides the possibility of doing a critical hit on top of using a weapon skill while at the same time adding a magical modifier to that.

The European race is not as complicated. Basically, you learn skills based on what weapon you choose. The downfall is that you cannot use a skill you learned as a wizard with a cleric rod, or anything to that effect. Ergo, the Chinese are cooler…

Overall, if you like shiny graphics and killing monsters…a lot of monsters…Silkroad will have you covered for quite a while. If you demand a storyline and comprehensive/extensive jobs/quests, you may severely dislike this game. If you get annoyed or frustrated there’s no worry. Delete it. It’s free.

Don’t be fooled by the graphics. The game is BORING. Supposedly there are three “jobs” that you can choose: trader, hunter or thief. In reality the jobs don’t work. Low lvl traders can be griefed by higher lvls when they lure monsters to the trader. Hunters just get slaughtered by higher lvl thieves. Thieves have to wait on the “Silkroad” all day until an “attackable” trader comes along, which can take hours. BORING.

Customer service sucks. Bots and spammers run around all day selling gold, and there’s no GM in sight. There are also many bugs and spelling mistakes. You can expect the game to crash or disconnect every 3 hours. If you get d/c while on a trade run, you can lose your goods. It happened to me and I lost $100k because Joymax can’t maintain their server properly!

If Joymax wants my money, forget it. Why should I pay for such a poor-quality game that tolerates botting and spamming?

There are many other better games out there people.

Silkroad Online has alot of problems that could be solved by supervisors/GMs on the servers.

– Scamming
– Bots, GoldBots
– Unfriendly players like hell, LOL
– Hard to connect, then you get disconnected.
– Lag… stopped with my 8800 GTX and E6700

Not sure if you mentioned all the spam on the chat channels, but nevermind.

But i must say one thing.
I choose Silkroad Online before WOW Guild Wars and AO.

There is only Silkroad for me even if i have to fight to log in. And i will fight!!

Maybe Zera could be better? Dont know.

But for all the Hell i have to endure, Silkroad is the true but hidden revolution of MMORPG.
Not too many sees this. But mark my words. Korea will be the dominant MMORPG provider in the next 5-10 years.

Silkroad will be one of the great milestones in Game history. The game has so much thats great. and all i want to do with the game is add moore and not completely change the game.

Instead of starting all over and then mess it up. This game can be built on and can be improved on to compeete with WOW.

Silkroad Online is the one armed dirty little assasin sneeking behind WOW, ready to break its neck.

Racism is quite frequently seen an individual
was speaking in German and he was told
to speak in English and was called a nazi and
other racist remarks. This is a common
event in this game and again the GMs
do nothing to stop it.

Bots and scammers plague this game and it
seems that the GMs just don”t seem to care.

Scammers run rampant and try and prey on new
players in this game and the GMS do nothing
to stop the abuse. Scammers trying to sell gold
in game for real cash via paypal and other
payment services is just one of the many scams
that are occuring and the GMS do nothing to stop
the abuse. They continue to let it continue and
don”t ban these scammers.

It is impossible to connect to the servers.
Not just one specific server but all of them
are way over crowded and it is nearly impossible
to connect in and actually play the game.

when you do get connected the game lags heavily
and the game is pretty hard to play at times.
There are also frequent disconnections when you
are trying to play the game. All of a sudden
you will be playing and then the next thing you
know you will be disconnected.

It has nothing to do with my connection it has
everything to do with the server load being
way too high again. My connection is working
perfect and I never get diconnected playing
other online games except this one!

Over all this game is run horribly and totally
mismanaged and is nothing more then a joke.

The admins of these servers need to fix the problems
or shut this game down.

And before some noob replies to this ad and says oh
he is just another botter that got banned or one
of the scammers that is not the case at all

I have a valid account on this game but I am sick
of the GMS doing nothing to fix these problems
above.

It is time for change with silkroads Online or it
is time for it to pack it in and shut the game
down.

This review will be posted on various websites
and warn everyone to avoid silkroads online
it is not a good game and way too much abuse
occurs and the people are rude and quite ignorant

This isn”t a good game to get involved with and
the admins of this game just don”t seem to care.

Just avoid ths game it isn”t worth your time!

Pros: Graphics better than 90% of the MMOs out there. Interesting skill and job system.

Cons: GRIND. All you do in this game is grind. I would be cool with it if combat were interesting but it’s not. It’s slow, and the lag in this game is killer. By slow I mean, you sit there forever, watching your characters hit animation, and wait for whatever it is to die. Where is the skill? Wheres the excitement? There isn’t any. Go play something else. I made it to level 18 and gave up.

Pros
Great Graphics
Unique skill system
Awsome Job system(very unique)
no lag(just sometimes)

Cons
Even after u change job (which is lvl20) U CANT do the Job because of your low lvl..u”ll get pawned by higher lvls.
Lvling is hell..(if u sp farm..)yes sp farming is recomended
the players arent so friendly

overall i give it a solid 5..very uniqe game play…but lvling is stupid..and 2 fully experience the unique job system u need 2 b at least lvl30 or higher

PvP is broken, botters were allowed to get so far ahead, they already capped their levels and skills, and got sets of the rarest-quality items (SoSun). Takes 5 normal players to kill 1 botted one.

Service is non-existant, any service we do get is in the form of a cash item.

Case and Point: Hard to log in due to bots and people setting up AFK stalls. Joymax said they’d never kick people with stalls up days at a time, and refuses item mall. ALSO, they don’t ban the bots, and when they do its the bots of gold companies selling gold for real money.

Instead, they release something called “Premium tickets”

for a max fee of 20 USD (I think the lower quality one is about 12-15 USD), you can log in no matter how full the game is. People are already complaining about being D/Ced by premium buyers.

Its knight online 2.0, set in china, with slightly better graphics.

Sit in a tub and dress like a clown, then sing “hit me with your best shot” by Pat Benitar. It just makes more sense.

Graphics on this game is one of the best i”ve seen, but thats ALL.

Silkroad consist of Botters,GoldFarmers and jerks.
i only kept playing because of the friends i met.

i saw some of the comments below me saying u get 50%..NO WAY…i wish we got 50% per quest even at level 30ish, the grinding is HORRIBLE.

i stopped at level 70 cuz every mob i kill was worth 0.005%-0.007% with no Gaps(u”ll know wat i mean if u do play) and some times u dont even get ANY quest at your level, do that math guys, from 70-71 u have to kill around 20k mobs in a ks-ing enviorment with fags and botters and gold farmers everywhere =)

but yea enjoy =)

Graphics are good.
Gameplay is TOTALLY lame (Battle System and such)
Its endless hopeless fun for those people who love blood and guts.
The people sound like they are having either orgasms or constipation while attacking, or using skills.Finally, the quests are the lamest most repetitive quests that i have ever done.
The only good thing about this game are the graphics, stop praising it because its mindless drivel.
This game has no relation to the actual silkroad.
Its just a game that chose the name to ward in a few players.

I’m not saying this is the worst game ever, but it is definitly bordering the end of the ladder.

The only problems with this game are it’s lag and constantly busy servers, and now it’s worse.. because they have “premium” and “free” time.. give it another year and I’m sure this game will be P2P.

BUY A NEW ONE!!!

I have played all of the famous mmorpgs ( WoW, everquest 1 and 2, dungeons and dragons online, maplestory, etc.). And then i started to play this game and rite when while it was donwloading, i knew that it would be a bad game like the others. But when i started, it was kinda boring. So i decided to give it a try, after i saw the videos, pvp, unique monsters, i said to my self ” this game might be the one. ” AND I WAS RITE!!!!!!! this game is better than WoW!!!! i have gotten to lvl 70 in WoW ( seriously). if u have a good computer, try it out. if u have a bad computer, just forget about it.

IT DOES NOT TAKE LONG TO LVL UP!!!

ONE QUEST GIVES U ABOUT 50% EXP!!!

give it a try…. trust me

This game got lots of bot. the only bot they seem to block are the gold farm bot. i know some of the player who bot and buy silks and they claim to be safe.

The silkroad game forum got major security leak, where u can actually see the player id, if u know how. And the game still lag a lot too.

This game had been spoiled due to major hacking & CCF happening in certain server. Though, the silkroad team claim there’s no force entry or whatever.

All in all, i still love this game because i got good guildamates. Definitely this game will be more RELIABLE & COOL if it tighten the security (which hardly will happend) but not recommended due to frustration of losing ur friends or powerful ppl (because they got hacked eventhough they never bot).

p.s. the bots know how to avoid the protector a.k.a. floating thing which explode when u attack them.

My grades are

graphic : 9
gameplay: 8
security : 3
Fun : 8
game design: 7
community : 7
Job hunter,thief,trader): 9
Party system : 7
Guild system : 6
Monster : 8
Pet system: 5
PVP : 9
Weapon/Armor : 8
Skill : 8

OVERALL GRADE : 7

(p.s. its based off real historical facts)

yet, even with maximum exp being gained, around the time of around level 12 you will be gaining about .80% per kill, so it will take a good 30-40 min per level of just grinding(which the cartoon guide even refers to it as)

In order to counter act this, cash items(like the ones in maple story) can give you 60-100% exp boosts per kill for 3 hours each, and on each character you start with one of each(and my above comment i am using the 60% boost, so i can’t imagine training without it…-_-;) which does help for a while.

PVP can be done at any time you are not in a town, yet you are penalized for killing without reason(dropping items at your death) you may also buy capes for a small amount of money, for pvp that has no downsides whether you live or die(yet many people will kill you if you even have these on which is annoying).

There is also the triangular conflict, a player may be a merchant, hunter, or thief(starting at level 20) and do job activities. Merchants buy quest items to load on to a transport to sell in another town for job exp. Thieves try to attack the merchants and steal their goods for money and job exp. Hunters protect the merchants or hunt down theives that have to many penalty points (for excessive stealing in a small amount of time)

Now for downsides…

Even with the abundence of servers, this game ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE FULL. This means you will have to try a few times to get in. The reason for this is the fact that many people will put up a stall, go play on another character, and leave the stall open for days(which takes up server space) or they will just be bots. HOWEVER, the designers have made bot hunting easy for players, by paying 100 gold, you can buy a “destroyer” monster. You simply target a player, and if they attack it, they will be instantly destroyed. Sadly, the bot will stay on the server, thus making server size an issue still..

Graphics: 10/10

Gameplay: 9/10

Replay Value: 8/10(bow,sword,spear abilities, and fire ice and lightning add to this)

Fun Factor: 8/10 (ALL MMORPGS are mostly fun in the higher levels with pvp events or party activities.)

Grinding Factors: 6/10
(how long you kill the same thing)

overall: 9/10

A great game, and the free factor is just too good to pass up THIS IS A MUST TRY

The Good:
Great community
Cool effects
Class systems are fun
PvP is good
Pet System is nice
It’s free and still expanding

The Bad:
Grinding gets to be a B!%@&, at level 60 you get %.01 for every other kill and that level cap is going up.
Lots of botters (although it’s tempting through all that grinding).
Lots of credit card frauders.
Skills are restricted to physical weapons.
Hard to stick with.
Level gaps are usually very big so you usually get ganked on a trade run by a level 60 when your level 20

The job system is fun, when your level 20 you can put on a job suit (Hunter, Trader or Theif) The traders buy goods from one city and take them on an animal to another one to sell them for higher. The hunter protects the trade caravan from the theifs whose goal is to kill the trader(and hunters if near) and take the traders loot that his pack animal drops, warp to a bandit town and sell it then continue as usual.

And the Jobs are fun! Like helping a trader by beeing a hunter. Or trying to get the trader beeing a theif.

Graphics are beautiful, monsters to landscape.

(BTW theifs arnt that horrible.. if u see a high lvl npc theif then just go to the side and wait for a few secs.And I get help all the time by other online people.)

CONS: Only 9 hours playable because of lag (for months now!). Extreemly boring and identical quests (you have to kill millions -literally – of mobs – alone!). Jobs have no meaning. Lots of botters. Acounts are not transferable through servers. Some features (cheats), though optional, need money. The creatures are more or less the same throughout the game. Simple game with only a few features. Little to none game support.

As a result, it’s really fun to play in the beggining. But after a month it gets really really boring. Very very laggy!

See ya!