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I'm bored. Decided to make a random thread about SRO.

SRO is a grind fest.

Why complain about it? Isn't that a little like complaining that Call of Duty is too shooting based? That Zelda is too puzzley or that Star Craft requires too much micro and macro management? Like saying Golden Eye spent too much time on multiplayer or that gears is third person instead of first person?

Especially that last example. When looking at a game, you look at a few things.

Genre -> Do graphics matter? -> Community -> Gameplay -> End game

So! Let's look at a few examples..

FPS -> Yes -> Huge playerbase -> kill fest, multiplayer -> Lot's of multiplayer -> CALL OF DUTY!

MMORPG -> Nah -> Active -> Grind fest -> er.. I'm not too worried -> Silkroad!

See, when people complain about silkroad being too much of a grindfest, they are complaining that silkroad is... well... Silkroad! It's exactly like going out and looking for a first person shooter, getting Gears of War, and then spending your whole experience complaining about how it's third person and not first person.

So a note to all people on these forums who complain about how SRO is too much of a grind fest and takes too long to level...

Go find a game that isn't a grind fest and doesn't take too long to level!

That's my random thread. I probably wont check up on it. Pickle out.

I am ... er amused with this thread.

Atleast it isn't like the regular "Sro sucks (which happens a lot after an item gets destroyed after a fail +) or the we want faster leveling speed threads or the most common which is sro is die-ing".

Holy I DID check up on it before passing out.. at... 6AM... anyways. I know right? I think I might flood SRF with some rather different threads, out of boredom. Not "spam". Just, different than used to threads. Or I might not. I find it hard to really put my word on anything as moronic as that :3

I wouldn't mind seeing more threads like this, sometimes gets boring seeing the same threads with just different wording.

People want this game to be more like WoW. Atleast on the leveling aspect. I/we/they want tons of quests every level so you don't end up having to just mindlessly grind the last 50% each time. They want different quests, we all know the repeatable kill quests at 101 and beyond but that will get stale too as a quest to keep you busy. Not to mention the exp rewards are just terrible.

The reason people play this and complain is because they like the basics of the game, how it looks/feels/plays but not the insane grinding that has to be done.

Besides all that, people just love to complain.

Poke..... i miss you ='(

Lol. Damn straight. I personally enjoy complaining about people's complaining. And hypocrites. I hate them so much...

And I can understand how someone could enjoy the core of a game but dislike a feature. However, as far as I'm concerned, the core of Silkroad consisted of two things... Grinding and jobbing. They removed jobbing, so all that is left is the grinding. The quests? GO GRIND. The end game? GO GRIND. The PvP? GO GRIND ON HUMANS. OM NOM NOM.

I mean, I see a few different aspects a lot of people miss (well, not the people who actually sit down and play the game *cough*). The party system is unmatched (... grinding). It's an amazing party system. The uniques would be awesome (aside from the fact level 100+ just like to steal all the baby uniques). The alchemy system is simple and effective (however rage inducing ^^). The item mall is actually a balanced mall -- nothing in it will give you a HUGE advantage over other players (some might say a prem + and devil suit do, but those people have never played other freemium games... It's like stopping weapons at SoS and then selling the SUN's in the item mall... oops, magic pop... :s).

So yeah... There is a lot to SRO that works, but grinding is one of silkroad's roots... one of the prevalent features since launch. Understandibly, it IS ridiculous how long it takes to reach cap. I don't personally see issues with people complaining about RATES (... except that EVERYONE DOES.) it's the grinding portion that people just have to sit back and realize, "What, am I suddenly expecting SRO to NOT be a Korean MMORPG?"

:3

And Pen: Dude, maybe you should play ToR. Except G and Justin are probably coming out to play, so idk if there would be some rage between everyone haha

Well, true enough. SRO is a grinding game, it doesn't take away the fact that having to kill hundreds of thousands of the same monsters (same looking even at high lvls) gets really boring really fast. Even if you do it in a party that works and has nice people in it. That's why I gave up last year and only stick to pservers every once in a while. (those are over the top sometimes too though).