Hello everyone i used to play RO 10 years ago or something like that, there was no champions just monks for example lol, so i have returned as a total new player and found some things that would stop anyone from playing, i will play for nostalgia. I was also thinking about the VIP and Kafra stuff, indeed if the game ran as it should i would have no issues paying for a straight year of VIP plus Kafra points, but these things are just way out of hand. The game atm is in an alarming bad condition. I wish for the game to live a long healthy life and it saddens me to see it on this state
1. The first thing i did as novice was to walk in to Prontera and wow, gold spammers are insane, the spam would drive any new player away instantly.
Suggestions:
-Have a GM, i dunno if you guys got a GM dedicated to the game but you should have some, for to IP ban the gold spammers, they make new ip/accounts? well ban those too eventually they will go away.
-Or do like WoW does, don't let players under lvl 30/40 start a chat or PM anyone (at least NOT in Prontera) unless he is on the friends list, or unless someone else starts the conversation.
-Less gold spammers = more people buying official services.
2. Bots, seems now like standard to see bots with an acolyte/priest following them around, come on guys they are too obvious, new players will think this is allowed, having a clean server and enforcing the rules also helps the population growth. Just take a walk on Papuchika forest (Alligators) this can't be for real!
Suggestions:
-Have 2 or 3 GM just warp in to every repeteable quest/farming zone and ipban the bots , they are too obvious and they are a LOT, they harm the game community and the potential customers. How do you guys think a new player feels when he is sloooowly rising exp and collecting stuff, and suddenly realizes that everyone is botting making millions of zeny and exp?
-Make zeny shared between all characters, and don't allow 2 instances of the game launched at the same time.
3. Latency issues, sometimes the game runs fine, but most of the time the lag is just unbearable, i play 3 other MMORPGs and two are "free to play" in none of those i have latency issues. So as a potential customer i think ok i want to pay for the VIP program and also get some extra Kafra points, but then i remember the unbearable lag and it drives me away. I know that lowerping fixes it i have tried it but i will not pay extra 7$ for something that should be on the game.
Suggestions:
-I am really lost here as i don't understand how a game like RO has latency issues on the official server, maybe talk with the lowerping guys and add it as a part of the VIP plan.
I really don't understand how botting, spamming, rampant zeny selling are overlooked, if you guys start banning the bots people will stop doing it, i am pretty sure that if you guys iron those things you will have a LOT of new happy players/customers, i wish you all the best and please excuse my english
Edited by SirLumen, 03 December 2013 - 11:53 PM.