Why Private Server over official iRO?

[pillbug]

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What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having listened to it. You are no longer worthy of my time, and may God have mercy on your soul.

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+1 for Billy Madison.

[youarearetard]

You came here just to say this?

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having listened to it. You are no longer worthy of my time, and may God have mercy on your soul.

CooL Story, Bro !!!

[exii]

Not sure if I should continue making jokes about him. He seems really mentally retarded and offending ppl with handicaps might be a bit unfair.

[youarearetard]

Not sure if I should continue making jokes about him. He seems really mentally retarded and offending ppl with handicaps might be a bit unfair.

LOL, says the person playing illegal games.
private servers are illegal and exist only to give speed leveling for reaching end game and for trying out other features, to retard lazy asses like yourself.
it's your mind problem if you get offended, not mine. you are just debating if Reathena is legal or not but not confirmed if this is legal or yet have no proof of this s***.
next, talking about bots in iRO, Reathana is fans created 3rd party site and you are in the same standing as those bots. you shouldn't be complaining about iRO whoever knows if people like you are members of bots sites as well and you could be a bot user as well.

none of the legit websites for games has ever encouraged your s***. so gtfo !!!

[yC]

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/2910/t131670-everyone-just-loves-samsung/

Pulling info from 2002 and out of a forum post?  Do you have a more reliable source?

Checking the publicly traded company's stock information (scroll down), of course the chairman and CEO are all different by now.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=grvy and I can't find a mention of Samsung in the wiki of the company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Corp

As far as I know the biggest shareholders of Gravity is the company that holds the license of the Japanese RO server.  The company is not owned by Samsung.


Haven't have time to read the other posts, I'll read them soon. 

[Anthor]

I really don't understand how people think sometime, if your going on a game to have fun then who care about the effort you put in that thing? If you go play a game, you should laugh every time you play you should never be bored or anything because you are doing something YOU LOVE to do. And when you don't have fun anymore you change. No one can stay static, no matter what, everyone have to change even for games. And thats why any game will alway have a decrease of population! But its always for something better!

So quit complaining, and admit yourself that you have to change. You have to find fun. try something new!

[Xarale]

To answer the original question, I personally prefer private servers over iRO, and here's why:

1) Bots - There's always been bots on iRO of course.  I remember starting out there years ago and seeing bots from time to time, although most of them would at least try to disguise themselves. (ie. teleporting on sight, or using an auto-response function if someone spoke to them)  Since going free-to-play, it seems the bot problem has just exploded.  I went on iRO last year, and I was horrified at the insane amount of people botting.  Pretty much every map I levelled on was full of bots.  In fact botting is so common now, the botters themselves don't even attempt to disguise it anymore.  Hell, you'll often see third class bots or bots wearing expensive headgears without a care in the world.  It's almost as if they know that there's little chance of anything being done to stop them.  It's quite disappointing to see that the official server can't deal with bots, and yet private servers have managed to eliminate them years ago.

2) Economy - I guess this varies between private servers, but on iRO.. again it's insane!  You could have say.. 500 million zeny on iRO, and you won't even be considered rich at all.  Furthermore it seems like every veteran player on iRO has +9 (or higher) fully enchanted gears, meaning a newer player will have to spend upwards and possibly more than a billion zeny in order to begin catching up with the veterans.  Unless the new player is amazing at making money, or has a fat wallet in r/l (more on this below), it's going to take any new player a very long time before they can catch up.  While I do agree with there being a gap between newer players and veterans, I think the gap on iRO is a little too large, which can be a little off-putting to some newer players.

3) Pay-to-win - Sure, there's p-servers with ridiculous donations, but I (like most people) avoid these kinds of servers.  iRO on the other hand, is pretty much pay-to-win now since they went F2P.  If you're rich in r/l, then you can probably buy your way to becoming a billionaire on iRO through the cash shop within a day or two.

4) Community - Maybe I was just unfortunate, but I found iRO's community to be a little hostile.  I've had multiple people harass me simply for having a few rare names.  I also found that quite a few guilds aren't interested in inviting you unless you've reached 3rd class.  I personally find that certain p-servers are more social & friendly in comparison to iRO, especially since p-servers have more ways to encourage socialising. (ie. chat channels such as @Main)

5) Commands - I'll avoid servers with @warp commands and other commands commonly found in higher rate servers, but there's other very useful commands such as @autotrade that make life on p-servers a little easier.  I always disliked having to leave multiple iRO windows running if I wanted to vend overnight, so being able to @autotrade is great for me.  Other commands to combat KS'ing such as @noks are also nice too.

Despite the list, I don't hate iRO.  After all, it's where I began my RO journey around a decade ago.  Even now I still visit iRO from time to time, but I don't think I could ever play there on a full-time basis again.

Now, where did I put that hat.. ah yes here it is. *puts on Moderator hat* 

Let's kindly drop the insults from here on out, especially looking at you youarearetard.  You're welcome to your own opinion, but don't insult others simply because their opinion is different to yours.  Some people prefer p-servers, some prefer iRO.  End of story.

-X.

[exii]

That guy was just a rndm he registered here, made a few flames and never will log in again.