JoyMax will stop developing Silkroad?

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Originally Posted by [B]ase[J]umP so joymax told them 2 months before they gotta shut down?

I guess when mail.ru gave \ sold this project to Digital Worlds J.S.C. they knew about end of rsro from joymax

And from now 2 months and rsro will be closed.

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Originally Posted by 3lyka I guess when mail.ru gave \ sold this project to Digital Worlds J.S.C. they knew about end of rsro from joymax And from now 2 months and rsro will be closed.

i always thought joymax didnt give them an order to shut down the game.hmm.

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Originally Posted by Nezekan I get really tired of this cloud-shit hype. It's just a marketing term and 90% of the companies offering 'cloud services' don't even fit the term. The only reason why services like onlive exist is because it's the perfect DRM for any game company, cracking it would be as hard as rebuilding the entire game based on a few screenshots. Other than that I see no real advantages for the customer, other than that they require lesser hardware and can play anywhere at any time (even though that's not really an issue with steam/origin). In the end one company will be in charge of every game you will buy, and as you can guess that can not really end that well

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Originally Posted by [B]ase[J]umP i always thought joymax didnt give them an order to shut down the game.hmm.

They only have a license to publish it. When JoyMax ends this contract, they lose their license and therefore also their right to publish it.

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Originally Posted by lesderid They only have a license to publish it. When JoyMax ends this contract, they lose their license and therefore also their right to publish it.

It doesn't work like that. Its not up to joymax to end the contract whenever it want (Unless something against the contract conditions occurred), Lets say Rsro paid for a 2 years contract then they have the right to complete the full 2 years after that if they are still interested in the game joymax chooses either they renew or not. I believe that it is just Rsro dont want to renew their contract.

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Originally Posted by OverLimits It doesn't work like that. Its not up to joymax to end the contract whenever it want (Unless something against the contract conditions occurred), Lets say Rsro paid for a 2 years contract then they have the right to complete the full 2 years after that if they are still interested in the game joymax chooses either they renew or not. I believe that it is just Rsro dont want to renew their contract.

The only reason for rSRO not renewing the contract would be that they are not getting money from it, and I doubt that's the case:

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Their servers are in a good population status, I'm sure their income is good enough. It seems like a Joymax decision.

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Originally Posted by OverLimits It doesn't work like that. Its not up to joymax to end the contract whenever it want (Unless something against the contract conditions occurred), Lets say Rsro paid for a 2 years contract then they have the right to complete the full 2 years after that if they are still interested in the game joymax chooses either they renew or not. I believe that it is just Rsro dont want to renew their contract.

That indeed is %100 right, however the contract might include something like "Joymax can end the contract whenever they want to" In that case rSro would have to end it. But that is very unlikely... I would doubt such a thing would happen.

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Originally Posted by Synx7 The only reason for rSRO not renewing the contract would be that they are not getting money from it, and I doubt that's the case: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...](remove the space) Their servers are in a good population status, I'm sure their income is good enough. It seems like a Joymax decision.

Their income might be good enough but you missed three important points first there is multi accounts and botting so these server capacity status doesn't mean anything and also you forget the contract renewal cost and they are a local server not global, So lets say they are making around 200k$ per year and the contract is 100k$, I dont see it worth it at all since there is other expenses. Plus we all see how much Isro is suffering can you imagine how a local server will suffer.

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Originally Posted by Zackynuup That indeed is %100 right, however the contract might include something like "Joymax can end the contract whenever they want to" In that case rSro would have to end it. But that is very unlikely... I would doubt such a thing would happen.

I wouldn't say i am 100% sure that what i said is the case but i highly believe it is, But they have to find the cool way out of this so they came up with the whole "Joymax updates thing", It maybe turns out to be true but still that is not the REAL reason behind their termination.

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Originally Posted by Zackynuup the contract might include something like "Joymax can end the contract whenever they want to"

Yea but only if something against the conditions the publisher did otherwise joymax will have to pay a cancellation fee if the cancellation was for no reason.

Please supply the contract you're speaking so detailed of, including the fee they have to pay.

I guess the contract simply ran out. And instead of taking the risk of the newer server files being leaked, they simply avoided the renewal of the contract.

weird
kSRO population is WAYYYYYYYYYY lower than rSRO

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Originally Posted by PortalDark weird kSRO population is WAYYYYYYYYYY lower than rSRO

It's temporary. They're all crazy about new gentleman song.

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Originally Posted by PortalDark weird kSRO population is WAYYYYYYYYYY lower than rSRO

because russia is a way bigger country than south korea? It's also much easier to play on rsro as a foreigner than on ksro

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Originally Posted by Nezekan because russia is a way bigger country than south korea? It's also much easier to play on rsro as a foreigner than on ksro

Exactly plus i would like to add that Korea and Japan is the homeland of gaming world so i am pretty sure that SRO is just a old page there.

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Originally Posted by PortalDark weird kSRO population is WAYYYYYYYYYY lower than rSRO

kSRO is ran directly by Joymax.

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Originally Posted by Synx7 kSRO is ran directly by Joymax.

still, their amount compared it's enough for a general closure
still rSRO is stable and will be closed

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Originally Posted by PortalDark still, their amount compared it's enough for a general closure still rSRO is stable and will be closed

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