Well, here's my opinion on the current situation of silkroad.Quote:
As long as there are people that debate about silkroad it didn't die imo, despite the population of the servers
It's not dead, nowhere near dead. It's still very much alive, more populated than most other games that I know. Think about it, MOST private servers have at least 400 users daily. Split that between 30-40 private servers (excuse the maths) that's around 16,000 players. Then, add up the total of players on Joymax's servers. (Estimate) around 10,000 players. That's near enough 26,000 players still active on silkroad. I'm probably under-estimating, for all I know there could be around 50,000 + players.
With the current situation of the files, more people are leaving Joymax's servers because our databases keep on updating and improving daily. Before we know it, we will be more advanced than Joymax (we can all hope) but in my opinion, Silkroad isn't dead, and it won't be for years to come. The only thing that is helping it run into the ground is jealous server owners, ruining other peoples fun because they are empty in the pocket.