Silkroad Online

Buying stuff from the Item Mall (which I assume this is what you're referring to) may give you some advantage, but most of the items there are only for convenience. Most of the items that really matter (weapons and special items) can be found in-game, albeit extremely expensive and/or rare.

So, no, real money doesn't matter as much as actually playing the game and finishing quests. It may make things easier when playing, but it doesn't necessarily make you the best player.

yes the real money is matter in this game........if player wanted to play the game in more advance way for leveling up ur character more faster.

if player dont want to do insane grind i suggest u go buy the Golden Ticket that can be used in 1 month. its boost up ur character lvl 2x than the normal

Originally posted by Gamer_17
if i do not want to use real money will it matter or will it make a definate problem for me becoming better or can i just use in game money and still be as affective??

you can still level just like them who use real money but it will take you longer because they buy gold tickets gives them more XP , and now today you have to have real money and buy $20 dollar  prem gold ticket just to get in to play

This game is a long grind, i only got to lvl 47 it took me 6 months or more to get to that lvl without using any tickets and i was full int (fastest lvler in the game).

Im not sure what prices are like these days but a year ago most people in my guild spent 30-40$ a month on the game, the items they bought were, Gold Ticket which gives u double xp for 3 hours every 24 hours (now they have Premium Ticket which is almost a must have if u wanna play the game whenever you want) and a pet clock (pets will pick up all ur drops, very efficient) and thats ur 30$ for the month. Then there are the tablets for stopping ur stuff from breaking if u wanna upgrade it above +3.

basically if u want to lvl fast you have to buy tickets and if u wanna lvl fast u dont wanna run around picking up ur money and such so u need a pet. there are quite a few botters in this game or at least there used to be, and a CRAP load of afk player shops in the towns, i sometimes used to DC because of it and my internet is decent.

if u wanna grind for 6 months just to get to half the lvl cap then by all means pick this one, if u want any faster then u need some CASH.

peace devoux

They have new ones now Wizard,Warlock,Druid,priest, I have a level 72Wizard only took  like 4 months but others played on me for me that was i think 2 gold tickets on her.i have a level 61 blader took over a year with her pure STR.

No real money doesn't matter.  BUT, if you want to level up faster, you might want to buy tickets.

Does real money matter?  OF COURSE REAL MONEY MATTERS.  If it didnt matter no one would spend money on the game and it would o bankrupt.  So the question is, how does it matter?

Well its no secret that the game requires insane amounts of grinding to progress, even the quests offer insane amounts of grinding to complete, especially after lv40.  Also, rumor has it that they cut off free member access to the servers when the server load hit something like 30-50% load, meaning you could spend hours trying to get onto a full server (characters are stuck on that server) only to find out that all of the cities and most of the fields are relativly empty.  This really makes premium tickets lucrative (more expensive that a p2p subscription though) 

Thens there is equipment upgrades, to get the best upgraded equips you need to buy cash shop items.

I know they just banned 40k+ bots so the servers are most likely open most of the time for free players....wait...now i get why they had no problem with the bots...if they clogg up the servers, normal players will have to subscribe in order to play...it all makes sense now...

Anyway, unless you like mmo hopping or only plan to play the game for a short time, your really going to have to pay a decent amount per month on the cash shop to be competative, this is true for every f2p game.