Silk Road Online is a free to play, pay for premium, MMO. It is set in the 7th century, on the trading road between China and Europe. The game itself starts with a very haggard character creation. You have options, but it is difficult to understand the implications of your choices. Your first choice is your model, it determines your face, hairstyle, and body, and each model has their own name and storyline. While they are all interesting, I would be much more interested in being able to start my own story in a new world, than to play out the life of someone foreign to me. The other selections are fairly meager, you can choose height and weight, and your starting weapon.
Once we actually got into the this was a big drag right off, and it seemed like developing your character was a real chore. We were lost in a sea of possibilities, some of them available to us immediately, and others we would have no hope of doing until later levels. This is normally par for the course, but without any tutorial or even NPC guidance, it was extremely frustrating to start out.
We did not get very far in this game, in fact, we couldn't even finish the first quest. When we first started in the world, we found out early on that we could not even create a party until we reached level 5! .This was a big drag right off, as we were hoping to get into the world and immediately start leveling together based on the choices we made and had in mind during character creation. This was a big turn off to me, in any given MMO that I start, I want to be able to immediately start grouping with people, and on my terms if necessary.
Aside from the fact that you can use very little but autoattacks until almost level 5, and the fact that the first 5 levels were nothing but grinding, this game was simply a buzzkill from the beginning. My avatar needs a good, interesting, fulfilling beginning, or I'm just not going to be invested in it.
-Lance of the Hill People
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Not only do you have no special skills when you start (besides sitting down, which is something we discovered purely by accident), but a magic user, equipped with wussy armor, has to be melee until level 5 when spells are available! WTF. I was a level and a half behind you because I always had to rest and regain my health.
Also, the gender-specific clothing was not fun. A few points for realism, but more points off for a pain in the ass.
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