It is unveiled that the development of Silkroad Online's sequel Silkroad Online II has been launched by Joymax, the developer of Silkroad Online. Joymax has built up a new development group based on the original developers of Silkroad Online for the development of Silkroad Online II. The project has just been started and there are about 30 developers working for it. The game is preliminarily scheduled to release in 2010