For the next 20 hours or so it's going to be chaos at the NCWest offices. I suggest people try not to jump to conclusions until the update has gone live, and you have had a time to test the content. The mods, and GMs, and Sace are going to be up to their eyeballs in request, comments, flames, coffee...etc. It's ok to be excited, but there is a difference between excited and "rabid". We need to be the mature ones and let them do their work.
Iv'e worked highly stressful jobs that deal with clients, and the general public, and when you have a product that is about to roll out, a lot of fur flies and accusations get made even before the product premieres. Let NCWest do their job and maybe some of your fears wont actually be realized.
No I don't know anyone at NCWest. I just realize how stressfull a major roll out like this can be.
This post was probably put in the wrong section, but I think people will still see it.
I treat NCWest like a Cell phone company (my work history, so it makes sense to me) The cell phone company provides a service, and new products all the time, but in relation to those products certain changes are done to them to make them useable with that particular company, but they dont actually make the products, and they can provied limited support for those products, but when there is something major wrong, or a major change people dont like happens with the next model, then they get referred to the manufacturer in this case NCKorea is the manufacturer and NCWest is the provider.
If there is something that you don't like in the new update, by all means voice your concern, but keep im mind NCWest as the provider cannot at the drop of a hat alter a major part of the game, but you and them can provide suggestions. As has happened in the past when a major change didnt work out, with the next update, or even an early patch changes have been made, you just need to be patient and allow NCWest to do their job. A change may not come fast, or in some cases at all, but NCWest does listen to everything and can only do so much.
i want to say few words too.
i was an l2j private server administrator few months ago. mine server had 600 players on start and this is a very big amount as for interlude server nowadays. however, 600 players is stressful stuff already. many pm's, petitions, bug reports, crying, shouting, requesting, suggesting... i can only say that ncwest must be strong because 600 players is not so stressful as ~15k players per 3 servers :) GL and do your job and God will help Lineage2 to rise again.