I love the variety of classes in the game, I sometime chose a race for the special class or even just the class name. But at the end we got 8 classes.
the main reason i guess would be NC developer busy creating new game, stop caring about the balance issue and other stuff, just go ftp and yay so many players at least make the game survive for quite a while~~~ there are many good suggestions on the forum which nobody significant from the company read them, instead a new content just work as a new topic and put all the main issue behind. At last the old problems haven't been solved but they begin to extend new content.
Money for the win! but honestly, if i were doing business, this is a good idea and save time.
(above is personal opinion and do not want to get in any argument)
ps: i would prefer they just take sometime to fix some old problems and add a few new skills to higher level for the third classes while deleting some useless skills.
Well, having 36 classes was a ton (even if there were similar classes with almost the same skillbase), but making at least 36 new classes would be insane. I could not even think of 30+ new class names, let alone skills and everything for them.
Also another thing is, they know it's a seven years old game. There are huge and popular titles coming up on MMO market, some of them are also from NCSoft as well. So the fact is, they probably don't have neither manpower or the money to make such huge project as 36+ new classes with different abilities and playstyle AND making it all somewhat balanced. We all love the variety that L2 classes offer, but on the other hand it's very hard to balance all these classes, especially that most of the devs were probably relocated to other games by now.
So I suggest we should be just happy that the game gets this amount of new content after 7 years, it's not something that happens/happened to many other.
Well, having 36 classes was a ton (even if there were similar classes with almost the same skillbase), but making at least 36 new classes would be insane. I could not even think of 30+ new class names, let alone skills and everything for them.
Also another thing is, they know it's a seven years old game. There are huge and popular titles coming up on MMO market, some of them are also from NCSoft as well. So the fact is, they probably don't have neither manpower or the money to make such huge project as 36+ new classes with different abilities and playstyle AND making it all somewhat balanced. We all love the variety that L2 classes offer, but on the other hand it's very hard to balance all these classes, especially that most of the devs were probably relocated to other games by now.
So I suggest we should be just happy that the game gets this amount of new content after 7 years, it's not something that happens/happened to many other.