Please note, before you read this it is in no way an attack on the game, its players, or the gms. It is just simple facts as stated on MMOBomb's and F2Pmmogamer's new F2P cast, a weekily show that they have started to do every week.
Lineage 2 gets the Abomb, not a good thing, at around the 30 minute mark. But it was not surpising to see it get an Abomb, lets face we all know the current stat of the game. What was surpising was the reason for the Abomb. Watch the cast and you will see what I mean.
I agree with what was said about the game there. It's just unfortunate that the server issues and NC's lack of proper planning is what's turning people away from this great game.
There were 3 people involved. One gave an Abomb to L2. One gave it to a starwars web browser game and the third gave it to DCO.
The only reason the person gave for giving the Abomb to L2 was due to it having only 1 starting area when it went F2P causing him a severe lagfest. It was a dumb way to start a roll-out of L2, but hardly a reason to slam the game, especially since it's so freaking easy to level and get past the crowds.
If "lag" at a newbie zone is what you consider credibility to slam a game, you're a troll.
Please note, before you read this it is in no way an attack on the game, its players, or the gms. It is just simple facts as stated on MMOBomb's and F2Pmmogamer's new F2P cast, a weekily show that they have started to do every week.
Lineage 2 gets the Abomb, not a good thing, at around the 30 minute mark. But it was not surpising to see it get an Abomb, lets face we all know the current stat of the game. What was surpising was the reason for the Abomb. Watch the cast and you will see what I mean.
What is that, and why should we care?
And by the way, I don't want to see more instant gratification kids in the game. It already has more than enough.
the only relevant thing they said was about the lag and the issues that the NC team was not prepared to deal with when it went F2P(lagg ,traffic etc)
But i laugh my *** off when i hear from many people they complain about click-to-move system . This is how the game is, if they only played "awsd" that does not mean click-to-move suck just because they can`t play like that.
I love click to move and i`m a pro-clicker lol :D and also can play"awsd-jump" style
And they just went to lvl 30, now imagine going 90 and seeing the more reasons for newcomers to quit.
Fact is they got it perfectly right: Bad planning, server's can't handle the players influx at first nor all the botted chars, not enough monsters when doing dailies and the worse management, unresolved issues, no game optimization.
If this for players who are interested on games, is an eye opener, go ahead, do more of those.
actually i think they did a fair and balanced review of it for as short as it was..
Lineage II.. prior to free to play.. was while solid, lacking players...
now with surplus of players, is lacking its stability.
Although the game for the past near 5 years has been horribly mangled by both ncsoft and the community it has been trying to appease (somewhat)... This game is really unfortunately lost it's appeal to me..
I had quit for almost a solid year before... but i can't even bring myself to log into the game at all anymore. The only thing i've been doing recently is testing various fixes or seeing if i could reproduce an issues a user was having.. but even now i'm getting a little tired of it. To me, the game has met it's end, the lore is missing, the quests are totally garbage, the whole game reaks of old age..... i don't even care about the graphics but gameplay. I'm sorry, but it doesn't matter how overpowered i could potentially get to pvp or even if i was dominating every pvp event and walking away unscathed or not... doesn't matter...... compared to other modern games it's pretty terrible by todays standards.
If anyone enjoys it... please go on enjoying it.... but i can't bother to lift a finger for it anymore.... i've dumped just about $1500 dollars into the game if not more over the last 7+ years it has been running for the monthly fees.... Pretty amazing considering i still have incredible replay value out of a game i paid 40 or so dollars for back in 1994 TODAY.... I'm fairly certain that even with the number of hours i've logged, the dollar per hour value would still be higher for some of these other games even when they are overcharging for the modern ones even today.. $80 bucks for a new game.... that's bs.
It would have been absalutely excellent if they ever managed to fix the whole requiring to be logged in to sell your own stuff situation... OR in that case, requiring another account to sell stuff WHILE your playing.... total lack of forthought there when they made the game.
Really i could jump all over lineage II in numerous areas.. some of which they hit the mark with in that video..
Poor Control system, i'm a fan of click to move... but still it's collision detection is atrocious and totally unacceptable..... it's movement options beyond the click to move is entirely laggy and cumbersome at best.. the combat system feels like a heavily one sided timing toss from back in the 80's.... with the occasional bit of dice roll luck.. which feels FAR to synthetic and not at all realistic.
the LAG is just..... bad..... the requirements for the game to play "smoothly" as in... load zones and other players and be at all compared to other MMOS even ones with far more complexity than this one... makes lineage II look utterly terrible in the performance/visual perspective.... there is so much that the unreal engine 2 can do better.. but it's just really sloppy. The engine was designed with precise netcode.. and it looks like they removed it all for their own for player movement and loading.
In 2005 i would give it a score of about 8 out of 10.... today however it'd be barely able to break 0/10.
Low Texture resolutions outside of the players own modeled armor....
although very low model options and detail, let alone variations of any armor out there....
Please note, before you read this it is in no way an attack on the game, its players, or the gms. It is just simple facts as stated on MMOBomb's and F2Pmmogamer's new F2P cast, a weekily show that they have started to do every week.
Lineage 2 gets the Abomb, not a good thing, at around the 30 minute mark. But it was not surpising to see it get an Abomb, lets face we all know the current stat of the game. What was surpising was the reason for the Abomb. Watch the cast and you will see what I mean.
Oh no ! Not the abomb ! anything but the abomb !
Bunch of fat american wannabe gamers used to playing WoW beeing all like " OH NOES, IT NOT WASD GAME ! YOU MUST CLICK TO MOVE? MY GOD ! SAVE US JESUS!"
And the oter guy being all like " I used to playing this game for long time and I has lag in spawn zone omigi wat do?". Press Alt+P you walking manatee ! It worked for my s*itty computer it should work for yours.
The only reason to complain was the new karma system in which you don't dare to kill somebody if you are below level 60-70, but they don't know about this because they are used to their kiddie games in which PK doesnt exist. Bunch of amateur gamers doing s*it reviews that some dumb people take serious.
/rant
A little butthurt because of the facts, bro? well admit it. The game as it is now it's terrible waste of time (i don't know why i am playing it). I don't know anyone who never played lineage 2 to start it now because it's free. Anything in GoD ia an utter game desing Fail.