Now that you've met Cryo, the Lineage II Producer, we're starting a Questions & Answers session for you. We invite players to post questions to Cryo in this thread. While there may be some questions about ongoing issues, or overly personal questions that cannot be answered (or answered in great detail), we encourage you to learn more about his role as Producer.
This Questions thread will remain open for 1 week, until Wednesday, May 16. At that time the thread will be closed, the questions will be collected, and Cryo will get to work on answering them. We'll give an ETA for the Answers thread around that time as well.
Please keep this in mind: a Producer is not a game developer. Producer's generally manage the implementation of game updates and make decisions in order to promote the game to the local market (NCsoft West, as oppose to other NCsoft territories). NCsoft West Producers do not have direct control over the design and development of the game itself. Therefore if you have questions about the origins and development of the game, developer decisions for changes in the game (past or future), Cryo may not be able to answer these.
While GOD and F2P has drawn in numerous new players to lineage 2, it has also alienated most of the original crowd. I know most players would agree that the new combat system, world and lack of end game classes makes GOD feel unlineage. For better or worse the game has changed but was there any ever thoughts by developers/producers to create any servers that would maintain original Lineage 2 characteristics such as pre Freya/Interlude/C5 etc...? Of course they would be F2P and NCoin would exist on them. Thanks!
1 - Where are you from ? You seemed to have a small french accent during the live interwiew :)
2 - When did you start working as Assistant Producer ? Any reason this change was not said on the forum when Moxie became producer ?
3 - Since you started working for the Lineage II crew inside NCSoft headquarters in United States, did you learn a bit of Korean ? Are you fluent in it ?
4 - Which regard do you have on the Q&A team now that you are the producer ? How do you understand them, and how do they understand you ?
5 - What is your role related to the main team of Lineage II in Seoul ? How do they work, how do you work with them ?
6 - What is your current wallpaper ?
7 - What is the main thing you hate the most about your position
8 - Do you still have time to enjoy Lineage II as a random player ? If yes, what did you love the most since the GoD patch ?
9 - What is the thing which make you very happy about everything you did about Lineage II ?
10 - Same question, the worst ?
11 - You saw the bot problem as a Q&A Senior Tester, as an Associate Producer and as a Producer. Did your opinion about it changed ? Does it become a more stressful issue ?
12 - How well are you aware of "pvp programs". Did you already played about such programs as a random player ?
13 - Are you now a full corporate and business man, or the gamer is still hiding somewhere under the suit ?
14 - Did you play Exteel ? (an other NCSoft game)
15 - Prefered awakened class ?
16 - Do you think that the current method to get free Soulshout / Blessed Spirit Shot R Grade is a nice thing, or a big flaw in the economy system ?
17 - Do you think you will, one day, create a department like the Lineage II Laboratory in South Korea?
In the MMORPG interview you and Sace were ask about the botting/RMT problem. I think it was Sace that said "RMT is a sign of a healthy game". Granted you can't remove all RMT's or Bots. But in my view having a game loaded with RMT's and bots is only a sign of a short term healthy game. And not a good sign for a long running game like L2.
After the Bots started showing up back when the game was P2P it was a long down hill death of server mergers and lack of live players to keep the game alive. I see the same thing going on now. The botters are growing in numbers while the live players are slowly leaving the game.
Can you please expand on your view point that bots and RMT's are the sign of a strong healthy game for the long run? So I can more understand why you feel it won't end up killing the game like it did before.
1. Socketka did ask this question also, but I would like to ask it, what is the reason, that not so good the communication between the development team and the Lineage II western staff? First of all I do understand here, that you haven't information about an update/expansion what is official posted too on the Korean site for the players, but you still haven't informations. Some times it is a little interesting, that we players know about it much more as you members of the Lineage 2 team.
2. The live stream interview was mostly popular at the community. Is it available, that we get same kind of interview more often in the future? Will we get same interview/video to release of the Tauti update too?
3. Is it available, that in the future control the forum users with stronger hand? I personally experience, that many users just come to forum, that make drama and trouble, might they doesn't use bad words, but give negative effect to Lineage 2/NCsoft/player's morale.
4. What kind of content would be what you would put to the game?
5. What kind of content is what you would remove from the game?
6. Many of us missing, the promotion of the game through the google ad-sense, do you plan to use this promotion model in the future?
7. Nowadays a very popular thing to make on the youtube channel different videos about a video game. Like tell the details of an upcoming update or make a video record how do you work on a day at your office etc, do you plan to use this type of thing to communicate with the players and make also some free promotion to the game?
I'd really like to see a paid server or premium servers for players willing to pay per month. Those servers would have devoted Gm service better than in the past. Immediate banning for cheating,botting or ebaying. I'd say you could still offer the in game store just like the free servers,but at a reduced price for paying to play that server. The premium servers would have exclusive events and ran like before GoD. realistically I guess I expect this to be laughed at,but it's wishful thoughts.
Will you ever lower NCCoin prices to be more reasonable?
You're pumping out all these items/events for people whom have ridiculous amounts of income to gain a HUGE bonus from it. Yes, it's not "meant" to be that way as you've tried to clarify yet failed miserably at.
Tell me why on .EU & .RU official servers you can get a premium account for 12$/month. (For those of you that don't know, Premium Accounts accumulate PC Bang Points over time, enable you to log into the server even if it's "Full" - there's 500 extra slots or so reserved for premium account owners and also doubles exp, sp, spoil rate, & drop rate) Yet we have to sit and pay 15$/week just got 1.5x xp?
Blasphemy.
Not to mention prices of everything on Korean Official, everything there is like cheap as dirt from a 7-Day 50%-EXP-Rune being 1$ to a premium account being 3$.
As a question from the majority of your player base, will you ever make this a bit more fair? Stop having dumb events that will encourage those with LOADS of cash to buy NCCoin in massive bulk (IE: WolkuZ on Shillen server, he bought over 1500$ in Valentines Packs, and over 5000$ in Destiny Packs - just to be the first level 97 and quit the game anyways.) or lower the prices. People are rolling around with +15 weapons, not that I really mind it; but they paid THOUSANDS of dollars to "Win". It's a bit ridiculous don't you think?
From my standpoint it seems as if you've never stopped to think what would happen if you dropped the prices by half, or even 3 three-fourths? You'd have more players buying things in bulk due to it being more available to those with a "typical" income. With this you'd of course have to remove things like Destruction Enchants, or lower the success rate of them. (Specifically the ones that you can get from NC Store, not the ones you earn by testing your luck with Hero Treasure ChestS)
I know plenty of people that haven't given you a single dollar, simply because they can't afford to. I myself can, but had more of us gone to .ru, or .eu servers we'd be 99 simply because the exp-boost items are a lot more fairly priced.
Have you seriously analyzed the chance of establishing a Latin-American server for BR, Args and Chileans? I may talk as a biased individual (those who know me, can attest to that), but i do think that theres a niche here, and the opening of the "truly free" L2 Official server has been a living proof of that: You can easily open a server here and establish a constant player base in Latin America.
Have you analyzed the chance of "hiring" more localized GMs (such as Latin American, European and some other), so the players can ask questions and solve doubts in their natural language? It is clear that there are several people here that cannot communicate with the GMS because of the "English only" barrier established here. I know that setting up a "Language Forum" is not feasible (because of the amount of languages you have to keep updated and mantained), but having 2-3 localized GMs could help.
Have you seriously analyzed the chance of establishing a Latin-American server for BR, Args and Chileans? I may talk as a biased individual (those who know me, can attest to that), but i do think that theres a niche here, and the opening of the "truly free" L2 Official server has been a living proof of that: You can easily open a server here and establish a constant player base in Latin America.
Have you analyzed the chance of "hiring" more localized GMs (such as Latin American, European and some other), so the players can ask questions and solve doubts in their natural language? It is clear that there are several people here that cannot communicate with the GMS because of the "English only" barrier established here. I know that setting up a "Language Forum" is not feasible (because of the amount of languages you have to keep updated and mantained), but having 2-3 localized GMs could help.
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This isn't going to happen mainly because this NC North American servers. You might be a large population of players,but not enough to justify your own server. This is retail L2. Just because you can play for free does not mean it's anything like a private server. You want those perks you'll have to go play on those servers.
Pardon my ignorance being a returning player ( I played 2004-2006 and have just now come back ). [left because theca leather armor had placeholder texture on my human warlock, despite light armor skills, made game seem half finished. back because it's now free]
For example I remember the PVP given clan halls simply sat empty on most servers, as the effort needed to get them (recurring every cycle, too) was never worth the resulting benefits. Similarly I remember skills that were useless (some of the cubics) and the manor system never seeing much use.
What is your position on taking an active role in making sure game mechanics are used and enjoyed instead of sitting and gathering dust?
I imagine 1-3 people watching what gets used and what doesnt could engage and energize the community with dialog and tweaks that keep everyone happy.
I am 37 years old
I like MMORPG games very much
And I have money to spend on the things I like
But I have few time (job, marriage, children), I can not play more than 3 or 4 hours each day
The younger people have less money but they have more time
If you want to make money should think in people with 30 years old or more, with less hours because we work.
To be the best in the game Lineage 2 is required to spend many hours
I know I will never be the best in Lineage2
I will not spend money on a game knowing I'll never be the best
I think you should think of another way to progress through the game different from killing mobs and doing quests with long times
I have only three or four hours each day to play, I have money to spend, and I am very skilled. Can you create a game to people like me?
The current Lineage is for people with a lot of hours to play and
logically with few money to spend
Do you know another formula to progress in a game like this diferent than spending hours?
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Do you remember the old system of Vitality?
it allowed the people with fewer hours to play, to reach the players who played more hours
thinking thinking thinking.......
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Idea: Progress offline
In the hours that i can't play: instructions given to my character to do certain things that will become experience, equipment, weapons, adena, etc.
and can review and editing from your web
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I am from Spain
Have you watch the languages of the players?
Have you watch the number of spanish-speaking players?
Have you think translate texts to spanish ?
wasn't jumping from 85 to 99 lvl cap a little bit too hasty? nevermind the new awaken classes with bladedancers or sword muses with a couple of dances/songs becoming full buffers while a se or ee with a lot of buffs becoming healers , but the gap between nolifers/botters/nccoins buyers and the rest of normal/casual/ppls with real life it's increased , i mean if it isn't the ++++ weapon that kills you in pvp it's the + 10 levels diference that will , i'm not complaining about this either tough ( it's up to me to became a nolifer/botter myself and have those op items or big lvls chars ) but with this new system there's not prety much you can do in game anymore once you reach 85 and awaken , before god even if you weren't a top player you had hundreds of things to do in game and if you really liked the game you never get to be borred , now all you can do is log in, make 2-3 instances and log out , or stay afk if you have a stranger as a mentee and don't wanna loose him ( but that's another issue ) .
The game is good,but 2 major problems make me log off or stop me from spending money on this game:
- You saw the bot problem as a Q&A Senior Tester, as an Associate Producer and as a Producer. Did your opinion about it changed ? Does it become a more stressful issue ?
I would like to add here that:(The program used to bot is a program hard to be detected and i'm pretty sure you know witch one i'm talking about)
-What action's will you take to counter this program?
- How well are you aware of "pvp programs". Did you already played about such programs as a random player ?
Also:(The program used to dominate in pvp is the same one players use to bot and there we go again hard to detect)
-What action's will you take to counter this programs?
The heroes on all new server's + "best pvp parties" used bot and still do.
On a 2k populated server only 1-2 players are lvl 97 while the rest of their party are 95-96 and the rest of the server is 90 max 94 lvl(Magmeld) the only reason the server managed to lvl up is because of (kartia) but this guys where 95-96 before kartia was introduced.
Have NC considered rewriting lineage2 in another engine? Migrate the existing database - items, characters, skills etc., keep the successful game features that make the customers like the game - pvp, craft, drop system etc into new graphic body that would utilize the new hardware that has come out last 8 years. If that works it would be like lineage3 but even better because players won't have to start from scratch :)
Unreal engine is so old and its mostly if not entirely responsibe for the shortcomings of the game as we know it now(not including the bot/RMT issues which in my opinion are entirely ogranizational to deal with).
The Museum Statistics System aka Hall of Shame is hardwired into the game, so it's probably not possible to disable it without causing tons of bugs in all areas. But couldn't you at least take the Server Achievements page (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/events/server-achievements.php) off the web? We all know that many of those achievements have been arrived at by an unhealthy amount of playing or even outright cheating. We also know that you don't have the personnel to properly investigate each single achievement/achiever. But is it really necessary to put up those people as something each player should aspire to? Is it really necessary to extend the company's congratulations to those people? This needlessly lays you open to criticism from enraged players who consider the Server Achievements page as a slap in the face to all legit people. Simply take that page off the web. No expenditure required and a lot of disharmony avoided :)
For better or worse the game has changed but was there any ever thoughts by developers/producers to create any servers that would maintain original Lineage 2 characteristics such as pre Freya/Interlude/C5 etc...? Of course they would be F2P and NCoin would exist on them. Thanks!
What a master sees when I trigger a function to report a bot?
How often the robots are reviewed?
Demonstration videos explicit use of bots are not usable by the evidence support the game, however you do not think these bot movies spoil the image of the game since nothing is done with them?
Financially speaking, the system free to play is more profitable than the game with tuition?
This isn't going to happen mainly because this NC North American servers. You might be a large population of players,but not enough to justify your own server. This is retail L2. Just because you can play for free does not mean it's anything like a private server. You want those perks you'll have to go play on those servers.
Thats why im asking that question to the Producer, to see if they share the same thoughts that you did just now.
When will localized servers be actually in the location they represent?
I chose the EU server to have low ping, but then I found out that I got to a server which is physically in USA and I have got ping over 200, which results in worse gameplay.
Oh and can I ask another question?
Will you ever forbid using dualboxes/triple boxes and such in game? Its really annoying and harmful to the role play.
I could understand allowing peoplke to have more than 1 character logged at a time, when they for example sell something in town. But I wouldn't allow it in any other case.
Will the Public Test Server ever be used again to allow players to test the features of a future update before it makes it to the live servers?
+1 To this. The lack of a GOD PTS screwed over a lot of ppl, taking the wrong skills, awakening to a class they disliked afterward, or not knowing the best set-up to go. It costs a mother load of adena to gear up a pvp toon in this game, so it's really important that we get at least a week of PTS to just try out the new content.
Also, please ask Korea to start sending you translated patch notes as they roll them out, so we can see changes made as they happen in Korea. I know Korea publishes them on their website, but using google translate isn't really the best solution.
When will localized servers be actually in the location they represent?
I chose the EU server to have low ping, but then i found out that I got to a server which is physically in USA and I have got ping over 200, which results in worse gameplay.
Oh and can i ask another question?
Will you ever forbid using dualboxes/triple boxes and such in game? Its really annoying and harmful to the role play.
They use to be, but now they are all in the US. If you want to play on a local EU server you have to go with Innova. NC gave the EU rights over to them last year.
I have one very serious question and for a long time.
When Nсsoft and team of developers of Lineage 2 optimizes a game engine? For this game it is required (for comfortable game) at least:
SSD hard disk (min $150), 4 Gb ddr2/3 memory and 8+ Gb for the 3rd windows, the processor at least on 4MHz 2+ cores (min $200) and the average videocard.
The matter is that for usual exacting games the old processor and average video and absolutely any HDD(yeah i mean Crysis 2 or any high end game).
And so. In the first why I should spend money for expensive processor, SSD (they not cheap) and memory (if to play some windows) for the only one game? Really you there think, what people live literally in game? Yes live, but not all, normal people so don't do.
In the second. Money not the main thing and all this isn't too expensive. But how you represent that the player feel when tries to target someone on a siege ? You played the game dear American-Koreans?At least one month or maybe a week / day / hour / minute can be? How there can be so many lags in the any cities? And as can be fps it is equal 15-30 in such ancient engine (UE2)where two trees and 5 mobs in the frame and three trees outside of it?? (on medium/high computer)
When will localized servers be actually in the location they represent?
I chose the EU server to have low ping, but then I found out that I got to a server which is physically in USA and I have got ping over 200, which results in worse gameplay.
Oh and can I ask another question?
Will you ever forbid using dualboxes/triple boxes and such in game? Its really annoying and harmful to the role play.
I could understand allowing peoplke to have more than 1 character logged at a time, when they for example sell something in town. But I wouldn't allow it in any other case.
What difference does it make if someone 2,3,4,5 or 8 boxes? NONE
- Do you have any plan makin all dimensional items tradable within one account ? I am thinking about Birthday packs and its content, Power Shirt, special items and so on
- What do you think you have as advantage upon the previous producer ?
Why you put the Harmony downgrade?
Why you invented the "POWER SHIRT"?
Why you don't do nothing about the BOT's?
when you going to stop ruin lineage 2 ?
and with so many "experience" why you guys do the same mistakes over and over again.
My signature have a link to a thread where you have alot of question from players, if you want to answer questions I suggest you start reading forum mister.
Guys I guess useless ask them about the bots and power shirts, if they answer about bot things they will answer the same answer as before.
They did put to the game power shirts, because they have to make money. The game is Truly Free yes, everyone can enjoy every contents, but they have to make money.
The Museum Statistics System aka Hall of Shame is hardwired into the game, so it's probably not possible to disable it without causing tons of bugs in all areas. But couldn't you at least take the Server Achievements page (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/events/server-achievements.php) off the web? We all know that many of those achievements have been arrived at by an unhealthy amount of playing or even outright cheating. We also know that you don't have the personnel to properly investigate each single achievement/achiever. But is it really necessary to put up those people as something each player should aspire to? Is it really necessary to extend the company's congratulations to those people? This needlessly lays you open to criticism from enraged players who consider the Server Achievements page as a slap in the face to all legit people. Simply take that page off the web. No expenditure required and a lot of disharmony avoided :)
Ah, yes this question would interesting me too. But in different form.
Yidao's comments sounded, that just bots or cheater players are on the different achievement lists. Currently it is right. But anyway if everyone would be legit too than would lead someone the XP rank list or would get at the first time the level 99.
I would like to ask this question in different form:
Do you check a character or the account of the character before you give to them any Achievement?
Because in the currently form, when you can see in the towns statues of the well know bots or on the achievement pages the name of the well know bots.
It isn't the best promotion to the NCsoft company.
While most of the players might not really care about it, but this is an issue I guess what on you should change.
...The lack of a GOD PTS screwed over a lot of ppl, taking the wrong skills, awakening to a class they disliked afterward, or not knowing the best set-up to go. It costs a mother load of adena to gear up a pvp toon in this game, so it's really important that we get at least a week of PTS to just try out the new content.
I would like to support this suggestion. A key feature in Tauti is the new Siege System, and 5 QA testers simply can not successfully loot/defend a Tribute Caravan, not to mention take an NPC-held castle and then try to reset it. Testing these aspects of the game requires a great number of players, i.e. a PTS.
Why do i need a NASA computer to be able to run the game properly even in low settings?, while some other games such AION i can run it in top settings without problems.
Why the hell remove all old classes and left only 8?This was a big mistake and I think l2 lost its meaning.All these free item's that are given free R-Grade 86lvl..All of this undermines the game.(Needless craft,Needless spoil,and many other things are unnecessary).Before l2 was much more fun. I'm sure if it was f2p over 50 percent of people who play now would not even open the game site and the servers would be empty.
Please answer the question I asked at the beginning: Why removing old classes and left only 8!?
Why the hell remove all old classes and left only 8?This was a big mistake and I think l2 lost its meaning.All these free item's that are given free R-Grade 86lvl..All of this undermines the game.(Needless craft,Needless spoil,and many other things are unnecessary).Before l2 was much more fun. I'm sure if it was f2p over 50 percent of people who play now would not even open the game site and the servers would be empty.
Please answer the question I asked at the beginning: Why removing old classes and left only 8!?
Well...the game now reached the 8th year of life , so , somehow , the game was suppose to go on , don't it? yes , maybe making 8 classes was a mistake , but it's not so bad after all...
I play with an 6-yo computer who actually sux so it's hard for me to play , but i still enjoy the game the best i can...
About people who said that the difference from normal/legit players and bot/ebayer/ncoinabuser is a lot...i can say it's not like this ^^ actually i'm a lvl 89 (close to 90) othel rogue , never bought coins , never botted , nothing , and i just play 4-5 hours for day :) it's all about experience.
The only question i have is...i've been into official server back in interlude , on teon , i was little...but i can't understand why you don't do something abouts BOTs...you even created a bot-report action in game...i've even sent u 100% proofs of botting chars , but they're still free ^^ and there are about lots of full-bot-clan (and i keep seeing them around...) ...
One last thing...about the power shirt...yeah , it sux , increasing so much the statics , but somehow they was suppose to make moneys , and the items are not so OP (over-powered) after all , i did a +3 str dye , and i can't see so much the difference , maybe back in interlude , but now i saw a really low difference (just a +3 for fashion item , +3 from shirt , +5/+1 from dyes , several + + + on armor , can be a little OP , but expect for the big sides of server , i'm talking about naia at least , i don't think that everyone have all of this :o)
It is possible to lower the prices of L2Store by 50% or 75% ?
I think believe the increased number of people expending money will more than compensate the price decrease. You can test this concept easily with a 2 week "event".
ALL the prices, the idea is to encourage people to spend an small quantity of money to achieve what they want....as a sideefect will equalize gameplay between people who can spend and those who not.
Will there ever been an option to buy a smaller amount of NC coins or a system that allows a player to choose exactly how many they want. Not everyone needs 1000 coins sometimes 80 coins is enough.
Normally without all these dualboxes, everyone would be just 1 class. Which means that people would need to cooperate. someone is healer, someone is buffer, someone fighter and so on. With dual and more boxes, you make this game a singleplayer affair and totally ignore the MMORPG genre. Yet the worst is, that players who are buffers as their main class (which is the most frequent dualbox) cant find any party because everyone already has his own buffer. The only exception might be an Iss enchanter, this one always finds a party. But not only buffers have this problem. Players, who have their own buffer are basically very strong and dont need anyone in their party to help them, which results in KS everywhere. Im really dissapointed by seeing so many people who rather KS than join a party and let everyone get the exp and quest items. I think this game should be aimed at player interaction, cooperation and such, not at making all chars and solo the whole game. And seriously, I came here to experience the true essence of the game, the MMORPG element in it, but instead I get the same experience as on the private high rate servers.
Normally without all these dualboxes, everyone would be just 1 class. Which means that people would need to cooperate. someone is healer, someone is buffer, someone fighter and so on. With dual and more boxes, you make this game a singleplayer affair and totally ignore the MMORPG genre. Yet the worst is, that players who are buffers as their main class (which is the most frequent dualbox) cant find any party because everyone already has his own buffer. The only exception might be an Iss enchanter, this one always finds a party. But not only buffers have this problem. Players, who have their own buffer are basically very strong and dont need anyone in their party to help them, which results in KS everywhere. Im really dissapointed by seeing so many people who rather KS than join a party and let everyone get the exp and quest items. I think this game should be aimed at player interaction, cooperation and such, not at making all chars and solo the whole game. And seriously, I came here to experience the true essence of the game, the MMORPG element in it, but instead I get the same experience as on the private high rate servers.
The number of toons a person is playing has absolutely nothing to do with role play. Do you honestly believe that if we were restricted to one account players would role play who normally wouldn't? You can't force people to role play.
First of all, thank you for at communicating with your player base. I think it's your biggest problem at the moment and you are obviously trying to solve this.
I would like to ask what are your plans regarding the old out-dated areas/quests/stuff(like manor) pre-85. Do you plan on removing them / making them 85+ areas or let them be even though some areas haven't seen a player for many months?
Diversity, used to be one of the most impressive features this game used to have. Many armor sets per grade, many different party setups, many different classes. Now classes are narrowed down to 8, armor sets are 1 per level range and party setup is the same in all or most cases. Are there any plans on how to restore that diversification that used to make L2, so special against other MMORPG's?
Thank you in advance if you decide to answer my questions.
There is a prediction of when viewed bots like the ones below will be removed from the game? Why are the functions of reporting bots usually (99% of the time) have no return?
Idiots are players who do not use external tools or those trying to play the game as it should be played?
Why display bots in videos or screenshots in the forums is a forbidden attitude? Reveal bots is a violation? This reminds me so much corruption in my country.
The number of toons a person is playing has absolutely nothing to do with role play. Do you honestly believe that if we were restricted to one account players would role play who normally wouldn't? You can't force people to role play.
Honestly, we could be arguing here forever, but this is not the place for it. I asked my questions and im awaiting an answer from the producer. Nothing more, nothing less.
1. In August will release in Korea a really huge update maybe bigger than the Goddess of Destruction was (cross server war, new awakened classes, new engine, extended character customization, new epic boss dragon etc), how do you see now will be available this update in our region to December to the Christmas time?
I guess this update will get maybe bigger hype/popularity thanks for those contents what will arrive to the game.
2. Will we get same video interview when the Tauti (or another upcoming updates too) will release?
3. Someone asked me, before, but I would like to ask it, that do you plan to decrease the currently prices in the item store to its 75% or 60% or maybe to 50%?
I think these changes just would increase your incomings, because by this way much more players would be able to buy different things and those who already buy the items from the item store, they would buy much more items.
1. With Windows 8 being released to manufacturer's in July and public in Fall what are you planing to do to fix the gamegaurds errors in Windows 8 that prevent game play? as new computer bought in July will have widows 8 on them.
As far as the item store is concerned, people at Rochand have come up with some rather sensible ideas about what to add without causing too much controversy. Cryo, you might want to have a look at Draecke's list and the following discussion here: http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=407&start=190
Now that the financial reports are out for NCsoft 1st Quarter : http://global.ncsoft.com/global/ir/quarterly.aspx?BID=&BC=2012 Everyone can see that your sales from free to play have been consistant since GoD was released but are lower than when game had a lower population pre-God and was paid by subscriptions.
My question is what will be your reaction plan to this? Such as:
A. lower prices of items to reach a larger consumer base?
B. Release more controversial items that you know end game players will buy at a premium price?
C. return to subscriptions, lower population and less maintenance?
D. Do nothing because you are only staying at job for another 6 months to pad your resume?
Why we cant pay with an other way like paysafe?(whith is the only thing i trast!)
Why when u find a bot dont give his-her name to public? to see what clan ally have most bots...
And my last q is do u know that the most players do kartia kartia kartia kartia kartia and soa every day cuse is not worth to do something else to spent your time! I am lvl 89tyrr iand i start geting boring.
There is a prediction of when viewed bots like the ones below will be removed from the game? Why are the functions of reporting bots usually (99% of the time) have no return?
Idiots are players who do not use external tools or those trying to play the game as it should be played?
Why display bots in videos or screenshots in the forums is a forbidden attitude? Reveal bots is a violation? This reminds me so much corruption in my country.
how does this display bots? Please explain to me why you cut us killing you out of the recording? Mobs>you in priority, sad but true.
Thank you all for your questions for Cryo, the Producer! The questions thread is now closed and we'll work on getting the answers for you in the near future. Please remember that there may be some questions that cannot be answered in detail for various reason, aggression will be ignored, and note that some questions of similar topics may be merged. Stay tuned for the answers! :)