Post-Interview Summary From Russia

iMist from Russia just posted his summary of an event with Director Namkung organized by Innova & NCsoft in Moscow:

I would like to post short summary from my article at L2Central about special event in Russia which was organized by Innova & NCSoft in Moscow:
There was a presentation of Lindvior update in Russia at 28.02.2013. It was introduced by: L2 PD Gon NamKang, Dev Lead (Overseas Game Design) Jungwon Kang, Assistant Manager (Overseas Game Programing) Sora Choe, Assistant Manager (Overseas Game Design) Hongsub Jung.
Gon NamKang spoke about the problems faced by developers after the launch GOD1.0 Awakening and GOD2.0 Tauti:


- Imbalance: unfortunate union of the classes
- Groups: destruction of class roles
- Tactics and strategy: players haphazardly use skills of classes
- economic system was completely destroyed (players don't need to craft items, there are a lot of cheap bound items, unnecessarily high cost of converting items to blessed versions)
- Character development to 99 levels led to the destruction of the gaming community and the lack of freedom(due to the abundance of daily quests and instance zones there is a lack of communication between the players).


Main concept of Lindvior update is: restoration of key features of the game ​​without resetting the game experience points and other parameters.
Gon NamKang spoke about class changes, game economy, hunting zones, dimensional siege and system interface. You know them from this thread(nothing new).
Lindvior update comes to overseas territories as whole update(lindvior part 1 + lindvior part 2 + some patches). There is a possibility of introduction patch before Lindvior launch. Currently it is a subject of discussion.

Also Gon NamKang spoke about future of the game:


- in future patches and update they want to balance Iss enchanters, Wynn Summoners and Tyrr Warriors
- they want to add more interserver(cross-server) content: dimensional olympiad, dimensional Ceremony of Chaos, and cross-server group fights
- they want to minimize addition of instance zones and concentrate on openfield content
- they want to add new content to develop characters at 99 level
- they want to add new items which can be useful for all players


From a private conversation with Innova and dev.team I want to stop rumours about problems in the game:


- currently new update and patches in development stage
- december layoffs at NCSoft dont affect to L2 Development Department
- powerwiki will be updated as usual in near future(they have some technical problems)


And some photos:
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This answers several questions and gives everybody an opportunity to build up on it and dig deeper :)

ty for sharing this is very interesting :)

they want to minimize addition of instance zones and concentrate on openfield content

Great news ^^
Thanks for share Yidao!

Also Gon NamKang spoke about future of the game:


- in future patches and update they want to balance Iss enchanters, Wynn Summoners and Tyrr Warriors
- they want to add more interserver(cross-server) content: dimensional olympiad, dimensional Ceremony of Chaos, and cross-server group fights
- they want to minimize addition of instance zones and concentrate on openfield content
- they want to add new content to develop characters at 99 level
- they want to add new items which can be useful for all players

About time they did something about this crap. Because of all the instances the open world feel of L2 has been destroyed. :P

Thanks for the infos Elmar.

Here you can find the video what the Innova made about this Lineage 2 Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_0bPuxrMug
(the video start from the 14th minute.)

He really looks like a developer who really maximally take care for his job and for his game, not like as many European or American developer.

Looks like they plan to make really good steps to improve the game and the communication between the community, what are very good plans and I think they will able to make it and they will try to do everything for it, that the Lineage 2 be same good as before, keep the present contents and provide to the players new adventures.

Here is additional information from Russia:

There was a Q&A session with Namkung Gon after presentation but some questions was very strange:
Q: Why elves are so feminine?
A: Because they are elves. If you want to play brutal characters you need to choose orcs. All other races will not have masculine skins.
Q: Why armor on characters are so frank and provocative?
A: It's a korean playstyle
Q: Do you have plans to add support of Windows 8?
A: Windows 8 is not officially supported by Lineage 2 because of old game engine
Q: Do you have plans to add motivation to PVP(for example badges in WOW to buy different items)?
A: Is this a problem in Russia? We think about it
Q: Do you have plans to bring back catacombs to the game?
A: Catacombs and 7 Sign System is a part of game lore. So we dont have plans to bring back this content. But if you want to bring back catacombs as hunting zone we think about it.

youtube video(in russian): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dqHUEyEodsI
Preview trailer of Lindvior(in Russian): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItJmHYJ7DeU&feature=player_embedded
and bonus photo: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/859266_127838797396101_692397998_o.jpg

Special thanks to iMist!

That's some interesting stuff, at least the translated part. Too bad I don't speak russian for the whole interview :(

What do they mean by balance enchanters? I'm a bit worried that somehow they want to nerf us lol.

You might want to repost that question in the dedicated Q&A thread:
http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=253922
:)

My personal guess is that this refers to an unsigned poll from January 30 (the L2 Development Department was very much affected by the December layoffs):
http://lineage2.plaync.co.kr/event/sa/130130_l2choice/index
The question was whether Enchanters should be specialized or generalized. Since the generalizers won the poll by 80% vs. 20% I would say that in the future Iss Mystic Muse, Iss Spectral Dancer etc. will be more equal, with less difference between the diversified classes.

iMist from Russia just posted his summary of an event with Director Namkung organized by Innova & NCsoft in Moscow:



This answers several questions and gives everybody an opportunity to build up on it and dig deeper :)

at least all my blessed stuff ll get some value on this update.

DEATH TO THE OLD AND CRAP WOW EQUIPAMENT STUFF/SYSTEM.

Here is additional information from Russia:



Special thanks to iMist!

someone should teach him what feminine is and what brutal is. :mad: