Been away from the game since around HellBound and that is mostly because I did not like the way the game was going. I keep checking back but the game keeps going away from what I enjoy. I would love to see NCSoft startup a legacy server running lets say Interlude or even C5.
I know the interest is there for a older chronicle, after checking out private servers the community is quite large and always looking for a real server running an older chronicle.
I would love to see NCSoft startup a legacy server running lets say Interlude or even C5.
You love IL, other one gracia, or C4 - make server for each chronicles? NC will never support other server except fresh, new and updated.
It is not like at private servers where admins open new one every time they want to!
One Hardcore server with old school game style. No NCstore, no PvP penalty of today. Everything the same with the following exceptions:
Character transfer option (with limited number of items/adena as before)
Old Black Judge back.
Karma item dropping
Death Item Dropping
Train bots they drop items
No bot protection like dungeon mobs running back.
More material/adena drops from mobs.
Better share this idea with the Innova people. The only thing you are going to get by having a legacy server here is more bots, cheaters, RMT and "cool events" (Pay to compete)
Been away from the game since around HellBound and that is mostly because I did not like the way the game was going. I keep checking back but the game keeps going away from what I enjoy. I would love to see NCSoft startup a legacy server running lets say Interlude or even C5.
I know the interest is there for a older chronicle, after checking out private servers the community is quite large and always looking for a real server running an older chronicle.
What do you think about this?
Idea is not bad , but they will never do it.
Why? easy.
They made the game "free-to-play" coz the servers were dead , and in order to get lots of $$$ they uploaded the NCStore , i bet that so far they made at least 5 times the moneis they made in 8 years of "pay-to-play"...
So how would be? Pay 12 euros again for log only in that server? a premium? nah. not gonna happen.
Only "Private" servers can make it...but i guess noone is so "good" to open a private server with a "close-kind" of official server set up (5x - 2 boxed max allowed - no custom - geodata fixxed - game mechanics fixed)...and the best thing they could do...would be making the server C1 and upload it every...4-5 months? just for keep the server "alive" and fresh...ofc , doing so , you will have "spikes" of players...no clue! Pretty much any private server around nowday is quite the same...lolfix or having some toons unbalanced (in 7 years , i saw A LOT of server having unbalanced toons...daggers without lethals , CD 5-6 seconds+ per blow full buffed , duelist landing 1k damage A vs A grade robe with a TSS..meh! no thanks! xD)
Only "Private" servers can make it...but i guess noone is so "good" to open a private server with a "close-kind" of official server set up (5x - 2 boxed max allowed - no custom - geodata fixxed - game mechanics fixed)...and the best thing they could do...would be making the server C1 and upload it every...4-5 months? just for keep the server "alive" and fresh...ofc , doing so , you will have "spikes" of players...no clue! Pretty much any private server around nowday is quite the same...lolfix or having some toons unbalanced (in 7 years , i saw A LOT of server having unbalanced toons...daggers without lethals , CD 5-6 seconds+ per blow full buffed , duelist landing 1k damage A vs A grade robe with a TSS..meh! no thanks! xD)
sorta sounds like the way it is here right now, unbalanced chars :)
but not unbalanced if you play one right ?
You love IL, other one gracia, or C4 - make server for each chronicles? NC will never support other server except fresh, new and updated.
It is not like at private servers where admins open new one every time they want to!
NCsoft could make one legacy server where it could start in C1 and go all the way up to before GOD in a period of 2 years (or 8-10 weeks per update). If they did that it would be AWESOME! We could revisit old chronicles and visit old nostalgic places and re-live L2 again. They could even deploy a strategy to monetize this server, and that would be up to them, but maybe the damages of p2w would be reduced due to constant timed updates.
I'd rather play this kind of "ladder" server than the current l2 version. Though this might not be doable if they scrapped and deleted the old files of C1 and such.
Of course is a great idea, no matter NCsoft said it will never gonna happen, L2 fan community is shouting for this. It will be a success for sure.
1.- Make the start with prelude, server rates 2-3x, but end in a predefined chronicle before Kamael, in a period not longer than 18 months.
2.- Montly payment or Premium account bussiness model.
3.- NCstore could exit, with appropiate content.
4.- For god sake, this time, the antibot system is a must.
Make this and rescue this great game, in the mean time, i go back to my private paradise to get more fun ! :D
NCsoft could make one legacy server where it could start in C1 and go all the way up to before GOD in a period of 2 years (or 8-10 weeks per update). If they did that it would be AWESOME! We could revisit old chronicles and visit old nostalgic places and re-live L2 again. They could even deploy a strategy to monetize this server, and that would be up to them, but maybe the damages of p2w would be reduced due to constant timed updates.
I'd rather play this kind of "ladder" server than the current l2 version. Though this might not be doable if they scrapped and deleted the old files of C1 and such.
One can only wonder at this point...
Of course is a great idea, no matter NCsoft said it will never gonna happen, L2 fan community is shouting for this. It will be a success for sure.
1.- Make the start with prelude, server rates 2-3x, but end in a predefined chronicle before Kamael, in a period not longer than 18 months.
2.- Montly payment or Premium account bussiness model.
3.- NCstore could exit, with appropiate content.
4.- For god sake, this time, the antibot system is a must.
Make this and rescue this great game, in the mean time, i go back to my private paradise to get more fun ! :D
ItoZam, Elven Elder, Hindemith player since 2007.
Hello, recycled ideas that have been shot down repeatedly in the past 2 years. Please go back into the coffin and stop resurrecting, for Shilen's sake! She needs your souls to empower herself!
So many people miss the older chronicles and only play private because of this.
Wrong, people play privates cause they have custom rates, and no cheaters.
Look at Azure / Supreme (C5) back a few years ago:
Few years ago =/= Now. needs have changed, there's better games launched and planned to launch.
NcSoft would need to implement bot protection though.
oh boy, such dreams, No. Its not about "good protection", its about monitorization, and do u know what it needs ? More staff, and more staff wants more money which brings more P2W to ur "perfect server" and then ull see +21 weapons on c4 server x1 server. BR LOL SERVER
first ever Interlude 1x private server PlusOneL2 which is expecting 4-5k on launch.
Oh the many " we gonna be great servers with 5k ppl" ive been told and failed in 3-4months cause people are just feeling nostalgic for a few weeks then quit complaining about everything,they join the next re-open server or newly open server and quit again.
So yeah the interest is there, the number don't lie.
rofl, this isnt 2006, it's 2014, your numbers are too off.
1.- Make the start with prelude, server rates 2-3x, but end in a predefined chronicle before Kamael, in a period not longer than 18 months.
Fail, if the game stops on one expansion, it dies with it right after cause there's nothing else to do and becomes boring with no new content.
Hello, recycled ideas that have been shot down repeatedly in the past 2 years. Please go back into the coffin and stop resurrecting, for Shilen's sake! She needs your souls to empower herself!
And the Lineage II community that enjoys older chronicles will continue to play private servers because of stubbornness and a refusal to listen....guess you could call it corporate greed, though I thing the legacy server would actually bring in a larger community than the current Star Wars servers.
Wrong, people play privates cause they have custom rates, and no cheaters.
Yeah that's it. There are cheaters everywhere including private servers, though privates in some cases have actually made an effort and succeeded in stopping bots. Something that would not happen on OFF servers I guess because of profit loss. The majority of the private server community consists of Interlude players which shows just how strong the love of older chronicles is.
Few years ago =/= Now. needs have changed, there's better games launched and planned to launch.
I have seen and heard this so many times over the past few years in the private server community.
"Tera is coming L2 will die"
"D3 is coming L2 will die"
Wash rinse repeat. Within 3 months of those games and others launching the community was back at full strength. This just goes to show the strength of the love of the game by people that enjoy older chronicles and the new even.
oh boy, such dreams, No. Its not about "good protection", its about monitorization, and do u know what it needs ? More staff, and more staff wants more money which brings more P2W to ur "perfect server" and then ull see +21 weapons on c4 server x1 server. BR LOL SERVER
I don't think they would be so stupid but than again you never know.
Oh the many " we gonna be great servers with 5k ppl" ive been told and failed in 3-4months cause people are just feeling nostalgic for a few weeks then quit complaining about everything,they join the next re-open server or newly open server and quit again.
There has not been a 1x Interlude server in the private server community before. Out of all the servers launched PlusOneL2 is unique in that way and others. Only time will tell but already I know of many old-school official players and clans that are interested in that server.
rofl, this isnt 2006, it's 2014, your numbers are too off.
My numbers are accurate and actually on the modest side. I can prove it, can you?
Fail, if the game stops on one expansion, it dies with it right after cause there's nothing else to do and becomes boring with no new content.
Fail. There are still 50k + playing that chronicle faithfully how many years after it was released?
oh, and before you "wake up and you don't know what to do today and open a new topic saying about a maaaaaafaka legacy server", use search function.
Yes it becomes painfully obvious that the voices and wants of 50k+ players will go blissfully ignored. So it becomes quite clear that PlusOneL2 is where is where hope lies for a Official type Legacy server with an experience better than what Innova could offer if they chose to do a legacy server.
The funny thing about this is that actually private servers (the good and serious ones) are way better than the service provided by NC nowadays. If it was 2006 i would laugh at you for playing a private server, but now things have changed.
The problem is, NC doesn't want to provide old chronicles because of the costs such service would need.
Also, private servers don't have stagnation problems, they get wiped every few months or so. Retail doesn't do it; a retail legacy server would end up dead after the population hits end game and there's nothing else to do but pvp. And honestly, not everyone is 24/7 into pvp...