As a tribute to the original developers and artist's of L2 this is my last contribution to save the game I once enjoyed to play, in some few steps:
1- Introduce and hybrid business model: Game remains free to play until awakening, and after that you pay a symbolic monthly fee of $5, 2$ or even $1. That money would be used to guarantee original untouched adena drop amount, human friendly drop rates, enjoyable and rewarding events and rich 1-85 gameplay by having active resources enforcing the EULA.
Give an option for players to sponsor the subscription of others in case they don't have credit cards or any way to pay for it. New players can make friends in their way to awakening and get sponsored by them, creating bounds. :)
Also a fee, for small as it could be will be one step more into reducing bots alone.
2- Remove and never again sell any type of gameplay breaking items(AS PROMISED). The human friendly drop rates from step no. 1 will cover that removal. Also make the store-only items to be acquirable ingame.
Now to the part where you get your $.
3- Turn any type of boost items into slide-able configuration in account managent. For both full account or character specific.
If you want those 16 AP, slide the SP Boost Bar to the max and go for it.
New level cap? ++++++ that XP and VT bonus bar.
For vitality maintaining/replenishing, just use some on-off checkboxes.
Those rare drops could become easier with some boost on the drop rate bar.
Adena drop amount bar too. Even with original amounts game adena requirements are too much.
Every confirmed change for those configurations would be blocked from moving down for a week to guarantee the income.
In the end of the month you could pay the bill with you CC or just buy "credits"(nccoins) to pay for the boosts. Whatever best fit your interest.
Some ingame related adjustments would also be needed like bringing the PK system back to the original state, removing instanced epics and other XP/SP zones, increasing open field options, removing ninja patches like weapon critical damage modifications and magic critical rate nerf and so on.
And ofc, after that being done some thankful reward for me like a lvl1 or lvl2 Antharas Thrower for helping save the game :)
I know the feeling. I have given up many times raging here over bots or ranger or ninja patchs or all the other crap cause I knew it wasnt going to change anything.
Thats why I barely play anymore, was just loggin to open cubics but now not even that.
Had that idea for a while, remembered to post it today.
I know the feeling. I have given up many times raging here over bots or ranger or ninja patchs or all the other crap cause I knew it wasnt going to change anything.
Thats why I barely play anymore, was just loggin to open cubics but now not even that.
Had that idea for a while, remembered to post it today.
Yeah, you just won't ever see that hybrid system come back. They have a subscription, the prestige pack. That's as close as you will get.
They don't care about balance, fairness, or longevity. They see the phat paycheck of the P2W and they will exploit it to whatever extent they think they can get away with.
Your hybrid system would lose them a ton of instant revenue, and even if done perfectly, would lose a number of players upfront, not even talking about the loss of what's likely a few 10's of thousands of dollars in a short period of time from their "events".
Even though a well done system would wind up netting them more money over a longer period of time, like most companies, they only care about the current fiscal year... next year might as well be a lifetime away for all most companies are concerned.
As a tribute to the original developers and artist's of L2 this is my last contribution to save the game I once enjoyed to play, in some few steps:
1- Introduce and hybrid business model: Game remains free to play until awakening, and after that you pay a symbolic monthly fee of $5, 2$ or even $1. That money would be used to guarantee original untouched adena drop amount, human friendly drop rates, enjoyable and rewarding events and rich 1-85 gameplay by having active resources enforcing the EULA.
Give an option for players to sponsor the subscription of others in case they don't have credit cards or any way to pay for it. New players can make friends in their way to awakening and get sponsored by them, creating bounds. :)
Also a fee, for small as it could be will be one step more into reducing bots alone.
2- Remove and never again sell any type of gameplay breaking items(AS PROMISED). The human friendly drop rates from step no. 1 will cover that removal. Also make the store-only items to be acquirable ingame.
Now to the part where you get your $.
3- Turn any type of boost items into slide-able configuration in account managent. For both full account or character specific.
If you want those 16 AP, slide the SP Boost Bar to the max and go for it.
New level cap? ++++++ that XP and VT bonus bar.
For vitality maintaining/replenishing, just use some on-off checkboxes.
Those rare drops could become easier with some boost on the drop rate bar.
Adena drop amount bar too. Even with original amounts game adena requirements are too much.
Every confirmed change for those configurations would be blocked from moving down for a week to guarantee the income.
In the end of the month you could pay the bill with you CC or just buy "credits"(nccoins) to pay for the boosts. Whatever best fit your interest.
Some ingame related adjustments would also be needed like bringing the PK system back to the original state, removing instanced epics and other XP/SP zones, increasing open field options, removing ninja patches like weapon critical damage modifications and magic critical rate nerf and so on.
And ofc, after that being done some thankful reward for me like a lvl1 or lvl2 Antharas Thrower for helping save the game :)
manda isso pro suporte! e aumenta o preço da mensalidade 1 dollar eh muito pouco pra esses boteiros.
This game is way to far gone and way to far damaged for anyone to be able to fix it now.....just play it until they close the servers which by the way will be an EPIC day. I will finally be free of this game and I'll get to listen to everyone rage over it lol!
I'll enjoy this game in whatever direction it goes, until it finally dies. When that happens, I'll bid it farewell, and thank it for eating so much of my life away.
Maybe I'll take that opportunity to rediscover the outdoors....other humans....my family.... the possibilities are endless.
You knuckleheads think that the game ends once NCSoft closes the servers. How cute. The players will migrate to private servers.
If that's the only option to play L2 one day period, and if I for some odd reason can't let go to the past and still want to play, I'd possibly consider that as well. Til then I'm here sinking with the ship.