So, the game in it's current form is clearly done. It's been spiraling into the abyss for years and it's obviously not coming back out.
I'd highly suggest for you to postpone the upcoming expansion, for the moment, and start working with the dev team on completely reworking base drop rates, exp rates, L2 Store.
Do an x2 on base drop rates, make spoiling viable, and rework the exp rates / level requirements past lv. 100.
Remove all "pay to win" items from the L2 Store. And make it a place for Armor, Weapon, Accessory appearance items, mounts, pets and services like transfers, name changes, race changes, class changes.
And never ever think of adding "pay to win" stuff in there.
Prepare to merge Naia and Freya so the current player base has 2 somewhat full servers.
Prepare a new server, so all newcomers, or anyone, can start fresh in an actually balanced enjoyable environment.
Bundle this with the upcoming expansion and market it on mmo and other gaming websites.
You have a good game in your hands, if there's a way to salvage it, this is it. You'll have a ton of people that have quit, come back. And have a good chance of attracting and keeping new players that want a good traditional mmorpg.
So, the game in it's current form is clearly done. It's been spiraling into the abyss for years and it's obviously not coming back out.
I'd highly suggest for you to postpone the upcoming expansion, for the moment, and start working with the dev team on completely reworking base drop rates, exp rates, L2 Store.
Do an x2 on base drop rates, make spoiling viable, and rework the exp rates / level requirements past lv. 100.
Remove all "pay to win" items from the L2 Store. And make it a place for Armor, Weapon, Accessory appearance items, mounts, pets and services like transfers, name changes, race changes, class changes.
And never ever think of adding "pay to win" stuff in there.
Prepare to merge Naia and Freya so the current player base has 2 somewhat full servers.
Prepare a new server, so all newcomers, or anyone, can start fresh in an actually balanced enjoyable environment.
Bundle this with the upcoming expansion and market it on mmo and other gaming websites.
You have a good game in your hands, if there's a way to salvage it, this is it. You'll have a ton of people that have quit, come back. And have a good chance of attracting and keeping new players that want a good traditional mmorpg.
I agree, properly managed this game can be so good. Stop the updates and redo the basics, the game is broken, fix it before it breaks further and beyond repair.
So, the game in it's current form is clearly done. It's been spiraling into the abyss for years and it's obviously not coming back out.
I'd highly suggest for you to postpone the upcoming expansion, for the moment, and start working with the dev team on completely reworking base drop rates, exp rates, L2 Store.
Do an x2 on base drop rates, make spoiling viable, and rework the exp rates / level requirements past lv. 100.
Remove all "pay to win" items from the L2 Store. And make it a place for Armor, Weapon, Accessory appearance items, mounts, pets and services like transfers, name changes, race changes, class changes.
And never ever think of adding "pay to win" stuff in there.
Prepare to merge Naia and Freya so the current player base has 2 somewhat full servers.
Prepare a new server, so all newcomers, or anyone, can start fresh in an actually balanced enjoyable environment.
Bundle this with the upcoming expansion and market it on mmo and other gaming websites.
You have a good game in your hands, if there's a way to salvage it, this is it. You'll have a ton of people that have quit, come back. And have a good chance of attracting and keeping new players that want a good traditional mmorpg.
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This is all the fault of NCsoft West and NCsoft parent. Come on, Ncsoft West took a long time to combat users of third-party programs where the rule says that it is forbidden to use, these users created several accounts and with these accounts killed mobs and dropped adena, items, materials and everything else, they did a lot of adena and with that, they began to equip and become strong, and many started selling adena and made a lot of money with it and apparently invested in acquiring items in the game store.
The biggest mistake of NCsoft is that they banned the accounts that were in the places catandos items, adenas of the mobs, but, did not ban the owners of these accounts, the main account of this player. Look at the absurd and the descriptiveness of the game, we will analyze the Freya, the server Freya is dominated by a clan only, they are owners according to what I have heard of all castles, where they claim that the castles are Clan support them, they own all heroes, this month that only a hero does not belong to them. They have full access to the most powerful bosses, and to the most powerful places and everything else and this discourages, because people want to play to fight a cool pvp, with characters on the same level and this today has no way, hero and this is not possible, even COC is dominated by this clan.
All in all, the game is totally lost in this sense, because NCsoft should have acted in the past, fighting hard against using third-party programs that allowed a lot of players to equip themselves with help from these programs, although many will deny it, many will pretend is a lie, many will say that it does not exist and so follows life. What I see as a discouraged player, the discouragement also disrupts many other players, they wonder if it is only worth investing in Ncoins, spend buying Ncoins to be able to buy items in the store.
So, I do not see much future, I also knew that they will merge the server Naia with the Freya, maybe this will balance things, or maybe worse everything, remember that the Freya was a server that united 3 server, and on account of a monopoly of a clan only, which shows itself to be selfish, where it wants everything for them, the server lost so many players, so many players that it does not even seem like a server born of 3 other servers, with players from 3 other servers. And worse, Ncsoft continues to throw things to try to attract players, but deep down is strengthening those who are even stronger, the example of this is these new covers, everyone can have? You can, just get Ncoins, but this ends up leaving the game even more unbalanced.
Summarizing everything, the game is lost, dominant Clan, dominating, so other players will no longer have access to anything, but that could change. Why does NCsoft not make the Boss, all of them quest like Kartia, Kamaloka for example? Of course it would be different, they would be quest with delay of many days, that is, several players entered there, he can enter in 15 days, 1 month, I speak of all the Boss, since today the dominating clans are the owners of the Boss, they do not allow other clans to have access, so they dominate the Boss jewels, and when they sell, they sell with absurd adena prices, costing more than 20 bi adena. Make the quest Valakas, Antharas, Lindvior and etc, instance zone with a huge delay, so it would cheer, so dominant clan could not prevent other clans from getting strong, so would have more jewelry, more equipped and more likely people.
Another thing, dimensional castles, is another where only clans dominate has a chance, and so has a chance to equip in every way, and I knew that there is an agreement between these clan, if this is true, it is a shame.
So, the game in it's current form is clearly done. It's been spiraling into the abyss for years and it's obviously not coming back out.
I'd highly suggest for you to postpone the upcoming expansion, for the moment, and start working with the dev team on completely reworking base drop rates, exp rates, L2 Store.
Do an x2 on base drop rates, make spoiling viable, and rework the exp rates / level requirements past lv. 100.
Remove all "pay to win" items from the L2 Store. And make it a place for Armor, Weapon, Accessory appearance items, mounts, pets and services like transfers, name changes, race changes, class changes.
And never ever think of adding "pay to win" stuff in there.
Prepare to merge Naia and Freya so the current player base has 2 somewhat full servers.
Prepare a new server, so all newcomers, or anyone, can start fresh in an actually balanced enjoyable environment.
Bundle this with the upcoming expansion and market it on mmo and other gaming websites.
You have a good game in your hands, if there's a way to salvage it, this is it. You'll have a ton of people that have quit, come back. And have a good chance of attracting and keeping new players that want a good traditional mmorpg.
Completely agree. I would not include race or class changes on the new servers, as it creates broken characters (like mine). Aside from that, sounds great! Bring back the monthly subscription if needed, but do anything BUT add nccoin items that affect the game. Thanks.
I agree too, postpone the update, take several months and bring the things where they need to be. Remove everything from L2Store and sell only services and appearance stuff there.Reset every weapon and armor in the game, give everyone 90 day bloody set and with the fixed drops, let the players PLAY the game, because they were literally buying it, not playing it last years. Some of them are even going the extra mile to try to justify that, that's sick.
Obviously i'm giving them a general idea of what they're supposed to do. The devs would have to dig in and figure out how to properly make every dungeon and every monster relevant again. When it comes to drop rates, spoil rates, exp, challenge.
Why would they do that?
Try to think like a business this game...you will see many proposal are not productive.
They are in dificulty now...last year they anounce Lineage Eternal who supose to be the next chapter of Lineage 2 but it was a complete new game and the feedbak was very bad...result was they just quit the project.
Now with nothing to replace L2 they need to push further the business...but they were not prepared for this and dont even have content for 105+ areas....
In this auttum they were planed to inaugurate oversees version of lineage eternal...but the plan is gone so they invent items and chapters to keep players interest active. You will see...more items incoming...like "Blessed wonder s hiet soul of Antharas- Increase 300% damage excitation when PC bend knees" -chance to get one for 5 000 USD or "White mug of blue Lindvior-By the jet of white mug you become immune for pc atack for 5 min"-this one is rare, just 1 per server...so, 10 000 usd or more.
I wonder, JuJi said last year smthing about a new public test server...any news on that Neutron? :D
You seem completely out of touch with the mmo world. What models work in what kind of games and what repels players like plague.
Lineage Eternal is being reworked in UE4 for good Mobile compatibility as that's the biggest market right now they certainly want to tap into, after the huge success of Lineage 2 Revolution. Which made them more money in the first month than all their other games combined.
You seem completely out of touch with the mmo world. What models work in what kind of games and what repels players like plague.
Lineage Eternal is being reworked in UE4 for good Mobile compatibility as that's the biggest market right now they certainly want to tap into, after the huge success of Lineage 2 Revolution. Which made them more money in the first month than all their other games combined.
Yeah, mby...but you cant rework a game with huge harware demands to work on mobile....If it will be will be complety diferent game.
Lineage2Revolutin dont belong to NcSoft...its develop by Marble under NcSoft licence. Complety other thing then L2 we know and y, very succesfull in Asian Market but Not the case here in NcWest or Europe, ppl have other behavior...
Well i think kick free users (pleyers) is wrong for the game cuz every one need to be able to kill some one to be happy :) so free low gear players is the base off the game .Think a player who had spend few hundred $ or thousand $ in game to gear up who have to fight only against top gear old players wel he will be quit real soon.Innova killed free players and servers died this will be happend here if ncwest continue like this.This is my opinion y play l2 from 2005 and sorry for my bad english.
Yeah, mby...but you cant rework a game with huge harware demands to work on mobile....If it will be will be complety diferent game.
Lineage2Revolutin dont belong to NcSoft...its develop by Marble under NcSoft licence. Complety other thing then L2 we know and y, very succesfull in Asian Market but Not the case here in NcWest or Europe, ppl have other behavior...
I'm just telling you what's happening with Lineage Eternal. What kind of game it will end up being and whether it will come out for PC at all, is something else.
You seem completely out of touch with the mmo world. What models work in what kind of games and what repels players like plague.
Lineage Eternal is being reworked in UE4 for good Mobile compatibility as that's the biggest market right now they certainly want to tap into, after the huge success of Lineage 2 Revolution. Which made them more money in the first month than all their other games combined.
Oh Dear, dont put in the same place mmorpg mobile with stupid game "1 day work bomberman mobile version".
As I said, in Asia its a trend but in Europe, CSI, and North America ppl have other mentality...they play on console or pc/notebook.
Mby mobile game is the future...mby not...
Many years ago I was in IT business, when Notebooks were enough performant and everybody said doom day for pc is close, games will be played on notebooks, this is the furure, blablabla....Here we are 15 y later and best games are played on PC...
Dont full yourself, PC games will not die...not even close.
Zaken (and earlier newBartz, Shilen, Magmeld) have proven that there's no point in having more than 2 servers in here.
Man, I play in L2 since 2008 and I found out about this server only in 2014
Not all the players in the world have been informed about these servers NCsoft
Man, I play in L2 since 2008 and I found out about this server only in 2014
Not all the players in the world have been informed about these servers NCsoft
You literally had to type in "lineage 2" into any search engine and there it would be. The first result outperforming others by miles. Don't make me laugh…
I just give thought, India and China have a good network and have about 50% of the world's population.
You can find sponsors in these countries and make a grandiose advertisement with the phrase "Truly Free"
In the European Union live 500 million, need only advertisement "Truly Free"
NCWest do not will let these servers wither and we players will support you !
lol mobile phone gaming. i cant believe that cancer exists. who tf would play that except asians.
Gotta remember most Asians don't own a PC capable of even potato level of play. Hence why PC cafes are so big, and even $50 dollar phones games are popular. Not so surprising.
I'm hoping this draws NCsoft away from the PC market. So that another company will come into the small PVP/MMO market and not immediately try to cash out with ridiculous P2W mechanics.
But I've been waiting for a long time. Archeage/BDO got close, but ultimately shot themselves in the foot. I think I will discover a timemachine that goes back to 2004 before I find a spiritual successor to 2003-2009 L2.
ppl tried to open ur eyes years ago, but u turn the blind eye on them, now u ll reap what you sow.
before free to play top weapon on chronos recurve bow+16 focus 300 holy= 4b, todays top weapon=60+b due to the intencional s84 drop increase in s84 zones (worked as intended in the first phase of freemium).
You literally had to type in "lineage 2" into any search engine and there it would be. The first result outperforming others by miles. Don't make me laugh…
I do not think that resetting the game solves things, as players continued to use B O T and continued to evolve faster than the others. NCsoft has to learn how to actually combat BOTs, believe me, it's easy for you to recognize a player who uses BOT, I've already fought with many players that I could see that they are in BOT because of the way they fight, always the same as others players, and when the fight ends in the Olympics, the character runs without stopping, non-stop looking for the target, or restarting all the time and so on. If NCsoft starts to actually combat users of B T and it does have a way to know who it uses, but it does nothing.
Because to stay banning only B The T that stays in places picking drops and adena, will not solve, have to start is to ban the owners of B O T, their main chars, who are well equipped and become strong with these B O T...