Obvious & only solution for l2

Underlying Premise(s)
1.The game is unbalanced & changes occur without balance or any resemblance of parity.
2. The realm's player 'gap' is beyond repair (regardless of server):
-new events/items have success rates that are non-existent for any 'normal' person to participate in,
- lower/middle players are quitting, or at the very least turning into FREE-TO-PLAY players,
- whales are not spending (as per normal),
- no 'new' players & no new 'buyers'
- secondary mkt has all but dried up for anything (armor/weaps/etc)
3. Some pve will still exist & maxed players will fight maxed; however, this will lvl is eroding and will continue to circle the drain.


SOLUTION


TURN THE GAME WIDE OPEN


HOW?
- L2 SHOP EVERYTHING - it's a p2p game.. those who don't only pve in isolation anyway - so they are basically a non-starter given they provide no 'company survivability' anyway!
- make all items available in L2 Store: Armor (base, +6, +8, +10), Weapons all grades (base, +3, +6, +10, +12, +16), talismans, cloaks, jewelry, jewels, etc etc etc etc.


BUT


-NC has to throw out the absolute piggish behavior and price it reasonably (yes, something they have not tried or accomplished yet).






Bottom line
1. Whales won't like ...BUT....game is beyond repair & any resemblance of parity will never be accomplished. So maybe some would leave.. but.. certainly not the majority.
2. You win back all lower/middle players who aspire to be maxed and can now achieve via a p2p advertised game.
3. The income now comes back to game because thousands of players dabble.....
4. Stop advertising free2play as your game's promo - it HURTS EVERYTHING....

YOU WANT TO SURVIVE..MAKE IT REASONABLE FOR EVERYONE TO PLAY COMPETATIVELY...

- The game is OLD......the actions above bring in money (ie. if you are not pigs).....reduces 'gap' from lvl & gear to JUST LEVEL - leaves the gap to be closed by actually playing the game....MAKE OPEN FIELD HUNTING WORTHWHILE AND > 1 INSTANCE (saving vp all week)......the game wants players YET has current dumb azz reasons to not play in its mechanics...how stupid can you really be.....

devs and gm doing eveyrthing they can to currently kill this game, high l2 store prices on reachable by most , small selection of items , bad to low return on enchant seening players break all their gear and quit, banning players that by adena. because they took away all in game drops to garbage and ways to make adena in game to buy ingame item shops like shots, and rely on l2store to purchase and emptying their wallet ive only seen 1 other game thats mannage this badly by the devs that ended up killing the community, thats SOE star wars galaxies. :) l2 seem to be using l2 community as a wallet farm :) with no regards to the community at all. funny thing is wen gamers leave they wont stay and play any other ncsoft product and leave all together its matter of time before all ncsoft product wont get sold and empty and the gm and devs and look for new jobs! im giving the game a few more weeks if nothing changes im heading off to another new mmo.

ps im a 10+ year vet on l2