First of all, when you want to play a game you expect a big company to develop it. Not a person with a team of 2 developers. Its just not possible, you cant trust these guys. The files are crapy,support and technical fixes too. Then you gonna say to me that there were legendary projects that stay alive for a very long time like pride,global,elixir,old bnb and elite . But these projects were made when the game was still flourishing ,its not possible to compare the past (5-6-7-8 years ago) and the present moment,as many players abandoned the game and some others play from time to time, while a small community still continue to play daily. However , mid and high rate servers kill the game as it was developed in order to process (lvl up slow,do quests,craft after a lot of farm,pvp,make friends and family, and fight with them against another clan or a grand boss) smoothly. And yes this is the beauty of this game,its a pain in the ass, but when you see the results that come up with your work it actually makes you happy. You can see thousands of bosses in hundrends of areas,which they are literally useless in high rates. In such kind of servers you can only pvp(camping at dv,loa,soa) ,which mainly happens at the lvl of 85 and in the same areas. How long can you stay in such servers,2-3 weeks? Its boring after a while. L2 community needs something new, i mean an innovation not a custom server cause people dont trust all these custom builds. Only a new sequel of l2 could save lineage community. So dont blame yourselves (admins) that you cant keep people in your servers. If you are greedy or scammers you just lose your servers community faster. Some people may appreciate your work and honor you by keep playing in your server ,but in the end even these few pll will leave so as to find something better.