L2 is dying yes, not dead. But hey we live in 2010 and this game came out in what? 2003? 7yrs is a looong time for a game to be alive.
Just look at server merges and how desperate they ar to get new people playing by making it a lot easier to start L2 (newbie buffs till lvl 62, everything up to low b-grd in shops).
And yes, for those who think L2 is x5000 rate servers here all you do is pvp and nothing else that aint L2. As said earlier L2 is about teamwork, crafting, spoiling and farming for the best gear, epics and so on. Then in the end when you are done with all that you can start doing nothing but pvp. Good luck getting all the best gear alone on any server thats not x[a lot] even so, good luck killing antharas/valakas/whatever alone (and no, donating for such items do not equal farming :p)