Not to mention how Lineage 2 looks visually now. I have these "cute" things like cake hats, agathions, punkin heads, cute flying shit, cute new NPCS, cute new Disney Land (Fantasy Island or how is it called?), the game has become cute, fuck I always liked Lineage for its dark graphics, serious npcs, seriously looking skills, serious community. If you want to play cute game, you can try out these free mmos or Ragnarok. Ragnarok is actually meant to be cute because it's anime mmo, so it's quite understandable.
Secondly, I am a big materialist and slight changes can really mess me up. Slight changes like font change since Kamael update, the text is bald, why was that necessary? Did they want to look like Vista Windows (because when Kamael was released Vista was too)? I see no point why do they had to change the font, I was looking forward to Kamael actually (I didn't know about the old NCsoft team leaving), bang .. I logged in and I was like "ouch my eyes.. wtf?'', you know I played C1-C6 for 3-4 years and I got used to that font, and bang there's another font. Why? Ok, I overlooked it, and bang. Why radar changed? I know this is such a materialistic point of view, but I am just like that. When I get used to something over a long time, I just can't bear with new thing coming. I was playing Handball for a long time with my beloved couch, my couch left and so I did, because a new couch was total faggot.
Thirdly, new looking armors. Up until Interlude, they looked really nice and plain, and since Dynasty appeared, or Vesper, or those new ones. It looks just overdone to me. Not only that they look too similar, but there's so many of them.
I can say that gameplay is not ruined, it's still Lineage 2 as it was always, but those visual updates might not attract everyone.