actually lineage 2 developers failed after interlude and u can see it. after interlude l2 just wasnt l2 anymore. a lot of ppl left the scene coz of it. (see retail if u dont believe me) i know that lot of new games were introduced but still u can see that ppl were disapointed and the scene was divided in 2 parts: a) prelude-interlude lovers, b) kameal+ lovers.
now most of the community is made by new players who hardly played or even know about the old cronicles and ofc if u dont have knowledge of the preview cronicles u just cant see the whole picture why we old school players like the oldest cronicles. new cronicles are starwars like episodes.