Discussion Can't Ppl Play W/o Donations Any More?!

[Xplicit7]

It's just a 10 years old game, there is no interest on it anymore so it's normal that people can't play over a week on a server.

[ZaNteR]

It's just a 10 years old game, there is no interest on it anymore so it's normal that people can't play over a week on a server.

If theres no interest how come so many servers suddenly get over 5000k players? Is it fake players or something?

[Epiquin]

WoW! What you gonna say next? L2 is like World of Warcraft or Blade & Soul?

What do those have to do with anything...? 

 

I was bringing up an example of a game where linear progression is not "the game". NCSoft in a multitude of interviews mentioned that they will continue adding levels, gear and skills because they believe that's what adds content to an MMORPG. 

 

In contrast, EVE Online endgame is as soon as you log in. It is not explicitly said, but you can go anywhere and be part of a group and be useful from something like 7 hours of play. CCP doesn't add shit just litter the game with more glitter and gloss like NCSoft. They add stuff that's needed.

 

Almost all EVE Online elements were present in L2 about in C4. Because even though L2 always had its endgame and Time To Death, it was extremely slow for the majority, and clans in general would operate over a large band of levels (there were always some clans that competed over lvl 40-50, lvl 50-60, 60-74, etc) so the game felt full, populated and alive. There were things to do, achieve and compete over.

 

Now with private servers increased progression speed, there is no competition over these level bands because we don't stay at those levels for any significant amount of time... So why the fuck are we going through them at all? There is no content in them, its just a time sink. I'm not a fan of wasting time (and playing games is not time waste, its the time I allocate for entertainment). And yet someone keeps arguing that "if you don't level up there is nothing to do". Yeah? Well make something to do thats not going through C, B and A. Don't just fuel the development stagnation further.

 

You don't think it's a pathetic game design where you have to NASCAR your way to max level... and then what? Either gank low levels or wait for others to catch up? Even worse, be at risk of realising that the server sucks? Like the last is far too common - you spend 1 day, 3 days maybe a week to get to point where you can compete with other people and realise how trash the server is cos you run into some shit damage that can't break CP pots and perma mana pots with some douchebag brings a Bishop alt and perma heals cos the heal to damage ratio is like 10-20x...

 

A bad design is a bad design. You can't argue that it is needed. If you need to sink players time find another way. Thats not excuse for not putting the majority of people at end game WHERE ALL THE FUN IS HAPPENING.

Edited January 2, 2015 by Epiquin

[G.A.M.E.R]

i was playing in many servers there was very hards where only donators was able to play and very easy servers where every1 was strong and every1 wanted only pvp but when i found balanced server where was no donate, eanchanting  scrolls was dropping from RBs every RB was lvl 85 ... and server restarted  :rage:

[4Gamers]

Have Stallone destroyed Linage through its donating servers?!

Or do pepole become too comfortable becasue u can donate to everything?!

Watch L2Pow server where u can not donate to everything, ppl do not know what to do...

If u just want to pcp why not just joni L2gang x1000 or smth?! 

 

The allure of the game is gone to farm and pvp with a B grade char while fighting over a farming spot...  

 

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