Innova, why do you disrespect your loyal non-Russian player base?

even tho, l2c is 9 months old and as you stated kr/ru/eu community are very different. so much time have passed yet we dont have any official info which is shame. all that eu staff gave us are stay tunned etc. and thats clearly not professional approach to players. and they actually owe us alot since we are their customers.

 

so stop play on core and maybe they will open faster

 

are you kidding me? not only europeans but whole non-russian and non-korean world is going to play classic if it launches. the success is 100% guaranteed.

 

agree! there are so much potential in first eu/english speaking classic server. but i bet they considered that already, but not sure if i understand all the delay. are they waiting for ncwest make a move first?

 

i think he mean not if they try to play ,but if they keep playing .. koreans and russian player base is way more hardcore then any country in the world in general ... for some of them is like job and not game

 

they already said no, you need to feel it.

 

actually they said nothing,that's the problem.

 

koreans and russians players are more hardcore than europeans, right. but dicussion is if eu server would work, and i think there are no discussion. mmo market ****s right now and there are lot of people that miss l2 old times. if it will be open, and it will have a serious attention, its done...

 

shh i know if they open l2c eu u would come play and make dworf!!!

 

no lol , pay for this ****? :d

 

of course u would sell your home if that means play dworf ,so please !!! :d

 

you guys do know we pay for months not hours right?

russians and koreans being more hardcore has nothing to do with a business model, western players dual-box just as much.

 

probably they are trying to say that koreans and russians are long term players. they dont quit after a week... but here, europe, you can find as many hardcore players as there...
well people in korea sell children to play mmos i dont think we will reach that hardcore gaming in europe ever. and thank god.

 

thing is, an english release of classic wouldn't be restricted to europe just like the current core sees players leaving na to join its rank i believe it'd have a similar effect on private servers.

 

not really. the game is truly un-adapted for western market, the classic is a more hardcore version of the already grindy l2 which only kept in decline every update. the game prompts you to botting to no end to stay in a proper "level"( this by itself drops a lot of the "real" numbers" and scares a lot of the priv server players). ru community severely outgrows eu+na together, just check the amount of servers they had for long time compared to the dying servers of na way before god.

 

its official, 10 days for march, ahem...

 

what? links or never happened

 

you guys are a joke comparing ru with eu. ru could decide blindly to open l2c and even if it was a completely failure, they wouldn't declare bankruptcy. eu has only core and the moment they decide to open l2c, core will decline rapidly. the question that needs to be answered wisely and "business-intelligently" is what happens after they open l2c.
my money is on the following steps:

1- core starts declining, l2c is a complete success.
2- core dies out, no servers to merge and try to revitalize it, but they keep it running alongside with l2c.
3- l2c starts to decline the giant wave of interested players after launch.
4- [?]

as for step 4, either l2c is an enough success to keep going and they close core or l2c starts declining and they close both and declare bankruptcy.
you may think i'm wrong, i may be completely wrong, but without a business-intelligence work-up, they can't make a decision if there's a slightly chance of bankruptcy.

 

they won't declare bankrupt until top donorz stop donating, each one of them looks like expend enough money per month to hold the server.

 

this isn't a private server, so there is no "donation". donation is for those servers which needs to make money and cheat the irs for taxes purposes. a donation is not taxed. since this is a company, i highly doubt they don't have taxes declaration. if they evade taxes somehow, that's entirely another thing.

top buyers will stop buying if the server they sustain is dying out, which will happen once half the players migrate to a l2c version.