On a 15+ year old game which is also full pay to win, you rarely see people in their twenties, most are 30++. It just so happens that RU attracted way more spenders than Core on average. The majority of the EU community played and quit on NCWest and never experienced Innova EU.
If you wanna talk money these numbers seem more accurate : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_average_wage Even then better look at median wages whivh usually give a better idea of what the majority opf people make : https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3Wkn...ist_of_European_countries_by_median_wage.html
The situation about forgotten skills is just ridiculous. Before you could farm them in refinery easily which was supplying the market pretty good (it was expensive but 10x cheaper than now). And from one day to another they got completely remove from game and price got increased like crazy because : 1 - they are available only during events and not at good rates 2 - they got introduced in tarot but it’s just a joke : 1 book every 300e of tarot average . It’s just crazy, why has it gone like this ? Usually items get easier to get with times but forgotten book just get harder & harder.
not only that , rune npc would vanish big amount of adena from server economy now its just adena from altar and nowhere to spend
the issue is not the prices of the l2 store, the real issue is the huge gambling aspect every event donate or farm they are both gambling, its an rpg game and you cant have a programm on how to progress either by farm or donate , you might donate 10k euro and someone 1.5 euro and the second can have more luck than you. the npcs exist just to exist the game before this patch will force you to multi char with maestro for crafting and a spoiler to farm/ enchant plus a needed iss +your main class now you cant even craft even if you farm 24/7 there is existing limit for garbage gear .You do farm open box you do strong instances open box you donate gamble gamble gamble . The only way to make changes is to speak with devs and show average gear in our patch and compare it to the korean gear/patch its 2020 and ruby 5 costs 90 bill(average income for new player without spenting for ss is 30millions/day) not even greater. And if they say the server doesnt get enought money from donations then yes its marketing change the product you sell most of us prefer to pay for something usefull than to gamble on tarrots .
they just moove the game like l2 on phone.. all can be done as afk, auto hunting etc .. Just keep in mind that's NCsoft announced already that them next game will be phone game cause it's give more money that's all. They just choose this way
I wonder what you expect of a game where archer can kill the whole clan in 1 hit. The wonderful game mechanics + some credit card warriors who boost their egos. I just got an update from game devs. The next patch name will be Lineage 2 - Infinite delusions .