NCSOFT will open a classic server

lineage 2 died with god.
now there's chance to have finally the real game back. i can't understand why so many haters

 

l2 dead on interlude with augments passive/active wm10, and especially ncwest second time on hi5 with anakim stuff and fear +cost. on god was resurrection. but this is different for everyone. one like run around in same spots over and over and annoy others with his op class, actually i loved wizards who come to lizardmans ) pof dances 2 rings +7 vesper bow and that plains debuff.. huge crit dmg bonus )). and actually there was nothing to do in hi5. valakas/antharas/tw/cs no more actions. 9v9 was boring. so peoples started coding skynet what nova actually now bring to naia after 2 or 3 years after 1st rumors about that nasty plan

 

well don't put all blame on nova , i blame ncsoft for not caring about servers good enough and allow this kind stuff happened i think they should not live on past ,but keep going in future and fix current problems with game .( no need flame if u think there is none to fix ) to attract more new players .. i like old l2 especially c4 days ,but that was in past ..

 

innova will open a l2 classic server!!

enjoy n3gros!
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as you probably know, ncsoft korea recently launched a lineage 2 classic server. these servers are meant to get the old school feeling of the previous chronicles to nostalgic fans through a series of updates starting from a c1-ish chronicle.

lineage 2 classic server entered the open beta phase on may 28, 2014. since the beginning the first server called “talking island” was heavily overcrowded so ncsoft kr opened two more servers in order to maintain a safe and pleasant gameplay experience.

the current version of the lineage 2 classic servers is a mix of old chronicles and modern ui (like the 4 bars, arrange inventory button, etc.) with most of the settings that were available in c1. the current version has a max level of 75, up to b grade items, and two class change quests. many old school features are back like the old inventory system (the one with 12 item categories), the classic territories that were available before the revamps (swampland, cruma tower, tower of insolence, dragon valley, etc.), the old drop and crafting system, 9 man party system, etc.

the open beta phase is free-to-play, but after it will end on june 3, 2014, lineage 2 classic servers will change to the pay-to-play business model featuring a $30 monthly subscription and a $70 – 90 days subscription plans.

like all ncsoft servers, these new servers are already filled with chinese bots and gold farmers. don’t feel sad about this as i have kept something special for you at the end. there is hope that we will receive a western lineage 2 classic server from innova. of course the russian version will be first, but who knows … maybe an eu version will also be available shortly after.

the russian portal mmozg managed to talk with innova today, raising our ‘nostalgic hype’. andrew mayakin, project manager at innova, said that they are very interested about this project and as they are now familiarized with the details, their current goal is to run a classic version of lineage 2 in russia as well.

more details about the possibility of a lineage 2 russian classic server will be available soon, so stay with us as we continue to bring updates about this project.

from: http://2p.com/6773375_1/innova-wants-to-launch-a-lineage-2-russian-classic-server-by-apophis.htm
guess this mmozg: http://mmozg.net/la2/2014/06/02/innova-tozhe-hochet-klassicheskuyu-la2.html

 

do you guys seriously believe it will stay alive? hahahaha

 

because this game was awesome, i always wanted to play in c4 with graphic of god, and finally i will have this possibility, even, for a short period of time

the l2 classic will be an event, not a pernament server! (i heard somewhere that after the event, chars and other will merge to pernament server, in this case "core", so maybe newbies will have the opportunity to earn some adena, and gear up )

 

if you want to have a look on l2 classic, alioth will stream some tonight. the comments will be in russian language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhkeyx2_mz8
it has a countdown till it starts. join if you like

 

brace yourselfs!
here is a little preview whats going on in korean servers
slowly translation "we cant xp because of bots"

 

one thing is good - they are baning boting acc-s+main so ppl are buying more and more acc (maybey i am wrong, but there is 1 acc for one subscribtion//no dual box).

 

in korea in order to register u have to use id card numbers )
in ncwest u pay monthly subscrption for a account

 

any news info ? classic server in eu ?

 

its dead , noone will resurrect any kind of ****mountain :d

 

my god , dworfs take over a world

 

oh really?!
are you rapidblades 2.0?
only good thing that god brought was the automatic war system.
nothing else.

really stop with this stories, nobody gonna believe them anyway since its clear to everybody how things are by now 3 years after.
the game started to drown as freya launched and instancing mania set foot on lineage 2, god was the peak of this terrible trend , everything instanced and community crumbled on its knees because devs wanted it to become something different than what lineage 2 always been.
simply 'cause no community can substain a player driver economy + gameplay if there's no community to rely on since god update destroyed it, exactly as omegashin said.
9 people parties -> 7 people parties was the most laughable thing they ever did to dumb down this game, let alone class systems , exp spots such as harnak, gardens or orbis and so on in which i had to lobotomize myself in order to stand exping there ffs.
and want to talk about the pk system? 100% rez?
clans were made worthless (7manning whole damn content,seriously?) , alliance system it has always been unplayable due to aoe mechanics so lets keep it out , but clearly instancing everything and reducing the people needed to enter it had it counter in players that were depending from clan structure in order to progress to don't need it anymore.
guess how good this did to the game.

god resurrection of l2 , i've seen it all ....

@omegashin
its not hating , is just too late.
i'd rather look for a new gaming experience over root myself in the same pattern once more, it won't return, we're different exactly as it was for the players around us when we started this game.
what made this game special was its community , which is from long gone.
sadly it could've been an awesome niche product if you take as example eve , but no, those bricks felt the need to take the w-w road.
they deserved it, not feeding them anymore.

 

dont wanna argue too much, but 7 ppl in party was amazing change. in previous updated u needed to have : sws, bd, ee, cardi, wc so basicly 5 support and 4 dds (actualy 3 if u wanted have tank too). srsly? find 5 active support to let phew phew for 3 dds? xddd

putting all buffers in 1 strong buffer/debuffer was one of best change in this game making forming cps 10 x easier than before with perma boxed some sws, bd, wc etc.

 

true if you consider the start up on a completely new server it can be have some positives making easier to find the needed classes.
but on an already established community it just wiped away many players due to this changes , also cause many didn't felt to rethink it as a whole their new class.
but imho the problem with god is/was that instances totally ate the open world system destroying most of what this game was about.

 

actually sws bd wc bp ee dark avanger, trickster, warlock and sagi or sr

 

on h5 i've played with 2 x cardi + ee bcs of op fear from nukers and pretty low possibility to overall cleanse of specific debuffs. + tank so it was only 2 dds in my party. moreover pretty often 1 of them was slh (delios) so our main source of dps was tyrant (rolans) or rap1d (dagger) for ppl who remember beginign of core ;p

 

sure i remember them all alarion.

and yea h5 f1 fear was laughable, expecially cause it popped up anytime i were playing limits , wonder why .
hint: never target standy. :d

 

am i the only one that sees a problem at opening a "classic server" ?

i can't see it as any other way but "we acknowledge what we're working towards is bad as such we'll give you what we used to do better."

that kind of mindset bothers me for a single reason: it takes away hope from things getting better in the future.

i would rather invest my time on a game that is changing as time passes by than to be locked in some kind of cruel nostalgic money milking trap.

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to every person that keeps stating awakening has killed this game i don't think you're remembering our lovely 3 seconds pvps where bows critical damage were something stupid... how snipe + dash simply made hes the best choice for any archers and so on...

either you love those stupid things people learned to exploit/abuse and you wish to do it again or you just don't remember it.

prophets right? suuuuupeeer utterlyyyyy important.

*sigh*

dual boxing is yet a thing i can't understand how ncsoft allowed to sink into the community this deeply, it's far too late to prohibit it now but god freaking damn it, do i hate dual boxing... the concept of turning a player character(usually a buffer) into a useless puppet completely goes against one of the mmo genre's main points.

*siigh*

i'm getting emotional... i'll stop here.