This update is extremely disappointing. Making it tougher for lower level players to XP is a death sentence to an old game like L2. Lower lvl players need a path to become elite players if you want the server to grow and keep the game alive. As an investment banker in life, I ask you a question. What do you think happens to the value of a computer game company when all of its players quit and play something else? This update jeopardizes everyone and I'll briefly explain how:
Think about the top 1% of players (The Hero's, the 112+ characters, exc..) - Those players want to start clans, they may want PVP, They may want to do epic raids and olympiad. NONE of this can occur if the majority of the server (characters under 110) quit the game. Without the lower lvl players, there will be no new clans, epic raids and quests won't have enough people to complete, pvp will suffer. Do you see what I'm saying? If someone makes it to 115 and is fully geared but has no one to pvp against, no clan to create, no olympiad to win... Then he is going to quit. If you eliminate the lower lvl players, the top 1% will quit one by one and ultimately end the game.
I hope that whoever is in charge of decisions like this takes what I said into consideration. Feel free to direct message me if you want to discuss ideas on how to make the game better. I enjoy playing L2, but the choices that have been made were poor and the server, the players, and the future of L2 is now in Jeopardy.