Cant speak for the others, but speaking for myself it takes around 4 almost 5 weeks to start realizing that is part of the plan, i see no other reason except to sink the game, not disclosing essential details like percentage of drops before and after the updates, reduction of adena and xp that was already low previously, lineage became that? It is just about money and greed?
Increase the drops and the exp, lower the values in the l2store and SURELY your sales will increase, instead of putting expensive lot boxes with random drops of no use, why not put good itens directly on l2store, mb prestige pack there aswell or even put stage 1 weapons in the l2store no ones care about paulina r99 bundle, but do something.
Unless that's all part of the plan.