Good morning, I wanted to share with you my thoughts about the Classic server from the perspective of a player returning to the game after 10 years.
I came back because I liked the idea of returning lineage to the complex and developed form that this game had during my game on the teon server.
Unfortunately, after a month of playing on this server, I must sadly say that I am leaving this swamp forever.
Here are some reasons that led me to make this decision.
I. Bots everywhere
The introduction of the autohunting option was not the most tragic decision, but the situation on the server seen from the perspective of the player who is just joining the server and trying to build economics is hopeless.
Virtually every spot for gaining experience is packed with trains of boxes launched on botting programs. As evidenced by the fact of neat obstacle avoidance, healing when the party member's hp falls below a certain value instead of at fixed intervals, etc. That features are not included in macros and autohunt option.
What's more pathetic, if you kill such a train immediately logs on its owner at level 80+ to avenge his 40 level bots.
II. Server population is about 100 people
Despite the fact that the places to gain experience are completely filled with alternative characters, everything seems to indicate that a total of about 100 people play on this server, which can be seen on the castle sieges for example.
The sieges on the Giran server look like a small clan pvp when I was playing on Teon. If that's all the server can do, it's a pathetic waste of time.
High-level players complain that there are no new people on the server, but I would just like to ask how new people can hit the level when they are notorious PK'ed by high-level players just to free up space for their next alt party. After a month of struggling with idiots who PK me out with their mains despite the fact that the room next door was free I am just bored with the people here.
The whole server looks like one pathetic collective masturbation of a few guys who dream of impressing someone at least once in their life.
III. It is still MMO?
I only saw the only live players on this server during those pathetic pvp like shit that you call sieges. I don't know how ncsoft imagines enjoying the game if no one really plays it for the whole week. Chat is still spammed with adena sales offers because there are no ways to make money by any other method. Crafting does not exist, Drop rate is so pathetic that you don't even want to increase it by becoming a VIP. The behavior of the monsters has been specially set so that most are passive, to make being AFK even more pleasant.
It is not profitable to play because the first valuable items can only be obtained around level 80. Below this level nothing has any value. The new player has the choice to either set up his own bot train and join this miserable masturbation, or as I say to servers, thank you for lost time.
You stole the ideas of classic servers from world of warcraft, but instead of bringing the game back to its former glory, you made it a pathetic imitation of MMO witch the complexity of gameplay straight from cheap mobile games. Well played NC!