The management is bad, yes. we know that.
But also the players "have no brain" (no offense) and you know why?
Everyone here knows that NCWest isn't capable of running a good lineage 2 gameplay with good servers , good events etc. So, it's the players' fault that all of us continue to play here and support this management team.
They don't care about the players, about the game, servers, items. The only thing they care about is money. As long as money keep arriving (by ENDLESS dollars/euros) to their bank accounts, yeah they will publish more pay2win events.
The moment the players realize that the team behind Lineage 2 has destroyed this game and their money doesn't worth, they'll all quit. We still haven't seen the worst part.
Complaining in forums every day for discounts, good events with items, fix server lags, einhasad store etc, won't change anything. Things will change once 95% of players mass quit the servers or stop spending real money to l2 store but unfortunately this won't happen.