Graffalo

Hello all, I am not player of official servers since the days of C6. I still remember when i started playing this game trying to swim from Talking Island to Gludin village because i didnt knew what teleporter was. Years came by and l2 was long forgotten memory till Covid hit the globe. Lots of free time and decided with my friends to jump back right in and start doing, quests, raids, grandbosses and all those fun stuff. We knew official is changed but we didnt care and we wanted to taste the new era of l2. We started from classic since we wanted to experience the true vanilla Lineage 2. In addition we checked some videos from Classic launch back in 2015-2016, and we said hell yeah thats it. OH BOY we were wrong. We played for about 7 days. An empty vast world with full of botters trying to catch spots in order to leech items and sell them to black market. A purchase shop system which you need to sell your mother, house, car dog in order to compete with the top tier list and even if you dont want to pay you cant even comprehend the amount of time someone needs to even be mid tier . Since ncsoft cant build a bulletproof anti bot system they said f** it lets introduce autofarm and let them grind 24/7. Content ? what is even that. As a result we logged out and trying to live the experience somewhere else. One of our friends have heard that some people have emulated the game so we searched for illegal servers. Not all privates are worth to be played but we catch our eye on one and yeah it was similar to the glory days of l2. Raiding, Farming in parties, people helped each other and Gms admin where one with the players. Always there to provide changes based on players request. To conclude, I am sad of what official l2 used to be and what it is now. And to be honest you will no see any change since game engine is old and ncsoft care more about their mobile version (most profits). maybe its time to move on we grew old thus also the game. I have some hopes though for project tl .