Hello all,
For those that doesn’t realize as yet, we can classify players at 4 kinds.
1 – Top players:
Characteristics: Invest a lot of money and time in game.
Goals: In resume they want to “rule the world”, including be hero on olympiads, play in the best clan, have the best castle, do PvP all the time, expecting to one shot a lot of regular players, solo raid bosses, ecc
2 – High players:
Characteristics: Invest a lot of money and time in game, but is not like top players, so they are 1 or 2 degrees bellow.
Goals: They want to play with top players, such as be in the same clan, do PvP, dailies, siege, ecc. They don’t expect to be hero (it’s just a dream),
3 – Regular players:
Characteristics: They invest some money in the game and time (time can be a lot or not). They accept the idea that they are not top/high player and do not expect to do the same stuffs.
Goals: They are friendly and social. Like to help other players, like to level together and usually don’t like PvP, specially against top/high players. They can do Sieges on small castles expecting that top/high players don’t show up and do oly only for quest.
4 – Free to Play players:
Characteristics: They invest time on the game. And for those that invest a lot of time, expect to be like top players with same Goals.
Goal: Has the same goals like Top and High players. Usually those complains that all this time invested don’t make them top players like old dime.
NCWest need to deal with all of those players.
When a new patch is released, they need to introduce something new to make top players in top (and playing). So they introduce a higher cap level, a new skill, new items, ecc , such this greater rune stones.
The new thing introduced on old patch becomes easier to reach and this makes regular players and free players happy. Works like a treadmill in time, where things that are difficult to reach become easier as new things are introduced that are difficult to achieve.
The big problem to solve is: How to deal with both top/high players and Free2Play players since both have the same goals ? And in my opinion, this is one of the most reason because people say that lineage is dead, ecce cc
My opinion to deal with this is:
1 – Make this game free to play until level 110/115 and then need a subscription to go on.
2 – Top items should be reach in 2 ways: 1) pay a high price on l2store and buy (no tradable) or 2) invest a lot of time like old time (C3, C4 time).
I remember how hard was to have an Antharas earring, Baium, ecc.
For those that don’t have that time but want to be a top player, instead to cheat like old times (buying power level or items in black market) just go to l2store and buy boost/items.