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  1. NEWS
    NCsoft decided to disclose all the probability of'probability-type items' in games such as Lineage
    “We are in a hurry to prepare for the release in the first half of the year.”
    Kim Jae-seop, Senior Reporter, The Hankyoreh
    March 14, 2021 at 14:31 KST
    NCsoft office building in Pangyo, Gyeonggi-do
    PROVIDED BY NCSOFT
    NCsoft office building in Pangyo, Gyeonggi-do
     

    NCsoft has decided to disclose the probabilities of all probabilistic item products, including the so-called'Double Draw' (Complete Gacha), within the first half of the year. Nexon revealed the probability of the probability item product in the Maple Story game, using expressions that did not fit the user's eye level, such as'random' and'equal', and blocked some of the grades that could be achieved with the probability item product. 'Or'fraud' is an action that came amid controversy. It is noteworthy whether the demand for regulation of probable item products in the game, which is growing due to the so-called'Maple Story Incident', can be silenced. It attracts attention as to whether other game companies such as Netmarble will follow and how it will affect the overall game industry.


    “Everything that has not been disclosed in the meantime is disclosed”
    At a meeting with the <Hankyoreh> on the 14th, an executive of NCsoft said, “Of the probability of probabilistic item products in all games such as Lineage and Blade and Soul, the combination of paid and free, paid and paid, etc. He said, “We are in a hurry to prepare work with the aim of revealing it within the first half of the year,” he said. The official said, “The probability manipulation and fraud controversy triggered by the Maple Story crisis has grown to a point where it is difficult to respond. He explained the background of the decision to disclose by revealing the probability of the decision.

    Another official of NCsoft said, "As a result of the internal review, it was found that there was no subject for manipulation or controversy about fraud. However, I am worried that I will receive criticism that the probability was set too low." Until now, NCsoft game users have mainly pointed out that "the probability of probabilistic item products seems to be too low." In response, NCsoft said, “The probability is relative depending on the type of game and the user's ability to use the game. Fun, difficulty, and impact on sales are tailored to a balance (balancing). The low probability doesn't mean it's only viewed as bad.”

     
     Like giving out 10 years of game development know-how?
    In the game, probabilistic item products are simply made and sold in the form of a'lucky box'. It is a business model that maximizes sales while adding a so-called'drawing' format to make users feel more thrilled. It was introduced in the mid-2000s and is now adopted in almost all multi-access role playing games (MMORPG). In the beginning, controversy arose because the probability of each item being selected was not disclosed. In accordance with the guidelines of the Game Autonomy Organization consisting of game companies, the probability of paid items has been disclosed since 2015. Suspicions such as “the same” were also constant. In addition, the voice of regulation of probability-type items has also increased.

    Since then, the government and the politicians are trying to strengthen regulations on probability-type items and game companies have continued to hide and seek. Laws to regulate probabilistic item products as speculative or gambling behavior have been proposed one after another. A method of maximizing sales has been sought by adding additional products in the form of a double draw in which a probability-type option is added to a probability-type item product. This means that probabilistic item products have evolved into higher-order equations driven by strengthening regulations.

    Domestic game companies have been protesting against the request for complete disclosure of probability-type item probability, saying, "It is the same as to disclose 10 years of game development know-how and secrets." The probability figure is a point and environment where the game's fun and sales can be maximized at the same time, and it is said to be the crystal of the game development know-how. We are also concerned about the possibility of'fake' service providers who abuse the published probability figures.

    Kim Taek-jin, founder and CEO of NCsoft, also attended as a witness to the state administration in 2018, commenting on the criticism of driving probabilistic item product games into speculative games. Spectrality refers to a game where money can be obtained through luck. However, Lineage doesn't get any money for a fluke. Do not bet. What users get is a game item. It is wrong to compare it with lottery tickets,” he publicly refuted.


    “It could be an opportunity to diversify and popularize the game market”
    The target and scope of additional disclosure of probabilistic item products in the game, which are known to be in preparation by NCsoft, exceeds industry expectations. Previously, Nexon announced a schedule for additional disclosure of probability-type item products only for MapleStory, and did not include some products, such as adding free to the fee. Foreign games do not even follow the guidelines of the Game Autonomous Policy Organization.

    On the background of changing the policy toward full disclosure, an NCsoft executive said, “I decided that by holding on, I could lose something bigger. "We will find a way to prevent the game's fun and sales from diminishing through probability disclosure." In the game industry, concerns have been raised that the ``payment cap'', which had been previously introduced due to the Maple Story incident and was eased in 2019, may be reinforced or regulations such as ``game addiction disease'' may be introduced.

    There is also an analysis that sees the strengthening of regulations on probabilistic item products as the process of popularizing the game industry. A former game company chief executive said, “Game users are rapidly spreading to all classes, including their 50s and 60s, mothers and housewives. In the course of the Corona 19 pandemic, this trend has been further strengthened. According to this, the communication target and eye level of game and game companies should change, and NCsoft is one step ahead,” he evaluated.

    Some point out that the domestic game industry, which is focused on PC and mobile games, can be an opportunity to diversify into console games. In a talk with the <Hankyoreh>, the team leader of a large game company said, “Game companies have mid- to long-term growth plans to expand their fish-mobile-oriented game business to console games. It is to make it possible to enjoy cart riders and lineages with the X(X) box and the Playstation. This can be accelerated.” In fact, unlike Korea and Southeast Asia, console games are more popular in the US, Japan, and Europe, and the global console game market is larger than fish and mobile games.

     

    Senior Reporter Kim Jae

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  2. 4 hours ago, Slycutter said:

    @Hime@JujiCan i put in a support ticket for loss of services?  I pay for 30 prestige and destiny packs, this been going on for me Since last Wednesday got a little better Friday/Saturday now since Sunday haven't be able to log on any my machines. 

    Most companies refund or extend a service when your unable to use or access their service, I think you can tell who cannot access since hit the login server wall and never get into game, so it take our credentials loads and updates the game but won't let us log in.

    It is one thing if I choose not to use your service I paid for but it is liked paying for a gym membership you guys got the lights on but the door to get in is locked.  I want to use my membership but your own facility does not allow me to.

    There should be reset of everyone's runes or at least 3 - 4 days added on to them all and yes I know you guys can do it.

    and where do you log all 30? 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Nevermind said:

    Well, from the phrasing Hime used it seems that he says they are being (D)DoSed on the network side (servers run smoothly, but latency increased) and high traffic and/or packet count causes this. I don't think outdated bots might cause such traffic.

    They are being ddosed for a year now?

    Hime said ilegitimate game traffic, that can mean those bots scanning auctin house, or the bots loging on each spot of the sv every few seconds to scam fo chests, or the radars a big no of "top" chars are using, or those macros to auto scan and port to greedy chest location to kill it.. you know.. bots they do not do anything about

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Hime said:

    @DraeckeYes, for the most part we are not seeing frequent large connection drops but there are residual effects as the team works on the issues and the interruptions persisting.

    We're not trying to push blame onto players. It was just more context that the issue isn't server performance or hardware for the server interruptions issue. 😔

    so is it safe to say we have lag and disconnects bcs of your inability to ban 3rd party program users?

    Maybe next time someone submits a ticket about a program user you actually read it?

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  5. 8 hours ago, Hime said:

    Game servers will be down for the Wild Horizons game update beginning Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 4 a.m. PST /  6 a.m. CST / 7 a.m. EST / 1 p.m. GMT+1 and will be unavailable for approximately 5 hours.

    With this maintenance:

    • Wild Horizons content update will be released! Read the patch notes for more details!
      • Notice: Al l spirit ore/soulstone items will be changed to non-tradable and non-dimensional after the Wild Horizons update.
    • The Power of Love event will start for four weeks. Details are available here.
    • Homunculus Update event will start for one week! The Homunculus’s Hourglass (Event) will be removed next week on February 10.
    • Lovely Chocolate Boxes arrive in the L2 Store for three weeks. Details are available here.
    • New items are available in the L2 Store for the month of February! Details are available here.
    • The Call of Clans event will end.
    • The Ancient Kingdom Cloaks on the L2 Store will no longer be available.

     

    Other Notes:

    • The following items will be removed from players' inventories during the maintenance February 17:
      • Shining Dragon Attribute Tonic XP (Call of Clans event)
      • Freya's Ice Rose (Call of Clans event)
      • Freya's Scroll of Storm (Call of Clans event)
      • Shining Nevit's Gold Sandglass (Call of Clans event)
      • Honey Dark Beer (Call of Clans event)
      • Special Clan Reward Lv. 1 (Call of Clans event)
      • Special Clan Reward Lv. 2 (Call of Clans event)
      • Special Clan Reward Lv. 3 (Call of Clans event)
      • Special Clan Reward Lv. 4 (Call of Clans event)
      • Special Clan Reward Lv. 5 (Call of Clans event)
      • Clan Supremacy Chest (Call of Clans event)

     

    If you have any questions about the changes taking place during this maintenance, please feel free to post them on the forums. We also encourage you to follow @LineageIIOps for maintenance and server status updates.

    @Hime No Hero Coins for the packs?

  6. I think their support team is in India using notepad copy/paste responses.

    I also cannot create new accounts but that is fine. I can create account and play on the european version.

    They do everything they can to kill this game and that is a pitty.

    If they want to ban boots they just need to camp greedy chest repawns and catch the ppl automatically getting invite and jumping to location or auto getting pm notification and instantly jumping with mytp to kill them.

    They will easily find top players doing this and my bet is they choose not to ban their cash cows just making it look like they are doing their jobs.

    This company managed to have issues with their online game no other company has... amazing!

    If money and protecting cash cows is their goal they should maybe use models from other games and create auction house for real money. If they take commision from all currently shady transactions they will tripple their revenue

    And they do happen, there are countles youtube videos on Youtube of ppls quitting 

    Instead of going after those they prevent new/returning players fron creating accounts..

     

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  7. 52 minutes ago, Juji said:

    The Angel Accessory boxes drop from the Greedy Treasure Chests and the following field raid bosses below:

    Avenger Alusion

    Witch Moira

    Ferocious Valac

    Watchman Tristan

    Berserker Zetahl

    Demon Venoma

    Archeach Karon

     

     

     

    Not everything will be available on Day One for our update to register to the Collection system. E.g. the Shining Energy of Protection item used for upgrading Advanced Talismans of Protection will be added later through events and promotions.

    Wait a few hours 😁

    Hello Juji,

    Has your team calculated how mamy months a normal player needs for an accessory that should be common placed in ppl inventories? 6-12?

    Also, have you started adding all the stuff missing from the lousy NA version? For example jewel boxes @ Mammon? or an actual non tens of thousands of dollars way to get dragon weapons, or dragon claws @ Mammon, non-nerfed free events, or anything really that would actually make this game fun?

    Thank you for ignoring, as always the real questions!

  8. 11 hours ago, PhoenixMitra said:

    Greetings everybody,

    Please open a ticket with our Support team, using the Support tab above, so we can take a closer look. We have been keeping an eye over the last few hours, but need more information from you to troubleshoot this.

    Thank you!

    so? how is the "keeping an eye on the situation" going?

    you geniuses can't fix this, can you?

  9. 1 hour ago, PhoenixMitra said:

    Greetings everybody,

    We are keeping an eye on this situation and would like to ask you to contact our Support team, via the Support tab above,  with as much information as possible, if you haven't done so already. 

    Thank you!

    how are you keeping an eye on it? by not looking?

    game is unplayable! ppl pay you huge ammounts of dollars to play this game and they cannot. 

  10. Hello @Karma2020,

    I used to play melee an of of if not the best archer on the server at the time was kind enough to teach me to set up an effective archer.

    There are 2 few key principles first of all:

    1. hardest hit an archer can make is with skill when that skil crits

    2. If your $ spend is not unlimited you need to do the most with limited adena.

    With those 2 in mind of your skill does not. rit you cand have 600k patk, you will not hit hard so: boost anything that makes ypur skills crit (p skill crit rate and dex that gives p skill crit rate) and that skill crit damage (not p crit damage, that is useless for yull) and p skill power.

    so gear

    short term, low adena ammount: talisman longing, tali abundance lvl 1 high grade, talisman venir 12, +15 dex from dyes, damage skills + 10 on skill crit rate, radiant circlet of authority +4 or +5, elmore cloak +7, artifact book lvl 2 with full non enchanted artifacts  

    more expensive:

    get the 110 bow, 150 extra element is important. also at lvl 110 you can get a more powerfull augment that you can get on r99. that aug should be p skill power 15% or p skill crit damage 20%

    on your weapon you should put 2 kain cry lvl 8 or higher) one for p skill cd and one for p skill crit rate and one shillen lvl 4 or higher on p skill cd

    awesome cloak would be elmore +15 wit 2 aug 1 p skill cd 7.5% and one with p skill power +15%

    talisman insanity and seven signs (there are more but long list)

    set you need to have +8(forskill refresh) or +10 endgame bloody. best ia 110 as your elem def can be 180 per elem per poece instead of 120 on r99

    i hac. e focused on pve gear for1 simple reason: you need at least lvl 110. at 110 you get new skills and existing get better

    you can upgrade a bloody bow r99 to bloody r110 and you lose 2 lvls but you cannot upgrade r 99 armor to r110, keep that in mind

    idealy you would buy a rare acc pack untill you get money for perma boss or god jewells and a bloody rune 30 days.

    your brocch jewells, ideally ruby 4 or higher, red cat eye 4 or higher, emeral4 4+

    betrer gear than this you will become aware of as you progress

    my 2 cents.. i made my archer effective with just spending real $ on prestige and destiny, i farmed adena for the rest

    best adena on 110 and lower is isle of souls and storm isle

     

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  11. On 25.08.2020 at 2:33 AM, GhostintheShell said:

    If I see a 11 mobs group and someone is soloing and kill rate is such a waste (meaning underpowered and slow), I would just put 7 toons on that spot - don't care.  These individuals should just go find another spot and let people who have a full party fully utilize the mob groups.

    how do you log 7 toons?

  12. 1 hour ago, Hime said:

    There are no additional changes during this week's maintenance, but we will be making hunting zone changes based off of your feedback starting next week. We'll have more details of what those changes are then.

    And you shall receive... next week!

    I have never seen a business putting so much effort into auto destruction!

    It is sad really, but i will not log in just to buy stuff from nc store! It is pointless.

    And even if you do make improvements next week to xp, there  will be no place left to make adena.

    You have wrongly nerfed ios before and ppl were nit that upset bcs plunderous plains existed. You "fixed" that too..

    this is so dissapointing, will deff not put in one single $ jnto this crappy game with crappy strategy and leadership.

    gl with your unemployment this Christmas!

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  13. 14 hours ago, Uzume said:

    well if you knew that it was from EU/RU then you should also have known that they actually did get a nerf on Stronghold (they call it Altar) and they are hoping very hard atm that NCWest gets to keep it so they can petition Korea to have their re instated

    not really that hard to find if you bother to check their discord & forums so be careful to point to EU/RU atm as that means you actually want the nerf gotcha ?

    well, with that awesome logic you posses NC West should hire you, you would fit right in!

    we actually had the nerf months before, and wrongly so. 

  14. 2 hours ago, Uzume said:

    l2wiki is EU/RU region only and even though alot matches NA servers it's is NOT the same thing and can not be compared like that!

    secondly enjoy the last few days of Stronghold boosted settings as it's on the known bug list to be "fixed"

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    Juji has refferenced l2wiki before and i know that appears on the known issues thread but the only issue here is incompetence of NC West

  15. On 20.08.2020 at 10:44 AM, Juji said:

    The Isle of Souls Adena changes will NOT be deployed this week. We will revisit the discussion with the Dev team regarding the zone's Adena drops for next week.

    Helo @Juji @Hime

    l2wiki was refferenced multiple times so i am also going to do it now.

    as per that website, the adena ammount drop rate for ios mobs is 100.000 to 120000 adena per mob and that is exactly what we have now.

    what some of us also pay for is prestige pack. the prestige rune increases adena ammount by 300% so if we take the 120k per mob example we will ger120k + 300% x 120k = 480k per mob

    In ios there is also a trigger buff that increases the adena ammount per mob 2x

    so keeping the example above it is 480k x 2 = 960k per mob.

    This is EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE NOW so the adena ammount drop ammounts in ios are correct. Any modification NC West does is to alter the game design and make it harder for people to get adena in game.

    WHATNC WESTSHOULD DO IS COMPENSATE THE PLAYERS THAT FARMED IOS WITH NERF WRONGLY APPLIED FOR MONTHS. TENS OF BILLIONS WORTH PER PLAYER

  16. On 18.08.2020 at 8:42 PM, Zeruela said:

    @Juji @Hime

    Have nerf In plundersplain again?
    https://l2wiki.com/Valanga_Orc_Warrior
     

     

     

    On 19.08.2020 at 10:41 PM, Juji said:

    Apologies, it seems we missed a patch note regarding these changes. The Plunderous Plains zone was reduced from Lv. 110 to Lv. 104 with the update, but the monsters were not scaled down properly. We are investigating the issue now with Dev.

    According to the Dev team, the Adena changes are intended for balance and the zone was mislabeled for level 104 in the world map.

    by also using the same webpage l2wiki the current amount of adena in ios is correct. NC West forgot they introduced prestige to milk $$ from players.

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