[Lineage II: Winter of War Begins on January 16]

7 hours ago, Mystikal said:

First, thanks for this timely and informative post. I feel your pain.

But I'm just curious: What do you think would be appropriate compensation for the loss of those recipes? I've never known the GMs to compensate players for items purchased at "market value", or the grossly marked-up price that players set. I've also never known them to recompense anyone for time spent accomplishing any task in game achieving said item. At most they might give something of equal value as the "NPC store price" of the item. But something tells me in this case that is a vastly lower price than the billions that you paid for the recipe. Given that, I'm curious to know what your expectation of service is from NCSoft; what would make you whole?

Given the fact this is a player driven market item it would be impossible to find out how much every person paid and come up with a fair compensation. 

So for these recipes I would suggest that they give the recs back (put them in your inventory) for everyone that has them currently registered.

To be honest that is what I would prefer.

[Lineage II: Winter of War Begins on January 16]

Sorry for an eye-bleeder of a post but I think this needs to be brought to the devs' attention.

I read over the patch notes to determine whether or not two particular very expensive recipes would be included in those listed for compensation, but I saw no mention of them -- neither for deletion nor compensation. So I turned to support for clarification. They were very helpful and suggested I bring this to the forums for discussion.

I bought these recipes some time ago -- not when they first appeared in the player-driven market as there was no way I was paying over 3 bil per recipe... but once the price dropped to a little over 2 bil/ea I jumped on them. I'm talking about the Mysterious Soulshot (R-grade) and Mysterious Blessed Spiritshot (R-grade) recipes.

As many of you know, these recipes are hard to find and the MBSPSR recipe is rarely put up for sale either in player shop or the AH. Also, once the MSSR rec dropped to around 500 mil in price I bought them for a couple of clannies.

My point is, I spent over 2 bil on each rec (apart from the latter 2 when the price dropped) and they're not even on the list for compensation. Why is that? And thanks to support, it was confirmed that they're going to be deleted and that they "would not be able to grant...compensation request as this is intended by the Development Team."

I'm sure I'm not the only player who's doled out a large amount of adena for these recs after hunting them down, in my case for the better part of a year and I think it'd be a good idea if the devs added these to the list of ones that will be compensated... not to mention highly appreciated.

Lastly, is there a complete list of the new recipes that will be sold by this new NPC? I'm sure many of us would like to know if the mysterious shots are going to be included on these.

Here's the reply from support in its entirety. I'd like to thank GM SAI for the quick response and clarification.

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Thank you for contacting Lineage II Support Team.

Upon reviewing your inquiry regarding the patch notes, I was able to verify that all Recipes and recipe items will be removed from the characters once the update is implemented to the game. With that being said, the Recipe: Mysterious Blessed Spiritshot (R- grade) and Recipe: Mysterious Soulshot (R-grade) are included on the said items that would be deleted from the players.

I do understand your point of view regarding this, however, we would not be able to grant your compensation request as this is intended by the Development Team. Please note that the Support Team is not part of the development process. We hope you understand.

However, we encourage you to share your thoughts regarding the Winter of War Patch Notes on our official forums. This is the best place to discuss your ideas with fellow players who can voice their feedback and suggestions. These can then be forwarded to the development team from there.

Regards,

GM SAI
NCSOFT Support Team