"Taking away the feeling of progress to people, make them want to stop going foward in first place...."
Changes have to be for better, not for making people quit and stop playing this game.
Speaking for myself and tons of friends who already did quit this game, as a monthly spender but also taking in count the free to play perspective aswell, it is pointless to keep wasting money and energy in this game anymore if you keep these changes. Not only the general dissappointment is too deep now and all we can see in shouts and people talking about is this game is dead, but you already made a lot of great players sell all their items and stop playing forever. Don't even know if it is worth to keep some faith that you can revert the useless changes next update and post this, but at least can't say I didn't try not only for myself but for all the many friends in this game I have that don't want them to quit also:
Some points to take in count:
- TOO many nerfs together, too unbalanced now. You can't just do everything together at the same time. If you will reduce the amount of hours at least give an adena/drop boost while you evaluate the results of these changes. It was more than clear that the only change that people liked about this patch was the "mistaken adena drop at IOS" which could help players at LEAST pay their supplys, and top players want to pay more. Even if you see this as people making more characters because of the half time now, it brings more profit to NCSOFT if people are spending money to level up characters and buy more passes at l2 store so we actually all benefit from this, which is more logical than just nerfing drops, plus time, plus xp, plus making everything harder.
- Evaluate again the amount of players +108++ and if these attribute +++ changes are actually appropiate in this time and population. Make yourself these questions: Do we really have enough people that can farm in high level places? Is it actually positive knowing that most Lineage 2 players are under 110 level? Are all these changes TOGETHER actually working?, in most cases people would say "I can't even farm without dying anymore and have to go back to less level spots!", which takes away all the feeling of "progress" and who want to keep playing a game that takes away every goal you achieve?
- Swamp of screams changes are useless.... Why adding more pools if 80% of them are now empty? How does this change even work for this server when there are 4-5 partys in the WHOLE server that can xp here? Ghost place now and useless high amount of pits.
I just hope you can figure out sooner rather than later how to bring back players instead of making them leave, because if not you will loose not only big spenders in this game but also overpopulation in market sales because of all this. (Which is already happening).
As most of my friends, we are giving one more week to this game to see what are you going to do... and if keep this patch like this there is no need to decorate the truth, we will have to say goodbye aswell.