The server is run of ouf the money and since online satisfying anymore we decided to not refill it. Server is officialy closing today at Sunday 18-11-2018. Since Monday, if you try login with our patch it will try to connect with server on local PC (your one) - there was not many players at end, most of you played solo or almost solo - so everyone of you can create easily such small server to play alone or with friends.
The server died after about 1 month since start (24.08.2018) - it's anyway quite big uptime. There was totally no donate since start but natheless some players prefered to join new server (sadly very corrupted one). Some players quited after failing Olympiad - I don't understand why. There were even some people spamming about donate after we added VIP coins (which were always farm-only). After these things caused very big online drops, so we added ability to buy hero and introduced bots who could farm everywhere, pvp everywhere and even join sieges - just to get server a bit more alive. Since that time we became ultra-rate server. Almost all old players left, but still there were some new players who stayed a bit more.
That's how we finally cut it down now. If you managed to read that wall of text we appreciate it. We gave players a chance to play on fair server, fair to everyone, but they didn't want to. At start we had even content updates everyday. But as you see all of that has been not enough. That's why we don't plan to come back anymore. It's not same game that it have been years ago, we won't win with donate servers and current community so... it's just time to finally give up.
If you want ask for anything it's probably last time you can. Best regards, Your administration.
PS. If you're looking for good server you can try gamecoast.net - they have most recent and 100% working Classic (Seven Signs) and GoD (Salvation: Orfen). Rates are low, but they never wipe. Really never. Don't support scam donate servers, they always cheat.
It was really hard for me to find a High Rate and No Donate, L2 Classic server...
Maybe it didn't spread the better way as it should..
Maybe It didn't reached to the right players.
The server itself was pretty easy, we just needed to farm to get our stuff done.
Maybe it needed to be a little more challenging. I mean, the idea of being able to soloing Grand Bosses it's not really cool, in perspective. And it should be a drop rework according to the boss difficulty. I wanted to see a Raid party with Tankers and Healers.
Maybe the "The Wishing Potion" was cool, but a little to way much. I mean. I could have 100 billion VIP Coins and had used the potion every time I wanted, not really cool on wrong hands, since some could abuse from it. (I only used it for castle siege against bots, for everything else it hadn't to be necessary)
Nevertheless, everthing was really great in L2 Majesty. We had many ways to get our stuff done. I would had invite friends to play (I've tried) but I don't have so many. I don't know reach people either. Maybe we players should had posted the server in other sites.. dunno.
I wouldn't like the server being closed, but, if you're investing money to maintain it and few players plays.. Hmmm.. Then, I guess...
Uh.. For the Olympiad issue, Since Hero Status and Weapon (the reason why we do olys) was obtainable by other methods (50k VIP coins for Hero status, I see it cool and fair cause everyone could have gotten it)..It would be great making "juicy" custom rewards (Including the Hero Weapons not being obtainable just to get Hero Status, so the other way, made Top Grade A Weapons became obsolete and unnecessary even if we could augment or rune them) for Olympiad winners and participants to encourage players to come.It's just an idea. It has no sense now "^^
I don't know what else to say... I think that's all for now.. I really wouldn't like to say goodbye. (Excuse my english, not my native language)
Some drastic changes like Wishing Potion and buying hero status, hero weapons boost, were added after online drops. Before they also were available but prices were so big you would have to farm them 10 years. Same thing happened to soloing bosses - Mithril Belt and Zaken Cloak (10x more damage when used together) were added also after online drops. At server start you needed full party to make bosses - tanks even got special skills to make them more usefull (turbo defense against mobs/bosses, turbo provoke). Changes were just necessary to make it playable with low online. As for players - look on some russian servers, for example gamecoast i mentioned before - international community is small there now - but russians don't leave servers so fast as our international community - it's very sad thing for us. And as for Classic servers today... Every Classic server has donate, also i haven't seen any high rate Classic - that's why we've chosen high rate Classic without donate. This game is now used to make money, rich servers with donate can afford much more announcements and get more players. If their creators won't stop thinking only about themselves it will never change. I hope that in future we'll community-managed servers. If players united into even small group and created their server, it would be possible to maintain even big server at very low cost. Or another example - just ONE donator buying stuff on some server spend so much money you could... maintain big server for month or even longer. So one donator per month to maintain server, and other money is pure profit for donate server. Now try imagine how many donators there are and how many years they could maintain server if it wasn't made only and only to get profit. When this game was pay2play there was much better - still there were corrupted servers (with hidden donate) but now scale of donating is just dreadfully overwhelming - there is no place for fair play. And at end - today most PCs are so good that you won't feel even there is server running, also many things are easy to do on server. Many players play only with their friends so I think if every such group made their very own server it would be much better for them than public server. Only thing needed is patience. If you look deeper into creating your own server you can see that to create basic server you have to spend mby only few hours - and in most cases it might be better than public one. Biggest problem of free private servers is class balance - but on many public server it's also crappy and in some cases admins modify some donator or class stats intentionally.
Maaan, It was a good server... I just want to thank the admin and the people I played with here. You really got me back to the good-old Lineage 2 times. Thanks for the experience and respect for your efforts!
