Producer Q&A – Ask Juji: The Future of Lineage II

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As one of our community initiatives, there will be regular Q&A sessions with the Lineage II Producer, Juji. We invite you to ask questions pertaining to the set topic(s).

With Lineage II returning to Steam and regular updates coming from Korea, what does this mean for Lineage II NA? Ask Juji!

Guidelines

• Please only post questions pertaining to the topic: Future of Lineage II
  
• Please post in a respectful manner. Condescending questions and implications will not be answered.
  
• If you have multiple questions, please list your questions out versus writing a block-o-text.
  
• Questions will be answered in a most timely manner as possible. We may choose to select a few questions to answer at one time.
  
• If you question is not answered, we are not ignoring you. We may not have a good answer for you at the time.

Please post your questions below and Juji will answer to the best of his abilities.

[Zero]

Regarding the "future" of lineage2:
We ALL know there's a big ISSUE in NA, that is called BOTS, ans this, at my point of view has a LOT to do with the future of this game..

Beside sometimes the L2 community (every single LEGIT player) seems is not taken in count (we don't want pay 2win items ingame, we want to have fun oldschool way, and with the fortune teller events and stuff, the server is getting "unbalanced", talking about the brand new ZAKEN server.

where, in less than 1 week there are ppl that are lvl 97+ already, some legit, some botted (using real money for NCCOINS, with this I meant "unbalanced") not all people is able to spend big amounts of money, so, let's talk about the "future of L2" regarding this toppics:

1.- There's any plan for COMPLETLY ERRADICATE the bot users, like did INNOVA?
(How they did?, putting an EFFECTIVE ANTI-BOT SYSTEM, premium use of accounts with special bennefits, and LOW PRICES in the store, and let's face it, is working really NICE for them, they get money, they have their ppl happy (except for the pay 2 win items), that RUINS a server.

2.- We all understand that the server and all the employes and all the mainteinance required for keep the servers, need to be paid, so, nice suggestion for a "better future of lineage 2" is to reduce the prices, and sell smaller stuff, so EVERYONE will be able to spend a bit of money for their needs and you will get more money, and in a more constant way.

Any plans about this?
- Z -

[brake fluid]

Hi,

Is there any interesting information you could share with players of L2 Classic? With respect to old Chronicles (Prelude–Interlude), what direction of development shall the Classic version take?

What happened to the game's lore in the Classic version? It does not seem to be matching what is going on in the game.

There are quite a few complaints about the interface of the game, more specifically, about the clan war/siege/territorial war icons: they are taking a lot of screen space. Will there be any sort of client customisation so that players can adjust the size of the icons, or disable them altogether?

Finally, do you believe that the Classic will certainly bring the old days fun back? :)

[[B]justin]

Zero の投稿を引用：

Regarding the "future" of lineage2:
We ALL know there's a big ISSUE in NA, that is called BOTS, ans this, at my point of view has a LOT to do with the future of this game..

Beside sometimes the L2 community (every single LEGIT player) seems is not taken in count (we don't want pay 2win items ingame, we want to have fun oldschool way, and with the fortune teller events and stuff, the server is getting "unbalanced", talking about the brand new ZAKEN server.

where, in less than 1 week there are ppl that are lvl 97+ already, some legit, some botted (using real money for NCCOINS, with this I meant "unbalanced") not all people is able to spend big amounts of money, so, let's talk about the "future of L2" regarding this toppics:

1.- There's any plan for COMPLETLY ERRADICATE the bot users, like did INNOVA?
(How they did?, putting an EFFECTIVE ANTI-BOT SYSTEM, premium use of accounts with special bennefits, and LOW PRICES in the store, and let's face it, is working really NICE for them, they get money, they have their ppl happy (except for the pay 2 win items), that RUINS a server.

2.- We all understand that the server and all the employes and all the mainteinance required for keep the servers, need to be paid, so, nice suggestion for a "better future of lineage 2" is to reduce the prices, and sell smaller stuff, so EVERYONE will be able to spend a bit of money for their needs and you will get more money, and in a more constant way.

Any plans about this?
- Z -

[Aless]

* There is L2 Classic for Americas coming any soon? If yes, before july 2016, subscription based?
* Why we can't have same Innova protection against Bots? There is any plan for the future to do some real block to bots or things will keep like that?
* There are plans to make better/huge propaganda about the game like old times, with websites partners etc, or NCWest plans of business are to keep like that?
* I'm a streamer on Twitch, is a bannable offense when I openly share in-game my Stream to people come watch me playing L2?

[NorgannonHH]

Zero の投稿を引用：

Regarding the "future" of lineage2:
We ALL know there's a big ISSUE in NA, that is called BOTS, ans this, at my point of view has a LOT to do with the future of this game..

Beside sometimes the L2 community (every single LEGIT player) seems is not taken in count (we don't want pay 2win items ingame, we want to have fun oldschool way, and with the fortune teller events and stuff, the server is getting "unbalanced", talking about the brand new ZAKEN server.

where, in less than 1 week there are ppl that are lvl 97+ already, some legit, some botted (using real money for NCCOINS, with this I meant "unbalanced") not all people is able to spend big amounts of money, so, let's talk about the "future of L2" regarding this toppics:

1.- There's any plan for COMPLETLY ERRADICATE the bot users, like did INNOVA?
(How they did?, putting an EFFECTIVE ANTI-BOT SYSTEM, premium use of accounts with special bennefits, and LOW PRICES in the store, and let's face it, is working really NICE for them, they get money, they have their ppl happy (except for the pay 2 win items), that RUINS a server.

2.- We all understand that the server and all the employes and all the mainteinance required for keep the servers, need to be paid, so, nice suggestion for a "better future of lineage 2" is to reduce the prices, and sell smaller stuff, so EVERYONE will be able to spend a bit of money for their needs and you will get more money, and in a more constant way.

Any plans about this?
- Z -

Agree.

[io]

innova lost 80% of good people and got 20% of newbies. they merged 15 servers to 5. ask every old player innova the worst company ever. x2-exp single event once a year, playing gm's, one side servers without opposition, soft using heroes (gm's friends from moscow), all servers is working only in moscow time (unplayable for ural, siberia, far east). it is not only my opinion, just google "innova fail list". all old players have gone to na-servers or another not innova game. there is a lot of grinding bots and a few spam-bots, because they dont want to see adena trading competitors

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Thanks for all the questions everyone!

Now we'll consolidate the questions asked and Juji will post a new thread with his answers.