Post by Ludullu on 2023-01-13 00:19:26
L2 for ~12 years (on and off in the later half). Mostly played on private servers cause couldn't afford a sub in the early years and when the RU official servers came out being f2p I didn't have enough time to grind them super hardcore and that was the only way to stay at least somewhat on pace with the insane p2w players.
Stopped playing mainly because I pretty much played it all up and down in those 12 years. Due to how hated the later updates of the game were, most private servers had the early version of the game, so playing the same exact game for the hundredth time became boring after a while, even if the game itself was still fun.
So I guess, the main reason for me was the drastic shift in game's direction. With each update the game became more and more instanced and "daily login"ey, and the p2w aspects only grew in their greed. And now the game is literally an auto-play semi-mobile mess where you pretty much can't play w/o paying a shitton of money.
I can both afford to grind the game for a long time and pay the sub, so as long as Ashes doesn't become p2w - I think I'll stay playing for a very long time. There's the chance of the game's direction shifting drastically, but I feel like those kinds of changes are usually brought on by money problems, more so than purely by design decisions.
Stopped playing mainly because I pretty much played it all up and down in those 12 years. Due to how hated the later updates of the game were, most private servers had the early version of the game, so playing the same exact game for the hundredth time became boring after a while, even if the game itself was still fun.
So I guess, the main reason for me was the drastic shift in game's direction. With each update the game became more and more instanced and "daily login"ey, and the p2w aspects only grew in their greed. And now the game is literally an auto-play semi-mobile mess where you pretty much can't play w/o paying a shitton of money.
I can both afford to grind the game for a long time and pay the sub, so as long as Ashes doesn't become p2w - I think I'll stay playing for a very long time. There's the chance of the game's direction shifting drastically, but I feel like those kinds of changes are usually brought on by money problems, more so than purely by design decisions.