Why classic? 1. Lineage was intended to be this way. The further updated and expansions were going - the more it was going away from its first idea - grinding gear endlessly so the consistency of different level players were always on. What I mean by that is having competition, many players on each stage of the game, starting from level 20 areas up to 50+. It's spread out. Considering the fact that people have different amount of spare time, you will get to see players everywhere. It s not like in Freya/God where everybody gets to level 85/100+ and then get bored of it after first heroes come out. Server FAIL, bla-bla... You know what I mean.... 2. Achieving things feels more rewarding. After long amounts of farming adena/loot/crafting pieces etc. it feels more rewarding to craft yourself a piece of gear or buy it with your adena that you farmed for 2 weeks. You drop a top C grade bow while farming mobs and your neighbour calls the police because of you screaming your lungs out, the excitement of that is never even close to compare with dropping a vesper thrower in Freya, for example. 3.No autoloot, no herbs, no stupid nevit system, no vitality, no instance zones that brakes economy completely. And most importantly, no 10-14 years old spoiled brats with inadequate, innapropriate and annoying behaviour(at least it will be a minority of them playing L2 Classic). Did I mention everything? Probably not. But this reasons are more than enough for me to choose L2 Classic over Freya/God etc. Edit: Of course, I forgot the most important thing: the HARDCORE! I mean, l2 Classic actually feels as hardcore as for example ripping your character in Diablo 3. Just think about it, losing 10% of your EXP on 55-60+ lvl will cost you at least one week of farming. And if you lose your weapon/armor it will cost you even more. You have to be always extremely cautious, make sure nobody is bringing a train of mobs on you or a warc/dwarf with endless stun. It s like you actually live your character through L2 and actually care about its well-being. OK, i m done now.
