Soo many people, and apparently GMs are giving free level ups to random players in the starting area? So far so lame, I was excited but I guess I'll wait... can't click anywhere to move w/o clicking a player.
Erm! All players are starting in the same area now! You saw alot of players in one spot and some of them leveling up right? Is because they finished some quests at the NPC located in the same exact spot! You can speak with him and start questing ! Then you will come back to hand the quest(s) and you will get "GM LVL" same as others No seriously, how does people though that GM is leveling random players? And SPAMING the global chat with : GM PLZ LVL ME! !@!
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I'm looking forward to trying this game after hearing good things about it for years.
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Originally posted by xK3rune
Soo many people, and apparently GMs are giving free level ups to random players in the starting area? So far so lame, I was excited but I guess I'll wait... can't click anywhere to move w/o clicking a player.
Erm! All players are starting in the same area now! You saw alot of players in one spot and some of them leveling up right? Is because they finished some quests at the NPC located in the same exact spot! You can speak with him and start questing ! Then you will come back to hand the quest(s) and you will get "GM LVL" same as others No seriously, how does people though that GM is leveling random players? And SPAMING the global chat with : GM PLZ LVL ME! !@!
Strangest and most comical part of the night. I was standing around wondering why people were screaming for GMs to level them, took me a while to make the connection.
Yea it was 9incredibly laggy for me too. The amount of players is overkill. To have any normal gameplay I will have to wait some time. Btw. I used to have a bishop lvl 55 on naia but when I logged in I only had 1 character. Some only alt lvl 3? wth?
This game works 100% on my win7 64bit 100% no issues, so just do it, and play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its fun, no carebear, unless you are into that kind of thing
I've always wanted to try L2, but its way too much of a gankfest for my taste. Unless NCsoft wises up and adds a PvE server, I'm not going to bother.
Hmm, I played L2 back when it launched for about 6 months and got killed exactly 3 times. (outside of castle seiges) Did the game change later that turned it into more of a gankfest?
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I've always wanted to try L2, but its way too much of a gankfest for my taste. Unless NCsoft wises up and adds a PvE server, I'm not going to bother.
It's far from a gankfest now. They introduced a new karma system that heavily punishes the player who kills you unless you flag. A player who gains karma now has to kill 350+ mobs for a first offense. Not only that, but they don't gain any experience or skill points while doing so and they can't just "die it off" like before.
It's so bad, that some people who accidentally pk or out of anger, either reroll their toon because it's not worth the hassle of washing their karma or they just quit. I've heard reports of people spending 4-8 hours washing their karma and in doing so they also died a few times to vengefull "whites". A friend of mine accidentally went red at 68 and 93%. It took him 3 hours to wash the karma and he was killed by players so much that he was down to level 68 and 32%.
So yeah. No one is going to pk you now unless you flag.
Did the game change later that turned it into more of a gankfest?
No, it hasn't. It's actually become less of a gankfest and as you already stated, it wasn't much of a gankfest back then either. I'm sure there's rare personal instances where someone gets heavily picked on, but it's only ever happened to me a single time in 3 years (starting at launch) and has never happened to anyone I know that plays the game regularly.
With it being free to play now, the law of averages will kick in of course, and we'll see a lot more troublemakers hit the scene. Thankfully, L2 has a great pvp system in place that creates a tough life for the troublemakers, so it weeds most of them out quickly.
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I heard this game won't run on Win7 64bit. Can anyone confirm?
@jackimus
I can run it with my 764bit
Atleast the trial one....
Can somebody clear something up for me, where is the European Lineage 2, or has it merged with the US like LOTRO did?
How has it? This game was always intended for end game PvP. Now you can reach it faster.
Erm!
All players are starting in the same area now! You saw alot of players in one spot and some of them leveling up right? Is because they finished some quests at the NPC located in the same exact spot! You can speak with him and start questing ! Then you will come back to hand the quest(s) and you will get "GM LVL" same as others 
No seriously, how does people though that GM is leveling random players? And SPAMING the global chat with : GM PLZ LVL ME! !@!
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
The EU version will be managed by Innova, and will launch in a couple of weeks, so far as I know. Keep checking here:
http://www.lineage2.eu/en/
and here:
https://forum.4game.com/forum.php
I'm looking forward to trying this game after hearing good things about it for years.
Erm!
All players are starting in the same area now! You saw alot of players in one spot and some of them leveling up right? Is because they finished some quests at the NPC located in the same exact spot! You can speak with him and start questing ! Then you will come back to hand the quest(s) and you will get "GM LVL" same as others 
No seriously, how does people though that GM is leveling random players? And SPAMING the global chat with : GM PLZ LVL ME! !@!
Strangest and most comical part of the night. I was standing around wondering why people were screaming for GMs to level them, took me a while to make the connection.LAGGGG....can barely move, running like 5fps or less lol...or it it just me ?
Yea it was 9incredibly laggy for me too. The amount of players is overkill. To have any normal gameplay I will have to wait some time. Btw. I used to have a bishop lvl 55 on naia but when I logged in I only had 1 character. Some only alt lvl 3? wth?
This game works 100% on my win7 64bit
100% no issues, so just do it, and play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its fun, no carebear, unless you are into that kind of thing 
This is still hardcore, best game ever!
I've always wanted to try L2, but its way too much of a gankfest for my taste. Unless NCsoft wises up and adds a PvE server, I'm not going to bother.
Hmm, I played L2 back when it launched for about 6 months and got killed exactly 3 times. (outside of castle seiges) Did the game change later that turned it into more of a gankfest?
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It's far from a gankfest now. They introduced a new karma system that heavily punishes the player who kills you unless you flag. A player who gains karma now has to kill 350+ mobs for a first offense. Not only that, but they don't gain any experience or skill points while doing so and they can't just "die it off" like before.
It's so bad, that some people who accidentally pk or out of anger, either reroll their toon because it's not worth the hassle of washing their karma or they just quit. I've heard reports of people spending 4-8 hours washing their karma and in doing so they also died a few times to vengefull "whites". A friend of mine accidentally went red at 68 and 93%. It took him 3 hours to wash the karma and he was killed by players so much that he was down to level 68 and 32%.
So yeah. No one is going to pk you now unless you flag.
No, it hasn't. It's actually become less of a gankfest and as you already stated, it wasn't much of a gankfest back then either. I'm sure there's rare personal instances where someone gets heavily picked on, but it's only ever happened to me a single time in 3 years (starting at launch) and has never happened to anyone I know that plays the game regularly.
With it being free to play now, the law of averages will kick in of course, and we'll see a lot more troublemakers hit the scene. Thankfully, L2 has a great pvp system in place that creates a tough life for the troublemakers, so it weeds most of them out quickly.