Lineage II is
AWEFUL!! Geez, I'm tellin' you! Yeah, the graphics are nice, but...well, it's so bad I gotta start a list.
Reasons Why Lineage II Sucks:
1. The servers are
still unstable as hell!
2. All the monsters look the same (I spent the first fifty some hours killing the same looking wolf with about ten different names. Not even a color swap!)
3. It's big catch, the Castle Seiges, has
still not been implemented (might have since I last checked)
4. The game suffers from
major slow-downs. Get three+ players on screen, it drops to about 5 fps. I can't even imagine how they think they will handle the Castle Seiges, with
hundreds of players on the screen at once. (and my CPU is fast. 2.44Ghz with 512MB-RAM)
5. The characters all look the same! You have very little choice in what your characters look like!(It will be about five minutes until you meet your clones)
6. In the beginning, you can only choose from
TWO classes! Yes, as you progress into the middle-range levels you have more choices (just a few more), but this makes partying at the lower levels nearly useless, as a typical MMORPG party puts together many different classes to balance out each classes' strengths and weaknesses.
7. Botting (using a 3rd party program to control your character to gain levels and currency while you are not laying) is a big problem in L2, and NCsoft seems like they are not activily trying to fix it. This may not seem like a major problem until you play thr game. You get pretty sick of trying to party with "person" after "person" , who simply ignores you because there is no one actually playing them. Also, all the characters that bot are RICH, and you...are not.
8. A lot of the aforementioned bots are set in their program to Player Kill (PK). So, when you are a simple level five n00b, you will end up getting killed numerous times by botters. They do this because you have a chance of dropping an item from your inventory when you are PKed. There is a karma system that points out PKers, but what do these players care? If they die and lose EXP, their Bot Program will just start again.
Well, there are more reasons, but I will not continue to hammer in a a nail that it is completely sunk in. I bought the game a week after it came out and have maintained my account and played off and on, trying to find some good quality to it. Alas, there is none. I canceled my subscription this week (also taking into account the $15 per month fee! That is about $3 more per month than every other better MMORPG), and I will
not be back!
Fraggles where quite the scary lot...
