Game Population

New people coming > Old people leaving = Server population grows

= more buy and sell of gears in Giran
= People are willing to spend adena
(or buy stuff from N-store to sell for adena) for gears cuz they know
they can sell them back later and get adena back.

New people coming < Old people leaving = Server populations decreases
= can't sell the gears for adena = can't upgrade or change gears
= hard to find parties for level, raid
= even more people leaving
= game dies.

Well, my point is that there is this invisible but definite point where
people coming = people leaving and at the moment..and it seems the game
is losing good players faster than gaining, which is really sad.

Even the high paying player such as myself, finds it so frustrating when
I try to sell something for adena...cuz there are simply not enough
Good high level players with adena..even the Dwarf shops in Giran
has decrease by 1/2 compared to 6 months ago...

So, I go buy more stuff from N-store which I sell for Adena to get
the gears that I want...
but to be honest...I don't know how long I wanna do this anymore...
(Before L2 I used to play Wow and $30 USD a month was all I needed
Kelthuzad, SoO raider)

Free to play is drawing new people into L2, this is for sure...but
most of them leave the game when they realize how much money
they have to spend to have decent gears...
Everything is available in N-store but to get them just by playing L2
is humanly impossible to them they feel...

On the other hand,
if Lineage2 Provides everything for free...I am sure it's gonna draw
lots and lots of people and eventually millions will play...but
NC will make NO MONEY-which is not good for business and this is NOT what I am asking.


The problem of N-store is...it keeps providing stuff that makes people
feel like they should buy them...usually hundreds of USD a month,
and people who don't...they usually leave the game without ever
spending any money for N-store.
New people are coming but they leave the game when they realize
how much money they need to spend, without ever shopping at N-store...
maybe...1 adena for Steel door coin(500) box.

The solution is balance I think...
Right now, everything is N-store oriented.
If the focus of L2 shifts from N-store to the actual L2 playing...
i.e. adena drop + item drop in normalized and Vitality items available
in the actual L2 game play, the server population will grow.

It seems N-store will lose profit at start, but as the server population grows, NC will have more and more potential good customers for N-store.

Don't kill the chicken laying an egg everyday!

Which is better?

Having a chicken meal just one time? or Getting an Egg everyday?

But those eggs can hatch and become more chickens and then...
more eggs...and more chickens!!!
and eventually, you can have chicken + egg everyday!
maybe for every meal~~~and if you trade those chickens and eggs,
you can even get steaks + beer for every meal!

Make everything available in the actual L2 game play,
more people will come!
and then...slowly offer cheap but good stuff from N-store...
then more and more...I am sure NC can be really good at this. LOL

P.S. I'd like to have my 100 billion adena now, please~
Notice, I am not asking 1 million USD! LOL

100 billion adena = costs nothing

Just type 100,000,000,000 into server computer... just an electronic
data that has no value...(they say so..on the Log-In message)