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[L2Phantom]

Originally Posted by Chanus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That boosts your numbers for a quarter, but it does not a success make.

Who is to say what a success is though?

They had a significant increase in monthly subs, they stated this.

They likely sold a bunch more copies of the game for people who boxed or bought new accounts to come back with.

People stayed around mostly until Luclin/PoP/GoD came out, which was 5-6 months of a ridiculously high population. It would have been longer had they stopped the power gamers from unlocking everything for the whole server; which this time will be fixed.

The amount of time spent coding the server was probably significantly less than the profits they made from it.

My point is, success can be any number of things. Just because the server didn't stay for 10 years like the others, doesn't mean it wasn't a success.