Christmas Event:

 Aphelion:

Christmas Event had started, they try to follow the Official Server this year. There is Ornament Decoration to Christmas Tree and it will drop Christmas Gifts and give Christmas Buffs, but due to the lack of players and the Christmas Quest that require Ornament and Santa Fragment I don't think it will work out well. They had put out Christmas Package this year and claimed that it is better than Black Friday, but as the players doesn't know what they are going to get from the package most still waiting for more information before they would buy it.

They had come up with Instant Level to Level 165 for new toon with Level 165 +30 Gears to help Newbie, but they did not consider the farming of Pictorial Book stuffs. So I think all my toons which are lock at different level for farming seem like a very good idea from the start, it is not that it is not possible to do so now but using Reborn would seem like a hassle as you need to reach max level for it.

The other game Lineage II Revolution which I had played before also hit rock bottom when they start Instant Level, it was still not so bad when they let Newbie jump direct to Level 80 or 90 but it become bad when they raise it to Level 260 and Level 320. A lot of Newbie are lost as they did not really farm Core from mobs and have no ideas on how to use them or how to progress with Daily Quest.

Horizon:

Christmas Event had also started, nothing much different from last year except Christmas Boss Mythrandor which is similar to Halloween Boss at Tairan Ice Lake which got chance to drop Reindeer Collar and Christmas Title. Overall Christmas Event still much better as compare to Halloween, as it give Drop Rate Buff and better rewards. Players will be divided between farming in Dark Tomb and farming for Snow Flake again like last year, but their main focus will still be Christmas Boss like what happen on this year Halloween.

They had start a new Ascension System and rework Alber Map with new Boss, Ascension System still cater to high level players as it just give better buff with the amount of experience over a short period of time, but Alber Map rework is a expectation from most players for years. They had a lot of plans for the future to make the game into higher resolution, but their progress still consider very slow as we have not see Codeless Migration and Pet Transfer until now.

It might be another empty promise as usual as they had already finding excuses on the delay on new update before they even started, but as long as they are still making improvement to the game there will always be a few loyal fans who ignore their short listings and start singing their praises for the small achievements. As long as they keep the players happy and not make any stupid mistakes they should continue to survive for another few more years, this seem to be a living nightmare for most private server as a few of them who try to copy the ideas didn't really end up well.