For sure they wont go for so 'basic' shop items , just look at our current shop , can buy polishing powder, cleaning powder etc... which is not so easy to come by ingame without lot effort and ofc shop has no limit , question is which patch they will go for.
Even old patches could have new 'p2w' items, like arena tickets for spamming pvp arena to gain hp (even by afk like 'pro' noobs used to) for xform rank or abyss relics if we get patch with old abyss xform rank , or medals for pvp gear and the list goes on but i wont give any more ideas.
Just dont be too naive and expect the worst , this way you wont get dissapointed with the game as most people did so often lately.
Even direct sale of the pvp gear in the shop or arena ticket or whatever you want doesn't even come close to the p2w and rng levels we have with the current version.
But direct sale of the gear would definitely kill the server.
The list of things they can sell without destroying the server is quite extensive: Exp amulets/ AP amulets / Gold packs / Skins / dyes / Instance reset scrolls / Candies / Drop amulets / Inventory expansion / Warehouse expansion / Name-gender-appearence-legionname change / from 1.9 (or 2.0?) Pets for inventory or autoscroll... that's already quite a lot of money to be made on all the players that this kind of server would bring back.
Anyway, galeas said they are talking with ncsoft about it, considering they already talked about it in the past and ncsoft had declined previously, galeas mentioning it here means korea's opinion about a classic server has changed. Now it just comes down to how it's gonna be handled by NC first then gameforge.
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You are implying this would bring players back, or getting players from the **cough** servers into a official classic, while what it actually does it just cut more people from the current official retail servers into server where there is less items to sell for € and will likely quit (most of them) once the nostalgia drive is over.
Its very likely they wont make profits with idea like this in the long run,
and even more likely it wont have the effect they hope
(Aka bring people back in mass and get players from **Cough** servers into their own)
This is not WoW. Aion has absolutely non-comparable number of player base for this to really be a good idea to make them any ok profits in the long run (And they wont keep something running without income, obviously, its a business after all.. Either it profits or = pointless investment of time, manhours in maintaining it and moderating the community for it, server costs, license costs for NC to publish it and support personel costs)
