Menaris Eternal

No shop, no VIP, no donations: on Eternal by Menaris everything your character owns was earned in game, and the team pays for the servers itself. Even a name change costs Adena.

The chronicle is Interlude with XP, SP and Adena at x0.8. A vote rune from the server toplists adds 25% for 12 hours and brings them to x1; drop and spoil are x1 for everyone and the rune doesn't touch them. Levels open in stages: 40, 52, 61, 76, then 80. Each new stage starts on a Friday at 18:00 UTC and unlocks grades, epic bosses and castles with it; at the cap XP stops, while SP, Adena and drops keep coming. Stage dates are provisional and may move after the beta.

One game window per person, no boxing, one account per player: sharing an account means a warning, then a 7-day block, then a ban. You can play from up to three PCs. The anti-cheat is their own and runs through the launcher; Adrenaline, L2Tower, L2.NET, L2Walker and auto-farm macros get you banned. Every GM action above the trivial goes into a public feed that all players can see.

There is no full NPC buffer: Alt+B gives six free first-rank buffs — Wind Walk, Shield, Might, Haste, Acumen and Empower — for 20 minutes, out of combat. Songs, dances and chants only come from players, so supports stay in demand.

There will be no wipe after launch: a new world opens only once Eternal has run its course, and it later merges into Eternal with inventories and warehouses intact. The beta starts on 1 December at 18:00 UTC and its characters will be deleted; launch is 18 December at 18:00 UTC. The game is in English, names and chat are Latin-only, and you need Windows 10 or 11 — Mac and Linux won't work at launch.