srry to say this but the l2 feeling dies coz all the No0b!sh admins make farmzones and costum currency and way to high rates that kills the l2 feeling not the chronicle HI5 or any other for that manor, its the admins of the servers, they kill the l2 feeling.
in my opion a good private server can still survive but like i said than the admins have to lose the farmzones which they dont coz "we lose pvp if we dont" in my defence this is bullsh!t, than the costum crap and currencies also a big fail l2 is made to pay with adena or craft with mats every other costum currency besides that kills the l2 feeling, than we have the damn vote reward on most servers you can only get certain items by voting also bullsh!t if players love your server they will vote and the vote will be with honour not for items. than we got the rates all servers with 100+ rates ^_^, l2 is about getting ur lvls and gear over time not in 1 day like on most servers.
so if you ask me its a bunch off bulls!t if u say its the chronicle that kills l2 its the damn No0bisch admins who kill the l2 feeling.