T.E.R.A.

[Foxer]

Yeah those are flying mounts. How do people not realize the Faf was a shop or .DAT swap? I'm gonna be swapping out Kins and Horses for Wyrms and Chocobos day 1. lol :33333333

Requested from other site. Figured I'd make these while watching the GSL.

Some casting animations.

[Cloudius]

I like the elin sorc best. Floating and flipping <3

[warbandit]

http://www.mmoculture.com/2011/06/te...ge-coming.html
that means game not doing so hot afterall?

[Katlan]

The game is very different from the typical korean model and it has turned a lot of them off. For starters, its the first sub based korean game in a long time. Most Korean's play mmo's from internet cafe's or coffee shops where they pay for time played.. a sub model is a huge turn off. They took a chance w/their pricing model and it didn't go well.

Also, the game had issues at launch and wasn't very story driven... the version we will get of the game will have all that stuff since we are getting the game after the big korean patch goes live. Also, it had/has very little end game outside of camping atm. I think it launched w/1-2 end game 5 man instances, that was all.

Oh yeah, the economy in the game is a total mess. You can't fix that once its started. I mean you can change things around, but once inflation hits its hard to rectify the issue. By the time we get the game one would only assume those issues wont be present where end game bosses drop like 100k and you can farm em non stop over and over again

[Kuya]

Hey, since the koreans have had this game far longer than westerners, isn't this going to be an aspect that westerners will resent and hate? I do remember constant bitching about this fact in FFXI with the JPs and their headstart.

[avelle]

Sad to see it struggling in Korea, I thought the game was excellent. Still looking forward to it coming out over here and hope it does well.

[Katlan]

Hey, since the koreans have had this game far longer than westerners, isn't this going to be an aspect that westerners will resent and hate? I do remember constant bitching about this fact in FFXI with the JPs and their headstart.

Not universal servers. Only company to have ever done that is SE afaik

[Kuya]

Well that's a relief.

[Katlan]

Well I mean we can play on Korean servers and korean's can play on ours, but it will be restricted to the version of the game you buy

[Kuya]

So you're saying i still have to deal with chinchongs?

[Katlan]

they will be rmt'ing up your server after they buy the US version

[Kuya]

Oh god

[Cloudius]

Sad to see it struggling in Korea, I thought the game was excellent. Still looking forward to it coming out over here and hope it does well.

Not much endgame atm. I'm really hoping that changes with the new update, otherwise I'm enjoying lvling other classes (lvling my 3rd lv50 and game has been out for ~3 months?) way more than spamming the same instances with no drops.
Also isn't 37 servers at launch too ambitious? idk how things are in korea but I think they had the merge coming.

So you're saying i still have to deal with chinchongs?

Only if you play on chinchong servers, which idk why you would after west servers launch.

[Rulke]

Also isn't 37 servers at launch too ambitious? idk how things are in korea but I think they had the merge coming.

This. I dont know what the average player base is per server but 37 seems like way too many servers. I think this merger is more of a tightening of the game overall rather than a move to "save" anything.

[FriskUni]

correct me if I'm wrong, but the majority of the KR gaming world is pretty set on PvP right? seems like TERA is a pretty 'care-bearish' of an MMO, at least outside battlegrounds it is (being there is no reward for open world kills)
I'm sure that's also a turnoff for their player base

[Cloudius]

correct me if I'm wrong, but the majority of the KR gaming world is pretty set on PvP right? seems like TERA is a pretty 'care-bearish' of an MMO, at least outside battlegrounds it is (being there is no reward for open world kills)
I'm sure that's also a turnoff for their player base

I used to think that, but I doubt it now. My guild and I used to PK in our early 40s, only to get zerged by lv50s (lvl matters so much) and our guildies, even the ones that don't PK, get hunted down.
And if you check KR Aion servers you'll see all forts are pretty balanced. Not because they're awesome/active, but because they rotate/share them, if that's not carebear idk what is!

v- PVP loving Koreans.

Spoiler: show

e: If anything that behavior discouraged many of the early english players, the ones that wanted to pvp.

[FriskUni]

lol, there was 1 level 50 KR the other night swatting about 30+ people constantly outside the 42 instance for a few hours ;x
soon as people exited they'd get rolled, everyone seemed to be rather angry, it was rather amusing though

[Foxer]

That guy must have $ then. 10k start, 5k for every level below you. so 50k x 30 people :33333

TERA is a PVE western style game. It's like launching XI or XIV in Korea. There would be 4 people playing it. I am not gonna say it's normal to merger 4 months in, but 37 servers was a bit too comfortable.

Game went down to 100k people logged in at times, and that's in a country of 49M people. 37 servers with 100k people was 2700 people logging in at once. They wanted 5k+.

There's going to be 2 server bases here, but the western launch will be digital and targeting countries which add up to 1.1B people. I wish it was doing better in Korea, even though there's like 7k people in my server right now, but I'm not too worried about this game making it in the states. It's tooooooo catered to westerns ATM.

Also, I love the first reply. The guy hopes it all goes downhill so it can be F2P. lol : ((((((((((

[Aro]

Now I'm really curious, what is really popular in Korea atm?

[Katlan]

Aion, that should tell you a lot