[TERA PC & Console] En Masse is closing, but TERA lives on! We will continue to support TERA PC (NA) and TERA Console until service is transferred. Stay tuned for more information.
[TERA Console] The Grotto of Lost Souls update (v85) is now live! Read the patch notes here: https://bit.ly/TERACon_v85
[TERA PC] The 64-bit update (v97) is now live. Check out all the changes delivered on August 11 here: https://bit.ly/tera64_patchnotes
[TERA PC & CONSOLE] Summerfest Part 2: The Beach Bash is on from August 11 until September 1! Participate in event activities to earn tokens redeemable for costumes, consumables, mounts, and more! Details: https://bit.ly/tera_sf20
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So go buy some loot boxes. Koreans expect us to spending more rather than asking for free/cheap stuff.
Ya man, currently #3 on most played games on Steam (http://steamcharts.com/) while being a pay to play early access game sure isn't a money maker. It was also temporarily #1 last week.
Whatever you say.
It was BHS's decision to choose to allocate resources to Tera Mobile. (Wonder what EME knows about that decision, if anything?) Business-wise, they should have the money to do it currently, not for us to spend more so they are able to do it. Also idk how many people from NA were asking for a mobile game, especially is some of us are still begging for game optimization and timely changes to our PC version.
With the money spent from our region, they should be able to make some changes keeping our region in mind. Their other ventures are just that, other things. This is why we need EME to do a better job advocating and have something to show for it.
I don't think it's any doubt that TERA is making less money. This correlated with the declining population shows something is up. Less players and lower player satisfaction often means that people are less inclined to spend money. (Among other reasons as well.)
But the point was PUBG is doing well and doesn't need Tera income either. It's quite possibly a drop in the bucket to what they're currently making.
If they did that they would be pointing the finger at BHS while they were still trying to negotiate a compromise, and that's politically stupid (BHS are basically the boss). Besides, if they just turned around right away and said "BHS didn't let us; sorry" still no one would have believed them. They still would have said that it was all a lie from the start, or that EME is just trying to avoid responsibility by shifting the blame.
And well... I was there too at the time. At first the community team didn't know what was going on, and then the production team made a statement to basically wait until they could work it out. After the statement from the production team (within the same day), there was no claim that they "didn't know what happened" -- just that everyone had to wait until it worked out. To make sure I wasn't missing anything, I re-read all the staff posts during that period to find the "snarky comments" and when they "basically lied" -- I really don't think it can be characterized that way, particularly in retrospect when you see what actually resulted.
I do agree with you that the whole incident hurt credibility and trust during that time. But given the situation that occurred, I don't see how they could have avoided it given that promises were made and they were forced to break the promise by a higher authority. There's no option but for people to get mad and disappointed. From what various staff have said (including Treeshark on his farewell stream), it's not a situation any of them were happy about even though they fought to avoid it.
And well, as for "transparency to the players"... what people really want is just for them to "get things done." True transparency would just come across as a series of excuses to be attacked and belittled because people assume everything's easier than it actually is. As it stands, people don't understand what they do at all, and just assume "you're paid to work on TERA all the time, why aren't you getting anything done?!" I do think they could be more communicative about forward-looking issues, and provide more status updates about known problems... plus I'd also like to try to push them again to shed more light on their actual jobs for people who care... but I don't think you can take an honest look at the forums over the years and really believe that transparency is what people, on the whole, truly want. It's become a meme, like so many other things.
How about servers, any news on that EME? The lag thread was unpinned, but there was no communication otherwise zz