[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
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I personally fall in the "not me" side. But I think I understand, but most important, which it's lack of is what in fact starts these arguments, respect the other side of things. Forgive me those who I've seen saying this, but I personally find the whole "you a p3do if you play elins" thing simply disgusting and plain offensive. I'm a man. I have elin characters. But I'm not a molester in any way. And while I cannot command anything of anyone, my plea is that, before you type it, please think of the people who have decent lives irl and come to this game and decided to chose a type of character you don't agree with. Yes, this is the internet, and to be here one does need to have a good level of heat resistance. But I still feel I can ask nicely for certain respect about certain things, and we all could have great discussions without being offensive.
Well, yeah, this sort of projecting and accusation is what has caused all sorts of consternation in TERA since well before launch. Part of it is trolling, but part of it is a legitimate discomfort some people feel sensitive to. The fact that people joke about it sometimes to provoke that sensitivity (and the fact that the game itself keeps introducing new classes for that race) doesn't help either. If it's something that makes you uncomfortable, but other people like it, then those other people probably make you uncomfortable as well because you don't understand where they're coming from. But conversely, I think it's not easy for others to understand just how or why it makes some people so viscerally uncomfortable. But everyone's got their story...
I personally gain a ton if not most of my satisfaction from character customization.
Customizing a girl class is not my cup of tea, playing one even less. That is why as a kid you like cool looking toys and not barbies. I consider my character creation equicalent to a cool looking toy.
I think there might be a third less known group which plays for a piece of both sides, while I play a game because I want to if the game itself is good enough for me and I don't really have that "immersion" factor present most of the time, I tend to pick a specific thing out of it which makes me feel comfortable with it, my first page of characters are ALL male Castanics (in fact the few characters I have on other servers are ALL male too), simply because of 2 things that are very different from each other, one is that I like the Castanic background as I can genuinely relate to certain aspects of the race and have certain very specific things I hold true in my life, and the second is that out of all the male options they're the most "anatomically proportioned" (who thought a human male hand should be bigger than their whole head??...) while on my second page I have a Brawler and a Gunner (and a Ninja but seriously considering if it's a keeper or not..., I just don't like Elins but hey... I just don't like in general how females are overly sexualized in this game... and the thunderthighs... don't get me started on Elin... I had to -3 Ninja just so I don't find it... disgusting, for lack of a better word...), that I do like playing because of the class itself, it's a bit fun when I don't really feel like having an uber complex rotation or the pressure of a gazzillion CDs to keep track off but I'd certainly play them more often if it was available for male Castanics... (heck I want my male Amani Brawler just because of how cool it'd be but then again I'd stick to Castanic males if that was an option)
I do understand the whole resources spent vs profit thing but it does feel a bit... forced... but anyway, while I don't like it I really don't see a reason why not to try a class even if it's not for the race/gender you'd want it to be... thanks to the customization level of this game (which is by far the best I've ever seen on any MMO I've played) I can be cute as a male (I've got that on my priest, or so have people told me), a cool looking one (received compliments on my lancer more than once) attractive (more than once I've gotten PMs telling me how good looking my sorcerer is)... the whole idea of having a class locked to so gender and so race is not something new and people should still try out something for the sake of doing it, you never know if you'll like it or not, when I made my female Castanic I HATED the idea I was forced to make a female in the first place... I LOVE her now... and I NEVER thought I'd make a human female because out of all the females I feel like they're the least attractive but I did make one that I like enough to keep and she's good looking enough for my taste... it's just a matter of enjoying the game with the limitations it might put on you, while having the desire for things to be different is not a bad thing itself it IS a bad thing to utterly criticize and insult people based on their preferences just because you wish things weren't that particular way.
Tolerance and respect... the very 2 things that serve as the base of a healthy society (of ANY human interaction actually) are also, sadly, the least common.