[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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> Then wow, just... wow. i knew that it was possible on PC, as a good balance in the microtransactions is a bit of a dealbreaker in f2p games. To realize that the economy of the game is objectively more pay to win-ish than in PC is yet another disapointment.
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> My disappointment in this game's state on consoles has been kind of a slow simmer but the number of screw ups from enmasse seems to be piling. They fumbled their communication with their founders packs (and, disputably, with the OBT testers who endured that very shaky open beta), the game is a broken mess that will require a fair amount of patching to fix its absurd amounts of performance issues (which, again, cut into the pocket of those who bought the founders packs and will have some very rocky elite days as compensation for their business), and now this, which is the kind of functionality one would expect from any vaguely healthy f2p economy. Sure, it might dupe a few people into possibly buying a slot, but fact remains, locking things behind a paywall and not making them available to those who play for free is actually detrimental to the long term sustainability of the game.
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> Buying stuff with premium currency and selling it at the brokers is an actual good source of revenue for the developers in the long term. People who sell these services are usually the kind of people with generous disposable income who are willing to pay to get ahead, and it's a win-win scenario for both them and the folk who spend nothing or very little but are willing to grind to buy the expensive items. Even neverwinter, as lootbox centric as it has become, allows you to choose between paying and grinding. And grinders *are important* to a game, they keep servers populated and buy off stuff from the big spenders that they might not otherwise buy themselves.
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> Is enmasse jeopardizing the long term viability of its economy to goad people into spending? if so, it's yet another annoyance to what's sadly becoming a growing pile. It would be nice to see some dev and community manager feedback to these and many other issues from the players, but sadly this forums hardly seem moderated at all, let alone a place where community feedback is collected and looked into. I really want to like this game, but the constant "mistakes" I've seen so far and the total lack of communication by enmasse are prematurely souring my experience.
And the crybabies strike again, i just listed 3 bank expansions earlier on broker. So idk why you feel the need to throw your full review on the game over a thread about one thing. No one cares what your issues are but either way itd be nice if you whiners would disappear from the forums entirely, you are a plague and no one wants you here but other feeble minded whiners. If you need me to buy you a train ticket to anywhere but here lmk, id be glad too.