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Tera's identity crisis
First of all I've been playing Tera for several months and I have have two lvl65's. I first started playing Tera four years ago and still have items I have yet to claim from that period of time. With my background explained I feel I need to explain the title to this post and would love some comments about how your guys feel about what I'm about to talk about...
First of all I'm really not sure what the developers think Tera is... How can you produce, what I think is a Fantasy MMORPG with flying horses, swords, and magic, and incorporate modern objects such as high heel shoes, sunglasses, or a police car! It wouldn't be a issue if these modern objects were incorporated in the game world. As an example are there ANY modern roads in the game to drive your car on? How about a modern town in the game? Once your out in the game world everything fits together, besides the stuff on your body, but once your in Highwatch, etc., all you have to do is go up to the broker/banker to see everyone in there modern gear and it seems to be getting worse. Trust me it would be ok to put in a little GTA or a similar theme if it's reflected in the game world... Dragons and cars don't mix!
First of all I'm really not sure what the developers think Tera is... How can you produce, what I think is a Fantasy MMORPG with flying horses, swords, and magic, and incorporate modern objects such as high heel shoes, sunglasses, or a police car! It wouldn't be a issue if these modern objects were incorporated in the game world. As an example are there ANY modern roads in the game to drive your car on? How about a modern town in the game? Once your out in the game world everything fits together, besides the stuff on your body, but once your in Highwatch, etc., all you have to do is go up to the broker/banker to see everyone in there modern gear and it seems to be getting worse. Trust me it would be ok to put in a little GTA or a similar theme if it's reflected in the game world... Dragons and cars don't mix!
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It's not a small detail. It's pretty noticeable. But I'm actually ok with how Tera is right now. It's always been about the gameplay and eye candy. The world of Tera is the setting, but you can do whatever you want in it. Personally I prefer my outfit to look like armor which is why I use fashion coupons. So it's not everyone running around with unimmersive modern outfits, I'd actually say most people have outfits that fit with Teras setting. The only time they took it too far imo was with car mounts.
Nowadays it doesn't bother me anymore because it's a fantasy world, so crazy things are perfectly fine ( I even fell in love with the llama i the end lol ). Also I prefer them releasing all these skimpy 'beachwear' costumes and modern items so players keep buying stuff and hence support the game, over having the publisher shut it down because of no sales.
However I really love looking at characters wearing traditional armor costumes. It's really great at especially when people put effort into their overall look.^^
Actually we have the setting for that already, Castanica. They're not exactly being subtle.
tera identity is cute elin
but bless is only refund
Go to Castanica, and start to open some lootboxes with some Summer Wine, TERA has you covered!!
It even feels a lot more real Casino like when you lose all your real life money on the boxes, the experience is complete! Not to mention you don't even need to go to Castanica to have girls dancing with enough skin shown
In other words, tera can't decide if it wants to be a skill based multiplayer mmo with unique gameplay elements or a typical themepark mmo with very little making it unique besides elins. Tera definitely has an identity crisis, but I'm afraid your post only scratched the surface.
what i think, the game developer Bluehole just `Lazzy`,
and you can see how they were (Bluehole) was `Enslaved` by market `Demand`,
for examples, like making so many cosmetic for female characters only,
with the result.. thats why.. they always gender-locked so many classes with female characters.
I think, US (American) market and culture has very big impact for TERA concept it self,
for examples, if you seen for the most-costume in TERA ENMASSE, its reflected its self how look the `casual` theme in US (America),
Police car, Race car, Cops costume, Hover bike, SWAT costume, etc.
And guess what?, did America doesnt have good history concept like 14-15th centuries?, which is a bit near for medieval and ghotics theme concept? i think Bluehole development team just lost their `mind` and `imagination`, i have sorry to say that, but i think they deserve it,
And for my self as an artist, i think they can do alot more than that..
From that point, Bluehole as developer like to be `paranoid` in the point of view, and seem to be have no choice to force implemented those casual and futuristics concept..
And result..., thats is the problem in almost korean MMORPG, they were `paranoid`, they afraid if no one would buy it,
and they have no choice to destroying the game concept, by selling futuristics theme,
for my self.., i never buy any cosmetics with futuristics theme for my characters..