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There hasn't been anything new or to do on Tera for months & Communication issues.
Seriously EME, we get content issue isn't your problem, but get the ball rolling with bluehole or Tera in NA region will go down the drain real fast. The last real new game content we received was nearly half a year ago, when Shadow Sanguinary was released. From then, everything has been either filler (Crusades) or heavily recycled (DS2). You can only expect players of all levels to grind SS and DF so many times before losing motivation to log in at all.
Even this patch, what's considered new content is to grind old and obsolete dungeons. The game is losing players at an alarming rate because there is literally nothing to do. It's just sad to see Tera continue like this; this graphics, world, and combat system of this game is beautiful, but 90% of it is wasted.
Oh, and to beat a dead horse, but the only hyped and worthwhile content (GvG and Dragon mounts) this patch? It doesn't work.
So start communicating to BHS or whoever your holding company is, convey that NA is and will die if nothing is done, get their attention, and then communicate with your player base. Be transparent, even if the news is bad. Hire more people if necessary - You have a single community manager running around being yelled at and patching a sinking ship with jell-o, and a team that only shows up when [filtered] hits the fan hard. The last offical news we've had was from over two weeks ago. Don't have the extra money to hire more people? If only there were plenty of volunteers who applied and would happily help out with the game and its community. Oh wait, there is. Use them.
Even this patch, what's considered new content is to grind old and obsolete dungeons. The game is losing players at an alarming rate because there is literally nothing to do. It's just sad to see Tera continue like this; this graphics, world, and combat system of this game is beautiful, but 90% of it is wasted.
Oh, and to beat a dead horse, but the only hyped and worthwhile content (GvG and Dragon mounts) this patch? It doesn't work.
So start communicating to BHS or whoever your holding company is, convey that NA is and will die if nothing is done, get their attention, and then communicate with your player base. Be transparent, even if the news is bad. Hire more people if necessary - You have a single community manager running around being yelled at and patching a sinking ship with jell-o, and a team that only shows up when [filtered] hits the fan hard. The last offical news we've had was from over two weeks ago. Don't have the extra money to hire more people? If only there were plenty of volunteers who applied and would happily help out with the game and its community. Oh wait, there is. Use them.
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Made a similar thread.
That said, we are at the end of a major content cycle, and if you look back through TERA's history, this "angst" always ramps up in the months before the new content comes. Then it dies down for a while until the content gets old again, and the cycle continues... and sadly, this is a problem with all MMOs (see also FFXIV, WoW, etc.).
Communication is a problem, and I agree that it shouldn't take a crisis for communication to pick up again. But by this point I think they're more than aware of it now too... despite it being a recurring pattern. Having volunteers only helps if they have information to share themselves. But even this is a "dead horse" at this point.
You don't have enough information to do that, right?
Same thing is happening with the current "new content" (CU:V), BHS have not enough info to do anything to fix it, and Treeshark made an announcement to tell us that they're going to TEST a new patch for it, in case it doesn't trigger, BHS will get more info about the issue to make it work again. (Thread: http://forums.enmasse.com/tera/discussion/7403/civil-unrest-test-today-fey-forest-only/p1 ).
The end game content will be GRIND 100% in any game you go. Even BDO with their "soft cap" content was grindy af, as you had no top lvl and no dungeons, you could grind as much as you wanted, get better gear, and PvP as a dumb all day long. It never ends, there's no limit, there's also no grind end... EVER. The only way to avoid this is making (developing and designing) new dungeons every WEEK, there's no enough profit in no game to do such thing.
Players asked for DSU and DSL to come back, as well some old dungeons that are being requested right now (Rifts' Edge, KNXX, Manaya's Core HM) with new stats for the current patches to be a challenge again. We enjoy old dungeons, if you don't, I'm sorry.
PvP is also the TRUE end game for TERA, that was intended from the very beggining, but not many players really liked it, so we have PvE, roleplay, Trade Broker with tons of stuff, mechanics all over the place (Ghillie and Goldfinger Tokens are a perfect example), you can farm or not whatever you want, you're not forced to truely do anything, if you do is because you enjoy it.
AND. The communication BHS - EME is good over all, otherwise we wouldn't have had so many "emergency mants" trying to fix the last patch's issues. I don't know what are you talking about here.
Greetings.
The community has been providing information to EME on how to alleviate some of the bigger issues for months now. They have so many suggestions from their own player-base on how to reasonably and immediately improve gameplay with the resources they possess, but have not acted upon any of the larger problems.
I've never said anything about adversion to grinding or reusing old content, the problem is grinding the same content for months without end and the expectation of us to consider content where we have to grind old content, as brand new.. I personally would love the return of Sky Cruiser HM, buffed to match the current gearing standards.
The communication of BHS and EME is even claimed to have been lacking by the EME team. Otherwise we wouldn't be seeing the same issues every single patch, with this one being so heavily hit.
Wonder what they're already doing next patch? :thinking:
This is probably one of many reasons why players leave the game
Same here I agree.
I was a guild person until they did what they did with the guild quests. everything is made for level 65 players. yes I read from someone talking about if youre not level 65 then you don't need to be in a guild and blah, blah ,blah, but some of us enjoyed having a group to ourselves where we didn't have to feel terrible for not being elite or whatever. this last patch pretty much drove away the remaining friends I had in tera ( they still are my friends in real life around my city ), so idk, I hope tera gets some better things in game for people to do
At this point, I'm wondering if this cycle that we have every year would ever end. I've noticed the "angst" cycle start during the FOA patch with SCHM and then just kept going up until now since BHS doesn't really listen to the players. EME just keeps getting worse on communication with players and it just makes things worse every year this goes on.
before i quit tera more than a year ago, i could just login to tera randomly and queue for CS or gridiron and it will pop in 10 mins.
and then there was GVG which to be honest is a pretty bad system but all they needed to do was to tweak the way gvg is, not totally remove it.
i was more motivated to grind and perfect my gears back then. as i'd want to see my name in the top 10 on the board of fwc and gridiron., i'd want to particapate in daily GVG for the salt and action, look its so peaceful now, no daily gvg, no fwc/gridiron/cs queue during off peak hours.
in my opinion, Gridiron is slightly more balanced than FWC as low level or equalized gear players could use the bomb to instant kill someone.
what do we have now? irrelevant kumas royale at all times of the day.
seriously spacecats, is kumas royale designed by a top executive staff of eme or what? why does it has to be the most queued game that destroys the queue of proper battleground.
I hear you, I have a guild on one server I was really excited to get into, but I don't have any level 65 characters, they're all something around 40-50 range because I keep trying new classes. There are more than the 65s in the game, it'd be really nice if there was more, I agree. Kumas Royale does not count.
BHS is the most awful game developers of all time, I said it again and again. They designed one of the best, IMO the Best Basic MMO with the best Action but that's it, they used weed a lot with the money they made and now the brain is gone. RIP
Most of the original team who created Tera probably left long time ago and what they got now are recyclers, who follow a simple rule of minimum effort, maximum profit.
I very much doubt we ever going to see something new that isnt a reskin in this game.