[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.
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He is very much aware of the limit. in fact, that's the exact point he was making.
I seriously hope this is not what BHS was thinking.
They've completely lost the point of selling costumes and mounts if they think they needed to add an ingame effect to make them valuable.
Speaking of which, where are the Alice costumes and the Steampunk costume that doesn't have the robo arm? Maybe they should add a passive crit effect to those so they can be sold?
BHS knows the dragon mounts are something the community had been asking for. Slap on a passive, give it more move speed+the aura and now even the people that didn't want it will get it anyways, in addition to the fact it means they can just shove them in loot boxes. Since keep in mind, stamina is being removed and I doubt people want to buy loot boxes to get HP+MP regen that doesn't work in most boss rooms and requires you to be out of combat anyways. So, they found another thing they think people would like.
No idea what happened to the other steampunk outfit. I'd forgotten about it until you brought it up. I remember a long time ago someone from eme said they only got the one in their build. I wonder if that's still the case.
The whole conspiracy theory makes absolutely no sense. "EME setup this elaborate rouse to promote that they'd offer them in-game and had everything setup with tokens on the stream to make it believable, but they never actually had any plans to release them in-game at that time; instead they planned all along to bait-and-switch people by not releasing the dragons in-game and only having them on the cash shop so that people who wanted the dragons and were looking forward to earning them would feel compelled to spend money because they're not willing to wait for the issue to work out. Even after being lied to, they are going to rush to give EME money." If that's their intent, it's the worst play in history because there's no benefit in doing so. They'd have been 1000000x better off just saying "this is going to be a timed-exclusive to the cash shop, but we want to put them in-game eventually" from the get-go. Issue over. People would be mad but a heck of a lot less than they are now and there'd be no conspiracy. People could either choose to buy now or wait for the in-game method. They wouldn't have had to do any of the work of setting up tokens, showing them on the stream, explaining the way they'd be earned, or doing a last-minute reversal that made everyone super upset. As it stands, how money more money do you think they lost in this whole thing purely because people like you and others felt so mad/misled/betrayed about this situation? Who the heck would have passed off on this sort of marketing strategy? And now all this innuendo like "come on, why don't you tell us the truth that this was all a big lie," when being a lie is way less believable than the stated facts.
I realize that my saying this is hopeless because people will just think that I have some sort of ulterior motivation, or insist on "defending EME" or whatever you want to think. But just look at the situation logically; in a free-to-play game, trust is a currency more valuable than money. There are plenty of other games out there and the cost to switch is essentially zero. Doing some sort of deliberate ploy to break your customers' trust is not going to bring in more revenue. People aren't going to fork over hundreds of dollars on lootboxes "begrudgingly" if they feel like you've lied to them to get it. The amount they would stand to lose is way greater than any possible gain, because the amount of players who pay any money is a minuscule percentage in the first place.
As I've said before, if you're going to get mad at EME, there are legit things to be mad about. I'm mad about some things. But I do not understand how people can believe this sort of illogical conspiracy theory when it makes absolutely no sense. No one would come up with such an idiotic "scheme" and think it would work.
We've already posted what we can about the behind-the-scenes decision making involved with bringing dragons in-game. It's not solely En Masse's decision to make. It's unfortunate that the dragons are taking so long, but it's not some trick to make players pay money for something they don't want.
I'm not criticizing any of the PC members nor using them as scapegoats, but what can anyone do when feedback is provided to help improve Tera and nothing is done.
That speaks directly to the point I was trying to make about the Player Council. I know there's a cap. Please re-read what I typed.
Huh... is that a thing? Anyone got a link to this? It sounds like a topic that got brought up before I was at EME.
Google image search found this old promo image used by Gameforge. In their build they got two (well, four) versions of the costume: one that had the apparatus on the left arm, and one that didn't. (Four because both dyeable and non-dyeable versions of each.) Somehow, in our build, we only ever got the version with the metal arm.
It would be nice if the other one could be found. I do think it's in there somewhere...
That's a little off-topic, but sure. I think I posted this in the thread where people asked about it, but it turned out that the bravery potions in other regions are actually different items with a slightly different effect (and cooldown). I haven't forgotten about them!
http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/general-discussion/topics/Ktera-Steampunk-costumes?page=1
Treesharks post is on page 4.
Thanks! You're fast!
So... from what Treeshark said, it almost seems like the robot arms were added during the creation of the costume. I don't want to derail this thread, but is there evidence of robo-less versions in other regions, or was this just a case of the promo images being a little different from the ones that made it to the game?
Yes, they were wearable in skycastles in NA too, I believe. I think it was called an explorer's costume?