[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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Being loud doesn't make you a majority. The constant complaining on forums is not a representation of how people really feel. If the anti-gender lock group really was so significant, and by that I mean the anti-female/elin group, then we would either have mostly male locks like games originally did, or there would be at least one of each. People mostly quit over many other factors. The people that supposedly quit Tera for x game just so happen to go to another game that has race/gender locks anyways, further showing that the race/gender lock isn't the real reason they even quit.
Those people who quit TERA because of this started playing it as an AAA game not a garbage run of the mill korean trashcan like the million of no-name korean or chinese MMOs you're probably not even aware of, but they exist and much more than you think.
How do you know, for example, that optimization is a big deal? Because people complain on forum about it? Isn't that the same argument you used against the "vocal minority"?? Come on.
On the other hand pray tell me how many AAA MMOs have gender locks to this extent (not say, just one class out of 8). Christ, not even B&S has any. Yeah it's race-locked, but not GENDER locked, since you can play any class as male, period. Yes, even Summoner has male lyn available.
Witcher 3 is a single player game, its gender lock because the MC has a story, a personality and a development, its totally different in a MMORPG, in a MMO you create a character, your OWN character that cant be your own if the class that you wish is locked in a gender, i know the majority of tera play females, but this is just unfair, race lock is fine, gender lock is unfair and limited for no reason that is not "because of money".
Notice how none of the major games in NA is Korean? Maybe Korean games just fail in NA, gender lock or not.
Well I fully agree with this part. Gender locking is obviously a big reason. Western games, at least the quality ones, aren't gender locked. Note that playing a "premade" character is NOT gender-locking, that's completely different.
In fact it's one of the reasons Korean games utterly suck, and I mean the majority. Yes a huge majority of korean games are gender locked. Those are typically the trash pumped weekly for a quick buck that nobody even hears of in the West. But TERA was supposed to be different. It was advertised as AAA MMO, and quite frankly, it was that way at launch. Look how many races it has and how it allows all possible combinations whatsoever. Just like GW2, it was a true quality game, and it showed that they cared.
Nowadays it's like those no name trash nobody hears of in the west, unsurprisingly its popularity dipped massively and it will continue to do so. In the end it will become on of those too, at this rate >.>
Gender locking is a big deal. Because it shows how little the developer cares of quality. That, on principle, is very important. If they cut corners in this, where else will they cut corners? Generally gender-locked games will cut corners gradually everywhere. Their bad reputation is deserving.
But yeah, playing a game with a premade character IS NOT GENDER LOCKING. That's you roleplay someone else's designed character, nothing unusual, but not gender locked. Gender lock is when you create your OWN character but cannot make it male (or female) due to gender restrictions. You give the character a name, appearance, and other stuff like that etc. And yeah obviously I'm talking about RPGs. It's a shame that even some first person shooters don't have gender lock, lmao, and this one is supposed to be a "RPG". (this is in comment to the other people)