I understand that most of the forums are filled with people upset and enraged at one thing or another. While I can not and will not argue other's justifications of their opinions, I will say that the rate in which constructive feedback appears on these forums are mild compared to the vast majority.

So first and foremost... Thank you EME for a wonderful game that I am sure took a great deal of effort to create. Congratulations on finally localizing the game to the US and EU! As a long time K-Tera player, I love being able to finally read and understand everything in the game!

I love the addition of the Prologue section to the game. This feature gives the player a way to briefly experience what the game would be like at level 20 and is great for trying out new classes! The concept is wonderful, but the implementation was slightly rocky. When you first start the game, you have no real indication as to why you are level 20, where you are, what your abilities do, etc. The tutorial given was a nice addition; however, it left most people I have talked to slightly confused. My suggestion would be to add a small prompt or a chat output that mentioned "Your level has temporarily been raised to 20." A few prompts that told you what some of the abilities do would also be greatly appreciated for new players, rather than hitting the buttons and trying to interpret their usefulness. Lastly, the action bar / hotkey bar is locked. This means I can not add the other abilities I have to it and I can not reorganize the abilities for comfort. The Prologue section is awesome and is something I hope the genre can learn and expand on.

Combat in Tera is exceedingly fun! It can be argued that encounters can be too easy and leveling is too fast, I find myself analyzing the difference between player skill and difficulty level. While a skilled player can swiftly gain levels and accomplish a great deal, there is still an element of pure difficulty which requires the aforementioned skill to be present. This leaves the player with one end result... I feel good for winning! The feeling of accomplishment and excitement produced by your own skill is something I have felt to be lacking in MMO's across the board. With that being said, I do feel that the combat systems in place can be expanded on. Argon invasions of Kaiator, mounted combat, etc. Regardless of what you decide to do, the ground work seems to be stable enough for expansive growth!

Although questing has always felt somewhat dull in Tera, it is very straight forward. Sometimes it is nice to just go out and kill 10 enemies or gather 5 of an essence -- on the other hand, it is always nice to do something new. I have no doubt in my mind that Tera could introduce a new variant of questing, it's just a matter of development time.

As for the features that have yet to come (battlegrounds, Nexus, etc), I saw them first hand on the Korean servers and love them. Your decision to temporarily remove battlegrounds in effort to adjust them for the greater good was something I agree with. Having a limit to how many times you could do a battleground was somewhat disappointing; however, removing that limit will be a welcomed change! I eagerly await more information on these meanwhile I encourage you to take your time. Get it right. Do not let your players, who do not fully understand the process of development, dictate the quality of your work!

Your customer support team is fluid, stable, and enjoyable! Every issue I have had has been resolved promptly and with personality! I love this! The only thing I feel is somewhat needed an in-game GM support team. If there is one, I can not find it. Everything I have seen redirects me to the support section of the website. This can get slightly annoying (although minor) to require you to use the website for in-game needs.

So there you have it! My constructive feedback without comparing Tera to any other game, complaining, or flaming. No game is perfect, I enjoy Tera.

Thank you very much for your time!

The issue about the Forums being filled with complaints isnt all really that vaild
as you believe it is. Most of the 'complaints' are from people who dont play the game
and would rather make it to where people dont want to play it.

What is the cause of this? SImple, the forums are pretty much open to anyone who
is not subscribed to this game. As for the forums with these petition posts,
I dont believe the posters dont know this thing called SUDJESTION(S).
And would rather DEMAND what they are asking for and believing that the devs
will follow through. Dont get me wrong though I do believe that one or two
Petition posts have Merit in it. But it is thrown away when posted as a Petition.

The General Forums are indeed ment for well, general ideas and such. Its just
not like that at the moment. There are issues in the game and website that needs
to be look, but thats just from the missing finishing touches or ''spit shine/polish''
that needs to be looked into. The Real people who like the game as is are the
ones playing it. So dont mind the posters on the forums and please keep cheering
the mods on as well as the devs who work tiredlessly on this game.

Quote: Segar on 05/25/2012, 06:48 AM - view
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+1 op I agree 100%, i'm taking my time to enjoy the game i know enmasses are working on something big so i can wait as long a they fix bugs and little things like that in-between

Quote: exfatal on 05/25/2012, 08:02 AM - view

No you don't, because they've not answered anything for weeks.

Quote: Taosym on 05/25/2012, 08:12 AM - view

For weeks? dude the game was out for basically 3 weeks, And by not answering anything do you mean responding on the bunch of trolling cash shop vanity threads.. Yea they don't need front page news for crap that was obviously gonna be put in and spoken about b4. As for the new things like i said give em some time and i'm sure they'll be addressing some issues that were brought up that requires answers

If you look at the response time on specifics (examples include but not limited to: the enchanting exploit. players cant drop groups, chat lag, etc), EME has addressed these and provided fixes in an amazing rate.

I am one of those players who does not care if they have to bring the servers down at peak hours in order to fix something like an exploit or a functionality bug. When they have done it, it has only been for about 5 minutes of downtime.

No, they have not been insanely active in terms of posting on the forums because most of the forums posts are nowhere near constructive, ie. "WTF EME! You are retards! Game is dying! FAIL!" But in many occasions, they do reply and actually take into account the player's feedback.

Negativity provides nothing. Constructive feedback provides information.

I never understood people who can sit there and claim things such as, "There is no endgame in Tera" when there is! It may not be your favorite flavor, but like we all do with food... if you don't like the taste of it, don't eat it. You don't rant and try to bash apples because you would rather eat an orange. If you did, people would look at you funny and probably escort you out of the restaurant.

Everyone has their own opinion, and I respect that. But please, do us all a favor, and take your apple rant outside.

Quote: exfatal on 05/25/2012, 08:50 AM - view

A friend of mine asked me if I couldn't just stay around another month, just to 'see' if what I asked for was something that maybe they would change later. It was a fair question, and one that even on principle I had trouble saying 'no' to - I don't like to say no, especially to friends.

Then I remember posts like this, where some smarmy nyerkhead thinks that all the time I put into expressing how I felt about the cash shop/vanity item/subscription deal is 'trolling'. I'm so god**** sick of that nyerking word. It really is the -only- word half the internet population seems to know. And it reminds me why my answer, despite the fact that I want to say yes, will have to remain 'no'.

[quote name='Pharys' at='05/25/2012, 07:20 AM'][quote name='Segar' at='05/25/2012, 06:48 AM'] <snip>
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0/10 try harder on trolling, just because miss speeelings are done on purpose to bring
silly creatures like you up pretty much proves the point that Trolls tend to flock to any
subject. =p


Moving along =)

Lets keep the name calling on this thread to minimum please. Kind of off topic. =) Thank you!