I expressed my opinion of this in my post here a bit : http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/general-discussion/topics/Saltys-Review

I wanted to ask EME's thoughts on these because as of right now with minimal endgame content that I'm seeing from KTera. I'm curious how they intend to keep their playerbase once they attract them?

Don't get me wrong I am playing/buying Tera and enjoy it's combat system greatly. But as of right now I can't see the games longevity lasting past 6-12 months even at a casual, couple hours a day, pace.

There is no AA EQ1/2 type system that I have seen. There is no player housing/guild halls that I have seen yet. No collection type system or such. The crafting system seems to be a bland "create all" type system. The most the endgame at this point offers is some dungeons, BAMs, PvP (which is what this game seems to be centered on atm), and Rifts that seem to be coming out as well. I just don't get what is expected to be done once capped level in this game and I hope EME has plans to really up the anty once this game hits big.

Heres to hoping for Player Housing at some point! EQ2 Player Housing was amazing.

GW2 has player housing! TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

but seriously i agree with you OP, id would be nice if TERA added some things to keep it going, but if not we can always hope theyll at least have to go F2P, cause free is always better in my book... or pockets.... or wallets.... lol

Why is everyone so sure this game is centered on PvP? The combat system? That just makes it better.

But I digress, guild halls are in the works. There's even an NPC in the betas for such a feature. Obviously said NPC is currently useless. Player housing is a much more shrouded issue, and I can only hope EME/BHS choose to implement it so we don't see 4000 one-man guilds crop up for the sake of turning guild halls into personal homes.

Though I don't want a half-assed housing system. Part of the draw is decorating them the way you like with the furniture you want. "Service" type stuff can stay in the cities though. I see kilometers of frankly wasted space outside Velika that can be used for development and city expansion. Though personally I'd be happy with an instanced apartment within the city itself.

If you look in Velika on the outer ring there are areas that have a house symbol over their door :)

Player housing. Lol. Go play Mabinogi.

Sidenote: It may actually turn out to be a success if they make it like Guild castles and whatnot. That'd add a whole lot to Guild V Guild.

Quote: XxVicariousxX on 2012-03-02 21:24:05 UTC - view

If it ever comes to that I'd rather it shut down completely instead of go F2P. Going F2P would completely ruin this game.

Quote: salty21db on 2012-03-02 21:16:30 UTC - view

End game content?
http://steparu.com/previews/mmo-rpg-previews/823-tera-queen-of-argon-part-1
There are 5 and 20man raids (instanced and OW), server invasions, random RIFTs, some new skills, green gems for rings/earring/neck/etc., reputation/daily quests, new gear, new mounts....

Maybe ppl need somewhere to hide from pvp in a pvp game.
Lol, Maybe they should give out houses and we should be able to destroy and pillage them :D
The bank in this game is huge U dont need a House, yeah maybe its a good feature if all other features are exausted, but not needed at all.

Quote: Sore on 2012-03-02 23:55:03 UTC - view

Just because it's "not needed" doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the game. Before WoW ruined the mmo genre mmos used to have tons of "fluff" content that actually kept players busy longer than new dungeons and raids do in these new mmos.