so it's a developers fault that people are douchebags?

I agree with Destian, The game does show that with a larger group of people = A lot more fun to do things with, Gives you a chance to be social, get to know people, and all around you have a better mind set on the game and can do more stuff. Soloing BAM.. yes possible but Dear lord the time wasted if you just grouped up and cut the time to a fraction and with more fun. Though i will admit it is fun to soloing them maybe once or so first or even world bosses just say say, Hey i soloed that thing

No, it is the developers' fault that they do not provide tools to manage the social part of the game any better than games did a dozen years ago. This is the dawn of social networking, and in games released in 2012 there are no more tools for players to shape their social experience than in early MUD systems. I cannot build networks of friends outside of the blunt instrument of guilds, or provide positive feedback to folks who aid me or improve my experience by simply being polite and friendly. I cannot provide negative feedback on folks who are greedy, self-absorbed, sociopathic or who behave in ways counter to the experience I wish to have. I cannot excise abusive or harassing players from my game experience. Claims against negative behavior must be processed through some customer service group rather than empowering players to make their own decisions on what they deem acceptable behavior and what consequences opposing those standards should incur. Douchebaggery continues to have no consequences, which is ridiculous in multiplayer gaming systems given the copious examples of these principles elsewhere in the online space.

Quote: unkycorona on 03/26/2012, 10:26 AM

so it's a developers fault that people are douchebags?

No, it is the developers' fault that they do not provide tools to manage the social part of the game any better than games did a dozen years ago. This is the dawn of social networking, and in games released in 2012 there are no more tools for players to shape their social experience than in early MUD systems. I cannot build networks of friends outside of the blunt instrument of guilds, or provide positive feedback to folks who aid me or improve my experience by simply being polite and friendly. I cannot provide negative feedback on folks who are greedy, self-absorbed, sociopathic or who behave in ways counter to the experience I wish to have. I cannot excise abusive or harassing players from my game experience. Claims against negative behavior must be processed through some customer service group rather than empowering players to make their own decisions on what they deem acceptable behavior and what consequences opposing those standards should incur. Douchebaggery continues to have no consequences, which is ridiculous in multiplayer gaming systems given the copious examples of these principles elsewhere in the online space.

I can assure you the scores of players 'not' lining up to play the beta are doing so for an entirely different reason.

The game is RNG personified. Everyone hated Aion. Everyone will hate this for exactly the same reasons. EME is just another publisher trying to skim off the top. Frogster is no better. The combat is fun but not spectacular. There is very limited reason to associate with players outside a regular group or guild making the game far less massive than the genre implies it should be.

Unnecessary censorship, a willingness to completely amputate systems rather than develop them, and the ever looming shadow of RNG will ensure the quick and muffled whimper will go largely unnoticed as Tera is unleashed upon the Western gaming market.

I am sure a good chunk of people will pick up Tera. Probably fewer than Aion but it will likely be a respectable number. At first. Then once people reach max level in a weeks or two they will get the first look at the epic nothing that awaits their continued play experience. They will see no notable progression targets in PvE content and they will see a constant need to farm coin and items in order to attempt to beat RNG and fully upgrade their weapon.

Once they get their first weapon it will dawn on them that all the have to look forward to is another massive grind to getting that chest piece enchanted... and so on. PvP will be dominated by those that hit max first and get lucky enough to fully enchant their gear. People will realize that the whole 'Tera is uber skill based' thing is a sham and the epic grind in a sea of RNG is all that Tera can ever be.

During that time massive waves of complaints and poor feedback will be largely ignored as the update and patch process is not only dependent on a 3rd party (since EME is a publisher not the studio), but the schedule of the developer is also dependent on the development requests of 3 other markets... Basically it will become clear the people collecting the information can't do anything with it and any proposed change would take 6 months or more to implement.

Tera has absolutely nothing going for it. And EME was the wrong choice for NA distribution. Frogster might pull off a few stable servers but EME will drop the ball in the first 6 months and pass the buck to a F2p service.

I want to say EME Tera will go the way of Aion. It feels very much like Aion 2.0 But now I honestly believe that Tera will not go the way of Aion. I think its gonna go the way of Final Fantasy 14, or maybe even Tabula Rasa.

watching a new movie that is actually just another worthless remake, maybe its time you two had a go at working things out. That's all I'm saying.