EDIT: After much thought I found the huge blunder and flaw En Masse and Bluehole made. They tried to shoehorn a quest system in for "western appeal". They should have used their imagination and creativity and realized the noob island, the early zones, are horrible for quests, but fit perfectly for "Public Quests". This shoehorn ideal all westerners want is "quests" to level is the root cause of the lackluster pve, combined with terrible quest design which is party unfriendly. By using 10 year old standards and stupid thought processes like "just add quests for westerners" the game suffered.

I am a huge fan of Tera, first of all, but not a blind fan. Tera is just not fun to play. My only motivation while playing is hoping for some payoff in the end of whatever I'm doing. Not for the sake of doing what I'm doing. There has never been a single moment while playing tera where my enjoyment level as been high enough to warrant to want this game to be my hobby.

The only psychology pull is not "more enjoyment' but rather "I'm going to have fun soon, just wait!". We all know these problems, Quests, the monsters themselves being extremely boring, etc. I don't see the actual point where things come together and blue hole actually puts the pieces together to make something worthwhile.

Yes the combat system is amazing, but there is nothing all that fun to ever combat. The pvp system for beta is something they would fire you for bringing up at most other companies. Yes let a lvl 27 go one shot lvl 11s in lumber town all day, amazing guild vs guild.

So the question is, will it be worth investing the time, the effort to get to some point where the game gets fun. The answer is most fans, and players will. Because promising something good later on works, it's been a staple of mmorpgs forever, even from before the games come out they are hyped with new systems, promises etc.

The fact is i'm done with promises of having fun sometime soon, so Tera is not for me.

I'm sure even the people at en masse see this problem as well, but the game is simply not fun at all, and promises of fun at some unspecified point in the future is not enough for most players.

sadly for that reason I'm out. I absolutely love the art style, characters, and even classes, but I can't play a game that's not fun.

ITT: complaining about early game content as if it were the entire game

If you don't find Tera fine, it's likely that your tab finger is itchy and you may need to go satisfy it elsewhere.

Quote: omocho on 2012-02-25 10:11:25 UTC - view

thats the problem

En masse is smart, they know you are supposed to make the beginning of the game last and make it amazing, smashing it out of the park.

Teras early game just makes me wonder why I want to play this game. It's a seriously critical flaw.

Dude are u serious u must be playing alone or something because this game is fun as hell to be honest its the funnest mmo imo but if u are playing alone and not using vent or skype then i see why and if u are playing with people and using skype then you should go to the doctor to get a brain scan

um if you dont find the game fun dont play? i mena there are plenty of people myself included who are loving this game. maybe its just not the right game for you.

I'm getting similar vibes as the OP. I want to like this game, desperately want to, but there does seem to be something missing. I can't just call it the beginning of the game either because well "this isn't my first rodeo", as it were. I've played mmo's before, some just grab you. So far Tera has disappointed me a bit.

I'm going to stick with it, if for no other reason than once May 1st rolls around some of my friends will be getting it and that should be worth the price of admission alone. I love the combat, pretty much just a much more polished Vindictus... only not instance based. I have some problems with the games aesthetics, particularly when it comes to clothing (both male and female variety).

Quote: kugashiragumi on 2012-02-25 10:23:22 UTC - view

same I really want to like it, but I hate falling for the "it gets fun once you _____" . When I don't see exactly when that happens. It feels like wanting to like it too much, and realizing the game just doesn't deserve it despite how beautiful it is, and the combat, without fun monsters to fight, is pointless

i agree with the op. "it'll be fun later, i promise" is a thing of last generation mmorpgs and current gen free mmorpgs. but its too late to do anythngi about it now

I hate when people go "I'm a tera fan but I hate this game." Wanting to like Tera does not make you a Tera fan. Playing the game and loving it, makes you a Tera fan.

The game just isn't for you, it happens. But please, go somewhere else.

These threads are so stupid and the people making them hit me as mindless drones incapable of making their own decisions.

Look, it's simple. Reach lv20, kill some basilisks, try some low man challenges.

You liked it? Good, you get more of that later.
You didn't like it? I'm sorry Mario, but your princess is in another castle.

It's that simple. Stop being dramatic because you like or you don't like a game. Not everyone likes the same stuff and your post provides absolutely no useful feedback whatsoever, simply because there's people that do like the foundation of the game.

You simply cannot give feedback like "this game didn't make me fall in love with it, so it's wrong" because the only way to fix this problem is to change the whole game.

TL;DR: This post is useless both for the community and the developers. If you don't think the game is for you then move on, it's perfectly normal.