Thought I should make a small video from Korean Tera showing you why player shops must be removed, judge by yourselves I'm sure you can list at least 3 good reasons after watching this video:

http://youtu.be/7XYhmQpWkus

http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww80/bakalap2/TERA2012-03-2018-30-05-41-1.png

3 reasons could be:

1-Totally breaks game atmosphere: You arrive to a beautiful harbor with the beach, beatiful houses, charming music, etc. and then you see 200 small pets jumping with text all over, it just doesn't feel right.

2-FPS Killer: I got a very powerful computer getting pretty much everywhere 60-80fps (even in Velika with lots of people, giant small adds pulls, etc.) and in that zone with all the pet shops I'm getting 20-30 fps then I move away from pet shops and 80 again, I was with a guildie questing and it took him 15 minutes to find 3 npcs then finding me and fight 3 mobs because he was on 5fps.

3-Tedious=!Lazy: Who in the world would check all the shops to compare prices and then remember where the right shop was? Just tedious.

Lol.

Truth

Yep, how can you even compare the prices between all these pet shops with out spending a serious amount of time and getting a headache?

Good video, OP.

"but but but, you have an option to turn them off" =\

I take it none of you have played L2. And the system worked fine there.

Quote: MrDMajor on 03/20/2012, 04:53 PM - view

But think about all the items people only really sell in player shops, or how much cheaper they are and how you have to sift through them to find them.

It devalues the AH, so turning them off negatively impacts you.

Ah yes, because we all know the only two options are to either leave pet shops completely unregulated, or remove them from the game entirely.

-Travail.

Just make the AH where you sell everything. They will never work. So many shops no one will look nothing gets sold waste of space and time.

Thank you OP for being a hero.

Quote: DarMMody on 03/20/2012, 04:42 PM - view

I can list 3 following things:

- reason not to remove them; it's beautiful actually
- you're too lazy to even bother checking them, and want everything handed down on a silver platter
- what's worse, because you're too lazy to bother with them, no one else must be allowed to use them (otherwise you could lose some good deals)

I'll give you an analogy - quite a few people around here hate instances. We consider them abmination in context of any selfrespecting mmo (personally - it's been a while since I saw one with even a fundaments of being something good). Especially in Tera, which considering all the wasted landmass could just have open world equivalents (but it's easier to stuff 2 instances and make people run them 100 times, than add a [few] dozen[s] of OW equivalents - with some meaningful interdependecies ).

Thus all instances should be removed from the game, just in case people not wanting to bother with them might lose some nice drops. It's outdated crap from times when hardware was not good enough to handle larges terrains and stuff (and a testament of devs' laziness).