Quote: Nitzleplick on 03/21/2012, 06:04 PM

If you actually go in and look through the posts themselves, there are MAYBE 20 different people here arguing this thread. And some are louder and more obnoxious than others.

Why guess at the number? Perhaps you should actually count them. The thread, after all, is right here. Go and see if your "maybe 20 different people" estimate pans out.

Meanwhile, I'll just point to the ~200 or so individual votes from the forum poll.

Usually I feel like I am missing out when I don't go running around to check every single vendor to make sure I am getting the best prices, or that someone doesn't have a hidden blue sitting in their shop that isn't on the broker.

Quote: FallguySoldier on 03/21/2012, 08:44 PM

I can only hope they'll implement my second idea, which was to "remove Trade Broker NPC and make its AH functionality a feature accessible through the game's menu, such as LFG and Enchanting". It's not on the recent patch notes so I'm not expecting it this CBT, but I hope it'll be implemented in OBT.

*takes FGS's hopes and dreams and stomps them into dust*

That won't happen. Ever. And I mean never. AH/broker NPCs force players to visit central destinations and create social hubs.

We've been working hard on bringing TERA to North America, and have also had a hand in shaping TERA specifically with our gamers in mind. This past GDC we spoke with media about what we've been working on specifically for North America, but I wanted to talk about a few changes that we’ve made:

We have been working hard to bring TERA to North America and make it a completely different game. We had a hand in starting the destruction of the game, but many people have spoken out and called us out on this.

• Removed private stores – we removed private stores from TERA so we could make the broker system the central hub of the player economy. We’ve increased the limit of items that can be sold from 8 to 50 and think this will help players to go to one place to find whatever they need

We removed the private stores because we wanted to. Our data/metrics we reviewed are not accurate, but we are going to say it is because we don't have to, and people will believe us, no matter what we say. Internal and alpha testers are no way enough people to base this decision on, and neither is the amount of time people get to play in the CBT, which is on weekends every other week. But hey, we wanted to removed them because we know what the North Americans want.... NOT!

• Implemented Bind on Pickup (BoP) items – For some items, we’ve implemented a BoP system which lets us give better equipment to players without having to worry as much about RMT farming items.

We felt that we needed more BoP items because we were not close enough to being like World of Warcraft yet. We wanted the alias, "World of Teracraft" and this was just one step closer to our goal.

• Removed Boxes of Mischief – I personally have a negative winning streak with these, and overall we felt that it was a chance based system that frustrated more players than it benefited. We removed them and used the space in the loot drop tables to chances for other cool things to drop

This one was a tricky decision, we removed boxes because I had a negative winning streak with these and it just frustrated me. So I decided to remove them and not allow anyone else to have fun with them since I couldn't. I am selfish and if I have bad lucky NOBODY else gets to use them either!

There are a lot more changes and enhancements that we’ve been working on, and as we get closer to our OBT and Launch we’ll keep sharing what we’re doing so y’all know what to expect and give us feedback.

I would like to inform you, that we have further plans to World of Warcraftenize this game. We will do our best to speed up this process and try to get on par with them as soon as possible.

Some things to look forward to are as followed:

-Lot's of battlegrounds so you never have to leave town to find PvP again.

-LFD tools that will instantly put you and your group into the dungeon so that you will never have to encounter OWPvP.. EVEN ON A PvP SERVER! Is this cool or what!!!

-We will remove the RNG from the enchanting so that everyone and their mothers could have a +12 glowing weapon. We do not want people to have to earn anything and just give it to them. We thought this would be a better business model.

-My favorite, we will be revamping combat to be tab target! This will be so new and awesome for TERA players. They will feel like it's a brand new game!

-We will also put granny clothing on all the female characters because they look too sexy right now. After all, this is a mature rated game and we cannot have that. So we will put the granny clothes on to fit the theme more.

-More amazing changes to come!!

Thanks!
-Chager
Thanks,
The Destroyer of Games!

Sadly this is what we are seeing and is likely to happen. I really hope that EME thinks about what they are doing. As there are many other games coming out very soon that will rip their player a new hole. Might not be the best games coming out, but might just be good enough to leave TERA because of what they are doing to the game, until ArcheAge launches.

Quote: Nobody on 03/22/2012, 09:33 AM

Sadly this is what we are seeing and is likely to happen. I really hope that EME thinks about what they are doing. As there are many other games coming out very soon that will rip their player a new hole. Might not be the best games coming out, but might just be good enough to leave TERA because of what they are doing to the game, until ArcheAge launches.

ahah ur post made me laugh.. but its true stuff, we think the same way except Archeage I think it will be a big flop like swtor

Sadly this is what we are seeing and is likely to happen. I really hope that EME thinks about what they are doing. As there are many other games coming out very soon that will rip their player a new hole. Might not be the best games coming out, but might just be good enough to leave TERA because of what they are doing to the game, until ArcheAge launches.