Risk in crafting is for F2P MMOs to sell you "Scroll of Safety" for $4.00 a pop.

Don't give them any ideas, please.

If you can't have fun without risking something, step outside. There's plenty of risk to be had there.

Or go play EVE.

Tho stepping outside might be safer.

Miss it already

"You have been playing for 12 hours."

The questions were more in reference to saying people saw Elins as children and wondering how others might roleplay them. I realize that the lore around them says they are not children, they just look like... what was it? Some God's youngest daughter and are frequently associated with looking like a orphan in the translated lore.

Roleplay is obviously not really a concern in Korea, but do the censored armors not seem like something that someone who is a bit more mature would wear? I know that you can't get much help from the game itself roleplay-wise.

Sorry if I seemed annoyed on that subject, my run-ins with Elin have thus far consisted of... the sorts of people who would never touch an MMO with a ten foot pole because of... I'll just say certain stereotypes, certain, misinformed stereotypes.

Another thing that was ignored from one of my previous posts, everyone wanting censorship gone keeps bringing up two more things - an on/off toggle and the "we are adults" thing. First, it takes under five minutes to just download the textures and apply them if you want the nipples on all the women, and thongs on Elin. Not sure about the male ones. It is available to anyone who wants it.

Second, I already mentioned this, but yes, some of the people playing on US servers are adults. But this is blanketing "adults" by thinking that they are all single and childless. You cannot regulate who has access to an online video game. Heaps of people here play MMOs with their family because just like any other form of entertainment, it's a common middle point at which many people can connect better with their kids, teenagers, or otherwise. In Asia, this type of thing is unheard of. While I lived in Japan for school, most of my friends there had never been aloud to have their own video games because Japanese parents would rather die than not have their child grow up and be a doctor or something. I lost a friend over Asian social standards.

Yes, in the Korean version you have nipples, young-looking girls in thongs, and all the other good stuff that draws in the Asian MMO community. But that is just it, it is an entirely different community from the NA and Oceanic ones. Whether anyone likes it or not, kids will be playing this and every other MMO that has NA servers, because their parents let them and because they have been forever. Most parents do not consider MMO's to be any more dangerous for their children than Facebook. Companies like EME are very well-aware of this and they do make the games more suited to a larger range of ages and cultures.

When people say "we are adults and can do whatever we want," they are ignoring that most of the player base probably does not fall into the 18-25 category, because many are above that and some are below. It is not this way in Asia, the majority of MMO players are single men. However, on NA servers on any given MMO, the average percentage of players who are under 18 is roughly 35% (the average of most polls, surveys, etc. probably not extremely accurate, but close enough and still huge.) I think Tera's numbers will be much lower, but there will still be a large number of youngsters, because it is an MMO and it is available to them and it is fun.

/endrant I suppose it's a little off-topic, but still. It started because people were agreeing with a guy who wanted sex scenes in an MMO with characters that "look like" children, that censorship is bad. So it's a little on-topic, too. There seem to be a lot of mixed feelings on the actual original topic, due to mentioning Elin at all...