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Mallex on 05/18/2012, 05:48 PM - view

BRING ON THE NEGATIVITY INTERNETERS


I particularly liked this part because it followed a completely negative post.


Just out of curiosity, do you not normally buy games at Amazon? This isn't unusual at all. If you wait shortly after release you can almost always find a pretty good discount on a game. Diving in on day one usually costs a premium, whether it's with MMO's or console games or whatever you're playing.

It works out perfectly for me, and has in the past as well. I'm usually prone to jumping in right away, but friends and family aren't as into games as I am despite still enjoying them from time to time. Stuff like this gets them in with me while things are fresh and new rather than months down the road.

It's a good deal. I decided the game was worth the price I paid when it came out and bought it for that, and it doesn't bother me in the least if people are getting into it now for less who might not otherwise have jumped in when I did. It's just the way the deal works, and if anything it's good for TERA since it drew in who knows how many people that otherwise may not have been here.

It seems like a matter of seeing the glass as half full instead of the glass is going to end the world as we know it, run for the hills.
Thundercat on 05/16/2012, 06:50 PM - view
the prices are far from absurd, instead of being a stingy tightwad, if you want it that badly buy it. any normal, sane person with a job could afford an easy 10$ purchase, as it's only an hour or so of work. one less fast food meal a month, or 2-3 less starbucks runs.

it's absolutely ridiculous how far complaining goes here.


It's $25 for a server automated process to change your race. $15 to change gender. There's nothing involved in this.

The weapon skin prices are high, but at least there was art development involved to create them. For the race changes and such you're literally paying for an automated process that requires no work whatsoever and was already built into the game that you bought and pay a subscription for.

I have no problem with them charging for that, really, if it's reasonable. I don't care if other companies have done it before, honestly; the price point, if that's the precedent, is ridiculously high for what amounts to basically nothing.

I CAN afford it. I would pay for a race change on one of my characters. I won't pay $25, I worked for that money, and it's not a fair price.

I'm ok with the cash shop, I'm not ok with what the prices on it are.
Errr, yeah.

Sweet, race change is in!

(clicks link, sees price)

....haha. No.

Great idea, but those prices are insanely high.
Edited by: Kainen about 1 year ago
hardfought on 05/15/2012, 08:50 PM - view
The difference is that on TERA launch day, there were what, 200 people logging in? D3? Several million?


There were a lot of people around for TERA when it went live (still are). As many as D3? No, probably not. But Blizzard also has a little bit of experience with a small game called World of Warcraft where you'd think their experience with the online servers and load balancing would have helped alleviate the issue a bit. It hasn't.

At all, really.

TERA is smaller, but it has smaller backing behind it by far and was relatively smooth. En Masse did a lot better with their launch than Blizzard has with D3, both in communicating issues and in supporting them.

Anyway, tell people on the PvP servers who were there launch day that there were only a few people around and let me know when they stop laughing.
Hempboy on 05/14/2012, 08:48 PM - view
^ agree yep, but sadly, unless you are known realm-wide as god of DPS and you actually have to NOT use scrolls and pots in order to control your aggro as a courtesy to the lancer, you simply showed to the group that in a game of max/min, you have no intention of maxing. You got nailed for your ignorance. GG


And yet, the responses in this thread make evident the real problem with the issue.

Nobody really knows what the effect is, or at least hasn't bothered to say so.

You're supposed to bring pots and scrolls. Why? Because you're supposed to.

And then the next group gets angry at the next people who level into that range, because they aren't bringing pots and scrolls. And then those people become grizzled veterans, raised on drilling into people that they need pots and scrolls. And so on, and so on.

Yet, nobody ever really bothered to check if they really were necessary. They just expect it, and expect you to expect it because they do, and eventually the effect cascades through the community like it has in every MMO ever.

Or lab experiment. The entire situation sounds like the monkeys who get shocked for climbing a ladder. Once it's established that they get shocked, generations avoid the ladder and beat into new generations to avoid the ladder, never realizing that it's not the same as it was when they started. It's the same thing with the KTERA players and how they've reacted to the NA release among people who are new to the game.
RedSable on 05/11/2012, 06:38 PM - view


why are u even here?


Because removing channels would affect more than just PVP'ers? If anything, those are the only people it would make happy at all, and even then it would only make the top end of PvP'ers happy since the other end would just be a gankfest.

The channels help immensely with PvE, even on PvP servers. If you want something to help PvP it'd be more productive to request reasons for rewarding it beyond ganking rather than throwing out a useful feature in spite of its uses just to appease part of the population for an issue that's clearly not even an issue to everyone on the PvP servers themselves.

Valendia on 05/11/2012, 06:36 PM - view

I find that that instance weapons are often only marginally better than the quest ones (correct me if I'm wrong, please) to the point where I'd rather have the gold than use a weapon before it gets replaced in a few days.


Without enchants/attunement applied most of the crafted blue weapons I've seen have been better. Since the enchants aren't worth the money at those levels, I really don't think the instance weapons are a must either.
Starry101 on 05/11/2012, 01:13 PM - view
I always hate these threads... Why can't people enjoy playing more than one game?


I don't know. I've always wondered the same thing.

I'm anticipating playing both of these games for at least the remainder of the year, if not beyond. Variety is the spice of life, etc. etc...
Any man can fight BAMs.

Only the baddest of bad men who are so bad that they never have to worry about what someone else thinks, ever, can do it in high heels and with pink weapons.