The difference with TERA and many eastern MMOs is that the localisation of the previous games was an after-thought once the game was successful in its country of origin. Don't quote me on this but I am fairly certain that Aion was only released in the west after another company approached the developers seeking the ability to localise it - pointedly it did poorly over here and as such the developers didn't bother to give it much thought (I've also been informed the Aion developers as a whole did not particularly like the idea of doing anything for the western market anyway) and as such the western release suffered severe delays on any kind of updates, to the point that several patches would be merged together and released months later than the Korean release.

On the other hand, Bluehole actively sought out to localise TERA as they believe its success is in the west and as such you can expect a higher degree of focus and development time put into the western version. Time will tell, however I strongly believe that design and development emphasis will be put on the western version of TERA.

Yep. :|

Funnily this server also boots me to desktop like Dragonfall did - where as Arach just gives me a queue. :|

Fairly sure the 'starting outfits' are just previews, like how in Aion you could look at the different stages of gear.

On topic though, profound disappointment at the lack of hair / ear /tail choices for Elin, especially considering that Popori seem to be able to pick and choose.

Anger expressed at beta failure and server stability, threats to withdraw subscription fee and boycott the launch.

Badly spelt and misinformed argument about entitlement.

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D:

I'm sorry, someone please explain to me how sitting in a city for 30minutes spamming "Priest LFG for X" is in any way community building. A basic LFD tool (one that helps form a party) is pretty useful on an MMO. Communication in the party still occurs and people can still opt not to use it - thus giving both sides of the fence options.

Things that could and preferably should be left out should be:

A) Cross-server LFD, that does in fact break down community as it devalues the need to actually not be a flaming douche in groups as the penalty for doing so is much lower than a single server LFD.

B) Transport you to the dungeon, otherwise at max level people will never leave the major cities. Furthermore it allows for world PvP to occur more frequently on PvP servers.

On the RMT issue, I'm fairly sure if that every arose then it'd be within reason that GMs/Devs would step in and dethrone the 'player' in question.

As far as I am aware the only two major MMOs I've seen that patch from beta to full have been RIFT and TOR, every other major MMO I beta'd in demanded a full redownload. The majority of small F2P ones I've played too did the same thing, then again, some of them remain in perpetual beta so its not like that'd ever arise *eyeroll*