Comments on: TERA-forming: En Masse Entertainment

By: snv

snv — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:10:41 +0000

Seriously, she is gyrating her hips to cast a spell? That is just sexist.
Actually thats quite plausible i think.
Scantly clad women gyrating their hips is very strong magic indeed.

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:05:43 +0000

To nitpick, I did find one thing he said to be auspicious of their true direciton:
“We chose TERA because its groundbreaking combat system will appeal to a wider audience”

As if the MMORPG market didn’t have enough appealing to a wider audience going on right now.

Experience acknowledged, these guys are nonetheless off to a bad start with me.

By: Magic H8 Ball

Magic H8 Ball — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:47:35 +0000

Anonymous Coward said:
I too would like to play your game featuring groundbreaking action panty shots, endless click combat with no variety whatsoever, and button spam activatable item fest pvp. If it could also have hours and hours of mind numbing solo xp grinding in the middle levels, and very little purpose for grouping, that would be optimal.

Dforget about instances and tank/buff/dps class selection.

Except the groundbreaking panty shots, how is that any different from WoW? I fail to see the difference between XP grinding and gear grinding, by the way. Grind is grind.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:13:04 +0000

It does make one wonder. World of Warcraft redefined success for an MMO, and probably has some of the least fetishised female characters on the market.

Could just be a coincidence, but I could see reasons why those two details (success & respectable female AVs) could correlate. It’s hard to take a game seriously when there’s tits and ass everywhere, and it’s hard not to feel like a creep when you’re really into a game where there’s tits and ass everywhere.

Of course, a lot of people are going to give a click-through to check out an MMO that advertises with lots and lots of T&A, trouble is they’re just not going to play it very long. It’s really just false advertising anyway– if MMOs were advertised honestly, SecondLife ads would be full of (often furry / transgendered) T&A, while regular MMOs would just be a bunch of colored (green, purple, gold, etc) words next to numbers that are perpetually rising.

By: Hybrid

Hybrid — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:43:02 +0000

MMO? Yawn…

By: DrazharLn

DrazharLn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:49:08 +0000

Collecting paychecks?

By: Internet Friend

Internet Friend — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:29:50 +0000

Actually, come to think of it, the message here seems to be:
“We have an ace team of MMO experts to bring this game to the west!”
“But y’know, all we really had to do was spruce up the writing a bit. It was basically already done.”
I wonder what all those dudes are doing all day.

By: l1ddl3monkey

l1ddl3monkey — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:40:18 +0000

I see the list of names as less of a “fantastic” and more of a “there must be a shitload of cash to be made out of this”.

By: DrazharLn

DrazharLn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:30:53 +0000

Amem to that. It looks like that guy fundamentally fails to understand what the audience here wants. I can only talk for myself, but I don’t want 2000 words of absolutely contentless marketing drivel.

How is the combat ground breaking?
How do you plan on changing the story?
What previous projects are you talking about?

That guy has completely failed to use this brilliant marketing opportunity granted to him by the Hivemind, I would not employ him as a spokesman.

By: kyrieee

kyrieee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:09:25 +0000

Whyyyyyyyyy do they keep putting out shit like this
It has to stop soon

By: K.Boogle

K.Boogle — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:51:25 +0000

Isn’t this TERRA thing actually Lineage3? Remember when they stole the Lin3 code and ran off? This is what they’ve done with it.

Remember [url=http://www.l2ouro.com/blog/lancamento-do-lineage-3-previsto-para-2011/]these[/url] pictures? Here’s one in particular:

http://www.l2ouro.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1212500952-lineage3_11.jpg

And now a shot from Tera’s concept art:

http://download.tera-online.com/uploadV1/art/476661253775400.jpg

And also shown in this video at 0:45 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZQNS5gpPG0

This is the game made with stolen Lineage3 code. Bluehole is the studio they made after they left NCsoft. Apparently, the team that was working on Lin3 had one of their staff fired by NCsoft, and not wanting to deal with NCsoft’s appalling management anymore, they up and left. Together with what code they could grab. I’m surprised they are actually going to be working with NCsoft’s employees to localise this.

By: Lemon scented apocalypse

Lemon scented apocalypse — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:17:29 +0000

Has anyone seen how asian-awesome the trailer is on the TERRA site? They really do have some imaginative creature designers in that part of the world.
Though to be honest i couldent shake the nagging feeling that trailers lie.