If I buy GW2 there is no sub, if I buy this I pay each month.

This is not a troll its a serious question, what do I get for my monthly subscription that makes this game better than GW2?

Originally posted by marcust

If I buy GW2 there is no sub, if I buy this I pay each month.

This is not a troll its a serious question, what do I get for my monthly subscription that makes this game better than GW2?

How can anyone answer this question? It's quite hard to judge or compare two products that most have not experienced at all.

distopia already said it: you can really judge about it/answer the question when both games are released here..

you could also turn around your question: is there something you dont/wont get (in gw2) cause of the no-subscription? (for example open-pvp,..)

so far we have seen some/alot high-quality-stuff of gw2: the graphics look pretty good.. it also seems to have some good music/alot voices.. a more active/direct combat-system.. the world is more persistent.. theres a good among of races/classes available even with some kind of own storyline/home-instance.. it has the big event-system.. there will be the wvwvw..

thats all alot of good/high-quality. but can they keep up the quality over all features/over time? and what about the quantity? (which is also very important in mmo's)

for sure this quality costs a lot of work.. money.. but gw2 has no subscription and they have to constrain on the money they get from selling the game and some "content" at the ig-store.

so my concern about gw2 is that they maybe put alot work/money in quality but it might has a lack of quantity at the end. but well how knows.. as already said: we have to wait for the releases/more informations from testers, etc.

As a total fan of Guild Wars 2 and a casual follower of TERA, I can tell you exactly why I would play them side by side.

Politics.

Politics make a game hella fun as long as you are willing to commit to an organization and stick with them for victory or loss. Aside from that, TERA is standard MMO faire - aiming or no aiming it still seems pretty typical of MMORPGs. On how this game plays from a scale of WoW to EVE - It is pretty damn close to the middle. It's not quite "Wild West" but it is definitely a lot more player centric than WoW.

Bigger boobs on the females.  Oh, and the political system.

The combat in TERA looks pretty damn cool and more action packed than GW2,atleast in the videos Ive seen..

Sub or no,I'll be trying both MMO's

I'm going to play both :)

Politics AND the non-tabbing combat. Playing Dargon Nest at the moment and I find it really hard to go back to the traditional style combat. Dodging, aiming and all that jazz makes for a much for involved and fun combat system, combat being a HUGE not if the main part of 99% of MMOs. I will be buying/playing both GW2 and TERA though ;)

You will have a real fantasy world - play a panda in pink armor, fighting with a 20 meter long lance on foot. Or play a semi naked child, swinging an axe the size of a truck. Plus all the squeking and Korean oddities.

Originally posted by Timukas

You will have a real fantasy world - play a panda in pink armor, fighting with a 20 meter long lance on foot. Or play a semi naked child, swinging an axe the size of a truck. Plus all the squeking and Korean oddities.

haha :] - yes :[

The politics does seem to be a differentiator, I was guild leader back in the L2 days when we took and held the Heine castle for 3 months, good times.

If the politics is as immersive as L2 was I will likely be there, but have they tried to sell us on any other significant differences yet?

If I had a choice of either today I would choose Tera based on the fun I had in L2, but I'd like more info.

Edit: Amazingly our old forums are still up:

http://www.lionna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19401

simple. a different game.

Many avid MMORPG gamers would probably like to play both. If both of them are good(they look good so far), I myself will probably play both. Others will have to try each game by themselves and decide which one they find more enjoyable - and the subscription fee or the lack there of is going to be one of the deciding factor, not necessarily the only or the most important one.

Tera will mostly be PvP and killing monsters and crafting. Not much quests.

Originally posted by InFlamestwo

Tera will mostly be PvP and killing monsters and crafting. Not much quests.

Nice demonstration of your knowledge there rofl.

Yes you have to do quests to level!! DUR! Thats the most efficient way of XPing in Tera! (killing elites is feasible too, but tiresome). Later on you need to group for most stuff. 

As for endgame. Its not worth discussing yet because its still being developed in Korea. What they have now, is not the endgame. Just what the Koreans have to play until they get some content.

I don't think it's the case of which game will be better than the other, but which game offers the kind of experience you are looking for, in an MMORPG. Seeing how both games are incredibly different, such a choice should be easy to make, with a bit of research.

Quite frankly I will get Guild Wars 2 and not Tera, because unlike all the other MMORPGs, GW2 will allow me to level with my friends, no matter what the level disparity between us is. The combat is fun an exciting, without falling back on the tried & true holy trinity system, giving it the potential to be a true e-sports game. And it will potentially have the best large scale PvP setting, in the genre (DAoC 2.0).

Comparing pears and grapefruits.

Mmmm... grapefruits.

Originally posted by marcust

If I buy GW2 there is no sub, if I buy this I pay each month.

This is not a troll its a serious question, what do I get for my monthly subscription that makes this game better than GW2?

Body paint on the models depicting females.

I can't really compare them either, since I didnt play GW2. However, I did play K-TERA though, and it wasn't anything special to me. The game was fun, but it didn't last long for me. The impression that I get from TERA is the Only thing the game has going for it is the combat action, graphics, and sweet boss encounters, thats just my opinion though. TERA still has that boring way of questing like any other MMORPG (you know what I mean), but the combat kind of hides it a little. I didn't play GW2 yet, but from what I know it has more player interaction and events. I'm not trying to be a GW2 fanboy or a know it all, but there isn't much to do in TERA once you get to the level cap. The only thing I did at cap was do a few dugeons everyday and gank some people with my friends LOL, however I really did enjoy TERA though. 

Edit: And No you cannot have my account... stop messaging...

Play the one that releases first.  If happy, stay--if not, see other game.

Doesn't seem like you need a hype engine to make up your mind for you?