The TERA site has been updated with new information for players outside of North America and their ability to play on En Masse servers. According to the post, IPs from Asia, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East will be blocked due to "the vast majority of Internet traffic we see from these regions are from cyber-criminals relating to account theft, gold-farming and other hacking behavior."

What's your reaction to the IP blocking?

SourceVG247.com

thumps up !

Ok, now I might be interested in Tera.

oh well another game that think global gaming is just a phase that will go away!lol

Fine by me.  Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Why to ip-ban africa?

Never heard a bad thing about african players, en masse will get sued for racism and by NCsoft at the same time (joking)

I'm quite frustrated by this... but then I figure I have console games and other MMOs to keep me busy.

Still, the what if of being able to play gnaws at me a bit.

LOL

Good move! Blocking 1/3 of your potential player base!

Thats always good for the buisness.

But than again, there will be no buisness because they never going to launch anyway. Due to lawsuit with NCsoft

I see this as narrow minded and xenophobic, I could counter that western companies are money grabbing ,so personally refuse to support their products in favour of games from the far east or indie companies.  There are plenty of avid gamers all around the world that take no part in illegal activity, yet they are now being branded so by a company that does not WANT to invest in infrastructure to support these players.  The company is cutting costs and using media images of gold sellers and hackers to hide behind.

Call be cynical but it wont affect me so I have no reason to be biased.

Originally posted by SBFord

"the vast majority of Internet traffic we see from these regions are from cyber-criminals relating to account theft, gold-farming and other hacking behavior."

What's your reaction to the IP blocking?

The problem I have is that the cyber criminals who do all that stuff know exactly how to get around IP blocking.  I don't mind blocking off people from a game if there were some benifit, but I feel like this ONLY hurts legit players, for pretty much zero gain.

so its mean that they r afraid of african, azian and east europian hakers omg ... generalization of players from this countrys as cheaters and hakers seems to me like f racism... they lost a lot in my eyes as a company

still w8ing for TERA to play ;)

As long as they don't block Australia..

Originally posted by Majinash

Originally posted by SBFord

"the vast majority of Internet traffic we see from these regions are from cyber-criminals relating to account theft, gold-farming and other hacking behavior."

What's your reaction to the IP blocking?

The problem I have is that the cyber criminals who do all that stuff know exactly how to get around IP blocking.  I don't mind blocking off people from a game if there were some benifit, but I feel like this ONLY hurts legit players, for pretty much zero gain.

This is a very good point.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

But than again, there will be no buisness because they never going to launch anyway. Due to lawsuit with NCsoft

 

srsly u have no idea ;)

Originally posted by hazy

Originally posted by Majinash

Originally posted by SBFord

"the vast majority of Internet traffic we see from these regions are from cyber-criminals relating to account theft, gold-farming and other hacking behavior."

What's your reaction to the IP blocking?

The problem I have is that the cyber criminals who do all that stuff know exactly how to get around IP blocking.  I don't mind blocking off people from a game if there were some benifit, but I feel like this ONLY hurts legit players, for pretty much zero gain.

This is a very good point.

  While it might be very easy to get around those IP blocks - it's also very easy for anyone with any competence to track those getting around blocks.  While I don't necessarily agree with their actions, it is their game, and if they feel this will cut down on 'illegal' activities even a little, then it is worthwhile (in their eyes) to do this.

They want to protect game made by criminals against cybercriminals ... LOL

F2P soon?

Originally posted by xmenty

F2P soon?

don't think so but they can just place a ip block on NA because of that court thing and launch it