Europe is more open to nudity/sex and less to violence and gore.  The US is sort of the opposite to a lesser degree.

Originally posted by Unlight

They're still keeping the half nekkid chicks though, right? 

Everyone knows Europe is much more comfortable with sex than they are with violence. North America is just the opposite.

Originally posted by Ausare

Europe is more open to nudity/sex and less to violence and gore.  The US is sort of the opposite to a lesser degree.

Wow, almost exactly what I said. Didn't realize someone else had said it first.

Goes to show how well-know this is I guess.

Originally posted by Kehdar

There are a lot of ppl on the officail forum cancelling the preorder, since they waited till the last moment to tell the players they were going to remove blood.

 

P.S.: Link to the orginal discussion on the official forum if someone is curious about it: https://forum.tera-europe.com/showthread.php?t=62140

I haven't heard from any guildmember, friends or friendly guilds that someone cancelled for this reason. Some are disappointed, but that's all.

Originally posted by Keller

 

I haven't heard from any guildmember, friends or friendly guilds that someone cancelled for this reason. Some are disappointed, but that's all.

Again, I'm just reporting the new, I'm not going to cancel my preorder cause of blood I can't care less about blood, but if you read that post you'll see a very large number of customers posting they have cancelled their preorder and ordered it from EME instead.

As usual the people posting on forums are a vocal minority so this doesn't mean Frogster will see thousand of preorder cancellations.

No, plenty of people have canceled. I got my money back long ago from frogster when I realized how badly they're running TERA. It's been known for quite some time. A lot of people that are getting their money back now will go to the US servers which are run by far more reasonable people. Another plus is how the US forums don't have nazi mods that lock and delete posts constantly.Anyway, I don't see why any PvPer would choose TERA over GW2, so it'll be a carebear PvE game at the end of the day, so I doubt they care much about the blood splatter and hopefully the remaining pvpers will just get their money back while they can.

''I just bought TERA CE preorder on NA/EME servers. Good bye Frogster have fun and good luck with those rich 12years. Latency to NA is not that big. And besides latency everything else is in favor of EME:

- better communication with support there, although recent fail with patching and censorship on forum got me worried
- bigger population, servers probably survive longer
- they have RP server, while you barely could make 1 PVP EN here
- everybody speaks at least decent english, no german/spanish/hungarian spam over and over
- you can communicate with other players instead of trying explain to priest that he should heal in instances, but he does not speak any language that rest of party can, so 2 hours wasted, then priest was suprised he/she got kick.
- changes go live first there, ie. whatever crap EME does , EU will get it, then some more crap from frogster
- 1 week deletion for characters, WTF I am 1 years old? or wait ...
- every single information we extrapolate from EME, then there are some rumors on twitter''

''So far we have
Elins are censored
Pets are gone(its sad that people don't even get how damaging that is for Vanarchs)
Chest of mischief is gone
Random elite mobs are gone
Blood is gone
 

to be continued'

Originally posted by Deron_Barak
LOL, Typing from a phone is serious business. My point Themehosptl is that you are making the test of the GW2 fans look bad trying to hijack a thread with spin. Take it somewhere else please.

I don't recall making up any numbers about exactly how many left. I'm not a GW2 fan, so I couldn't care less about how I make you look. I'm not a fan of any MMORPG. I play what's good and avoid what's not. I wasn't trying to ''hijack'' anything. I know plenty of people that have left, and I assume we're not the only ones judging by this thread on TERA forum and the other 20+ (no really, if you frequent their forum during changes and beta events you'd see them) that popped up back when they changed the other stuff with their westernization. Frogster have been fucking up for quite some time. The game is an RNG mess, the pvp content is non existant, so saying PvPers choosing GW2 over TERA is only logical.

I love censor logic.

"Let's remove the biological reaction to being slashed by large, sharpened metallic weaponry so that children will believe that we're all filled with grape jelly".

- Stabbing, slashing, bludgeoning - Ok

- Blood - Big No No

Originally posted by MMOarQQ

I love censor logic.

"Let's remove the biological reaction to being slashed by large, sharpened metallic weaponry so that children will believe that we're all filled with grape jelly".

- Stabbing, slashing, bludgeoning - Ok

- Blood - Big No No

you make the mistake of thinking governments are logical...put more than 1 person in a room and the rooms IQ goes way down...put a bunch of politicians and a group of chimps are smarter.

Originally posted by MMOarQQ

I love censor logic.

"Let's remove the biological reaction to being slashed by large, sharpened metallic weaponry so that children will believe that we're all filled with grape jelly".

- Stabbing, slashing, bludgeoning - Ok

- Blood - Big No No

lol this post made me laugh so hard...

From some times now every time I read about Elins (even if i find them bad taste, but that just me), too reavealing armor and now blood this video pop in my mind:

http://youtu.be/Qh2sWSVRrmo

Im looking forward to trying tera today and no blood wont have an effect on my take of the game, though i do tend to view companies that would sacrifice something like nudity or blood for the sake of a rating as weak...

I can only imagine what other reason in the future may upset people.

Not even thinking they'll be upset to a point they start leaving.

I don't really see how the inclusion/exclusion of blood would make or break the game for anyone...I didn't really even notice NA Tera had blood in it till I read this thread and looked close.

I'd imagine most people are just upset over the idea that their game is censored then they are about the actual content loss.

Honestly though if it gets more people in the game I'd take a greater population over blood animations any day.

Originally posted by drakes821

I don't really see how the inclusion/exclusion of blood would make or break the game for anyone...I didn't really even notice NA Tera had blood in it till I read this thread and looked close.

I'd imagine most people are just upset over the idea that their game is censored then they are about the actual content loss.

Honestly though if it gets more people in the game I'd take a greater population over blood animations any day.

You don't seem to understand, its not just about the blood.  Its about changing the game from the original,  not only is the blood removed, EU also had to remove or change some of the dungeons due to blood and mutalated bodies.  And one must wonder what else they will change.  The EU community is questioning Frogsters decision to rate Tera "peggy 12".