oh god i hope Anet dosent read that statement!...not sure what talent was laidoff -but the game seemed very talentless.

GW2 dosent need those stupid BIG ass weapons TERA has.

all the unwarranted tera hate makes me wonder about the community here...

this is a comment thread, not a mass insult thread, frankly none of you have any clue -why- they had to lay some people off, nor do you have any clue to the success of the game or not. seeing the random number of subs being thrown around, and the "hurr hurr f2p" being thrown around is rather ignorant.

even more laughable is the "questing in tera sucks" insults... considering 95% of MMOs have the same cut and dry kill x monster, collecy y drop, deliver to point z questing, it's really kind of stupid to point this out as one of tera's flaws, when it's a problem in the genre, not the game.

Like I have said over and over again, this game should have come out as a f2p, just not enough content to justify a sub.

Now they will migrate it to a f2p game.  If you did not see this coming you were wearing blinders.

Originally posted by orbitxo

oh god i hope Anet dosent read that statement!...not sure what talent was laidoff -but the game seemed very talentless.

GW2 dosent need those stupid BIG ass weapons TERA has.

because Scapes was one of the game designers...

Seems like you're just throwing insults about something you don't know.

Bluehole Studios are the ones who designed the game and Scapes was just a Community Manager/Digital Market Manager for EME.

Not really a surprise.  "Outsourcing" the game is proving a hard place to grow from, when your source is struggling and giving signals they may shut it down on their end.  If EME knows this, it's better for them to give their own game full attention and cut back now on Tera.

I just hope that more "action" finds its way into current and future game design, as it is really a step forward from just button pushing.  Unlike TOR, I don't regret spending money on Tera at all.

Best of luck to those finding themselves out of a job at EME.

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Dirty traitors at EME I hope you all rot and never find another job.  Shame on you for stealing NCsoft's trade secrets and calling it TERA.

Originally posted by weeoohweee

http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/news-announcements/topics/A-Tough-Day-at-En-Masse-

the comments here show you how bad the TERA community is.

 

 

and these are the people going to the GW2 communty

The TERA forums are open, meaning you don't need an active sub to post on them.

You can tell this site is infested with guild wars 2 fanboys. Such distasteful bashing. Tera was by no means perfect, but it wasn't a bad game either. The game suffers from a lack of updates and misplaced priorities from the developers who seem to be spending more time on the cash shop than the content in the game.

GW2 will be no different. The game plays the same as any other themepark game and it will only appease most mmo players for a short time before they move on.

As far as the community goes, i feel the gw2 community is the worst community i have seen in a long time in mmos. They get so defensive over every little thing and for some odd reason think gw2 does something different than other mmos have done before it. WvW is the same concept as RvR from DAoC. The same upscaling lvl for pvp was done for gw1, and nobody thought highly of it then. This game is going to dissapoint alot when it comes out. The only real positive about gw2 is its model. And thats all i have to say about that

Only real decent mmo being developed at the moment is Archeage. Most ambitious MMO i have seen in a long time

They took FOREVER to give us Battlegrounds ... WoW took a long time to launch their first BG but there was no other options at that point in time.

Release such a good game without Battlegrounds was a total suicide for their game. Im sry but

this type of game with the fast paced action packed reactive type of gameplay is very good for us pvpers. but they didnt give us a good reason to fight. ( gear drop or golds drop or xp from pvp kills with diminishing return.) Or any sort of guild holdings that you capture or lose.

They didnt even launch BGs in time b4 everone was gone and to be honnest the New BG they created is a piece of crap. People just running around as it gives more points to keep moving than defending the nods. Its like a very very very bad version or arathi basin. W/E everybody left

so who cares anymore.

Originally posted by quikmixx

As far as the community goes, i feel the gw2 community is the worst community i have seen in a long time in mmos.

cause most of the GW2 fans (not GW1) are VET mmo players and are happy to see a different mmo with great mechanics and things players have been craving for in  an mmo!!!- just dive into the GW2 articles in this site. or just goto GW2 site itself.

But i do wish the Tera staff best of luck !

Not good new, but you knew it was going to happen.

TERA actually had less to do at end game (or even in the middle) than most P2P titles, so of course there was going to be a quick exodous.

I remember just before launch my guild had a voice chat meeting, and we had over 80 people on the line.

By early June the number dropped to less than 20, and now I doubt even that many would show.

I paid for 3 months, but left about 1.5 months in, once I got to 50, there was nothing there I was looking for.

Tough business to be in, game development and publishing and I hope the folks at enMasse find new jobs quickly.

I feel that this publisher has been way too harsh on this game to began with and chocked the life and fun from it.

The way the Elin was being handled and censored was beyond ridicolous. I had fellow friends who were Otaku's who were literally clumped into an god-forsaken aweful category and dismissed by En-Masse Entertainment under the deogratory and accusing terms "Pedophiles" for just wanting to play a cartoon character inside a video-game.

Their sick of being mislabeled as customers for fictious games and characters and I wouldn't have felt no different. Shame some players out there vultured off the elin as a reason to go around attacking other players who simply wanted to play the video-game.

Followed by the constant attacks on the forums by those who just simply hate Korean Games and Anime to began with. 

En-Masse Entertainment should have left TERA the way it was and embrace the fans who liked the game in the first place. Instead they went out their way trying to please a bunch of players off of Warcraft and League of Legends.

So what do those players do after they burned through TERA, made LFD an elite tool of mockery, and generally bash and bash and bash anyone who was an Otaku on those forums with nasty social attitudes?

They leave. And go to another game, unsatisfied that the game didn't give them all their "Western" raids, and "Content". And it's En-Masse's fault for advertising the game as "Westernized" in the first place and falling flat on it's face in the process after the initial hype wore off.

Holy crap.  They have to let go of a few developers (which is probably somewhat normal in the gaming industry from time to time), and you guys think the end of the game is tomorrow and it's outright failed.  "It's failed", subs are barely there, horrible game etc. etc.  Holy hell what a crappy crowd of grumpy groans. 

I don't play it, but I bet you it will still be around a couple of years from now. 

Also, since when did F2P mean fail?  I thought if you found a better way to make more money then you were doing good.  Some people might even call that smart.  Many of you guys just cast F2P into the bad bin and move on.

Jeez

Originally posted by Ocenica

Holy crap.  They have to let go of a few developers (which is probably somewhat normal in the gaming industry from time to time), and you guys think the end of the game is tomorrow and it's outright failed.  "It's failed", subs are barely there, horrible game etc. etc.  Holy hell what a crappy crowd of grumpy groans. 

I don't play it, but I bet you it will still be around a couple of years from now. 

Also, since when did F2P mean fail?  I thought if you found a better way to make more money then you were doing good.  Some people might even call that smart.  Many of you guys just cast F2P into the bad bin and move on.

Jeez

 

It's not just the letting go of the devs.  The community can see what's going on with the game they're playing daily.  Even as an outsider I only had to log in 1x on the trial to see where things are headed.  It's literally a ghost town.   The game is absolutely beautiful and combat is fun.  However, it took me all of 5 sec to rule out purchasing or even subbing because with my trial options I didn't even need to buy the box.  Sure it could go F2P and do just fine, but atm it's struggling.