for all you guys who "can't wait" and think it's "a verry good news"...

Gameforge has EA-like restrictions on Aion, like: timed cd on dungeons so you can do like 1 or 2 runs per few days, and unlock the dungeon timer by buying scrolls and things like that...

It's pretty much crap, a box would be much better than gameforges cash shop, but well... just saying not to get your hopes up high.

Originally posted by JudgeUK

In the EU we are just waiting for Gameforge's take on ftp. There is a certain degree of pessimism (bordering on complete despair), based on their Aion model:

http://www.aionfreetoplay.com/website/shop/category/116

We shall see......

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Edit - Gameforge have said they will give an announcement later today

yeah but what announcement will it be..although i like tera i despise gameforge..especially with their attitude..they were still charging max price for the game £40 while en masse were charging $15 .which says everything.they never reduced the price to encourage people to join the game..in fact they did fuck all except watch the population get less and less.

Hopefully they will get their head out of their ass..even the sub fees were higher.wtg gameforge.how to ruin a games population.i still dont get why en mass decided to let gameforge near this game..but hey you never know they may actually do something right by the game..hang on a sec i just gotta catch that pig flying past my window.

Ok!

Its free in Europe too!

Originally posted by Czanrei
Looks promising for Tera, however, unless they add housing and support for a RP community, I won't be wasting my time. Playing eye-candy pvp-centric games with no longevity are last century. 

What? This game is not PVP centric, it favors PVE by far.

It's just the false PVP advertising they keep using that might be misleading.

The PVP features are horrible, and people looking to PVP should look at another game.

They just announced it's going free in the EU also and the model looks not bad at all!

http://tera-europe.com/tera-club.html

I like free.

Originally posted by simmihi
I wonder if me as an European could join the NA version of the game (i'd even buy the box if possible). For sure the EU version will go F2P and, as Gameforge will be handling it, then it's a "no thank you" for me.

oh god really..? Poor TERA :(

Did the devs not even look at the pigs ear they ahve made of Aion in the EU? Gameforge must put in stupidly cheap tenders to get these games tbh...

Of course that would go a long way to explaining how they then choose to invest in the games going forward once they have them.

Originally posted by Terranah
It's not really about money though, it's about time and enjoyment.  

yup, I wouldnt play TERA if they paid me the 15 a month instead of vice versa.  I think its the worst AAA MMORPG released in the history of the genre, because outside of the combat (which isnt even that good and ends up just as repetitive as most games) and graphics (in an artstyle that isnt appealing to me) it does nothing even close to average. 

Originally posted by blackhawkzz
And yet WoW still survives.

If I had pumped 8 years worth of sub into WOW I think I'd stil play. They started first, they have people invested.

I will install and play from time to time with it being free.

Action combat + Trinity is a fun combo, just wasn't fun enough to warrant paying for lol.

Originally posted by XAPGames

I'm surprised.  After TSW I expected box to play for TERA.

 

no way. TERA has beem 5 dollars forever. no box price would help even if they dropped the sub.

Originally posted by BadSpock

I will install and play from time to time with it being free.

Action combat + Trinity is a fun combo, just wasn't fun enough to warrant paying for lol.

 

Worth your time but not your dollar? 0.o

People constantly saying this just amazes me.... I honestly cannot think of anything that I genuinely  enjoy that I wouldn't spend £2.50/ week on to do. Hell, I go hiking and that even costs me more then that across the day...

If I didn't enjoy something enough to find it worth spending a minimal amount on I would probably be playing something else that I actually did get a kick out of.

Why are people that don't enjoy what they are doing actually playing these games? And if they *do* genuinely enjoy them.. why don't they think that enjoyment is 'worth' such a tiny amount of money?

Confuses me.

My time is more valuable to me then £2.50/wk... I would be more worried about wasting that than that tiny amount of money.