A new blog post on the En Masse Entertainment site lays out the details and differences in the new F2P - subscription model for TERA. The game will officially introduce the new revenue model in February. 

Founder status lets you keep all your character slots and bank tabs, plus you’ll receive an exclusive mount and the “Founder” title. The Terminus mount automatically shows up in your skillbook for every character—existing or new.

This applies to anyone who has supported TERA with a purchase of the game (digital or physical).

Check out the different plans side-by-side on the TERA site.

Not bad at all (1st)

This is one of the best free2play systems I've seen or might say buy2play since if you have founders it's much better so go buy it  now while you can, I bought Tera at release.

Originally posted by itchmon
so the only thing you get for 14.99 a month is more dungeon entries?

 For some reason they didn't post the full picture, also this information has been out almost a month already. :/

Just go to the TERA page to see the full list, you get some consumables everyday for being elite and a elite mount. The consumables are pretty small, it's 1 hour boosts to XP or pure gold drops, but gold doesn't even drop a lot. You also get some teleportal book.

So ...the difference between founder and elite is 1 hour xp/gold boosts per day, some teleportal book, more dungeon entries/daily quests(nobody does dailies anymore anyways...), a mount, and a teleportal book, an ugly fiery halo and the NPC summon scrolls. All these things will probably be dirt cheap on the broker.

I'm personally just going to stay as a founder and play for free...

If you are capped (level 60) and play one character actively (i.e doing the 20 dailies, using extra entries and taking advantage of lesser cooldown) the subscription is definately worth it.

As a levelling player or someone who plays multiple toons it's probably not.

If you spend a lot of hours playing Tera it's worth to sub, if not you are free to use the _extremely_ generous F2P/founder option.

This said, Tera is going to be the best free-to-play MMORPG that's actually _FREE_.

Only game you could compare the F2P is Aion NA (Truly freeTM) but Tera wipes the floor with Aion.

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Originally posted by itchmon
so the only thing you get for 14.99 a month is more dungeon entries?

 For some reason they didn't post the full picture, also this information has been out almost a month already. :/

 

MMorpg.com doesnt post things unless they get paid. Since Tera f2p will start soon, Publishers starting to pay to write positive reviews about the game.

Nothing works without money friend.

Well, they actually stuck to their guns and made F2P with relatively no restrictions other than # of characters.  Tera will probably be one of the strongest F2P titles out there.   COME ON FEB!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIsuDlwAiUg

Like others have said: too generous. 

We'll see how this works for them.

With P2P games the customer feels more entitled to itch and moan as loud as they want because: the customer is king.

I think that with a free variant the will to complain is weaker and people simply go: meh, it's free, I may or may not be back later and I feel no further entitlement.

I felt like this game should've had a system such as this from the get-go. 

if I buy a game...I want to be able to access it somehow.

I want access to what I purchased no matter when! Allow me to decide how I pay for it.

Good for TERA for having a F2P variant.

it's alrady free isn't it? ... at least i play it for free with these limitations

maybe there's something i missed

If u play on eu you play the unlimited trial atm which has more restrictions  then f2p,like no chat and no trading, no bank and no broker.

They will remove these restrictions at f2p launch in february

nice. i bought this half a year ago and liked it, but did not want to use a CC# to go past the free month.

the mystic seemed really fun.

It's supposedly dated February 5th in Europe.

This information was from a steam leak, which is usually quite accurate with release dates.

No confirmation yet though.

Originally posted by Kitsunechii

it's alrady free isn't it? ... at least i play it for free with these limitations

maybe there's something i missed

 You're playing one of the free trials i'm assuming which has a ton of restrictions.

This is an awesome matrix so far, and what a great way to reward folk for investing in the initial game purchase! kudos to Enmasse/Bluehole for innovative thinking!

I bought my game 2 weeks ago (when the F2P matrix was announced), and have really enjoyed the game immensely so far.

this is the best F2P model transition. Other companies should learn from this one. You dont take away from free players, instead you give more to paying players. Thats how you do it.

Now, the only thing i see kind of weird here is the character slots. a person paying 15 a month only has 2 character slots per server? i think it would be better like this, free players have 2, founders have 5, and subscribers have max number. But thats just me.

im still a happy founder.