Now that En Masse Entertainment has officially launched TERA, the team had a few minutes to breathe again and we caught up with Senior Producer Brian Knox to talk about what will come next for Arborea. See what we discovered and then leave us a comment or two.

MMORPG.com: So… for starters: how does it feel to finally have launched TERA? I imagine you’ve caught up on sleep a little bit?

Brian Knox: Phew! Launching an MMO is a huge task, and it feels as though a giant weight has been lifted off our shoulders—but this is just the start. An MMO is only as good as the service you provide, and the hard work of maintaining and servicing TERA has just begun. Our attention is on all details of the game and platform. This includes billing issues, game issues, patcher issues, forums issues—you name it, we are prioritizing to fix or add it.

Read more of Bill Murphy's TERA: The Future of Arborea.

Great read, I am really glad theat they are taking PVP into consideration as much as PVE which is great imo. The server vs server is going to be amazing I tell you :), lets hope they come in Server invasaion too because it would make it 100x better.

Originally posted by Azmodai

Great read, I am really glad theat they are taking PVP into consideration as much as PVE which is great imo. The server vs server is going to be amazing I tell you :), lets hope they come in Server invasaion too because it would make it 100x better.

 

Uhhh, hate to burst your bubble, but, the Server Vs Server sounded unlikely - note how they called it a "blue sky idea" meaning its a long way off if ever.  To be honest even battlegrounds sound a long way off based on that interview (note how he said they had to dedicate some of their team to other areas).

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Originally posted by crysent

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Originally posted by Azmodai Great read, I am really glad theat they are taking PVP into consideration as much as PVE which is great imo. The server vs server is going to be amazing I tell you :), lets hope they come in Server invasaion too because it would make it 100x better.  

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Uhhh, hate to burst your bubble, but, the Server Vs Server sounded unlikely - note how they called it a "blue sky idea" meaning its a long way off if ever.  To be honest even battlegrounds sound a long way off based on that interview (note how he said they had to dedicate some of their team to other areas).

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En Masse can make changes to Tera but they cant develop anything, only Blue Hole can develop new content for Tera.

En Masse can increase the fall height pause restriction to 5 meters if enough people complain but they cant add server vs server PvP if Blue Hole decides to pass on it.

Thank god they will work on pvp cause for now its just not good enough at least for me

Originally posted by Xiaoki

 

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Originally posted by crysent

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Originally posted by Azmodai Great read, I am really glad theat they are taking PVP into consideration as much as PVE which is great imo. The server vs server is going to be amazing I tell you :), lets hope they come in Server invasaion too because it would make it 100x better.  

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Uhhh, hate to burst your bubble, but, the Server Vs Server sounded unlikely - note how they called it a "blue sky idea" meaning its a long way off if ever.  To be honest even battlegrounds sound a long way off based on that interview (note how he said they had to dedicate some of their team to other areas).

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Server vs server may happen and it may not, but the wrong person was asked either way.

 

En Masse can make changes to Tera but they cant develop anything, only Blue Hole can develop new content for Tera.

En Masse can increase the fall height pause restriction to 5 meters if enough people complain but they cant add server vs server PvP if Blue Hole decides to pass on it.

From the very beginning En Masse stated they are not like most companies that just publish a game, they actually have the ability to control all the content that goes into TERA and they are working with blue hole to add in any content they want added.

This was like a major selling point...

Just saying.

If they're adding new dungeons and raids every month, I'm happy! :)

Originally posted by SoulOfRaziel

Thank god they will work on pvp cause for now its just not good enough at least for me

Meh for me if I want pvp I play a pvp game, like EVE.  imo gear based games make incredibly bad PvP games, and ultimatley nerfs to PvE content for PVP and vice-versa make both experiences suck. (although the skills part of this game might make up for some of that .. honestly dont know how gear driven end game is yet)

TERA is a mad fun PVE game, would hate to see that ruined by trying to force PVP on it.

but either way,  not going to be a "sky is falling" event for me either way, will check out what they put in and either make the best of it or ignore it.

BTW I am totally hooked on TERA right now, its interrupting my EVE time, fortunatley have some long skills to train atm ;0)

~D

Tera to me is strictly a hard core PvP game, with the poor questing system it is hard to believe anyone plays PvE

Great read, the guys at  En Masse have made a great game.  You cant keep all the people happy, all the time.  For someone who has been playing MMO's the last 10 years, Tera has brought some new challenges to the table.   Its kept my attention, and as I lvl it just keeps getting better and better.  Best PVP game out there!

Say what you will about TERA, but En Masse kind of kicks ass.

Cheers to them, it seems like they have their priorities straight. He's not set on pushing his own ideas down our throats, he's letting the players decide what they need to focus on.

Awesome game

Is he speaking for the localization side or the Korean development side?  Sounds like he's talking about a game that just launched vs one that's been available in Korea for over a year, which makes the interview a very weird read.

One thing you have to remember, this guy gets the code from a company in Korea.  Now they do modify it somewhat, but how much can they really change would be a question to ask.  The game still suffers from lack of content in Korea, so are they able to add their own content or are they reliant on their Korean partners.

Oh and anyone who thinks this is best pvp out there has very limited MMO playing time.

Post 50 this game needs retuning its way too hard (if your not there you will be and dont say I didnt warn you) it doesnt keep pace with the game you played before. They need to put the stuff back in like er nexu's and kill the lag in the endgame dungeons. EU.

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Good read, and I really look forward to seeing where TERA goes from here. I'm having a blast. The combat alone is a breath of fresh air for me.

Originally posted by Jerid

I wish before people posted ignorant embarrassingly incorrect info they'd do a little research. En Masse has 100% control over ALL the content that goes into their game. They stated this MANY times, they are not like other games that just have a publisher that is very hands off, En Masse GENERATES their own content as they desire.

 

I just whished people would provided sources with their infos so that we know they're speaking the truth.

Love the game but I would like to see 3 changes.

1. A suggestions forum on the TERA forums.

2. Ingame voice chat to make partying with randoms for BAM's etc a more immersive experience, ala Lotro.

3. Only make 1 "low" channel available at a time on PvP servers, having 8 channels always available turns pvp servers into pve servers. Its too easy to avoid conflict.

I'll be playing this for a long time, but please consider the above.