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[Emn1ty]

Wakers, on 20 June 2012 - 07:11, said:

And this is why almost every MMO is **** these days. The "real game" doesn't start until level x is just a crappy excuse for horrendous game design.

There are games out there that don't have this ass backward design, sadly they're not out yet!

Unfortunately that's not how MMO's seem to work. The easiest way to keep you playing is to gradually give you access to the content as you progress.

[Asrokhel]

Scraggles, on 13 February 2012 - 19:27, said:

I only got to play the Tera Online beta for a few hours last night, but I honestly gotta say it kept me more interested and busy than SW:TOR.

The only problem I've had with SWTOR is the combat. If anything should've been an action RPG, SWTOR was it. Honestly, hitting tab plus button mashing is no fun, especially when you're a Jedi or Sith.

Now, I've only tried TERA through Gaikai, and didn't really have any fun, seeing as how it is basically a demo for the game. I need to try the real game.

[aionaddict]

Try Aion the US version is completely free with no restrictions.

[LOC]

I'm totally buying the game next month. Had a ball with the 7 day trial. They sent me a coupon code for 25% off the game, which expires on the 30th so I should be able to still use it. If not, no biggie I guess.

I really enjoyed the combat system, and the animations are spectacular imo. The scarily loli-esque quality of the female models of some races is kinda weird...but hey nothing wrong with a hot elf type chick with jiggly bits right?

I'm hearing there isn't much end game content though, which might make me second guess buying it. But we'll see.

[dead.cell]

LOC, on 21 June 2012 - 21:39, said:

I'm totally buying the game next month. Had a ball with the 7 day trial. They sent me a coupon code for 25% off the game, which expires on the 30th so I should be able to still use it. If not, no biggie I guess.

I really enjoyed the combat system, and the animations are spectacular imo. The scarily loli-esque quality of the female models of some races is kinda weird...but hey nothing wrong with a hot elf type chick with jiggly bits right?

I'm hearing there isn't much end game content though, which might make me second guess buying it. But we'll see.

Damn, I think the 50% off sale just went offline from Raptr. Was gonna suggest going through that if you planned on buying it but oh well.

[Emn1ty]

LOC, on 21 June 2012 - 21:39, said:

I'm hearing there isn't much end game content though, which might make me second guess buying it. But we'll see.

I've been taking my sweet time leveling. While the end game may lack content (not confirming it, since I haven't gotten there) the game itself offers lots of replayability with the other classes. They also plan on releasing more glyphs and have already demonstrated that they are willing to evolve classes (they added blocks to Fighters in a previous patch as well as multiple other abilities to them and Lancers).

The thing I love about this game is the support and emphasis on not only PvP but GvG and the political system. They have added in the ability for Guilds to fight for power rather than attain Vanarcship through popular vote. A lot of subtle but great ideas coming from En Masse.

[mattmatik]

The voting system is pretty sweet, great idea to further the game world socially. I don't know, my 7-day trial just ended. Think I will wait a bit longer - I have no qualms buying the game at all but I just got into WoW and don't want to carry 2 subs.

[LOC]

dead.cell, on 22 June 2012 - 00:09, said:

Damn, I think the 50% off sale just went offline from Raptr. Was gonna suggest going through that if you planned on buying it but oh well.

Well maybe by the time I can buy the game in 11 days or so, someone else will have a nice sale for me to pick it up then.

[dead.cell]

LOC, on 22 June 2012 - 09:46, said:

Well maybe by the time I can buy the game in 11 days or so, someone else will have a nice sale for me to pick it up then.

Wellllll, if you're looking to save money, you might wanna hit it before June 30th seeing as you have a coupon for 25% off, and there's a subscription-lock in at 40% off too which will end on the 30th as well.

http://store.enmasse...uctID.249003000

Just trying to save ya money kind sir.

[LOC]

dead.cell, on 22 June 2012 - 16:13, said:

Wellllll, if you're looking to save money, you might wanna hit it before June 30th seeing as you have a coupon for 25% off, and there's a subscription-lock in at 40% off too which will end on the 30th as well.

http://store.enmasse...uctID.249003000

Just trying to save ya money kind sir.

Yeah I knew about that sub price lock in also. Unfortunately I can't buy the game until my SS comes in in the beginning of July. So I'm pretty boned I guess

[Joseph B]

Picked this up a couple days ago at Best Buy when it was the deal of the day, you can't beat $8.

Got a High Elf Berserker up to 31, enjoying the combat system a lot. I just wish it were easier to find guilds, or be more social. I've spoken to maybe 3 people total since level 1.

And whats with this extended downtime? Servers were suppose to be back up hours ago.

[Emn1ty]

Joseph B, on 17 July 2012 - 13:49, said:

Picked this up a couple days ago at Best Buy when it was the deal of the day, you can't beat $8.

Got a High Elf Berserker up to 31, enjoying the combat system a lot. I just wish it were easier to find guilds, or be more social. I've spoken to maybe 3 people total since level 1.

And whats with this extended downtime? Servers were suppose to be back up hours ago.

I don't know, I haven't logged in in a while (because my guild ended up falling apart cause our friends could never decide on a long-term goal). Everyone ended up spreading apart so far in levels we were virtually playing the game alone.

And it is difficult to find good, social guilds. Mostly because there is a member cap and a lot of the better guilds are probably full. All I can say is try and find a good party to play with and join a smaller guild or make your own. It isn't very expensive to start one. In fact, a friend and I were thinking of making one on the side of our main guild and trying to bring over some EVE espionage to the Tera political landscape.

[LOC]

Oh! Forgot to post that I finally got the game about a month ago. Haven't played it though until last week finally. A friend of mine bought a copy and when he found out I wanted to play he bought me a copy and off we went. Of course, he isn't playing anymore due to GW2 (and another game that shall remain nameless...for now...) but I have my Zerker up to level 28 (almost 29) and having alot of fun. Did my first run of SM last night and while I didn't have the quests to do for it (I never went to the NPC's outside the teleportal due to the giant monsters that rape me outside there) and thus didn't get a ton of XP from completeting them, I did have a nice run and got a couple of good drops for my level so I'm happy.

Got into a guild also, which is always good in a game like this imo. Fairly popular guild at that, near the player cap and everything! Went into the guild bank earlier and holy snickers bars!

[Ionium]

Game is a humongous grindfest, takes forever to reach 60, and the enchanting system blows, the BAM fights aren't very rewarding either at max level. Only one BG map since the game's been out. Back to WoW for me. And TL2.

[dead.cell]

In case you guys missed it: TERA is merging down to three servers.