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TERA: The Exiled Realm of Arborea: Frogster Reassures the Community
SBFord
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Frogster Product Management Director Daniel Ullrich took to the official TERA forums with an open letter to the community. Ulrich takes on the concerns that have been expressed with regard to Frogster's contract to publish TERA in Europe.
Ullrich begins the letter by thanking the community for the feedback regarding any aspect of TERA's development or concerns about its publication. From there he moves on to answer some of the more hotly contested issues with specific regard to Frogster's involvement:
Frogster will be publishing TERA in Europe under a pay-to-play model just as EnMasse will be publishing TERA under a subscription model in the US.
While Frogster has no intention of changing or altering the game in any fashion in Europe, Ulrich acknowledges that it will have to abide by the laws of the countries in which TERA is released as would any publisher.
Frogster intends to put the most state-of-the-servers online in Europe. Frogster is working closely with BlueHole to ensure that the best, fastest, most reliable servers are brought online for Europe so that the gaming experience is equal to that of North America.
Frogster will have 24/7 customer support with a team dedicated only to TERA.
You can read the letter on the official TERA forums and check out the fan reaction.
What do you think about the letter? Are you reassured? Let us know!
Comments
bahh if Frogster will be publishing TERA in Europe i'm out!
anyone remember spellborn .... nothing more to say
Hmmm
Frogster, the ultimate moneymakers, they practically invented itemshops. They ruined the distribution of Spellborn. Lets say these guys are Worse then SOE and Microsoft and Apple together when making money is concerned
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i didnt see a single argument in this post ^^
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so you're saying they suck coz spellborn sucked?
spellborn sucked before they got a publisher, what's next?
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He never said Spellborn sucked.
He said they ruined the distribution of Spellborn.
"We got rid of the trinity." How'd you do that? "Now everyone can heal." Sounds like you just took the mechanic and spread it thin. "Well no, there's one class that can do it better than others." I see, so they're healers. "No. They're.." -mind asplode-
<Snip>While Frogster has no intention of changing or altering the game in any fashion in Europe, Ulrich acknowledges that it will have to abide by the laws of the countries in which TERA is released as would any publisher.
This is not true..The game has to be alter in order to comply with the european countries laws..As long they can get the ok from the Developers to alter the game they can pretty much do as they please as long it brings in revenue for them and the developers..We will see when the item mall hits the game..
I was so lookimg forward to TERA. A nicely made Korean MMO, westernised by EnMasse, lovely graphics doing something different with combat. Then Frogster right in the kisser.
So the pay-to-play is meant to reassure us? It shows what they know about most MMORPG players right there.
will frogster have anything to do with the USA version of TERA?
taz no
Spellborn didn't suck at all. It was a very decent game that could have easily made it.
They had a huge following in Europe alone for years during development and beta and the community was overall very positive and very mature.
Then they announced the publishing fiasco, with Frogster and Acclaim, splitting up the whole european community in three different regions.
Frogster only bothered doing german and french language servers.leaving a sub publisher doing Benelux and scandinavia (who didn't even had any distribution network other than Holland alone!! lol). And Acclaim got the UK together with the US. And to make it even worse, they then put up IP blocks!!
It caused such an outrage on the forums, that they pretty much lost everyone instantly.
There was nothing left of the community by the time the game launched!
Frogster put up the lame excuse that they didn't had publishing and distribution in whole Europe.
So how the hell are they gonna handle TERA then?? They gonna split up Europe again??
Lets hope not.....
haha, used to play guild wars and eve with the guy (the Product Manger).
actually pretty cool guy, who is a true gamer.
oh well, no terra for me then~
Swore to never play any mmo hosted by frogster ever again.
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well depending on the lag i might buy the american version then.
didnt have experiences with frogster but seems people are pretty pissed with them
wow, i didn't realize how many Europeans there were on this site. because everybody is pissed about this. lol
Didnt really get involved with spellborn, so I wasnt aware of Frogster much.
Thanks for the headsup ! - I hate it when they use other publisher, it made Lotro and DDO nowhere near as good as the american side.
Shame, I was looking forward to this game. Maybe we'll somehow be able to get the Us version.
TERA isnt F2P?
Well then i stay away from it - SWTOR gets my only Subscription in 2011
Spellborn was DOA !
The wrong game at the wrong time doing all wrong...a very few nice ideas though but not enough to save such a truckload of a mess.
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It always amazes me that Europe has such a great internet backbone with way faster connection speeds than North America, but when it comes to actually putting content online to USE all that speed, there's no one that's any good at it.
Every European distribution company I've heard of in the last 12 years is horrible.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Well CCP base their servers in the UK. And they are the only company to make a game with only one server.
Sure there is lag sometimes, but thats just server lag or client lag, (bugs) ive never had a bad ping on Eve for 5 years.
Im going to screenshot everyone who says they wont touch TERA and laugh my ass off when i see them playing it / waiting it in the forums.
talk about killing a game.
personaly i played Spellborn and didnt had much problem with it. altho im concerned about what u guyes say about this.. frogster...
guess il look it up. but lets just hope we all are able to play tera the right way and not get some lame as corupted game like most out there now
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This was some how meant to answer questions? All I see is the usual marketing PR fluff piece. They didn't address the idea of IP lock outs (which contributed to the failure of Spellborn by fragmenting the community), nor did they address the REALLY poor quality service that Frogster is infamous for. Its too bad that BH picked Frogster for Europe.
I hope they make enough money in the NA area to stay afloat, because Frogster will likely cost them quite a few subscriptions in Europe.
You Tera guys get Frogster, which also gets you my condolences as a ex TCoS player.
Maybe one of the worst publishers you could have been saddled with, seriously.
i didnt had problems with Runes of Magic at all and thats published by Frogster too isnt it??
Its doing fairly good aswell so why r u all so against Frogster?
Or am i missing something here?
Didn't read did you?
lemme sum it up for you..Frogster is the corporate version of Bob Kotick; yehaw, fuck the community and milk the dumb shits that stay for all their worth.
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This comment wasn't really of any value now was it??
My point stays unanswered i still didn't experience any trouble with Runes of Magic and therefore still dont understand why u all react that way.
Are u all just hating because of one mistake they did in the past or r u all unaware of Runes of Magic or am i really missing something here that could bring light to it?
I am really only trying to understand tho