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What the hell is all this pollution with "Tera is wonderful"-threads?
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It was dead before it started.
It would amaze me if anyone took the OP seriously
Honestly my problem with TERA is how viral the marketing for the game is.
They released a website and Facebook group called "MMOFO" in which a campaign was starting to make MMOs hard. People signed up for this thinking it was some kind of petition style website where gamers would come together and proest easy MMOs. After a month of this bullshit the Facebook group transformed into a TERA IS THE HERO campaign and suddenly MMOFO shows up on the TERA website.
Because of this viral campaign and because so many game devs have been caught paying professional forum posters to hype up games... I distrust anyone who says TERA is a great game. I'm especially sketical when said posters are brand new to the website only have a hand full of posts and all those posts are about how awesome TERA is.
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Err sure you didn't get GW2 and Tera mixed up here? Tera by far has the least marketing, beside mmfo which honestly i can't even take seriously, i find them a good laugh. And people who enjoy Tera posting on the Tera thread about them liking Tera omg.... world is ending. So all game threads have to be full of people telling everyone else how shitty the game is compare to xxx and everyone who disagree is stupid? Idk man i perfer this more postive trend.
The forum marketing is really really cheap and super effective. It's kind of like how you barely ever see Apple commercials around because Apple spends a lot of money lining the pockets of Hollywood to show their products in movies.
Guild Wars 2 seems to have more upfront marketing with their banners everywhere. TERA I am suspicious is doing some viral campaigning which is cheaper and largely more effective.
If they hired ten people to spend a month going on forums and saying OMG BUY THIS GAME ITS AWESOME they will get more sales out of it than from paying for pre-sale banner advertisements on these same forums based websites.
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Fail thread and maybe worst one in last month
I didn't eat the pizza at all. It takes a split second to dissect the general sense of taste from a Foodnetwork video.
I didn't watch the Transformers movie at all. It takes a split second to dissect the similiarities of the plot from a old Voltron video.
"Yeah i read the wikipedia page for Twilight and then Harry Potter and noticed they like both had werewolves named black so i decided they must both be bad cause they were copying each other but i never read either one. Its cool though cause i read the internet all the time so im like an expert on this reading thing even though i havent tried either one. Im mad though cause all these people are like talkin about them and stuff and i see it on forums but they must be bad cause of my preconcieved idea that they are even though i dont know anything about them."
Same arguement same fail. Play tera and give useful KNOWLEDGABLE feed back, hate it, love it, suggestions, etc, or simply STFU.
You mean like how GW2 fans go to EVERY other game forum telling people how much GW2 is better than that game and that game is trash? Ya Tera fans enjoying a game they like, posting on TERA forum is some how a viral campaign? Than GW2 be like super viral campaign.
I am much more leery of people coming over from other sections looking for any way to bring another game up... constantly. Oh well, such us the way or these forums. How anyone actually gets information I don't know lol.
Just not worth my time anymore.
I look forward to Planetside 2 as more or less the only one.
The only argument I have heard so far, that distinguishes TERA from WoW, is combat system. I am sorry, but that is not enough, it is simple game mechanics, and if it is the only difference, then I will still stand by my clone claim: You are still running around in a quest threadmill, running from area to area as if on railroads, experiencing exactly what everyone else is, leveling up to endgame, while collecting gear. I simply cannot see the overall difference, even if the small element of combat is different.
But I can level totally different in TERA than I can in WoW, I can group up with some frieds and grind BAM repeatable quests from zone to zone.
BAMs are basically boss monsters as in they give massive xp, good loot and take a while to kill, but they are all over the game world and you can level up primarily on them, both the xp from killing them and the repeatable quests.
I can stack 50/5 Ovoliths with my group then we turn it in ten times and go back or proceed to higher level BAMs if we leveled enough...
then when we get bored, we roam around picking fights with everyone in FFA OWPvP or declare a guildwar and go hunting.
that is why TERA is different from WoW, along with combat.
Well if you had spent some time playing the game for an extended time perhaps you could understand what these people are trying to convey to you.
As your title to this thread states, you seem like you are just poo-pooing about people having fun in tera.
I'm sorry but this is the TERA forum section and WE FANS like to talk about tera, if you don't like it then piss off and leave.
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PS2 is garbage, sorry buddy. With track record of SOE you will only end up with a broken game and nickle dimed to hell and back. I saw you tube videos and thought 'why the hell is this game polluting you tube?'
*whistles*
That makes sense indeed and the OP should understand that there are more posivtive posts then negative ones in a forum dedicated to the game itself. However being a forum dedicated to a game doesn't mean that only positive things are allowed to be said.
Then I can agree that his first post could have been written in a better way with a bit less "taunting".
/Ely
Wow just wow... Really? You barely see Apple commercials? Where do you live on the moon?
About the hired people on forum, iI guess you are free to belive everything you want.
You may want to get a tin foil hat too, to be on the safe side, in case they are using some alien mind control system.
Move along people, nothing to see here!
My option after playing the open beta is Tera is a WoW clone crossed with a little darkfall mechanics, i dont beelive it worth a subscription and i dont think ill be buying it atleast while it has a sub fee. Again this is my option from what ive seen from the game i may be missing somthing. It is definetly more enjoyable than any game that came before it however i do beleive GW2 will be much more fun to play atleast for me. Ill get to find out during the beta this weekend where ill finaly get to compare the games, atm im leaning towards GW2 even though im yet to play it.
Both side are doing it, and it kinda ridiculous however can be an amusing read sometimes for some reason some people just get so worked up. I simply put it this way try both games while there in beta and play the ones you like, simple as that.
I'm just going to comment on the highlighted section.
Isn't this something that's common to just about every MMORPG and even many SPRPGs? I mean, I know it may seem unrealistic, but think about the alternative. Imagine if monsters aggro'd the second that they are in visual distance of a player.
Given that this will be an MMORPG, there will be lots of players in a zone. Because of this there must be lots of monsters. The result would be chaos. The first player to walk into visual range of a monster camp would be swarmed. It would be ridiculous.
And really, an aggro radius in and of itself isn't horrible unrealistic. Ever watch the nature channel when a pack of lions is just laying around 200m away from a herd of wildebeests and neither animal seems to care?
Anyway, I think it would be possible to make a game with more realistic monster aggro but it would change the entire design of the game. You couldn't really have that open world idea where you explore a world populated with monsters. Instead, monsters would have to dynamically spawn in appropriate proportions so as not to overwhelm the players. Personally, I think it would feel more artificial.
Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?
Ya, imagine that. Something new, a completely new design.
Why do TERA fans post that they like this game in it's forum? It's absurd I tell you!!! The TERA forums have become polluted with "TERA is wonderful" threads while they should be full of negative threads that try to convince people that the game will suck.
QUIET, YOU! OR I'LL SIC MY PINK UNICORN POSTS ON YOUR GUILD WARS THREAD AGAIN!
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Is this yet another "why do people like things I don't like" thread? Thought so.
I still say it should be a banning offence.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
In the end thats always the best idea, which is why i loved how EME did their CBT and OBT was so nice because it was seriously SO easy to get in to the betas to try out the game. Sadly GW2 doesn't want to do that and i don't feel like throwing in 60 non-refundable dollar in so i'm waiting for guildies to play and tell me.