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TERA: Subscription Free Version Coming February 5th
SBFord
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TERA players won't have long to wait for the launch of the subscription free version of the game. Both Europe's Gameforge and NA's En Masse Entertainment have announced that the F2P TERA will officially launch on Tuesday, February 5th.
There will be three player status types in TERA: Rising:
- STANDARD players have full access to all in-game content, without restrictions, for up to two free characters per server. They can purchase consumable, cosmetic, and convenience items from the in-game store on an a la carte basis.
- FOUNDER status is granted to all current subscribers as of February 5th, and provides additional character slots, bank tabs, a special mount, and other benefits. Founders retain these benefits regardless of whether they choose Standard or Elite status. Founder status can also be obtained after launch through physical retail packages while supplies last.
- ELITE status can be purchased in 30-day increments that confer numerous benefits including dungeon bonuses and rewards, additional daily quests, daily delivery of items, special mounts, and store discounts. Power players will find the fee more than pays for itself through the free items and discounts granted while they enjoy exclusive in-game perks.
Find out more on the TERA NA site or the TERA EU site.
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We all knew anyways, EU and EME are almost directly co-related, why would they go F2P on different dates?
It's just that's it's afternoon in EU and it's like 5:30am PST which is what EME goes by, so it's a little early for them.
Plus we had the steam leak like a week ago saying it was Feb 5th lol.
Yeah it seems they sent a Press letter about it.
Funny that Enmasse didn't ready their webpage first.
Gameforge is stepping up their game o/
Sigh. Businesses.
Well on Tera EU they confirmed it by not denying it.
I don't know what's up with EME, Gameforge has been stepping up their game and making EME look bad, funny gameforge doesn't start trying until F2P... wonder why, maybe they wanted F2P in the first place considering they are primarily known for F2P titles.
They didn't even include a cash shop or any customer service, they tried to kill their own game...but now they start trying?
The information about the veteran rewards are missleading, they are diferent from US KO and EU.
While the rewards are the same in the KO and US version, the EU players will only have bank slots and characters slots, since the game is going to a F2P model you can make have all the accounts you want,there for this rewards are simply ridiculous and a huge ripoff.
In every game news around the internet there is no information about this diferences so alot of people in the EU were misslead by this.
Gameforge is filtering all the comments about rewards and deleting all the posts in forums of alot of players trying to warn people about this.
I had a bunch of friends coming to TERA and because of this strange marketing politic they are losing players fast.
I ask to MMORPG to warn players about this before they buy the game, GAMEFORGE (ex Frogster) is denying any kind of missleading information and they are taking advange of websites that dont make diferences about the rewards.
Thank you for reading this.
Beta tester maniac
Berlight the charts for both EU and NA have been posted multiple times, nobody is being mislead and the perks for both EU/NA seem very similar to me, I didn't notice any differences upon first glance. Except in NA I think we get a mount for being elite and EU doesn't. F2P hasn't even launched yet so whatever you're saying seems to be speculation at this point.
Also there's some misleading information in the OPs post, for example "Founder" is not granted to current subscribers it is granted to anyone who has bought the game at any point in time. If you haven't played in 5 months but played after release, you're a founder.
Anyone who has ever bought the game in the history of its NA/EU existence becomes a founder, the OP is a little misleasing in that regard. You don't need to be subbed.
I was thinking of subscribing just to get founders but if its the way you say I'll save me 15$ I guess. I hope enmasse don't play any games with this status thing.
Free Tera sounds so good it's a good 2nd mmo for me I'll be playing FFXIV as main.
I think berlight is referring to the EU site saying "Dungeon Bonus 200%" which people who have never played the game understood as double dungeon rewards. In fact this only means you get 2x Valkyon's Response which are bonus items for using the LFG tool in the game. These packs will have some valuable items but also some worthless ones.
Saying GF was missleading is bull, it's just people understanding it wrongly because of the lack of knowledge about the game.
Awesome game turned even more awesome.
Awesome.
This game has tons of hate followers for some reason. They tend to hyperbole anything they hear about the game into something bad.
I´m sorry if it seemed like speculation:
In the US for 17€ you get a started pack besides the normal rewards:
QUICK-START PACK:
For a limited time, every purchase of the TERA Digital Edition will come with a bonus Quick-Start Pack including:
The TERA Digital Edition comes with 30 days of free game time.
Your first subscription fee will be charged following your 30 days of free game time
In the EU the rewards for 24.99€:
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terrific membership bonuses!
Beta tester maniac
Its going to a F2P model you can have all the accounts you want., the slots are infinite.
Beta tester maniac
I picked it up yesterday, felt the little extras for the founders pack were well worth it, inventory alone got me
"All expectation leads to suffering" Buhhda
Hey thanks for including Eu in the article. It doesn't happen all the time.
Very good f2p model. Definitely gonna try this.
More information on F2P for NA.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/477/view/forums/post/5535264/thread/375842#5535264