That's the truth of "WHY TERA IS DYING"!!!

    Hey ! I can't agree with all of this but people willing pve they pve, people willing to pvp they pvp.

    Fact is that Tera team doesn't really pain much attention to pvp but that is not the reason game is getting less popular. It's about marketing, social media management and basically focus on community and players.

    Gameforge has few games now, Tera is old. Those who love Tera will play no matter what. But GF should focus on new player base, returning players and to look up in the future. Instead of splitting Eu servers into 3 should be one EU server. Make more sense i think.

    You cant blame people for doing PVE only, this is what they like. Not every player must like PVP side of the game, i think there is no need for blaming people about it.

    Team members should care more about what people see and take advices on board.

    There is many things that GF done wrong but we just humans.

    I hope, i mean it, I HOPE they will put more focus on Tera, because Tera is one of it's kind game. I don't think they should perma kill it. It still has potential and many options to make it amazing video game.

    Your absolutely right they should focus on trying to make the game better and bring back players there are many many reasons why players are quitting and a lot have to do with the way gf is handling things also the toxic community if these problems were fixed along with server issues and hackers duping everything it would be better not to forget the way how horrible the class balancing is and to add event and more to the story not just constant in your face pay wall crap to make whales happy and screw hard working players that's what is driving players away

    There are way more problems than just the pvp, it lies on their design choices from years now.


    First they tried to make the game a matter of speed, more and more patches along the way with the creation of the apex and everything else was with the sole purpose of making the game "faster" in a way.

    The battles and classes all became a matter of how many skills per second you can use instead of the old times where you needed to have a heavily focus on survival and teamplay for mechs or mobs first before thinking of dpsing the boss itself.


    Making the game faster only helped increase the use of macros and the creations of proxy modules to basically achieve "perfect" rotation. They made dungeon mech and boss attacks more and more irrelevant along the years to the point that if you have max gear or sometimes even minimum gear for it you can just tank a lot of hits on the highest end game content. All for the sake of dpsing non stop.


    Even tough apex brings some pretty interesting changes to classes it mostly ruined the game in my opinion. Lancers can for years now just break core mechs and i don't think was their intention seeing the eventually changed AAH to stun even if mech was blocked. Warrior def stance is now a joke, for someone that played warrior tank from old ages i'm completely pissed they ruined the class i liked to a freaking brawler 24/7 growing fury clone but with way more iframes. It's just ridiculous...


    Not only that they nerfed more and more the little aspect of classes that would differentiate from a skilled player or not like lancer hold the line stacks, ninja passive buff and so on. Some classes were ruined bc the concept was either u macro/cheat or u are trash aka rip normal zork players, you will be remembered


    All classes in general, like i said have somewhat a "perfect" rotation that needs to be executed as fast as possible so people tend to normally just cheat bc it's honestly easier and more effective, their game code is trash enough that they can't find a way around to prevent it.


    There is no more a sense of analyzing the situation and adapting to it to stay alive while dpsing and doing mechs


    Healers are useless, honestly that's what i feel when i play heal. The fact that you can pay gold to ress 99 times on starting content up to all the mid content of the game is straight up bullshit. People can hit their head non stop on keyboard and clear everything besides 501 dungeons... And what for? To not lose time since time = dps? Yep, that's the mentality you create with those and the "fast fast gotta go fast" design we have now.


    They added way too much "hidden" power system to the game, it's to a point you can't know for sure if the dps difference between two people that appears to have the same gear and do almost the same rotation if derived from a cheat or just random stuff like cards, collections, mounts, pets. I get they wanted to add some kind of new system to generate more farm but it's getting pretty ridiculous, it's way too many systems that affects too much of the dps.


    Economy of both EU and NA is all over the place, has been for a while, the exploiting for items and gears was never worked out, they never managed to find a way to prevent it from happening again


    The gear progression is all over the place since the exodor first patch, we were used to +15 gear farms before they introduced the idea of 0 to +9 no reduction no break on guardian. Then all of sudden they go backwards and introduce a new gear with the old system and now? Back to guardian system i guess. Like, can you please freaking decide already? Are we getting an evolution from the gear now or are we trashing it in the future to farm a new gear all over again to +15?


    There is no merit to be a good player, sadly with the fact there are so many modules, cheats and the easy p2w choice available you see more and more people just paying for the end game gear and being either afk on hw or cheating on dungeons bc they never brother to learn the game. And yes, i'm including using dungeons guides as a cheat, if you can't run a dungeon without a system giving you notice and marking areas with flowers ffs don't even play it


    Community for the most part is closed off in groups, incredible unwelcoming to new peers and straight up toxic. Seriously the fact that cheaters or p2w want to trash talk to please their own ego is disgusting. You see it happening too much on lfg or im parties, even guild chats. Someone trash talking others all the time when either they are bad or just payed for the gear.


    Even when it's not the case, why trash talk new players in the first place? It's not like we all had to learn but people don't remember getting help. They want to get their skilled, get into close parties that clear fast and make jokes about others. You rarely see any training being hosted by experienced players for others on lfg or they having patience on im to guide. You would expect a dying game to have a community more friendly than this


    Pvp is entirely dead, takes too many people for most battlegrounds, rewards are way too terrible, is too easy to cheat on it


    And well lastly, every feedback is being ignored anyway so we will wont see any changed in the future and i believe the situation will only get more depressing over and over again. Hype for the new 1 boss meta too. You know, it's fun waitting or looking for members for more than 10min sometimes to do a less than 3min fight. Nice design! Tera will be an afk game or an online chat.


    Just give us auto battle already, the game is getting more and more mobile systems anyway, let's go full afk mobile game

    I finished whit tera becouse the constant new gears that ruin all gears before it, you work out your a.. to get the gear to the max than comes the new gear and you gear become a sarter gear just like the Kaia sett.Also a s... ton of player uses macros,cheats,guides (that tells you what to do),bots, and etc.and GF just dont give a f... about it .They dont even know what happening on there server i played tera like 4-5 years (sometime i quit the game and return) but i never seen any GM or Moderator in the game,it like they have 2-5 man behinde the EU server who just patch up the server and thats all,and this one boss thing to most of the new dungeon have only 1 or max 2 bosses and it rare if the boss is fully new(new model,new mechs). i laught so hard in tha last chrismas event the put up a post saying the event is rolling at full force while the half of the event not even work like no santa spawn etc. Traning dungeon are bugged and some of them CANT be completed like AAH 2nd boss how i suppose to pick up the buff? i pick up once and when the 2nd time the boss comes whit the mech you still have the debuff so RIP.

    And there is also a ton of old item and they just dont remove them, WHY? They cant remove items or what?

    Also the game runs terrible i have a decent pc and i rarely get more than 35 fps(and not even on full graph) i play other MMO that has WAY better graphics and i can play it in MAX setting and have 70 FPS.



    So why TERA is dying? Answer is simple: They dont care about the game any more.


    Sorry for the bad English :)

    Gameforge could definitely do better, but to be honest, I think their hands are tied as only being the European publisher for Tera and not the developer.
    The main blame for Tera's state should be put on the Bluehole Studios developers. They are the ones making Tera garbage, and Gameforge is simply adapting that garbage over to Europe.

    Sure Gameforge could try to adapt it better for a North American and European audience, but maybe they're not allowed to by some weird agreement they have with Bluehole Studios. Maybe all Gameforge is allowed to do is pretty much translate this garbage game into different languages.


    Maybe Gameforge actually wants to make good changes to Tera and secretly hates the direction Bluehole Studios is forcing them to take with Tera, but they can't express any of this hate towards the direction without risking their relationship with Bluehole Studios.

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    Gameforge could definitely do better, but to be honest, I think their hands are tied as only being the European publisher for Tera and not the developer.
    The main blame for Tera's state should be put on the Bluehole Studios developers. They are the ones making Tera garbage, and Gameforge is simply adapting that garbage over to Europe.

    Sure Gameforge could try to adapt it better for a North American and European audience, but maybe they're not allowed to by some weird agreement they have with Bluehole Studios. Maybe all Gameforge is allowed to do is pretty much translate this garbage game into different languages.


    Maybe Gameforge actually wants to make good changes to Tera and secretly hates the direction Bluehole Studios is forcing them to take with Tera, but they can't express any of this hate towards the direction without risking their relationship with Bluehole Studios.

    I definitly agree with your statement but thats simply transparency. Why they dont tell us what is possible with their influence and when they have to wait for changes from the dev's? The main problem is the communication between community and gamefore itself. I wouldn't expect some things if i would know that it isnt their fault and get constant feedback... but we dont get any informations...

    Also on some parts, its completely obvious that they mess up things (like loot adjustments, p2w gear upgrade in shop, etc.) because they already showed that they have the possibility to do so ...

    Gameforge will be publishing Swords of Legend in Europe, another MMORPG.

    It is pretty popular in China, and already has a growing fanbase in Europe and NA.


    You can kind of forget that Gameforge will ever bother with TERA again.

    It is a dead game, with ruined reputation.


    The faster the playerbase accept it, the least sour it'll be when Gameforge will announce the shutdown of TERA.

    They already shat down their anime MMORPG (Soulworker), no doubt this will be the next.

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    no class archerer on swords of legend ,

    n class archerer on elion .

    WTF : they hate class archerer or what ?

    Wait... I just got this really good unique idea that's never been done that GF could do to revive the game... ok it's been done once but .. What if... hear me out... they deleted all of our accounts again?


    I really think this is a win-win... We all get to enjoy paying insane amounts of money to open gacha boxes (that are more expensive now) and get inventory slots / character slots which are also more expensive now... And on top of that we get to play the game from square one again!! Oh don't forget GF reaping the benefit of us paying for the shit we already had 10 years ago. That's a sweet deal.


    We also get to receive zero remorse bc there was a 20 second window to migrate which they let us know about by sending emails to our junk boxes of our old emails we don't touch bc we made them when we were 10.


    Just saying, this is totally ethically sound. :thumbsup:


    P.S.

    Just thinking about playing this amazingly beautiful and well put together game makes me sick bc of the unethical practices around it. IDC if you don't think it's GF's fault alone. It ain't right and is the most toxic thing anyone could do. They won't get anyone back until they offer compensation for screwing their "customers". It's impossible to feel comfort in paying for anything on Tera now and I know I'm not alone.

    i just wanna play battlegrounds on tera with a friend
    tera combat when not facing cheaters is some off the best mmo pvp there is or will be for quite some time
    since 64 bit even the graphics are pretty damn good for an mmo so the game should not be bleeding players any more than an average game

    but the game IS dieing and bleeding players because gear RNG and the wrong content is being cut all the time leaving us with the current mess off a game we have now full off bugs, bad p2w gear and unbalanced awakaning skills after more than a year off balance tweeks

    no pk
    no fraywind
    no 20 vs 20 deathmatch gridiron
    corsairs bugged leaderboards
    shore bugged leaderboards
    no guild vs guild highwatch battles
    no open world pvp for the world bosses
    civil unrest is shit now

    and thats my view of current tera as someone who joined in 2018
    people who joined in 2012 must cry or puke seeing what is left off this game