Tera Online = “$35 Monthly + Item Charges”

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Ero-moe MMORPG Tera Online seems to be not only the sexiest MMORPG yet, but also the most expensive, having already been written off prior to its launch with the news that it apparently combines a monthly fee of ¥2700 with item charges and the ¥7000 cost of the game itself.

The price is rather well hidden, for obvious reasons:

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Some would say the game is worth it all the same:

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However, most prospective Japanese players are ridiculing this pricing as a rip-off of the first order which has doomed the title before it even launched – although coming from the same country which has spawned and sustained the likes of IdolMaster their reaction perhaps deserves some sceptical consideration.

Whether the sky-high pricing will stay or be quietly revised with developers insisting it was not actually final and accusing their customers of jumping the gun will likely determine just how few people end up playing the game.

No firm subscription details for the much censored US release have been announced, although the game is available for pre-order now despite this.


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    Avatar of Bigall
    Comment by Bigall
    03:12 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Are there any male characters in this game?

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    Comment by Your Name
    03:18 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    There are traps, that counts, right?

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:24 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    All the players will be male. So you're good.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:42 01/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Your character might have penis. But you will fap to it anyway.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:57 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Lolicon is becoming fashionable...
    Tera should have an off line version to sell it a little more..
    Hauhhaua male characters? In undress.? For God who wants to see artifacts?

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    Comment by fullmetalyasha
    04:50 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    male? they are shemale.

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    Comment by releasedninja
    03:14 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    korean version ftw!

    39$ for account + 30 days playtime

    Avatar of Master Evil The Return!
    03:14 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    its a good thing am going for the korea release lol

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    Comment by Baronight
    03:15 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    awwww come on!!!!
    i'm about to pick up this game and now comes the ridiculous monthly fees?

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    Comment by Y10NRDY
    03:19 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    I will not only pay for it but like it if they don't destroy the character creation...

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    Comment by Sylphin

    isit just me or does those legs look like DAIKON lol...the tights are like too fat =x

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:21 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    This game is total crap. I can buy a good game every month for 35.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:31 01/08/2011 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    Orly?

    A handheld game maybe, but when was the last time good console/PC games cost 35 bucks?

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    Comment by RaspberryKisses
    03:39 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    witcher 2 (metacritic 87) cost less than 30 on steam.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:21 01/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.6)

    And is possibly the bast game so far this year

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    Comment by Rya
    05:50 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    The problem is: It's too fucking short in the second half.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:15 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    When the problem is the game is too short, you know its a good game!

    Avatar of Shizu's Waki Obsessor: MaidNiac
    03:52 01/08/2011 # ! Quality (+0.8)

    Recettear: $20+

    Simple yet addictive.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:28 01/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.8)

    Got Recettear for 5$ with 4 other games in a Indie pack. More than worth it.

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    Comment by Ota-Kool
    04:32 01/08/2011 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    Naah I prefer to pay a cos player prostitute that dress the same in Tera then have undress her and have a kinky S&M sex with her.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:24 01/08/2011 # ! Drivel (-0.8)

    Ugh... I don't think a prostitute can emulate the little animal girls very well.

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    Comment by Rinfinite
    03:55 01/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Team Fortress 2 is free.

    Avatar of Master Evil The Return!
    07:28 01/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.6)

    lol, now thats just mean.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    04:05 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    You can often find a good game for under $30 online if you shop around.
    Then there's gamefly which is 15.95 a month.

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    Comment by Riiya932
    04:12 01/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.5)

    GTA: San Andreas
    Altitude
    Half-Life Series
    Hammerfight
    The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
    Portal 1
    Day of Defeat: Source
    Far Cry
    Mirror's Edge
    Cryostasis
    Commander Keen

    They all cost way below 35 bucks.
    And, damn, they're better than anything you've probably played so far.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Your taste in games is horrible.

    Comment by Anonymous

    what are you talking about? far cry, half life is better taht any asian loli game

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:02 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Lol so many shit in a single post.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:14 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    A good game that cost 35$ monthly?Well this is the first to even charge a 35$ monthly fee...trust me the game is fun at certain points,but totally not worth 35$.Play ArcheAge or something.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:52 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    and for sure it will not cost 35$ in us/eu..

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:26 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Not if they want more than five subscribers, anyway.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:23 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    humble bundle says hi

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    Comment by Imyou
    06:54 01/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.4)

    Actually, it's $90 up front, THEN $35 a month. When was the last time a good console game cost $90?

    ...then when was the last time a good console game cost $420 PER YEAR?

    Besides, you CAN buy a good game for $35 every month. Recettear, Cave Story, Shadow Complex, PixelJunk games, etc...

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:23 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Almost all new games in Japan cost as much. With the current exchange rate most PS3 games are up to the equivalent of $100 now.

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    Comment by Aquasmith
    04:28 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (-0.1)

    I can't agree that the game is crap because I have not played it.You can't get new games for $35 but you can get two great games on Steam for about $35. Waiting for Guild Wars 2 which is much better and only need to pay once for the game.

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    Comment by Chemin
    05:28 01/08/2011 # ! Quality (+0.8)

    I love that you state your ignorance about Tera based on not having played it, but not with GW2. ^^ Just a little double-standard for you.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Guild Wars 2 will suck, and you know that.

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    Comment by Shippoyasha
    04:36 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    This game is actually pretty good. Can't compare all games on price. Though they messed up the pricing on this one..

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:22 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    The pricing for this is probably just for Japan. There are big spenders over there. It's not gonna fly over here in the NA, especially when they're considering putting tights on all the little animal girls.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:23 01/08/2011 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    You guys keep forgetting to mention that TERA will censor all of those loli pantsu for the western release...

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:09 01/08/2011 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Wich besides the overhyped and overexpensive price will ruin the game even more. Potencial customers will either look for "private" servers or forget about it and move along to another game.

    Greed has killed allot of P2P games, some of them go F2P in a desperate move from the hype(and in this case "censorship") backslash.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:10 01/08/2011 # ! Drivel (-0.8)

    All this speculation, yet in the end your bound to try the game at least once. in which case your still gonna buy the game and play it. They have won.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:59 01/08/2011 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    I'm gonna torrent the game, extract the models, and make my own fapviewer in Blender. I win.

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    Comment by TNinja
    08:08 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Your logic is flawed, if it was supposed to be general. Haven't touched FFXIV. Not even it's cover. Because it wasn't promising.

    I doubt I would even bother testing or pirate TERA due to it's expensive pricing. I don't value games by just design. |:V

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:59 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's actually cheaper Pirated-10$ for an account and 25$ for a month from what I heard.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:59 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    free download also

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:28 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Seriously folks, everything costs this much in Japan.

    Aion costs the same thing over there. Sure as hell doesn't cost that here.

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    Comment by HouseLife
    16:30 01/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    I desperately want to know how to extract models from games. Not just this one, but in general. No better way to learn good modeling and texturing workflow than from those who have solved the problems before you. I'm already an animator, but there are detail issues I've yet to solve in my modeling. Once you model the hips and shoulders correctly, there are methods of setting up your edge loops so that you can basically do any move but Indian Style sitting without any custom rigging beyond a character studio biped (unless there's some crazy clothing of course, which there always is).

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:24 02/08/2011 # ! Good (+0.6)

    censored.... ill pass, fucken american conservatists

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:52 03/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    You could just go pirate the uncensored version and replace the loli models in the Amurikkan version.

    Avatar of Kouma
    Comment by Kouma
    00:35 06/08/2011 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Please tell me you're trolling. Do you have a source on this?

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:10 25/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Ya what they said was true just take a look on their forums and frogster's anit-asian mmo hate-speech too.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:00 18/08/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    They already started censoring. The japanese version as compared to korean version has in the game textures censored nipples, removed shadings around vagina and halved resolutions of some textures.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:25 20/04/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Elin got censored due to En-Masse despite customer outcries. And you know what En-Masse did? Treated their customers as second-citizens. Tons of lock threads from customer inquiries about the armor censoring issue and the quality. Provided solid facts why elin shouldn't have gotten censored from several games and shows and En-Masse completely ignored until they finally came out and called it "a matter of opinion and art".

    Now elin is glitched forever where her clothes won't even change proper color and her legs clip into the foreign material.

    I brought JP Tera due to those idiots and it looks like everyone from SWTOR/WoW flocked to the forums in their asian-theme mmo hating ways.

    Defiantly will be looking for PS of this game. Hopefully Korean. This company can kiss my behind.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:27 20/04/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Price for JP-Tera has since dropped! The game is only $50 dollars now and monthly subscription has dropped as well.







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