Holy crap, someone remembered an idea I suggested? And I'll get to play GW2 next week?
Brace yourselves, ladies and gents, I think that means the Apocalypse is coming.
or free and only at city/outpost.
Nah, if you can respec for free, as Hawkian says, it makes the decisions feel like they carry some weight. If you can just respec for free, then it's not really an important decision. Limiting it to a certain area does help though... but personally, I like my idea of buying "Respecs" at an NPC and only being able to do it 4 or 5 times before you need to return to a trainer and purchase more.
Maybe ArenaNet is still open to ideas, I might have to visit the NPC and leave feedback if given the option.
Beyond the embarrassing parts ("REAL MEN", "MMO-fo", ), I have two big issues with it. First, it's trying to pass Tera off as a more mature, 'manly' MMO when in fact, it actually has more fantasy elements. Outside of FFXI's Tarutaru and Allods' Onlines Gibberlings, I can't think of any MMO with races as un-manly as the Popori or Elin. Very hypocritical.
Second, you have a musclebound guy beating people up over their choice in a videogame, using pretty uncalled for violence and laughing at MMO players. ATMMO players, not with them, with a wink and a nudge. It's in the same vein as all those not-so-thinly veiled "Nintendo games are for little kids" ads from the N64 days.
Maybe it's just me though... Anyone also posting in the TERA thread want to chime in with the response over there? I don't want to saunter in and ask about something that sounds like a thinly-veiled attack. I'd be willing to bet that most of them are uncomfortable with this ad campaign and probably feel it reflects badly on them as a whole. If this gains traction, people are going to mention they play TERA and everyone around them will have this nasty image of a musclebound bully mocking the entire genre spring to mind.
Also, pretty sure TERA isn't the first MMO with 'Action Combat'. DCUO and Vindictus for sure. Does Age of Conan count? Probably a lot of other F2P ones that just aren't on my radar.
Technically, we shouldn't even have those numbers; they were leaked on 4chan before the last Press Event. Also, in our first podcast, it was mentioned that one of the big points in the Press NDA was that they absolutely cannot talk about the cash shop. Whether it was in or not (I assume it was since they were told not to mention it), we don't have any info at all that's official.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Megaphone and Bag slot were cut, not sure where. Anyone remember the source on this?
It's cringe-worthy how it's not even trying to hide the "You're not a real man unless you play TERA" message. It almost feels like they're trying to market the game to Call of Duty players when the game itself is very... um... I don't want to say "Frilly", but it's the first word that comes to mind.
The commercial's message is basically 'You are embarrassing yourself, you sad, lonely individual. Get out of your Mom's basement and play this game so everyone thinks you are cool'. That kind of childish campaign tends to put a lot of people off and embarrass the community behind the game.
Just when it was becoming kinda cool to be a 'nerd' too.
Personally, I'd like to see them take a serious route. Maybe boil the Manifesto down to the bullet points, steeped in some jaw-dropping visuals and combat footage, enriched with the bold strokes of Jeremy Soule's GW2 theme, and distill it down to a smooth, smoky, concept-art-come-to-life audiovisual experience that leaves you feeling intoxicated with hype. The kind of commercial where you have to rewatch it a couple times a week and quietly giggle to yourself as a gentle voice whispers "soon".
Also: New Concept art for hitting 460k Facebook Likes:
