Good news, TERA players. Since the MMO launched, you have created two and a half million characters, formed more than fourteen thousand guilds and over a thousand Vanarch candidates, and over three hundred fifty thousand of you newbies died on the starter island. What more, you newbies dying are precisely the reason why En Masse will be merging servers later this year. Of course I’m exaggerating. Due to low population metrics on a large number of servers, En Masse Entertainment has decided to perform a merger this fall.
But they aren’t seeing this as a bad thing:
Where some might look on this as a negative, I feel differently. By combining our servers, we facilitate a more unified community and give players a more full, alive world where finding groups, locating rare items (for lower prices!), and getting into dungeons quickly are the norm. Most importantly, combined servers will allow us to run more regular, player-focused events where we get to interact with our players.
There are plenty of plans for new content on the horizon, with player events and holiday events coming soon. The eleven current servers will be merged down to three: one of each game type (PvE, PvP, RP). Players will be required to delete characters if they have more than 8 on a server post-merge. Names will be offered on a first-come first-serve on who logs in first after the merge.
(Source: TERA)
(Also: Merger FAQ)
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Don’t let EmE spin doc this. It IS a bad move. Just because he says ” many may see it as bad, but we do not.” does not make it a good thing.
This game is going free2play soon. This is just a hand hold on the steep fall from the mediocrity this game became in the hands of EmE. it has one more slip before it hits bottom, free2play. Hey, maybe if Knoxxer pulls his head out of his rear end he might still save this game in the NA. but sincerely…I doubt it.
Server mergers are always spun as positive, that’s what the PR people are paid to do. It’s making the best of a bad situation, but they end up coming across as saying “well we’re better off this way.” You may remember an old MMO called Fury which just decided to offend their ex-customers and state that the reason people were leaving was because they were “losers” and probably lost PvP matches. Come to think of it, I still have that email. I’ll have to post it up as a nostalgia page or something.
As a player of many MMOs, I know what it’s like to enjoy a game that isn’t necessarily popular or considered to be high quality by other players, so I also know what it’s like to watch a game you enjoy slowly crumble to its death.
I hope TERA does go free to play. It stands to bring in a lot of people.