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How's Tera doing in Korea?
Well,
Curios as I was I looked online at some Korean sites to see how Tera was doing. In Korea. I can't play the game myself since I am region-locked but being able to read Korean I thought I would see how the up and coming action mmo was doing.
The thing is... It's really hard to find stuff about MMOs in Korea, I couldn't find one reliable source that was like a korean mmorpg.com site or a site that generally has a very high user count, so I just went around and looked at some of the stuff people posted.
Again, this is user opinion, and Koreans are known to like a different taste of games.
I don't check in with Korean stuff too regularly so if anyone has a better source yay, I'll take note of it and change the thing or something.
So here it is:
From http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/game/?game=1176
Tera currently has
That is 5.7/10 from 242 users, and interesting statistics are that there are 5% in the 10-19 age, 49% in 20-29 age range, 33% from 30-39 range and 13 for 40-49 age range. Oh and it's 87% male gamers and 13% female, but that's no surprise.
From the comments I read it was:
Postive:
-Good graphics
-Good sound
-Good overall combat (targettin and feeling / pace of combat)
-Good balance between solo and party play, nice pace of leveling
Negatives:
-Company that runs the game (hangame) is apparently notorious for being uncommunicative with their playerbase and thus a lot of players feel that the money spent (40 million won) was wasted.
-No content for end-game
-Basically people calling out that the potential of the game is lost to piss poor management.
AGAIN: This was... a small thingy that I just looked up and thought interesting, I didn't even bother to check other sites or other games as comparison, I don't even know why I went this far.
From: http://www.gamenote.com/rank_ongame/?search_mode=monthly
Tera is currently 3rd in the online 'ranking' for games in Korea so... again, people's opinion doesn't always reflect the popularity I guess
1st Aion
2nd Sudden Attack
3rd Tera
4th Fifa online 2
5th dungeon and fighter (DFO)
6th world of warcraft
7th Maple story
8th Lineage 1 (Yea... 1! I was surprised by this)
9th Kart Rider
10th Special Force
11th Star Craft 2
12th Lineage 2
13th Counter Strike
14th Crazy Arcade
Comments
The launch was indeed rushed in Korea for whatever reason. Kind of strange really because they knew the game was a breeze to level through and yet had no content to keep people in game at 50. They needed another year to get things sortred imo, which is why I'm assuming they delayed our version. Hopfully in September* we'll get the full game which was meant to come out.
They are adding patches a lot of the time though, it's not like they've released it early and told their player base to wait 6 months.
You mean "YOU" gave up on tera before it was even in beta....emma right
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Haha, totally agreed stayontarget. Some folks apparently don't take the time to think about what they are posting, hence begins the fun process of degrading them... xD (Notice I said "some", and not "all" or "most", therefore making my statement valid)