Tera Going Free-to-Play From February
En Masse Entertainment and Bluehole Studios have announced that Tera is going to be going free-to-play in February.
The exact date in the change for that Korean MMO, that's currently subscription-based, has yet being revealed, though the companies have announced the brand new game service will feature three membership tiers: Founder, Elite and Standard.
In North America, Standard will function as the basic free-to-play option, while Elite will confer a quantity of convenience bonuses not currently available from the game (like faster cooldowns and vanity items) for $14.99. Founder status is acquired when you purchase and redeeming a copy with the game and confers lifetime benefits. The European pricing has yet to Buy Tera Gold XBOX get announced, but other than that this only differences are which the Founder, Elite and Standard option is called Veteran, Tera Club and Free respectively.
Some on the free-to-play limitations include character and bank slots, though more may be purchased, and other brokerage and tax fees. Happily there won't be race, class or content restrictions, though Elite/Tera Club players realize reduced dungeon cooldowns. For more info on just what each package offers look at the fairly extensive North American or European FAQs.
This makes Tera the latest within a long distinct MMOs to ditch their subscription fees in preference of free-to-play options. After months of speculation, Star Wars: The Old Republic announced that it was dropping its subscription cost last July using the change entering effect in November, and reportedly boosting player numbers significantly. Funcom's The Secret World also announced the same change a few weeks ago.
In all instances, the lenders have cited a changing MMO marketplace as one from the main reasons for them ditching the fees. While World of Warcraft may well be safe with the foreseeable future given its recently revitalised subscriber base, it's going to be interesting to find out how Rift fares as one in the few subscription MMOs left which doesn't enjoy this kind of Tera XBOX Items large playerbase, too as what effect it is on Zenimax's upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online.
You can get more about the changes to Tera along with the reasoning behind them inside the free-to-play announcement trailer below, which features an amusingly not-so-subtle dig The Old Republic's F2P offerings.
The exact date in the change for that Korean MMO, that's currently subscription-based, has yet being revealed, though the companies have announced the brand new game service will feature three membership tiers: Founder, Elite and Standard.
In North America, Standard will function as the basic free-to-play option, while Elite will confer a quantity of convenience bonuses not currently available from the game (like faster cooldowns and vanity items) for $14.99. Founder status is acquired when you purchase and redeeming a copy with the game and confers lifetime benefits. The European pricing has yet to Buy Tera Gold XBOX get announced, but other than that this only differences are which the Founder, Elite and Standard option is called Veteran, Tera Club and Free respectively.
Some on the free-to-play limitations include character and bank slots, though more may be purchased, and other brokerage and tax fees. Happily there won't be race, class or content restrictions, though Elite/Tera Club players realize reduced dungeon cooldowns. For more info on just what each package offers look at the fairly extensive North American or European FAQs.
This makes Tera the latest within a long distinct MMOs to ditch their subscription fees in preference of free-to-play options. After months of speculation, Star Wars: The Old Republic announced that it was dropping its subscription cost last July using the change entering effect in November, and reportedly boosting player numbers significantly. Funcom's The Secret World also announced the same change a few weeks ago.
In all instances, the lenders have cited a changing MMO marketplace as one from the main reasons for them ditching the fees. While World of Warcraft may well be safe with the foreseeable future given its recently revitalised subscriber base, it's going to be interesting to find out how Rift fares as one in the few subscription MMOs left which doesn't enjoy this kind of Tera XBOX Items large playerbase, too as what effect it is on Zenimax's upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online.
You can get more about the changes to Tera along with the reasoning behind them inside the free-to-play announcement trailer below, which features an amusingly not-so-subtle dig The Old Republic's F2P offerings.
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