Buggy Launcher, P2W unfinished game updates
Tera NA Player since 2013 here, i've been playing a lot over the years since the days of early EME, the game was fun, a bit buggy sometimes but those weren't game ruining. After Gameforge aquired the publishing rights for Tera NA, the updates have been getting worse and worse and here is how: 1) A lot of gear updates that require heavy grinding. Alright, gear updates are fine, but when the task ahead to actually max it out requires you to spam dungeons 24/7 makes it far less enjoyable (spamming 60 of the same dungeon only to fail on an RNG enchant). 2)Ingame events are a joke. Tera gets an event Calendar for every month, and it's given a few days prior to the beginning of the month. December 2021 comes the weekend event. We are told that the daily log in event is from the 1st of December until the 31st of December, and with only 25 rewards, it means that we can skip a few days and still get the rewards. Fast forward to 25th of December, which was the last day of the rewards, unlike the 31st which was promised. After the rewards event stopped, the event page was swiftly removed from the launcher and a new modified one was added. Another event mess was before the latest update. An enchanting event was in full swing before the update, and as it kicked in, the maxed out old gear turned out to be useless, and the effort of those players who grinded during those weeks got wasted. 3)Last major Tera Update (as of 19th of February 2022) came with a few major problems. The update wasn't even fully translated, the new cutscenes were in korean. The early dungeons are very hard for casual players, and the drop rate for items to get to those medium level dungeons is abysmal. Just like it was pointed at 1), you are grinding for item enchants and all you get is a RNG gear development, which results in massive waste of time.The only way to avoid the grind is to buy from the cash shop the materials for real $. 4) Launcher is buggy as in it can't get game updates without crashing and without trying to "repair" the entire game instead of updating. This bug has been going on since transfer but at least this is one of the least problematic ones.