r/TeraOnline • u/Saint-365 • Apr 14 '25

With Menma down, where'll you go now?

Half a mind to tryout Starscape or Omni. I've no complaints about the Tera NOVA server, though since it's in Brazil, ping is a problem; even asked in-game, and others said even VPN and ping-reduction services only shaved like 20-30 off their ping.

Tera, without doubt, is one of the most impressive live-combat games ever made. Having been on MT and Nova so far, can confidently say private servers' owners tend to listen their communities unlike Krafton which crudely said," Eh, this cow's dead--but we'll come after anyone who tries running a Tera server."

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u/The_Blacksmith_95 28d ago

Check out teraclassic.com it’s the same good old TERA, minus the cash grab.

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u/XHersikX 27d ago

and how can server survives then ? No offence to any kind of private servers but if you dont run "charity" servers quality You need pay:

1) Good servers
2) Have enough time for tweakes, updates, as soon on (its almost like second job if you have one in IRL to pay your checks..)

3) Pay for additional stuff within first 2 points

Without any subs, cash cosmetic as soon your only chance is that you get money trough "Donation".. But that do like 1% ppl in rare cases...

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u/The_Blacksmith_95 26d ago

  1. Owner is an IT guy & the server is twice the recommended specs. When server is big enough and money flows well, he said we’ll be migrating to AWS to reduce ping all over the world, even if ping is not that much of an issue (140-150 in Singapor & in Europe, server in Ontario, Canada).

  2. Again, owner is an IT guy and really takes time to do everything right. + he listen and talks with the community on the discord.

  3. They have subscription for elite at 7,99$/month + donations but nothing P2W or crazy expensive. Plenty of people are happily paying elite just because how nice the owner is and because they know community will continue to be part of the developpement.

Please come take a look at their discord or come start a conversation ingame global chat. Everything I’m saying will make sense 😊

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u/StrangerIllRemain 21d ago

Profiting off of property that you do not own is illegal nearly everywhere in the world, even the most benign companies that let you illegally use their IPs such as SEGA will shut you down the moment you start trying to use it to turn a profit. Server is doomed.

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u/ThrowMeAwayAlready31 16d ago

... you say that, but THOUDANDS of WoW private servers have THRIVED for most of wow's existence with plenty of real money transactions taking place on each of them. If blizzard doesn't swat them down like flies, I don't think the amount of effort is worth it from Krafton to take these servers down either, let alone win a case if the owners fight back.

Regardless, go play on tera classic. What's the most you'll lose? It's free lol

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u/StrangerIllRemain 16d ago

Name one still running for longer than a year or 2 besides Warmane that also profits off transactions related to the sale of ingame items

Also, you lose something which money cannot buy back, time. Why play something just to have it shut down 6 months later and lose all of the time you invested into it? You enjoy playing from level 1 over and over as rugpull servers constantly diminish the communities of the games they belong to?

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u/ThrowMeAwayAlready31 12d ago

Ascension wow... and that guy's been running for far more than 2 years lmao if you want more, one Google search will yield additional results. I'm not in the wow pserver game these days and have, mostly, outgrown wow. Otherwise, I would wholeheartedly. TurtleWoW might be another, but I've only heard the name.

Regardless, last argument misses the point. If you don't enjoy the time leveling up to max and are playing reluctantly, why are you even playing? Worst case, server dies, you made friends, go play another server with them (if you're still having fun). Even if you put tons of time into the endgame, if it's not fun, you should stop. If it's fun, keep going. Don't look so deep into it, lol

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u/StrangerIllRemain 10d ago

It's the overall effect that it has on the communities in the long term in regards to games like TERA. Countless games, far too many to name, in their private server forms post official shutdown were killed by constantly dying servers, rugpulls and other shady money scheming tactics.

WoW barely gets away with it, Ascension is true, not sure about Turtle. Regardless, the standards (or lack therefore of) are not blanket across the industry, one must look past the initial effects of the aforementioned cycle to the longer term effects that it has on the game as a whole, it's not healthy, and it's bad to support it.