It appears that En Masse Entertainment is bringing the hammer down on third-party programs – again – for its action-MMO TERA, according to a recent post by Senior Producer Denommenator on the official forums.
[AL:TERA]”We have recently issued some standard takedown requests to platforms around the internet where we found communities actively working in violation of our Terms of Service,” the post states. The most recent takedown seems to have targeted a variety of third-party programs published to github by users Hackerman Caali, Meishuu, and Pinkipi, according to the publicly available DMCA takedown request.
The community reaction has been mixed at best, with many players posting in the official discussion thread to express their dissatisfaction with the way En Masse is handling the situation, arguing that the use of third-party programs is a necessity due to En Masse’s failure to provide adequate support and official features.
For what it’s worth, the studio seems to recognize this, as Denommenator’s official post concludes, “We love you TERA players and we understand that you’re upset about this. We will investigate solutions that provide some of the benefits that these 3rd Party Services offered in a form that doesn’t violate our terms of service.”
