[AL:TERA]Official Site: TERA (aka TERA: Rising aka The Exiled Realm of Arborea)
Studio:Â En Masse Entertainment/Bluehole Studio
Launch Date:Â May 1, 2012 (January 25, 2011 in Korea)
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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TERA sweetens its subscription package
Just because an MMORPG is free-to-play doesn't mean that the studio really wants you to, y'know, play for free. Over the past year or...
TERA’s EU branch claims player numbers have ‘risen massively’
We see a lot of odd press releases around here, many of them loaded with vague commentary on how well a game is doing...
The MOP Up: Kali awakens in Dragon Nest (March 19, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote
We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
St Paddy’s Day MMORPG deals and events roundup
Happy St Patrick's Day, everyone! This particular holiday isn't the best for sales, for dumb jokes, or for deep events, but the MMORPG genre...
Massively Overthinking: When social play in MMOs is predatory by design
Blogger Tobold recently wrote a provocative piece on social play in MMOs, as pointed out to us by our dear tipster Sally. In a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 108: PAX East power-up
Justin and Eliot discuss PAX East, Shards Online aka Legends of Aria, TERA and Trove on console, Final Fantasy XIV, Dauntless, Kritika Online, and Conan Exiles, plus mailbag questions on Eastern MMOs and permadeath.
PAX East 2017: Hands-on with the surprisingly fun Kritika Online
It's pretty much a rule of nature that at least one game is going to be far better and more fun to play than...
PAX East 2017: En Masse tells us all about TERA’s console port
Putting TERA on consoles seems like it's the most obvious combination of games and platforms ever conceived. Even more than Super Mario Bros. and...
PAX East 2017: TERA is coming to Xbox One and PS4 this year
Remember those rumors last year about a console port for TERA, buffeted by the surveys to selected TERA players about which consoles they play...
TERA flips on the switch to its ‘crazy’ test server, renames the Paragon to Valkyrie
What could the nutty minds behind TERA be cooking up in their kitchens? Find out for yourself, as the team has opened up a...
Vote on the name for the next TERA class (from a list of options)
The next class coming to TERA is named the Paragon... or perhaps it isn't. There's no clear way to translate the name that sounds...
TERA offers players the chance to reserve a Paragon name
The Paragon class is on its way to TERA, which is a good thing; it's another class to play. But how do you know...
TERA experiments with server rulesets, preps for new class
Is there anything better than waking up to the smell of a fresh producer's letter in the morning, full of all sorts of good...
Massively OP’s guide to Valentine’s Day around the MMORPG verse
Ready for sappy questlines, particle effects that look like hearts, and lots -- and I do mean lots -- of pink? Valentine's day has...
TERA launches its Sword and Hoard update with a bonus pack for Warriors
The most recent update for TERA is all about the Warrior, giving the class a large-scale overhaul to make it more deadly, more versatile,...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that walk on the weird side
In third grade, my teacher sent home a report card with the note that "Justin is wonderfully strange."Â Ever since then, I never found the...
Massively Overthinking: Tab-target vs. action combat in MMORPGs
Massively OP patron Duane is kicking the new year off right: with a brawl over combat types in MMOs.
"Tab-target, action, or hybrid combat, for...
TERA’s Broken Prison is now live
So it turns out that the world of TERA has got several prisons containing gods. Really, gods. They're imprisoned because of crimes against mortals...
Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2016: Hello Kitty TERA
We're counting down Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2016!
Coming in at #4 on our list is TERA's Hello Kitty promotion, as chronicled in my...