Tera vs. Guild Wars 2

[Belated]

WE GET IT. There's little girls exposing way too much leg and it makes you uncomfortable. That doesn't mean that every single one of the negative posts in this thread has to be prefixed with some pedophilia comment. Christ you loliphobes are unoriginal. Everything that needs to be said about the unsettling little girls has been said. Can we move on?

If there's nothing else wrong with Tera besides that, I think I'll give it a shot. Though GW2 would allow me to carry-over some things from GW1, right? There's scantily-clad fully grown women in both games from what I understand. And I admit that's a plus in my opinion, because I'm a real man who's not afraid to admit that I have the same attractions that evolution gave almost all men. (Unless you're gay, which is fine.) So I know I'm going to be trying at least one of these two.

I'm tempted to get GW2 because it's a one time payment and some stuff from GW1 carries over, right? But then again, I have the strangest feeling Tera is going to last a bit longer in terms of its player base because it looks more anime and people seem to like that. And having a big strong player base is always important. I don't want to invest my money in an MMO that's likely to kick the bucket after one or two years.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

WE GET IT. There's little girls exposing way too much leg and it makes you uncomfortable. That doesn't mean that every single one of the negative posts in this thread has to be prefixed with some pedophilia comment. Christ you loliphobes are unoriginal. Everything that needs to be said about the unsettling little girls has been said. Can we move on?

The last "loliphile" post is like a week old now. We already MOVED on.

As to your longevity concerns...the original GW was one of the better selling games in PC history. I suspect GW2 will *handily* outperform TERA in the western market.

 

[Belated]

WE GET IT. There's little girls exposing way too much leg and it makes you uncomfortable. That doesn't mean that every single one of the negative posts in this thread has to be prefixed with some pedophilia comment. Christ you loliphobes are unoriginal. Everything that needs to be said about the unsettling little girls has been said. Can we move on?

The last "loliphile" post is like a week old now. We already MOVED on.

As to your longevity concerns...the original GW was one of the better selling games in PC history. I suspect GW2 will *handily* outperform TERA in the western market.

GW1 didn't last all that long though. I mean it's still online to this day, but the playerbase started dying out a long while ago.

 

[Ginger768]

GW2 has Charr.

Tera Dosen't

GW2 wins

 

[Ginger768]

WE GET IT. There's little girls exposing way too much leg and it makes you uncomfortable. That doesn't mean that every single one of the negative posts in this thread has to be prefixed with some pedophilia comment. Christ you loliphobes are unoriginal. Everything that needs to be said about the unsettling little girls has been said. Can we move on?

The last "loliphile" post is like a week old now. We already MOVED on.

As to your longevity concerns...the original GW was one of the better selling games in PC history. I suspect GW2 will *handily* outperform TERA in the western market.

GW1 didn't last all that long though. I mean it's still online to this day, but the playerbase started dying out a long while ago.

Lasted a lot longer than other WoW era MMOs

 

[BloatedGuppy]

GW1 didn't last all that long though. I mean it's still online to this day, but the playerbase started dying out a long while ago.

Guild Wars is seven years old.

Aside from WoW, there aren't too many seven year old games with thundering huge populations. Everything gets old eventually. If your goal here is to uncover a game you'll still be happily playing seven years from now you're going to find few contenders.

 

[Belated]

GW1 didn't last all that long though. I mean it's still online to this day, but the playerbase started dying out a long while ago.

Guild Wars is seven years old.

Aside from WoW, there aren't too many seven year old games with thundering huge populations. Everything gets old eventually. If your goal here is to uncover a game you'll still be happily playing seven years from now you're going to find few contenders.

As the "a long while ago" in my post was meant to imply, I felt the playerbase of Guild Wars started dying out a bit early when it did start dying out. Not that I expect it to last seven years. I suppose I'm more looking for a game that might last, I dunno, 3 or 4 years? I mean it's hard to put an exact number on something like this.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

As the "a long while ago" in my post was meant to imply, I felt the playerbase of Guild Wars started dying out a bit early when it did start dying out. Not that I expect it to last seven years. I suppose I'm more looking for a game that might last, I dunno, 3 or 4 years? I mean it's hard to put an exact number on something like this.

They sold several million copies of their expansion packs, which ran up through August of 2007. During the Steam sale last year the Guild Wars pack was one of the best sellers for the entire event. Guild Wars was always a tough game to gauge population in due to how aggressively instanced it was.

 

[Xannidel]

You know if you guys have such a problem with the loli race then pick another race! There is more to Tera then loli girls and the possible pedophilia involved but you guys are sort of stuck on that one little piece.

 

[Belated]

As the "a long while ago" in my post was meant to imply, I felt the playerbase of Guild Wars started dying out a bit early when it did start dying out. Not that I expect it to last seven years. I suppose I'm more looking for a game that might last, I dunno, 3 or 4 years? I mean it's hard to put an exact number on something like this.

They sold several million copies of their expansion packs, which ran up through August of 2007. During the Steam sale last year the Guild Wars pack was one of the best sellers for the entire event. Guild Wars was always a tough game to gauge population in due to how aggressively instanced it was.

Hmm... y'know what? Fair enough. Though I did see a massive drop in the town population making it hard to form a party to finish story mode.

 

[Tanakh]

As the "a long while ago" in my post was meant to imply, I felt the playerbase of Guild Wars started dying out a bit early when it did start dying out. Not that I expect it to last seven years. I suppose I'm more looking for a game that might last, I dunno, 3 or 4 years? I mean it's hard to put an exact number on something like this.

Because it's not monthly sub based. WoW is designed to keep you grinding for years, same as Aion or Linage, and the main way to do it was making you run rat laberynths again and again for random cheese.

GW 1 and as far as i know GW 2 are not gear based or sub based. You can get pretty darn decent gear very soon with little efforth, and they dont phase out gear as fast if at all. The only way to keep you hardcore and engaged in the game was with PvP, which they did, and i hope they continue to do in GW 2. This means that the bulk of the players will move on faster, and i can right now assure you that the bulk of the players of GW 2 will indeed move out of it sooner than the bulk of TERA, just because that is the design of the games and because they have different money making methods.

BTW the beta for GW 2 is up ATM. I wont have time to play today though

Also I am tempted to do a fanservice eyecandy human in TERA, and would if i just had 1 month of sparetime

Yay boob physics.