Updated: En Masse signs agreement with e-commerce company Digital River

Meh, I was looking forward to TERA until this and Frogster. Here's hoping that Rift, at least, will choose wisely.

My list of preference for MMOS
Non-critical microtransactions
Subscription
critical microtransactions
subscription + microtransaction

One or the other for me: Subscription OR microtransaction.

Just too many other options out there.

Cash shop + Sub + Localized Korean Grinder = Yawn

Just because it says they're creating a store doesn't mean it is a microtransaction store. Maybe they're creating a store to sell, you know, the game itself?

Well that's one big meh. I refuse to play any mmo's with micro-transactions. GW2 for life :)

The Tera devs have said they don't want microtransactions in the F2P sense. Will there be some mounts, pets and the like available? I'm sure, but that will be the extent of it.

Shame, I was hoping this would be purely a P2P game.

No matter what they say, there will always be something in a cash shop that gives people an edge over others.

Noooooooooooooo! Digital River are horrible. They were in charge of the Need for Speed World Pre-Orders for Best Buy, which I ordered, but it was all a big mess. Firstly, they didn't even know what they were selling. They were supposed to be giving out access keys for the 1 week head start event, but instead they thought they were just selling the client download opening on release day (yeah, the client download for a free-to-play game, idiots). I fought for three days after the event began to get what I had purchased and got absolutely nowhere, then tried to get a refund and they refused. IN the end, my head start event was cut down to just two days, but it still cost me $20 (and I also didn't get the powerups pack). They're greedy assholes and the Customer Service department is the worst.

Here's a radical concept: A P2P without a cash shop! Where everything is included in the purchase of both game and subscription...

...it requires the game to be really good to work though.

Perhaps Digital River is handling the digital sales. I remember Digital River had an agreement with NCSoft to handle the sale of their online games, such as CoH/V and Lineage 2, a few years back.

If there's cash shop items, I hope there're actually stuff worth spending on, instead of $5 for 5 more inventory slots, or similar rubbish.

It's not clear for me. En Masse saying their game doesn't "require" microtransactions to play is different from saying our game does not "feature" microtransactions, even if you have to limit that phrasing to "in-game items".

Cash Shop and good bye, why can't developers choose one revenue model instead of double dipping?

I am afraid the updated quote makes me skeptical.

It's not "Tera will not have microtransactions."

It's "Tera is not a micro-transaction-based game."

Perhaps just poor wording but it makes me thunk they'll have Sparkle Ponies. Not necessary, but there to get your cash instead of making them drops.