Ilya Bossov

Way to misreport the news, Massively. Seriously? Is this what journalism is all about?

The guys in the game get the same treatment. Guys get bonuses for playing guys, girls get bonuses for playing girls. Transgender persons and competitive players can still make fake facebook profiles to be whatever they want to be.

The only disappointment here is massively not checking out their own story before hitting publish button.

Wait you're complaining about grind in LoL?

Really? A grind in LoL?

I understand that I'm not articulating my sentiments very well, I'm just speechless.

@LeBouc
Oh but you forget, she's not human. More to the point, the weight of her body (and all this armor!) is not supported by her lower back. She's hovering, it's the wings that carry all this. So if anything, it's her shoulder muscles that are strained. :)

Nobody's twisting your arm to spend a penny in their shop.

The transmutation thing is purely cosmetic, you literally are allowed to pay to change appearance of pixels on your screen. It doesn't affect your stats at all.

This game has it right. Quit whining.

I would play this game if it was subscription based or had the option.

It doesn't.

I don't see myself playing this game because of how they implemented the item/money gauging.

Didn't see anything about prices of the shop or the money-laundry mechanic that turned so many players off the game.

That is not my problem as a consumer.

It is a problem of marketing: the product needs to be differentiated to avoid exactly this sort of confusion. Yes, the games are different.

But if the names are similar, you'll have confused consumers buying the wrong product. It will do bad things to both games.

People will buy one and wonder where one or the other feature is.

Worse yet, news from both games end up piling on top of each other, leading to the expectation of a game that doesn't exist.

This is bad, bad, bad.

You won't confuse SWTOR with Guild Wars 2. That's good positioning and both properties have name recognition.

Telara, Tera... putting them together like that I can't even say which one is the 'Rifts' and which one is just the T-name. Also, there was a tabletop roleplaying game called Rifts...

Okay, someone, somewhere, really dropped the marketing ball.

I went to this site, and was wondering 'what's this? didn't this game used to have a better website?' then I started looking through massively's old news. Yup, here it is, 'Tera is getting a new website'... wait, this is the new website? What was wrong with the old one? Too many scantily clad women? I don't get it. How's that a bad thing?

And then I realized what my mistake was.

Tera is not the same game as Telara.

Duh!

Except this is not a Homer Simpson Duh. It's a marketing Duh. Someone, somewhere, didn't Duh enough when naming their game.

No, young developers know this. Old execs, on the other hand...

Agreed, but reserving judgment until we see the interface and gameplay video leaks.