[GUIDE] For those who are still out of the loop.

[AUTTENBURGH]

TERA is now owned by Gameforge.

If you haven't migrated your account to Gameforge when they've emailed every single TERA user about migrating their accounts to Gameforge, you have officially lost your characters.

Inactive accounts that hasn't logged into the game for decades are generally not emailed.. this is a system followed by lots of video game studios that run MMORPGs.

Keeping data for inactive accounts that are decades old is pointless to them.

Here is a lesson to remember for those who spent thousands in MMORPGs.
You have to be dedicated to playing regularly if you spent that much in a game.

Decade old accounts that are inactive are usually marked for deletion.
Please be mature & understand that this has been a thing for many games.

Now if you HAVE migrated your account to Gameforge.

You should access the "North America" server.
Because this version of TERA was originally North America.

Gameforge has republished TERA on steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/212740/TERA__Action_MMORPG/

Uninstall this version of TERA & start installing the new one.

[Mike]

absolutely garbage move. many many hours of my time, many rare cosmetic items, some IRL money; all gone. I'm supposed to go back an re-level my fishing pole and cooking from nothing? Do you know how long that took to do? Re obtain items I had that I bet are still worth major coin? no thanks. Then what happens when Gameforge goes out of business as they almost certainly will?

Meanwhile I just logged into my WoW account that has been totally inactive for six years and everything is almost perfectly as it was when I left besides some changed items. Same with my old Battlefield 3. Like I never left.

Worst part is I already HAVE a Gameforge account, and the email is the same as steam. If I got an email it went straight into spam with the other dozens per day of spam emails.

I am downloading Tera in gameforge now (slowly cause the client and servers are garbage apparently) maybe i got lucky and it somehow migrated but I am not holding my breath.

[AUTTENBURGH]

Messaggio originale di Kiryn:

Yeah, what email?

And sure - I can "just start over". I'm sure "buddyup" will get me all my costumes & other cosmetics back right fast. /s


edit: who cares about the levels & xp on the characters. It's all the stuff they were wearing that's important.

You're acting like games owe you anything.
Every single online game you've spent money on can close down at any point.

Leaving you with nothing but a message that says:
"Sorry, but we're closing the game for good.. Thanks for your money though."

Because at the end of the day, in-game purchases are final.
Specially when you've spent years on it, lots of games have done this before.

This isn't new.
Like i said, if you were late to the party.. that's your own fault.

Most of which that got an email most probably were marked as "Active" users.
You might have to be active for a certain amount of time to be sent an email.

Because there were loads of inactive players in the game.
There is no way they wouldn't send you an email if you were super active.

They might have based it on the activeness of you being online in the game.

[AUTTENBURGH]

Messaggio originale di Mike:

absolutely garbage move. many many hours of my time, many rare cosmetic items, some IRL money; all gone. I'm supposed to go back an re-level my fishing pole and cooking from nothing? Do you know how long that took to do? Re obtain items I had that I bet are still worth major coin? no thanks. Then what happens when Gameforge goes out of business as they almost certainly will?

Meanwhile I just logged into my WoW account that has been totally inactive for six years and everything is almost perfectly as it was when I left besides some changed items. Same with my old Battlefield 3. Like I never left.

Worst part is I already HAVE a Gameforge account, and the email is the same as steam. If I got an email it went straight into spam with the other dozens per day of spam emails.

I am downloading Tera in gameforge now (slowly cause the client and servers are garbage apparently) maybe i got lucky and it somehow migrated but I am not holding my breath.

Well, the migration of your enmasse account to your current account is what that is meant for, i had an existing gameforge account which i had migrated without an issue.

All it's doing is transferring your characters to the new servers.

Which is owned by GameForge.

If you were not active for a good amount of time in the game, they might have marked you as inactive, therefore you didn't receive the email.

Because they didn't want inactive accounts to be filled in their new server & clients.
I was actively playing the game every now & then.

Thats how i got the email, because i'm not the type that leave a game for good after i spent hours into it, unless i am officially retiring from it, like there is no reason to do such a thing as being inactive for a decade even, by that point they can indefinitely consider you one of the many players that had abandoned the game.

I had lots of mutuals who i bonded with in the earlier days of tera that left out of the blue without a word and to this day, they do not exist.

Permanently.

[AUTTENBURGH]

You can whine & argue all you want about how keeping inactive accounts that hasn't seen light for practically decades, depending on how active or inactive they were, is gonna be any good for them, yes.. returning players are a thing.

But you're seeing too much into the western side of things.
Asia isn't so caring about inactive accounts.

Like they get nothing out of keeping inactive accounts on their servers.

They would have to pay money just to keep them online.

Why did you think the company defuncted?

They don't owe you anything either, every single user including me can have their rights to their game removed at any point of time, no matter how much money you put into the game.

They probably went bankrupt at most keeping the decade old inactive accounts online.

Servers cost a heck ton of money & it being a free to play isn't helping them either.

Cosmetic sales only last so long until more of their budget needs to be spent on their servers instead of their employees, you see how this goes now?

Even i wouldn't want to keep inactive accounts on servers if they don't return after like 10+ years, player abandonment is often discouraging to lots of developers.

Even runescape has a 5 year limit on inactivity for accounts before they delete them.

[TrashPanda]

Really wish i could ignore people on these discussion forums .. Ryan needs a swift ignore.

[Mike]

hey they wanna f me over thats fine. they will get no more money. too bad, so sad. GG no re

[GothMommy]

Messaggio originale di Ryan:

Messaggio originale di GreenRoc:

I found out about this migration today. The email I had associated to this game wasnt one I used often, only used for account recovery.

I am saddened to know I have lost my characters. I dont check my emails very ofte due to the pain and annoyance I feel with this task and the email annoyances, and how I almost never use email except for recovery.
With so many games in the gaming market, I havent been able to keep up with all the news on all the games I enjoy.

Tera was one of those I enjoyed.
But with a short window of opportunity to know and act upon this merge (and those who didnt opt in to lose their characters). I have about no motivation to rejoin.

The window of time to push a button in an email to keep my characters was far too short. Why not just move everything over?
Why was this a manual opt-in?
I've lost characters in the past in other games, because of these email-dependant user initiated actions to migrate stuff.

I dont understand why we players had to make a move in a short window of time to keep characters? Why not move everyone and everything, and then later delete if they missed the short window of time...

Life is busy, games are abundant, I cant keep my eye on everything I like to use.
I liked Tera. I did. I would have played Tera again if I didnt lose my progress.
I'm in a bit of shock, disapointment, now I have to mourn time spent on something I liked, where I dont get to keep the progress because I wasnt looking at my email I hardly ever use.

I dont understand.
I wish I could migrate. I'm finding this out today, that I missed a deadline, again, that I didnt know existed until it was too late.
RIP my characters.

Sorry about your character loss, but they have an exp event coming up soon i think?

Making new characters is always a nice touch, always remember to use buddyup to assist you i would say, seeing as the rewards do help you even after reaching end game.. which is now level 70, though buddyup only last until 65 for rewards, it's still pretty good!

I've always liked stacking up buddyup rewards on characters i don't plan on keeping and transferring it to my bank for future characters, nowadays its super easy to level.

I believe the reason why they did any of this was that there are probably too many inactive characters in the server that had existed since the start of TERA, which makes sense as to why they wanted to do a full wipe, given that it's now Gameforge managing it, they want active players as i could only assume.

In any way, i hope that losing your characters don't make you quit TERA just like that.

Always fun to level up new characters, and it would be a waste not to see what else gameforge is planning to bring! :galuf:

thats nothing for is who lost hundreds or in my case thousands of $ .....also GM's told me rudely to fk off when i sent a ticket so nah gameforge is not worth rejoining

[Senio]

Isn't gameforge notorious for running games into the ground with egregious p2w tactics?

[AUTTENBURGH]

Messaggio originale di Lustful:

Messaggio originale di Ryan:

Sorry about your character loss, but they have an exp event coming up soon i think?

Making new characters is always a nice touch, always remember to use buddyup to assist you i would say, seeing as the rewards do help you even after reaching end game.. which is now level 70, though buddyup only last until 65 for rewards, it's still pretty good!

I've always liked stacking up buddyup rewards on characters i don't plan on keeping and transferring it to my bank for future characters, nowadays its super easy to level.

I believe the reason why they did any of this was that there are probably too many inactive characters in the server that had existed since the start of TERA, which makes sense as to why they wanted to do a full wipe, given that it's now Gameforge managing it, they want active players as i could only assume.

In any way, i hope that losing your characters don't make you quit TERA just like that.

Always fun to level up new characters, and it would be a waste not to see what else gameforge is planning to bring!

thats nothing for is who lost hundreds or in my case thousands of $ .....also GM's told me rudely to fk off when i sent a ticket so nah gameforge is not worth rejoining

To be honest.

If you put that much money into a free to play, you really deserve it.

I've never spent a single dime on a free to play MMORPG in my entire life and managed to get what i wanted.

You don't have to commit to getting everything in a free to play game to have a wonderful experience you know.

Money should never be spent in such large amounts when it comes to free to play games, because as i have already said many times.

These games can close down at any point of time under a specific time frame and they don't owe you anything.

Find it honestly hilarious when people spend large amounts of money in MMORPGs that eventually closed down and expect something in return.

I've already said that if you don't at least spend time logging into the games you put money into you definitely deserve losing your account.

There is no point for them to keep your accounts in their database for decades if you're not planning on returning.

Lots of companies have done a years of inactivity limit for many different games in which if they exceed the limit they have set for the accounts, they have every right to delete your data stored on their servers.

You just need to accept this already.

Not that difficult to understand.

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Messaggio originale di Khloe:

Really wish i could ignore people on these discussion forums .. Ryan needs a swift ignore.

Being ignorant on the matter of how accounts are stored on servers is not smart.

This is not that difficult to understand.

You all seriously need to grow up.

Learn more about what goes down behind the scenes of MMORPGs and how keeping decades old inactive accounts can put the budget of a company down to the negative.

You seriously need to realize how costly servers are nowadays, this isn't cakewalk.

[AUTTENBURGH]

Don't bash me for telling you the cold hard truth of how MMORPGs work.

Nothing ever lasts forever.

So don't put too much hope into stuff that can eventually decay overtime, like your lack of attendance in MMORPGs you put lots of money into expecting them to owe you anything.

Yes there are MMORPGs that kept accounts that are decades old.

But what i'm trying to tell you here is that not all MMORPGs follow the same system.

You have to remember most of these things cost a ton of money to even run.

You must understand that account data can be deleted completely at any point of time, because just like steam, they own everything you own.

Games that you play on steam can be revoked at any point of time, same goes with access to your accounts on other platforms.

While you own a part of it.

Always remember that the company still owns most of what you own & can take it away from you.

Just like how MMORPGs can flag your accounts for deletion upon reaching the required amount of inactivity years.

Doesn't matter how much you spent in an MMORPG, this can happen to anyone.

[bio]

I almost starting my court case against them doing this, will post more about it soon.

[Poocifer]

Yeah, they didn't email everyone... Nothing from them in either of my emails accounts, or their junk folders... I don't honestly care because I'm not a fan of gameforge so I guess it's a win.

[HarmonyAndHonour]

What i had so much payed for ♥♥♥♥... wow... oh well dont play it anymore, but still sucks. Never got an email.

[Vantablack]

Messaggio originale di Ryan:

TERA is now owned by Gameforge.

If you haven't migrated your account to Gameforge when they've emailed every single TERA user about migrating their accounts to Gameforge, you have officially lost your characters.

People like this are just zealots for the gaming industry. Fanboi's, where whatever the company says HAS to be the truth.

This guy/gal is no different. Just going to pack it on how the failure of a gaming company is now the fault of the players who played and spent money on that title. They may have a way for you to start over and give a failed game yet another chance to do the same exact thing.

Trash. Steam. Gaming industry, these FanBois... The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ companies who let gamers down year in and year out.

Sadly all these things are repeated title after title, game after game.

So in short... STFU fanboi. Go enjoy shilling for a failed corp/company. We see you.