TERA Free-to-Play Date Revealed

It’s soon, real soon! February 5th in Europe, to be precise. It feels like it’s been a long time coming (but not as long as RIFT, ahem), but Gameforge are set to publish new content for the F2P release of the fantasy MMORPG , including a new PvP arena for more experienced adventurers.

Here’s the details on the free-to-play model:

TERA’s free-to-play model will include two standard account types: the Free User and the Veteran. Free Users receive full access to the entire game content – this includes, for example, the races, classes, instances, equipment items or players-versus-player content. Veteran status is reserved for players who purchased TERA before the switch to free-to-play and offers advantages that Free Users do not receive. Everyone has access to the TERA Club: amongst other things, players receive a special mount, a daily selection of boosts as well as different types of scrolls here. These can, for example, increase experience points and the amount of gold gained or can summon merchants, crystal merchants or the banker.  The monthly subscription fee of 12.95 euro for the TERA Club, is the same price as the previous subscription. If you subscribe to a 3-month membership, the fee is reduced to 11.65 euro and 12 months reduces it to 9.99 euro a month.

The item shop

Aside from the aforementioned boost items, the shop will include recovery, mana and stamina potions for character development. Service items are also available for purchase, with which players can change the name or appearance of their hero. In future, the shop will continue to be filled with exclusive mounts, weapon skins and clothing.

… and there’s more!

With another update due to appear later on in the year, TERA’s political system will also receive an additional feature. Players that belong to a guild can enter into an alliance with this feature and profit from useful bonuses in this community. The three alliances are enemies of one another and continually fight each other for dominance on the respective game server.

So it seems there’s never been a better time to try out the Bluehole Studio developed MMO, but if you need convincing further, you’d best check out Martin’s review of TERA.