This is in regards to what happened on September 28th.
I said what I needed to say regarding the situation. The problem is there are far too many mudslinging and personally attacking others they do not agree with; there is literally zero constructive discussion happening and has pretty much turned into the following.
I understand how it is when you really like a game but have to deal with publishers that aren’t the best. En Masse Entertainment is far from the worse; they used to be up there but that was years ago with a different leadership team for the company and different individuals handling TERA.
I personally do not have a problem with EME enforcing their Terms of Service when it comes to third party apps; as I wrote in my forum posting, the responsibility is with Bluehole to address the situation on their end with better security hardened code, working on better optimization, and designing certain quality of life features. Considering how long they’ve left the game code in this state, I am realistically not holding my breath that they will do anything.
As for En Masse’s silence since making the announcement last week, I really don’t know what those who are really upset are expecting to hear. They filed the DMCA takedown (that entire process was likely vetted via their corporate legal) and it us up to those folks whose repositories were shutdown to file a counterclaim if they believe it was filed in error (that process does not require hiring legal counsel).
The third party developers have made their decision to no longer support creating those mods for North America; from En Masse’s point of view, mission accomplished. Sure, this does nothing to address the fact that there are individuals who will exploit the holes in TERA’s code or the fact that they may lose a portion of their player population. The impact there is not going to be drastic as those individuals believe though because it’s a relatively small but vocal group that made use of the proxy.
There are just a lot more less than hardcore players who have little idea about this stuff. Just today alone, the starting zone was filled with new players leveling. That’s always been the reality with free-2-play titles where there is a continual ebb-and-flow of players and right now, there’s an influx of people giving the game a try. Time will really tell how much of an impact this actually has and I’ll be posting about it either way.
