On the show floor at this year's Game Developer's Conference was a booth for a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) called TERA. Few may have heard of it, but it's definitely worthy of your attention. TERA, also known as The Exiled Realm of Arborea, is a high-fantasy MMORPG with an art style that seems to blend the character design of Final Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, but gives them a coat of Aion-like prettiness.
Long-running MMORPG Tera will be closing on June 30 and Gameforge and Krafton have published a video that serves as a farewell.
No fan wants to see Tera shutting down, but unfortunately, developer Bluehole is closing the game's servers (on PC, anyway) to work on other projects.
Good, this game was great when it launched, but it's been turned into a nightmare of a product since.
Some WoW-like MMORPGs are better than others. Here's a curated list that offers a wide variety of games that let you play with other people but have something unique to offer.
WoW is a mess and it will continue to be a mess. Still, the less-developed MMOs are going to have trouble gaining a fan base because they lack content right now. Even if people do flock to FF14 or BDO, they'll go back to WoW if they fix enough features or give players a shred of hope.
