TERA Closing Down In Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau

By Michael Byrne, Editor in Chief Posted: August 19, 2015

Cinderboy's translations over at MMO Culture reveal that TERA will not be online for much longer in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. OMG Digital Entertainment and Bluehole Studio could not work out a deal to keep the game live and servers will become inactive on November 18th.

All is not lost for TERA players in the region though as OMG will retain the player database they have and will turn that data over to a new publisher when Bluehole Studios finds one.

We'll have to keep on the lookout for more information on Bluehole's search for a publisher in the region and no estimated date of service restoration is currently available.

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In this article: TERA, Bluehole Studio.

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Michael Byrne, Editor in Chief

Mike “Magicman” Byrne has been a part of the MMOBomb family for years and serves as the site’s current Editor-in-Chief. His love for MMOs and gaming in general has led him to covering games for numerous gaming websites including Gamebreaker TV and XIV Nation where he proudly displays his fanboy flag for FFXIV:ARR.

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Dumsdums 9 years ago

Finally!

jellopy 9 years ago

The issue is with the publisher, Gameforge has more anti-fans than players due to the way they manage microtransactions versus content updates. They prefer to load the game with sellables and stay constantly behind other regions on actual content on almost all of the titles on their publishing list. It used to be a half decent company but not any more. I doubt they will re-attempt in the region and it is more likely they will publish a combined international server for multiple regions and transfer the accounts. Once a game is tagged with the taint of a bad publisher they are pretty much screwed, the same happens in any region of the world. Kind of like how many of us hate perfect world in the us for pretty much the same reason they hate game forge.

SqueezyTime 9 years ago

I like this comment thread. I'm amused at how seriously people take themselves, and video games for that matter.

On topic: ... cool story :)

tttttt 9 years ago

when i see that 80% are elins, i think .... they must be girls right ? they cant be all boys ... this is too damn retarded and pedophile

Raee 9 years ago

Well is Asia, and they have way more games than it is over in the U.S.
That is another reason why they are unable to keep up with the market there.
It is sad that there are many good games out there in CN, Korea,JP, but only countable ones are being released overseas.
The Asian companies afraid that the game codes they share for hotfix or updates might reveal the technique and might also given an insight to other countries and that is why they does not want to risk it.

Aaron 9 years ago

its definitely understandable that some of the lesser known providers that arent doing well are closing. Now if only they could say to hell with gameforge ;p worst company evah

Buggy 9 years ago

Tera is a not so bad game though, why report this I mean if there going to find a new publisher like any mmo would do. Seeing it's tera I doubt they will have trouble finding a new publisher to pick it up soon.

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vermion 9 years ago

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