European players protest TERA's no-blood version

TERA has two different versions. One version is for North America and the other one is European version. New debate started by European players is about Frogster's decision to reduce blood in the European version. There is already a petition started by European players to bring back blood to TERA.

TERA Europe : Blood controversy

There is a new debate before the game is even released. The latest beta weekend for European players of TERA has not been pleasant for some of them. A player noticed that blood effects were removed from the game and started a debate. Later on, other European players jumped on the wagon. The protest thread is now almost 250 pages long and there is also a petition to bring back blood to the game. 

According to some of the posts, TERA's European game runs on servers located in Germany and if the posts are accurate, they had to remove blood effects from the game as it's restricted in Germany. However, according to Frogster's latest post, it has not to do with servers being in Germany but it's about the game's AGE RATING of 12+ in Europe.

Loads of TERA players on the message boards have changed their avatars to "CENSORED" titles in order to protest this difference between two version of the game.

According to the latest by community manager here, Frogster had to reduce blood effects to comply with the game's current age rating 12+ in Europe. One should ask Frogster a question then: "Why did you make it 12+ then?"

With the new client build, some changes related to the level of detail for blood in TERA have been applied. The slider to adjust this value was removed with the new client build. This step was sadly necessary due to some changes which were introduced in the latest content update for TERA, which increased the amount of blood on certain details. Thus, we faced an issue with our current age rating which is 12+ for Europe.

Therefore, it was necessary to remove the level of detail slider for the blood aspect in TERA and set this to a fixed value. You’ll still see blood in TERA, but the amount of blood will be reduced and won’t stay on the ground. Also some minor effects like blood splatters against the screen will be replaced by another effect. Please be aware that we were already producing the box and pre-selling copies of the game with the active rating of 12+, so this was the only possible solution at this point.

We’re sorry to inform you about this now and not when the OBT patch notes were released, but the situation occurred with the latest additions to TERA and this are the reason why we needed to remove the slider for the blood factor and set it to a fixed value.

*Please note this change might not be active for some players who just used the EN client at this point, but it will be active before the release for everyone.

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