Tera going free-to-play in February

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Tera will go free-to-play in February, nine months after its North American release. The revamped payment scheme and content featured in Tera: Rising will confer special perks to current owners while offering largely unrestricted access to current content for new freeloaders--er--players.

Hopefully this will alleviate some of the population woes which drove En Masse Entertainment to consolidate Tera's 11 starting servers to three "super servers."

You can read up on all the details of the transition on Tera: Rising's FAQ page, or watch the preview above. Said video takes a few not-so-subtle potshots at Star Wars: The Old Republic's free-to-play restrictions, but c'mon--both games significantly altered their primary business models less than a year after release (as did The Secret World).

Those in glass houses, and all that.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.