From the hype. A few weeks ago, TERA was released on Steam and has since become very popular, now even counting as the most played MMORPG on the platform. Now Gameforge, the publisher of TERA in Europe, has put a stop to that.
Gameforge has a problem with TERA Steam
The publisher of TERA on Steam is the US publisher “En Masse” – and because Steam is quite popular internationally, many players use this service. However, in Europe, TERA is distributed by “Gameforge”, and there they see the “Steam-Tera” as a strong competition to their own offering. What exactly has happened between Gameforge, the Russian publisher Destiny Development, and En Masse can only be speculated.
In the official announcement from En Masse, they speak of “external pressure from publishers in this region.” This pressure has led to the decision to no longer offer TERA on Steam for certain regions.
Those who downloaded TERA on Steam before June 11 will still be able to use the game in its entirety. However, new players will no longer join via Steam but must manually download the game from GameForge or En Masse, thus taking a small detour. This applies to players from Europe. Americans are not affected by this.
