So Tera NA and EU both finally made the inevitable announcement of going Free2play, I personally see this as a good thing as it will bring the game back to life with a bunch of new players and leaves no obligation to feel the need to play it anymore as you have paid for a month, there's no doubt there will be the dooms day people poping up about how it's gone free but if anything it's just the best idea for Tera as a game and if anything most MMO's should either be F2P with a balanced cash shop or buy to play.

So from what they're saying about the free2play switch is that no content or anything for that matter will be restricted, so no enchanting items will be took out of the game much like the KR version at all, we will have everything that all the once paying customers h

So after years of development and testing, the game is finally just about finished with the upcoming Open Beta over in Korea which means that for the US/EU were finally getting closer to the game being released down here.

OBT STARTS: Jan 2, 2013

Early character creation Dec 19 - Dec 30

Client download available: December 17, 2012

Source: http://openboard.kr/News/8628

So Instead of them using the KSSN system that's usually there, they will identify you with you providing info such as a mobile phone number, email address etc, this system is in place in accordance with the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.

What they are wanting from players wanting to sign up is: DI, CI, date of birth, gender

So I've just came across news that the secret world has gone into a buy to play mode with a cash shop, even though I won't be playing the game I'm actually quite happy about the news and that's only because I personally think that Buy2Play with an optional cash shop is the best way for games to go and I'm hopeing more company's and even current P2P games start to take this route (providing the cash shop isn't some greedy pay to win attempt), generally any game you actually buy would normally have some high production value just like any console game for example and it's generally good for developers as they know they will be getting money which helps production and updates among other things, so without further adieu here's the update from The Secret World web

So since I haven't really seen any proper detailed review or thoughts on the game that can give people a good idea of what the game basically is, I thought I would do just that to give those people an idea if your still pondering on "is this even worth trying?".

Character Customization:

The customization is really basic for this game, I was originally hoping it would have more as we come closer to 2013 but I should really start remembering that not all company's have the funds to make everything as great as possible, leading from customization of characters to the texturing of the game world.

So anyway what we have is simply 4 things to work from, 5 selections of faces, 5 hair styles and 3 colours to them, 5 accessory's and 5 fa