Anyone heard of "TERA Online"?

[seawasp]

I ask because I came across what appears to be a reference to my own work, with a nasty monster named "Virigar" (a "Zuulhound Alpha") in it.

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[richardboustead.livejournal.com]

Played the beta of TERA Online. It's a MMO from Enmasse Entertainment. Recently went Free-2-Play (which means real-money store selling novelty items). Graphics were good, animations pretty smooth. Storyline is classic MMO fare. Go to point A, kill 15 wolves, Hand in their tails back at Point A. Some initial outcry at the female character outfits, or rather lack thereof. Pretty much a clone of offerings like Aion, RIft, and an updated WoW.

The game was released on May 1, 2012, and went F2P in Jan 2013.

I didn't get much past level 10 in the beta, so never encountered a "Zuulhound Alpha". There are "Zuulhound Alpha" mobs, so the "Virigar" part appears to be a named mob. A little Wiki-ing puts them at Lvl 28: http://teracodex.com/npc/10566. Top level is 60, I think, so at the very least, they're doing the Great Wolf a huge disservice.

[nordhus.livejournal.com]

To further elaborate. Tera was originally a Korean MMO, developed by Bluehole studio, and published by NHN Corporation. The Korean launch was back in January 2011. En Masse is the American publisher and I believe responsible for the English localization.

Tera is chiefly known in gamings circles as the game with the really impractical looking armor sets, particularly for female characters (http://tera-online.cc/gallery/castanic-fh/2433-castanic_f_h09.html). Oh and there has already been at least one lawsuit involving Tera and allegedly stolen IP (http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/10/tera-lawsuit-settled-en-masse-maintains-innocence/).

[ext-2048062.livejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Yup. TERA online is a MMORPG that recently (about a year or so ago) got imported to North America from Korea.