TERA sees Free-to-Play Success, Half a Million New Players
Converting a Pay-to-Play MMORPG to Free-to-Play is akin to resuscitating a dying individual with high voltage shock paddles. An MMO can go from DOA to alive and thriving within the time span of just a few months. A F2P medicine miracle if you will. Today, we have yet another survival/success story with TERA: Rising reporting over a half a million new users registered since the game moved to free-to-play on February 5th. It should be noted that these are figures from just the EU version and do not include NA.
Gameforge has released a few TERA F2P stats for you to digest:
* Around 1.5 million characters have been created since the game switched to F2P
* The Castanics are the most popular race with the Humans and High Elves shortly after.
* The Warrior enjoys the title of most popular class, followed by the Sorcerer and the Archer.
In the game's next update which is scheduled for sometime this year, TERA will see new features added to its political system including the ability for guilds to enter into alliances with other guilds and vie for supremacy against others on their server. Are you enjoying TERA?
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This game is dogballs.
I mean like that match went on for like more than 5 min and we was only level 7 or 8. I was like i can't wait until i'm like a high level because that was intense match. I been playing (click and fight) for like 7 years and Tera was the second free aim game I played beside Guild War 2 O_O
The game has a great story. Allot of trolls say "only lancer is best class, ga,e has boring quest, no end game" - All false, this game has the best priest class I ever played. I have great pve and solo skills, and then a entire row of heal and group support skills. Love playing it! The questing is epic. You do not go 1 to 2. It is like AION, 1 to 3 to 2 to 5 and maybe back to 1 to do some more things. YOu constantly are moving, seeing new mobs and maps. In fact, the most of anything you ever have to kill is 20, it usually is 10. So that changes pace in a good way. VARIETY.
Quest is epic, they do lot sof cutscenes, movies, and then even INSTANCED STORY QUEST, where you teleport into a plot of a story and have to help do something like protect from waves of mobs, or discover something...Etc. We can say it is like a dyanmic event instanced for you (unlike GW2 where you have to have 20 others loggin same time or else skip it).
Cash shop balanced, and I am end game without need of it.
There is this HORRIBLE mmorpg site called mmogrinder.com. The idiot there, named CHAOS, does not like this game so he made a "balanced" video and called this game hard to run (I run in medium high on a 6 year old crap system), grindy, and dumb (he did not like the sound files). He ran this game into the ground and when I commented nicely and made a little review, he got mad, blocked me from all his networks and promotes fals claims about this game. I advise you all to go there and troll him!
Dissappointed they ban region.
everything else is garbage content, most people quit around 40 im told by my guild, i wish i quit before that
-Magicman
Does anyone have the US stats? Are they doing as good? I honestly don't know much about the US version.