Originally posted by Sevenstar61
Does it count me as user as well? I created account, downloaded game, spent 5 minutes there, uninstalled.....

Yes

All in all 1.4 million f2p accounts isnt really that great, especially when you consider that they'd be lucky if even 1/3rd of them are active, out of which an even smaller percentage are probably willing to spend money in a cash shop. Maybe they'll close the game soon

If they would sell some kind of rediculously over powered experience booster, I would play again.

I really want an end game lancer to pvp with, I just cant get through the pve/leveling. 

Aside from that, the game is great and deserves a lot more than 1.4 mil players.  Just make sure to hide map chat though.

Originally posted by dave6660

This site has 2.25 million users.

En Masse should provide a little more detail on how they count "users" before we get exited over that number.

Originally posted by holdenhamlet

Originally posted by hopenottaken

1.4 million users packed in 6 servers.

Cool story bro...

There's 6 servers for the Americas.  There's also multiple servers for Europe.  I imagine there are many more for Korea and other countries.

It's not all about America for MMOs, especially not TERA.

it says right in the first paragraph that this 1.4 million is for the North American version of the game...

'registered players' huhhh, so if you registered and didnt even download i suppose that could count, but good for them anyway, i enjoyed the game when i played it.

related

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/tera-mmo-has-more-subscribers-as-a-free-to-play-game-than-when-it-required-a-subscription/

The free-to-play model has driven Tera’s revenues up three-fold compared to its subscription era, but the game also saw an increase in subscribers.

sounds better than aoc did

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/age-of-conan-sees-300-000-sign-up-after-free-to-play-switch-dou/

a spike in users to the tune of 300,000 -- overall, revenues doubled over the last month

TERA had an increase in 500,000 users after it went ftp

Originally posted by Nadia

related

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/tera-mmo-has-more-subscribers-as-a-free-to-play-game-than-when-it-required-a-subscription/

The free-to-play model has driven Tera’s revenues up three-fold compared to its subscription era, but the game also saw an increase in subscribers.

 

sounds better than aoc did

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/age-of-conan-sees-300-000-sign-up-after-free-to-play-switch-dou/

a spike in users to the tune of 300,000 -- overall, revenues doubled over the last month

 

TERA had an increase in 500,000 users after it went ftp

keep in mind AoC sold extremely well so there was less curioisty about the title.  Also AoC was old news in 2011, TERA is still new

Originally posted by Phry

Originally posted by Sevenstar61
Does it count me as user as well? I created account, downloaded game, spent 5 minutes there, uninstalled.....

 

Yes

 

All in all 1.4 million f2p accounts isnt really that great, especially when you consider that they'd be lucky if even 1/3rd of them are active, out of which an even smaller percentage are probably willing to spend money in a cash shop. Maybe they'll close the game soon

guess u dont play the game. in europe there were 4 servers left before the game went f2p. now there are 12 servers. i have chars on 3 of them and they all have a lot of people in lowby and high lvl areas.

to me the combat system is the best i have played. its much more dynamic than gw2. just the endgame content is kinda boring. i love the 15vs15 and 3vs3 but i miss the big siege raids. but heared the next big patch will bring faction pvp with 3 alliances.

Originally posted by asmkm22
As far as I can tell, all they are saying is that have registered 1.4 million accounts, which is very different than having that many active players (they didn't divulge that particular number).  

Consider the difficulty of counting 'active players', in any way that's meaningful, with an F2P.

They typical gamer 'let's argue about which game is biggest' just doesn't work at all well in that kind of arena.

Not that it'll every stop anyone.

Originally posted by Icewhite

Originally posted by asmkm22
As far as I can tell, all they are saying is that have registered 1.4 million accounts, which is very different than having that many active players (they didn't divulge that particular number).  

Consider the difficulty of counting 'active players', in any way that's meaningful, with an F2P.

They typical gamer 'let's argue about which game is biggest' just doesn't work at all well in that kind of arena.

Not that it'll every stop anyone.

ya beat me to the punch cause thats pretty much what i was going to say

I'll help you all out here. :)

Now that we are in a post-subscription world, you want to look for the following metrics:

• Daily Active Users (or DAU) / Monthly Active Users (or MAU)
• Peak Concurrent Users (PCU)

The first metric tells you, as you might imagine, how many people total are playing the game every day (or month). The second metric tells you how many users are logged in at once during a day.. For example, Riot Games recently reported that League of Legends is hitting 5 million PCU.

I'm glad to see TERA is doing better with the switchover, but I generally don't pay attention to the "registered users" metric. It's pretty much worthless. In TERA's case, it tells us the game has improved since going F2P, and that's about it.

Originally posted by stragen001

Yeah..... OK

I suspect thats 1.4million registered users meaning  that 1.4 million people have at some point registered a TERA account. 

What would be interesting to know is the amount of ACTIVE users (say accounts that have logged in in the past month)

This exactly.  I count as one of their registered accounts and I played it for a couple days then never again.