The free-to-play version of the fantasy MMO TERA has launched successfully: Over half a million new users have registered for the game since the move to free-to-play, which brings the total number of players registered for TERA: Rising up to over one million. The game’s operator Gameforge opened six new game servers just a few days after the free-to-play launch in order to meet the high demand.

Since the introduction of the free-to-play version, TERA players have created around 1.5 million characters with which they can experience adventures in the world of Arborea. The battle-ready Castanics are the most popular race, with the Humans and High Elves nipping at their heels, while the Warrior enjoys the greatest popularity among the classes, followed by the Sorcerer and the Archer.

With the move to free-to-play, the world of Arborea was expanded by the Crucible of Flame dungeon and a 3-v-3 arena called the Champions’ Skyring. In the future, regular content updates for TERA: Rising will keep on coming. The next such update, which will be released within the course of this year, will add a new feature to TERA’s political system: Players who belong to a guild will be able to enter into an alliance and vie for supremacy against other alliances on their server.

This author plays a human mystic. To those of us who know, the three classes that aren’t listed in the infographic above are also some of the most vital to gameplay: the priest, the mystic, and the lancer. You guys should go check it out and maybe bring these classes up on the board. The official TERA website is located at this link, and the official Facebook is at this link. A little info from my point of view, the gameplay itself is exactly as they describe, true action combat. It’s very fast-paced, and generally very exciting. The only place where I begin to lose interest is in the instance dungeons, but that’s because I’ve personally never been a fan of instance-based combat. Even so, the game is definitely worth a look.