The issue for me is that F2P games are becoming ever so cunning with their website layouts. Free Realms has next to no information on the actual game itself on the main page. You have to hit Game -> what is free realms? -> use side bars on the right to find out extremely vague information of what the game offers. So, most people that go to the website and hit the new player button first. It takes about 4 steps of choosing what type of character you want until it hits you with a create username screen.

Basically what I am saying is that 8 million accounts on Free Realms means nothing to me because they are basically forcing you to create an account to find out information about the game. It is just a clever trick to boost up the amount of accounts they have as a way to advertise the game.