The Daily Grind: Did you participate in TERA's first beta weekend?

Yes Sir I did.... The game was fun although I do not intend on either buying it or subscribing. This decision is of a personal nature and not due to the quality of the product as a MMO.

PS. You guys going to get some Aion Euro beta keys :)

I played on the EU test (unable to get a US key) and it went fine, the whole weekend had barely any lag, I hit the beta cap (lvl 22) and did the dungeon, all went well. Game is not too bad, but no PvP action other than death-matches outside of the city.

Yes, I was in the beta. It capped out at level 22 and since you can get to level cap in about 15 hrs most people that got in right away were capped on sunday and didn't have much to do. Couple of impressions of the beta (not of the game)
1. First 2-3 hrs of the beta there was some server problems and one of the two servers kept crashing while the other server had a queue of over 2000 players long (~ 1 hr wait). This was eventually fixed and there were no server queues for the rest of the beta.
2. There was a huge amount of trolls in this beta - I literally had to turn off area chat, LFG, and trade chat because of the enormous amount of trolling, spamming etc people were doing. The community was absolutely terrible and you can't ask a question without someone give a troll response in return or make some reference to WoW/SWTOR. Apparently most of the trolls didn't actually pre-order and got it through the IGN prime trick that rolled through reddit/4chan (purchase IGN prime, get beta key and then cancel).
3. Fair a bit of kill stealing - the biggest hindrance to your leveling is actually other players - they will race to you to your mobs, attack whatever you are attacking etc. You see more players than mobs in some areas. For some of the named monsters there was actually a line waiting which majority of the players respected.

In terms of the game itself, it was quite good. It wasn't as "action-based" as they advertised - the combat is actually pretty slow paced and boring at times for anyone who is ranged since all you do is click buttons 1, 2, 3 and aim your cursor at the enemy. The boss fights were cool though.

Sure did, loved what I played!

My impressions

Finaly a MMO with gameplay that is actually FUN.

You maybe grind. But at least you want to grind because its so fun to do it.
Skill actually maters, and skilled player can even solo elite boss.

We were always told that twitch based open world MMO wouldnt work because the lag.

TERA proves them wrong. Open world ala WOW, no instances or shading whatsoever. And zero lag.

In fact the game looks better than Rift and runs much better , even on low end machines

After 2 days of not being able to log in and 3 hours of having the client crash as soon as they dropped me into the game I gave up. Maybe the next beta weekend will be more stable.

Yes I was in beta and it has convinced me to purchase it. There was 1 bug i had to report. It ran super smooth and was the only MMO since darkfall that had fun combat.

Yes, played it most of the weekend. At the time I thought it was good but other than the free-aim targeting there was nothing ground breaking about it. The lore wasn't particularly interesting but the combat was a lot of fun and the visuals are great. However when I logged back into SWTOR last night it felt linear, static and un-interesting compared to Tera and I felt myself really wanting to play Tera a lot more. The combat is really its selling point and will keep people playing because you are more involved in it. I may or may not subscribe as TSW is coming at the same time but I would love more MMOs to copy its combat style!