First of all, don't evaluate my experience with this game with my 5 minutes gameplay. It would be 0 if I wouldn't need to have 5 mins to write a review

My evaluation is made from my experience since beta (2012) to 2014. I tried the game a few months ago, and the game is at the same state as it was before.

I played this game since beta. The game is amazing! It's my favourite game pvp wise, dungeons can be challenging, tons of skills. I love this game.

BUT, it's at the hands of the wrong publisher. Gameforge aka Failforge destroyed this game with their p2p style on a "f2p" game.

Why is it p2p? Starter players can do nothing in this game to make any ingame money, dungeons with tons of CD, etc.

But the main problem here is the money farm. The game itself has a gold pack item ingame where people buy it with real money and sell it for ingame money. Gold pack gives you the full game for 30 days. So basically during this 30 days you need to farm gold to buy more gold packs and keep your game running smoothly. There is nothing wrong with that. I never payed for the game but since I played on the beta I had a Veteran account. The veteran account is basically the full game with more cooldowns on dungeons and some limitations on the game (but not game breaking).

So my point is: The hard part is to farm the first Gold Pack. After the first one, you will be able to keep gathering money to farm the other ones. As a Starter Player (aka f2p player), you can't mail items, open a private shop and not use the trade broker. This are the 3 possible ways to marketing on the game. So it is impossible for you to buy a Gold Pack, since you can only sell items on ingame npc's (getting a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ income from it).

Because of this, new players leave and the only players that stay are the ones that pay for the game basically, since the prices of the gold pack increased so much that you can't really buy one right now. The only way you could play this game is if someone that plays it already helps you get the first GP. I sold my account back in 2014 when I wasn't able to get any of my friends to stay on the game and the servers were loosing a lot of population, resulting on a dead game.

Since then, what did Failforge do? Did they change the starter account? No. It remains unchanged since 2012 and they talk about lack of population on their servers, and they try to find a solution to fix it by merging servers. This still not fix the repopulation of the server, just try to keep making some money and try to hold the current population, which is being lost every day, specially with Blade&Soul coming to Europe next January in the hands of NCSoft (thank you so much NCSoft to not let Failforge destroy that awesome game too).

Thank you guys for reading and I hope that you found my long and confusing review helpfull.

IF TOO LONG FOR YOU HERE IS A RESUME:
Game is p2p. If you are a f2p player, don't even waste your time downloading it. Really good game, really bad publisher. If you are from NA, I totally recommend you to play it on the NCSoft servers (their trully-free model is really good). Really good PVP, Faction System, Sieges, Dungeons. The game has really good content.

First of all, don't evaluate my experience with this game with my 5 minutes gameplay. It would be 0 if I wouldn't need to have 5 mins to write a review My evaluation is made from my experience since beta (2012) to 2014. I tried the game a few months ago, and the game is at the same state as it was before. I played this game since beta. The game is amazing! It's my favourite game pvp wise, dungeons can be challenging, tons of skills. I love this game. BUT, it's at the hands of the wrong publisher. Gameforge aka Failforge destroyed this game with their p2p style on a "f2p" game. Why is it p2p? Starter players can do nothing in this game to make any ingame money, dungeons with tons of CD, etc. But the main problem here is the money farm. The game itself has a gold pack item ingame where people buy it with real money and sell it for ingame money. Gold pack gives you the full game for 30 days. So basically during this 30 days you need to farm gold to buy more gold packs and keep your game running smoothly. There is nothing wrong with that. I never payed for the game but since I played on the beta I had a Veteran account. The veteran account is basically the full game with more cooldowns on dungeons and some limitations on the game (but not game breaking). So my point is: The hard part is to farm the first Gold Pack. After the first one, you will be able to keep gathering money to farm the other ones. As a Starter Player (aka f2p player), you can't mail items, open a private shop and not use the trade broker. This are the 3 possible ways to marketing on the game. So it is impossible for you to buy a Gold Pack, since you can only sell items on ingame npc's (getting a shitty income from it). Because of this, new players leave and the only players that stay are the ones that pay for the game basically, since the prices of the gold pack increased so much that you can't really buy one right now. The only way you could play this game is if someone that plays it already helps you get the first GP. I sold my account back in 2014 when I wasn't able to get any of my friends to stay on the game and the servers were loosing a lot of population, resulting on a dead game. Since then, what did Failforge do? Did they change the starter account? No. It remains unchanged since 2012 and they talk about lack of population on their servers, and they try to find a solution to fix it by merging servers. This still not fix the repopulation of the server, just try to keep making some money and try to hold the current population, which is being lost every day, specially with Blade&Soul coming to Europe next January in the hands of NCSoft (thank you so much NCSoft to not let Failforge destroy that awesome game too). Thank you guys for reading and I hope that you found my long and confusing review helpfull. IF TOO LONG FOR YOU HERE IS A RESUME: Game is p2p. If you are a f2p player, don't even waste your time downloading it. Really good game, really bad publisher. If you are from NA, I totally recommend you to play it on the NCSoft servers (their trully-free model is really good). Really good PVP, Faction System, Sieges, Dungeons. The game has really good content.