The game is extremely cashshop dependent in the later levels if you want to survive in instances / PvP
The admins make terrible changes that imbalance the game further, but other than that they don't do much. I've never seen a single gold slammer get banned.
I used to play a year ago, quit, started a month ago, and just quit again last week. It's a good game though. Give it a try...it's not as bad as I make it sound.
