it sucks and i hate it

I quit the game 5months ago i hardly played it, and now that i redownloaded the game. I'm apparently banned for botting, an inactive account was banned?ok lmfao, and they doubled down and rejected my appeal. Just wasted an hour redownloading the game. I also noticed others in the reviews that have had this issue so i guess whatever, best to stay away from this game

The story is really, really, REALLY well written and easy to get lost in.

The end game is so heavily pay to win and monetized that i physically cannot get back into the game.

its pretty straight forward until the end of the Feiton arc, with full immersive story, interesting places and people within. then it becomes; grind this 2x a day for a 1% gear upgrade for 3 weeks to make it to the next zone to continue playing the story. OR buy all the things you need in the auction house, which only allows premium currency.

I started playing this game when it first ported over To U.S. servers in 2021.I loved it. had so much fun that i took PTO at work to play longer, took what was probably my longest break from runescape to date and unsubbed from WoW for a couple years. but once you hit that wall you are very limited on what you can do. so i had resorted to making new characters at that point to relive the story and enjoy the different characters, which lead me to learn that you can buy POWERPASSES. which let you SKIP the story and the tedious grind with a summerized version of the story up to that point. this is such a let down because the games strong point IS its story. if there was a version of the powerpass that just made it so that upon finishing that story you could get the next upgrade without missing the story and still letting you play through that would be awesome. but to my knowledge ( i haven't been able to get back into this game since around January 2022) that isn't an option.

The character design is really good. with unique classes and "advanced classes" that show genuine creativity and thought. the gameplay is fun and when the game first launched over here it had a thriving community.

If the end game progression wasn't SO time locked this review would be completely different.
but i can't suggest this game because it feels like such a time loss once you do eventually hit that end game.

I CAN say. try this game out. make it to feiton. immerse in the story. and enjoy it. but you shouldn't give this game your money. it doesn't value you or your time.

TL;DR: Everything is actually amazing with this game. except for the aggressive MTX push and vicious timelocked grind at the end game.