Longtime player here, let me just start by saying I've had a lot of fun over the years playing this game with friends. That said I cannot in good conscious recommend this to anyone friend or foe. This game has gone from generally free to play to being pressured to spend monstrous amounts of money to just keep up. The pricing in this game should be considered illegal, 50$ for a fraction of a character unlock for any of the new characters which is a galaxy away in power level from the character you spend a few hundred to unlock just 6 months ago. Pricing should max out at like 5-dollars. Pricing aside, even if you do spend your oligarch inheritance to play this game at a competitive level, it may not even matter because the amount of cheaters makes it so that the leaderboard controlled rewards are unreachable for anyone unwilling to cheat. The developers have shown an alarming unwillingness to fix any of the myriad of problems with this once shining game. This negligence has made it very clear to all of us that are paying attention that this game has been put on maintenance. What that means is that going forward they will be putting minimum effort into this game so that they can maximize profits until the game comes to a slow death which it is well on its way. Don't jump onto this sinking boat my friends, your time and money are worth much more then to help these clowns fill their wallets.