This is an ok game, but very much still pay-to-win. It's possible to advance your castle and army upgrades to where you're competitive to others, but it will take a huge amount of time. A lot of resources and upgrades are very expensive to purchase with real money. The game play is average, it's only in portrait and not landscape mode so that's somewhat annoying. Some players have spent tens of thousands of dollars in this game, so there's no need for the devs to do anything different