I've been playing well over a year. It is free to play but it is definitely a pay to win. In the upper most levels, you have to pay to get the resources to upgrade or spend six, eight, or up to twelve months gathering and upgrading everything else just to upgrade your castle one level, just to do it again for the next level. And heaven forbid you get attacked. You simply must start over. I'm all for a capitalist society but damn. Do you have to make your car payment from each in game purchase?