I played it for a good while when it first came out (and you know was subscription based). The PVP was a lot of fun but if you do that make sure you have a pretty decent system as all the combat can really eat up a lot. I think at one point a couple hundred of us were really pushing the Aldemari Dominion back and boy the lag got real with all the siege weapons not to mention the players. It'd be interesting to see how much the game has changed since I stopped playing.