The graphic in game is pretty "old fasioned" so there arent any new efect or anything like that to see. Lvling is interesting until lvl of 65 than t become really hard. Item shop is very expencive and without using it there are no reason to start this game at all.  Game have a lot of bugs that have to be fixed and there arent anyone who care about it. The best thing about this game is that Metin is kinda cometative so u have some motive to play further and spent more money on it but there is a serious problem about that competition. No meter how much money and playing hours you spent what lvl u made there is some well organize group of players that will made it to you even harder. If there is posibility to get some good item for high lvls that is really rare there are no option that u could get it first few month of its existance coz there are GMs and their friends who must have it first. They are well organized and have their own chats where they agree about those stuff.  After a long time playing I fidn this list on one forum and than everything start to fit up on its place:

List of Metin UK GMs playing characters:

Doxa - Kitaka
Gump - Kudan and JerJerBlinks
RedPot - IcDeathPPL
Aphex - BlackOrchid
Maia - Asja
Kiera - Kaysha
eXo - ChRoN05
SueLee - winniepo
Vayu - SunGuru.
Eloisa - Lysera
Cadee - JadedOne
Nimes - Hogar.
Dabria - LadyAngel.
Tabucus - Merlin1.
Astroline - Fitsbol.
Frizzy - bob198906
 

There are some new GMs now and some of this old one stoped to play but nothing will change. Some guy exxo is payed to take care about game and he hired game stuff. HE dont care, and they do what they can to made game more interesting to themselfs. They dont choose the way or object. Me and my brother was playing long time, made a pretty good characters and than we leave one guild  (seems that American Metin GM was in it and that she is one of best online friends with metin uk SGM), she hated us for that. As my brother was really high lvl and long time playing player his high lvl friends start to comming to our guild and than other GM on Metin UK start to thinking that his guild will become poor so he agreed with that American friend they he will fack up us. From that time every item we try to upgrade failed, our guild land (cost really much) wanished (sry meintanance problem there arent any sign that u really have that land before meintanance). Drop from moobs wanished. Deamon tower runs finished before end with and bug problem (time is over). One of GMs take my brothers char while we was on vacations, change pasword, e-mail and ingame kingdom. Other GM take my account and write some stuff so my account get perm ban with pretty nice prove for it (but i was on boat without Internet connection for a month) .

After that one friend let me use his account, and everything was okay until i didnt start to write on call, than one other friend write my name on call and that account is banned again.

I dont know the reason maybe killing that GMs playing chars ingame or something like that, but that game seems to be not aloud to me and my brother anymore.

There is one more thing about GMs. They have permit to change your pasword, take your items, and than ban you account.

Is that not illegal If you buy a weapon from cash shop and gm takes it away next day thats pretty much theft lol.

95% of your post is just a lie or some speculations without any proof  or pure nonsense , if u want to accuse someone on metin , accuse ppl , there are lot ppl who will just w8 a chance to scam / hack u , and they will not hesitate to do that , ... and u can accuse gameforge because of lack off upgrades      ,

gms are not fault for anything , during exxos leadership there was only problem with lack of information , because he wasnt one of guys who will write or say a lot  ,   now exxo is not anymore there  , so there is no problem at all with gms   only with ppl

Judging from the few lines of text i read in your post you're a cry babby.  And everything you said went in one eye and out the other.  Im going to give this game a try.

Go to metin2uk forums and read the threads (if they are still there,) concerning the player uprising against the G.M's.  Also, try counting the threads concerning player abuse and hacking (the ones that they have left,) and then come back and explain how the op is wrong. 

The UK version is crap.  Fullstop.

 I was actually going to waist my time downloading this game. Glad I read this post first. 

I hate games where the cash shop rules at the end of the day. Very few F2P games have a strong balance of Cash shop vs Non cash shop users.  This one seems to be one sided to the extreme.