Wow,  you took the words right out my mouth.  This game was very fun till release of item mall,  then you realize the BOT hitting the training dummy will have completor skills in a week, and want to puke.  F2P = cost way more than P2P as  soon as item mall gets released.  And the GMs and VGMs never police the server trash like they do in a quality P2P game.  And when you hit the 90 lvls game gets very boring real fast,  the fact that you are stuck in a grind game becomes very clear.  If you like to grind and dont mind paying for item malls this is a really good game,  better than most the other games like this out now.

This is a free game.  But to be competetive in the PVP part of game you will need to get the products from the item mall.  a premium pack that gives a +20 all stat buff is huge to say the least. Also a pill that give +5 allstats for half hour is also a popular item.   You can also puchase a deco with 4 slots,  wich most will put in a 5 % speed boost in each slot.   There are also many Trigrams and blood siphons you can buy wich will help out  greatly.  For example you can increase your damage by 15% with buying the 2 trigrams and carry siphons that with give you back health when hit.  These are just a few of the many items for sale that can take a paying customer to PVP dominace,  and grind much faster as well.  If you want to try this game make sure you look in item mall 1st to see if you really want to try playing for free.This is a example of what the cost are.....

90 day premium 4000 coins

100 +5 All stat pills (last 30 min) 1340 coins

4 slot deco (last 30 days) 525 coins

50 blood siphons (last 30 min) 1310 coins

10% damage trigram (15 days) 650 coins

5% damage jade (15 days) 425 coins

roughly 4858 coins per month for this (50 US Dollars gets you 5500 coins)

To end this I say no matter how you do your math there is not a pay to play game available that even costs half this to play. 

I agree with this 100%,  at lvl 121 you realize this is NO free game,  and dont even waste your time trying figure out what you have spent. ( YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW)