Guess everyone was right about this game from the start

I used to be super hyped for this as I really wanted a Dragon game but the devs only wanted your money this is beyond obvious once you get to the main menu and have so many micro transactions it's hard to see what you are looking at.
Servers are terrible and have only gotten worse over the years, the menu is buggy, the client is so much worse now and launching for games sometimes causes crashes.

There is never going to be any good reason to play this and it'll never be worth your time and especially your money.

In all honesty I cannot recommend this game to anybody who likes to have fun in competitive games.
Anyway:
-You will not have fun as a new player. You will be curb stomped by a handful of vets coordinating their actions through discord 9 games out of 10. Maybe more. Because there's no matchmaking based on skill or time played.
-The sheer incompetence of current managment of this game is baffling. You may think that all the tricks for f2p games to keep people playing are well known for a long time, but CEOs (or whoever is responsible for this game) seem to steer clear from them and instead keep adding overpriced cosmetics.
-All the rewards are laughable. You get a little bit of in-game-currency coins for a match and that's it. Very little things in the shop are bought with coins. You can win a chest with random rewards once a week, but the percentage of good reward drops is minuscule even in the best chest. Dragon pass is a bit better, but you need to buy access to it with real money, and with each season rewards are getting worse.
-Devs promised (and actually made) a permanent PVE game mod, but alas! it was taking players away from the PVP mods, so it was shut down.
-The game is very repetitive, new maps are very rarely released (and some of them are just recolors of existing ones) so it gets boring pretty fast.
-After reduction of player number in matches from 6vs6 to 4vs4 game became even more unfair to solo players.

Ok now the good parts:
-Graphics are pretty nice! Designs and animations of the dragons are also very cool. Existing maps are full of fun nooks and details. Baby dragons are adorable! And there is a cool little quest system to make them grow. Too bad you likely won't see them because dragon eggs are barely in the game now.
-Matches are short, dynamic and fast paced. Flying feels nice.
-Easy controls.
-It is not pay-to-win. There are classes and abilities you can purchase in game for in-game currency, but those are pretty balanced- they might add some new playstyles but won’t make anybody more OP.
-I don’t think there are cheaters there. Probably. Maybe because I cannot fathom why anybody would want to cheat in an almost dead game with almost no rewards¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Super fun game. love the art work, wish more people played it.