Is the game still playable?

Hey all,

Long time no see,

It has been about 4-5 months since I logged off to give this game a rest, every time I look up the stock of PWRD I always see red numbers, so that means that people are:

1. Not buying gold

OR

2. Prices are still sky rocket


I've seen the updates, and it's funny to see the bikes, I remember someone time ago asking for the bikes to be a mount because private servers had those, so it's great to see that here, however, it has nothing to do with the theme of the game, what century are we in now in PWI? Not long ago we were in some kind of old-age mythologic age but seems we're now in the technology age, no more rock mounts, horses, etc. next will be cars and bmws? lol..

So I know some people from the forums, and am wondering if this game is still playable... I left because of the Rank gear sale, i found it the most dumb thing to sell in CS, but ah well, whoever has it has it, whatever I don't care.

How are factions reacting to the changes? Is TW still enjoyable? or is it a plain pain in the butt because of all those R9 lvl 102+ players running around?

Are blademasters still obsessed with deicide? Are archers still trying to become sins/bms?, Are barbs, tanks again?

I don't want to bother downloading all the updates since I left, so I'm asking this to see what has happened since then, if things are still the same I may simply log in and say hi to my old friends (if they're not mad at me... some of them removed me from FB because of quitting PW... ah well... ), then continue with life, hehe.