My dad plays it on Premia, he's like level 180.
Apparently it's just about dead. Gold farmers have taken over several servers (Like, literally taken over), and they're moving into Premia now that they've figured out CipSoft doesn't ban premium accounts. Basically every farming area worth using has gold farming bots and if you fuck with the bots the gold farmers will come with their level 400 characters (Complete with auto-heal etc. scripts) and kill you. People used to call out when they found rare items until the gold farmers started messaging anybody who did, demanding the item and running them off the server if they didn't hand it over.
Since they're all cheating they're basically impossible to kill, some of my dad's friends blocked a farmer bot in and it took like three hours to kill him because he automatically used potions.
Some of the other servers are even worse, with the farmers making you pay taxes to hunt and charging you gold when you level up. If you don't pay them they'll kill you and take the level. It's fucked up and CipSoft apparently doesn't care.
Apparently my dad and some friends have a plan to make a shitload of level 1 accounts, bait the farmers into attacking them, and then logging all the level 1s around. One spell will kill them all and if you kill that many people you'll get a red skull, which means anyone can kill you as much as they want and if you die you lose everything. Then the whole server will show up, kill them, and then just spawncamp them until they move onto a new server.
THat or just quit, if the game's at that level of anarchy why bother playing? Apparently when the server I mentioned where they make you pay taxes complained, the admins said they should band together as a community and overthrow their oppressors. I would've quit right there, fuck that.