You don't have to spend a penny for this to be fun, why can't you have fun with lower level ships? i am having a great time with Level 3 and Level 4 ships at the moment and it has only taken me 2 weeks to get to level 4, remember the companies that make these "free" games are businesses, so they need to make money to survive and to make future games, if you want to spend something then that is down to the individual, these games are really well made and look fantastic ie World of Warplanes/Tanks/Warships and others like Warthunder too, at least you can play these games for nothing and if you don't like them it has cost you nothing, the likes of Battlefield etc or the New Battlefront were and are going to be very expensive what with all the extra packs and add-ons, you pay about £50 for one of these (that is £50 without the forthcoming extras which will cost more) and find that you don't like it, that's £50 down the crapper and it's not like the old days where you could sell your games on when you were finished with them, you are now stuck with them forever.