Well you all knew tha you had to pay i think was.. 6 bucks to download a patch but now I think they learned their lesson that people won;t buy the patch and it's free again so you can download it and play it again! have fun!
You get to play online, with cheaters! It's not such a bad game, and it would be better if it wasn't so cheat ridden. I used to completely rock at it back in the day, was like 600 out of the 60,000 people that played it online then.
I have no clue. I haven't played it since Christmas, but it can't be that bad. I was contemplating playing it again when summer started, but then Xenn got Planetside, so I play that off and on.