Pay to play.. and I mean a absurd amount of money is needed to advance.. This Company uses every mind game with a lot of calculated trickery including bots to push you in to losing the matches and tournaments to make you want to spend more money.. no matter how much you pay to play you will be screw over again. Spent over $1000 and not even one mech robot is even close to being maxed out...so take my word for it.. piece of junk!