Since it is f2p, asda story gold has an Item Mall, in which you can spend "campus cash" for certain time-limited mounts/rides, some potions and scrolls, and a number of new hairstyles. Thankfully, the item mall doesn't have items that somehow "compel" you to buy in order to gain an edge in-game, like time-limited epic weapons or armors.

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Sad to say, clumped with Asda's mediocrity, the game is also a haven of bugs and glitches. Having personally played through its open beta and commercial launches, the bugs and glitches keep piling up as the days pass by. Some of the bugs include party chat problems (you see a different party's chat conversation), soulmate chats unable to reach each other, unable to move and cast skills inside instance dungeons, and frequent disconnections between map-changing load screens are a few of the game's problems.
Though Asda officials say that some, if not most, of the problems have been fixed, the bugs still persist.

The patches don't help either. You'll be surprised that the Asda client is actually downloading over 300 files when you haven't updated for a long time. Personal experience records a total of 740+ files since previous login a few days after commercial launch. And what's with the patch client? The client is always on top, and can't even minimize the window for you to do other things while the patcher is running in the background. You have to drag the window to corner to see your desktop again. It's certainly downright annoying.

Along with the bug-laden world, customer support is slow and GMs are hardly visible in-game. This is evident with the presence of ad spammers. Randomly-generated level 1 players, seemingly perform like a chat bot, spamming a website for hours on end. And the only thing that stops them is the eventual 1-minute automated chatban.

In all, asda story gold is a mediocre game. But with the bugs, annoying irks, lack of PvP feature and a few maps, the mediocre grade becomes blasphemous in a sense.
Asda Story could be a nice way to pass time, or a game for PCs in the lower end of the spectrum, if you can get used to the bland world and bugs it offers. For everyone else, it probably might not be worth the download.