Finally got all of the badges! If you want to play this game just for the badges, I highly recommend you don't. If I knew then what I know now, I would have skipped the game. Unfortunately, I had way too much time invested by the time I got to the point where I realized the grind involved. This is easily the longest medium and hard badge on the website. You will pour hours and hours into the game just to get the medium badge. I have no idea why they badged this game, or why they didn't make the badges take less time to get. The game itself is ok, but it is one of those games like warcraft that you play for the long run. It is not "hard" to get the badges, it just takes FOREVER. I have my gripes about the game itself, but I just wanted to warn everyone who thinks they might play it just for the badges. On another note, the easy badge can be obtained very quickly (you only have to win 1 battle).
Unfortunately, I did not look at the comments section before I started playing this game. I now regret that decision. This game is awful and never should have gotten badges. Laggy, buggy, and wait times are awful. Definitely geared toward pay to play. I don't even know if I'll keep playing to even get the medium badge it is so bad :(
The crafting bug has got to be fixed! Too many times I have been in the process of crafting several items when it "froze" and lose a heck of a lot of experience.