As a Zone admin, and long time zone and era player, i think era is doing great, always have awesome new content, and have a lot of variations in guns which i like a lot. I don't play much anymore because as a zone player i never got used to the 4 way shooting, and i just dont like the community cuz most people are a-holes, but thats not the games fault.
And no, era is not a pay2win game in anyway, we all have the same chances to buy what we need, all of us can buy a BAR, get a good melee, buy revives, vip, and work hard for p2ks. Even auction items arent op in gun standards. Theres so many ideas that from era that i suggested to zone that zone's in major need of. The only things i don't like about era as a game are healing items, cuz it annoys me when people run away and heal off their beatdown, and stacked dmg bypassing safe respawns.
Era is a great game, and as Zone's Gun Admin, you have to always know that you can't make everyone happy, but you gotta do whats best for the game.