2015/09/10

Consecutive recharge bonus

Some Wartune event designer has really fallen in love with this hard-to-pronounce event, because he runs it nonstop. Still, the rewards are cool, unless you have grown so bitter to say "never spend on Wartune again".

Sadly, the golden age of Consecutive events are over, when you could just claim all the bonuses by clicking on the "Get free balens" menu and watching videos. Now you have to pay 5 x 5 USD to get the bonus. So far, we have seen this event giving out like 500 beast souls (equivalent of a +40 mount) plus some chests. Combined with the other recharge bonus running parallel (awarding items and bound balens) it was the best recharge bonus in Wartune's history, you got like 150% bonus to your payment.

The current one is pretty decent too. Instead of beast souls, it gives divinity souls, up to level 7. Divinity soul is still an exclusive casher-only item. Although you can win some in sylph expedition, it won't be much, unless you are top (due to being casher). Also you can buy them in mystery shop, but that's also an option mostly for cashers. So lvl 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 soul, plus 40 cloth shards is as good as the +40 mount, if not better.

Please note that this event follows a predictable pattern: during the 6 days when it's active, there is usually a recharge pack for 2 days, and for 3 days, they award bound balens for your payment, plus additional recharge gift packs which are better than the small ones. So it' best to time your recharges so you get maximum benefit. I recommend wait for the bound balens, recharge once between midnight and 5am, again after 5am, and then the next 2 days: this way you get bound balens for 4 of your 5 recharges.

Although the rewards are cool, this recharge event is prolly the most annoying one in Wartune's history for several reasons:

1.) if you forgot to make payment on 5 different days, or you mess up something, and accidentally do twice on the same day, or just their system get's messed up, which is quite frequent - you lose the majority of the bonus which comes on the 5th day.

2.) doing 5 small separate recharges is just pain, many clicks, and 5 chances to select the wrong server, the wrong game.

3.) With many payment methods, 5 USD recharge can be very expensive. Someone mentioned with Xsolla, 5 USD recharge cost actually 54 USD! So unless you use paypal or bank card, this will cost you a lot more than 25 USD.

4.) Since R2Games introduced the - otherwise illegal - double-taxing (charging Europeans BOTH USA tax and European tax), many players try to dodge this by using proxies while recharging. But it's a lot of extra trouble, and if you do it too often, paypal might ban you.

5.) And the last point, when a player recharge 5 x 5 USD, R2Games will receive only 12.5 USD. When a player recharge 25 USD in one sum, they get like 22 USD. So with this degenerated method, they lose half of their income. But yeah, this is one point we don't care about :)




6 comments:

  1. Seriously. You do great work. Doly Games is nice to know about upcoming events but it's so refreshing to get real in game advice. Would love an updated Optimized Game time article. The grind of the game is brutal

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    1. Thank you! Yes, you right, it should be time to update some of the static articles, they are quite out-of-date.

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  2. And if I can take requests for future articles. Would love to hear your opinion on Best Sylph since your last article and even more, best sylph team for Class Wars since the new changes along with skills. Seems that most teams choose a Water and a Wind sylph but would love to hear the out of box ideas as well that I may be missing.

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    1. To be honest, now it's a stone-paper-scissors game, but I still need to know how the resist system has changed. When I do, will write about the sylphs!

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  3. May I suggest something about this small recharges.I do not know for sure if there is some kind of a "publisher currency" for R2, but Koramgame has it. In Russain Wartune you buy balens in a two-stage transaction - first you buy a publisher currency (kCoins in a case of Koramgame) with your money and later buy balens (in-game currency) for a publisher currency (but not all players aware of this two stages). And you buy balens from the game itself (so you can't send it to a wrong server or char). So, the trick is to buy a publisher currency in a bulk and do small recharges afterwards. Also this helps you to control your budget. Hope this helps.

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    1. Unfortunately, our publisher, R2Games has nothing like that :(

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