How to be Frugal and Avoid Being Scammed by This Game (Special Offers + Gambling + General Purchases)

This game offers many weapons which are overpriced. This is to be expected, it is a free to play game after all. Only the really great f2p games get their economy right, and unfortunately this game is not one of them.

Be wary when purchasing things from the shop. Whether it be with real money or for in-game currency, this game will attempt to scam you. Now, the shop tends to be a little more honest with whether it is giving you an item permanently or temporarily, but just make sure to double and triple check. AND MAKE SURE TO READ THE DESCRIPTION!!! You cannot trust this game to have your best interests at heart. Although this game needs some positive PR, it seems it is trying the method of "Grab what we can before this thing tanks!" instead of "Let's put some actual effort into this and try to come back."

I'm not going to lie, some of the special offers are great. The first two I got I really liked, and I don't regret purchasing them at all.

This was a 50 cent starter pack or something, and there was the Warlord Armor pack. Real cheap, worth it.

Then they offered me some permanent warbox tier weapons for 5 dollars each. BE CAREFUL WITH THIS!!! Read the appropriate wiki about the weapon you are about to purchase to see if they are good or not. Every single one of the weapons they offered me were outclassed by another weapon within the same tier. They were hand-me-downs, they weren't the best of the best, and most of them according to the wiki were sub-par.
https://warface.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons

They did offer me one item I liked, which was the M60e4 Ares. That was fairly nice, and I'd recommend it.

Anyways, at least you get those items permanently, despite most of them being hand-me-downs and still seeming a bit overpriced. But hey, it's nice to get a standard good weapon to play on harder difficulties with so you can properly grind for other alternative weapons.

They will sweeten you up, by giving you mostly honest deals. What you buy is what you were promised, for the most part. While the hand-me-down weapons may be a little deceitful, I can forgive that. You have access to information about the weapons, you can do your own research.

Up until this point, all your purchases will likely be permanent weapons and armor. It sets a pattern: Real money for permanent weapons. Mostly honest practice.

Then, they will go in for the kill.

They will offer you REAL CHEAP, REALLY GOOD WEAPONS!
I mean, great deals. You look on the wiki: Yep, they're the best of their class, or at least a really good option. 1 dollar for a golden warbox tier weapon. Hell, I wouldn't mind spending 5 more dollars on the game! They're really nice...

Hold your horses. These weapons aren't what you think they are. They've built up your trust until this point, but they're about to deceive you. These weapons, are actually temporary. Around 3 days to be exact. You pay 1 dollar, to use a weapon for 3 days.

But wait, they must tell you they are temporary BEFORE the purchase right? Or else they could get into trouble for misleading you. Well there's the thing. They technically do. You see, when you get the weapon offer, they give you a full description of the weapon and the purchase. The price of the purchase, the description of what you are buying, almost everything really. However, they fail to tell you if the weapon is permanent or not until you confirm your purchase.

Therefore, they rely on muscle memory to make the purchase and for you to glance over it in order for you to purchase it. It's quite clever actually. Taking advantage of the mind like that. Incredible what you can do with UX.

Now I don't know why they don't offer this sooner than they did to me. I mean, I'd probably have fallen for it if they offered it earlier, and I'm not sure as many NEW people would have spent as much time as I did playing this game who wanted to actually spend money on it.

I also don't know why they didn't like, bundle it up into a special purchase of like 10 dollars or something, so they'll spend more money before realizing they've been ripped off. I don't know. I'm not here to question how to do their job better. I'm here to recognize fraud and expose it.

If you come across this offer, you can tell that it's trying to be deceitful by not putting all information up front, and instead offering you something and then counting on you assuming it will be the same deal as the others prior in order to scam you.

Imagine a wrap contract, but once you read it and click to accept it, another pops up with exactly the same information, except for an extra piece of important information hidden within it. You're not going to notice it, even if it is relatively in plain sight. You think you know all the details, but then there's one little detail you ignore because you become impatient or you think you know everything or you put too much trust into the system to tell you everything IMPORTANT to know the first time around, whatever it may be.

So make sure to read EVERYTHING. Read the fine print! If you think you read everything and you click to purchase, and a new screen pops up, READ THAT TOO! EVEN IF IT IS FILLED WITH THE SAME INFORMATION! It will likely have something hidden in it that they can fall back upon when you complain that the offer was deceitful.

They like to fall back on "we say nothing in-game can be refunded!" A poor cover-all that shows you they don't care whatsoever, and I guess that also should serve as an alarm that they might be up to some suspicious behavior.

So admittedly I have the least experience with this since I'm not really fond of gambling, especially in video-games when the only deciding factor is random chance and me paying them money and nothing to do with my personal skill. But I have noticed some deception from this as well.

As far as I can tell, only the primary focus weapon or piece of equipment being highlighted can be won PERMANENTLY. That means, none of the weapons listed elsewhere in the crate. Despite it not saying anywhere that the other weapons in the crate are temporary and not permanent, which might actually serve as sufficient legal grounds to claim they are scamming/misleading into purchases due to the information not being included anywhere there (not even in a little corner or anything.)

I don't know the chances of winning the main item. I just wouldn't bother with it. But you'll probably find better information about this topic from someone else.

Though I think the chance of getting a gold gun is 1/1000. So yeah, there's that.

UPDATE:
For the sake of this guide, I tried gambling.

I spent 17 dollars gambling for a gun. Not a golden one, just a normal one. And I didn't get it. I calculated my chances, and I had roughly a 72 percent chance of getting it. This was on the Maxim 9 crates.

I got a smugglers card after spending around $2.50. It then offered me that I could buy the gun.... for 10 dollars.

That was ridiculous. I'd rather take my chances. I mean, 1% each draw shouldn't be that bad, right? Sure it's scummy, but not awful chances.

I tried again. And again. And again. Until I had spent 17 dollars, and I just said enough. Multiple smuggler cards don't reduce the price of the purchase (which is another intentionally scummy design. They could easily give a discount for getting more smuggler cards.)

So in conclusion, I got the normal Maxim 9 for 27 dollars. I really don't think their percentages are honest. So if I were to ignore their percentages and just go for the smuggler card, I would have gotten it for $12.50.

I'm not even sure that's worth it. But it's a really high tier weapon, so if you WANT to spend money on this game... get the maxim box when it is 25 credits, and then purchase the smuggler's card deal.
It's great for PVE. Not sure how good it is for PVP.

I feel completely robbed. However, if more and more people read this guide, hopefully this dent in my spending cash (which admittedly I have significantly less of than most people which is why I made this guide in the first place for people like me who need to be conservative with spending) will be made up by others receiving this knowledge and not making the same mistake that I did.

I really hope that this knowledge passes on so this scummy practice can end.

You will need to familiarize yourself with when to use respawn tokens or not. This game loves to pull BS sometimes, and during a satisfying firefight, the game instakills you without any precedent. "How did that enemy do that much damage? That enemy type only does that much damage on hard mode! Wtf!"

It relies on these surprises to frustrate you, and evoke the emotion "You know what, screw you thing that killed me! I'm respawning to kill you back!"

It's quite deceitful design, because often you may fall for your emotions rather than rationalize what your team needs. Wasting respawn tokens isn't good. And of course, they're easy to buy. But if you don't want to waste money, make sure not to fall for this scam either.

Ideally, they'd have all enemies be consistent with their behavior or telegraph some type of change when there is one. But it will often catch you off guard, make you mad because you feel like you've been robbed, and you might try to spite the game. But this is all according to the game's plan.

Don't fall for it. Learn when to use your respawn tokens appropriately. Realize when the game is trying to bait you.

EDIT:
It has come to my attention that some of the missions are literally impossible to do without using respawn tokens. I may list those missions and instances as I come across them. Two that come to mind are: "Swarm" and "Hydra."

I was told that the battle pass keeps track of all your premium progress, and once you buy it, all of the stuff you have done that was previously locked will count towards your level. You just don't really get to see what you have done already.

This is a lie.

The sooner you buy the battle pass, the better off you are.

I have just bought the battle pass. I will update this on if I think it's worth it later.

I genuinely want to see this game succeed, despite it trying to scam me multiple times and even succeeding. But I can't just hope this game will do good, the players have to actually know what's going on, and know how to avoid deceptive practices in order for the game to actually change in favor of the player.

The sooner players recognize these deceptive practices, the sooner the game will have to actually try and be the player's friend instead of trying to exploit them.

Thank you for reading this guide. I hope this has helped you. Please feel free to comment and let me know if there are any other deceptive practices I have missed. I will likely continue to play this game a bit more because there is still some fun to be had with it for me (though I don't plan on dedicating a huge portion of my time to grinding insane weapon card requirements or spending bunches of bunches of money on crates) though I cannot say when I will stop playing it.

I may update this guide again if I come across any new information or feel I need to clarify or better structure this guide into a piece which is easier to consume.

Have a good one, and don't spend your hard-earned money on snake-oil.