Event Review: Go For Broke (2 in 1)
Autor: misuta Kuraido | Publicado: 2011-02-19T03:52:00-02:00

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Image taken from the official thread.

Back from my hiatus I couldn't let this event slide by and not do a review of it.
Why, it was about time I found an event to earn a score so low it will remain in the bottom for a long time.
Wanna know why I say that? Read on!



What is it about?

When they named these two events Go for Broke they really meant it.
The first event is a Roll For Fun event. You talk to the Dice Roll lady in the center of Flarine and make your bets. If you win your bet, you get 5 times the ammount of money you paid. You can make up to 6 bets at once. But, naturally, making 5 bets or more will destroy any profit you can have.
The second event is the Kawi Bawi Bo/Rock, Paper &amp; Scissors game. To play it you need a coupon. To get the coupon you must give 5 snow crystals and 100,000 in penya to the mayor of Flarine.
Snow crystals drop from any masquerpet level 15 or higher. And their drop rate is very high.
You can use your coupons to play Rock, Paper &amp; Scissors with the Naughty Demian standing beside the mayor. Winning many times in a row guarantee you better prizes. But you can only take one prize per round. Meaning going for better prizes increase the odds of you losing a coupon for nothing.

10 x Mysterious Pills - Win once
3 x Sprint Scrolls - Win 2 times in a row
2 x Event Sunstone - Win 3 times in a row
5 x Event Sunstone - Win 4 times in a row
12 x Event Sunstone - Win 5 times in a row
3 x Super Star Candy - Win 6 times in a row
6 x Super Star Candy - Win 7 times in a row
1 x Red Armored Tigar (Pick-up Pet) - Win 8 times in a row
1 x Elegant White Wings - Win 9 times in a row
1 x Dragon Cloak of Initate - Win 10 times in a row


What do I think about the event?

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; BE CAREFUL! IT'S A TRAP!

Kawi Bawi Bo is one of my favorite events.
...not this time.
I've never disliked an event as much as I dislike these.
The Roll For Fun is as random as it can get. But since the chances of making a good profit are so slim, it can be considered a trap for removing penya from the server.
Sadly the people who keep the most perins are too smart to fall for it.

The current Rock, Paper &amp; Scissors event is a Kawi Bawi Bo gone wrong.
Unlike the previous Kawi Bawi Bo events, this one has a horrible list of prizes, and 10 times the previous cost. (If you didn't know, the last KBB required 5 easily droppable items and 10,000 instead of 100,000)
The first prize worth playing for is only acquired after EIGHT victories in a row. And the best prize is a +5 stats cloak. Do I need to say more?

Moreover, Go For Broke should be appealing to the wealthy to work as a penya sink. But when it comes to practice it's just a colossal NEWBIE TRAP!
The reason is simple:
The players with a lot of funds that should be lost to the nothingness know better than risk billions in the Roll For Fun. The Kawi Bawi Bo's rewards aren't very good, and not worth their time or money, afterall they have all those items and a big share of better ones. So who falls to these traps? The new players!
100,000 is nothing for a Flyff veteran. For a new player it's a lot! If any of them ends up affording that fee for one or two tries in the Kawi Bawi Bo, they run a serious risk of losing a lot (from their perspective) of money for nothing. And the Roll For Fun? Falling for the illusion of making money easily, they run a HIGHER risk of losing ALL their money in the blink of an eye! Then what do they do next? Beg for money. And can we blame them? Next thing, if they don't get the money they asked for, they quit the game in frustration.

How else can a newbie truly take advantage of this event without running a high risk of getting poor? Selling Snow Crystals. But really... really? With such a high drop rate, anyone who grinds won't even need to buy them. And the price of those will drop faster than the speed of light.
Even for a newbie, selling Snow Crystals for 3,000~5,000 each doesn't makes this event better than it is.

Pros and Cons - Review, TLDR style

+Snow Crystals drop a-ton from masquerpets.
+Easy to make stacks and stacks of Sprint Scrolls.
+Chance to make a lot of money without fighting or merchanting.
-High risk of losing cash quickly.
-Snow Crystals lose their value quickly.-Prize list for the Kawi Bawi Bo is drastically worse than the two previous times. -Very hard to make profit out of the events.
-Prizes and history of the events make it very unlikely to work as a penya sink.
-New players can be easily deceived into wasting their low ammount of penya for nothing. 
Naughty Demian and the Mayor of Flarine...Joining forces to take money out of innocent newbies!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 


Neutrality is no excuse to come up with a different review. 
Therefore my score for the event is...
~Go For Broke
~Score: 3.5/10