I already posted launch day review of Arena of Valor [Free], and really can't say enough good things about the game. It effectively is League of Legends on my iPhone. It is absurd how good this game is. The TouchArcade guild is wrecking things too, coming in at #14 in North America last week, and currently sitting at #18 and climbing this week. For a giant Chinese free to play game, you'd expect the freemium shenanigans to be off the charts, but for Arena of Valor, that really isn't true at all. I've been playing the game for a week solid now, and the amount of free stuff Arena of Valor has blasted my way is sort of absurd.
The way most MOBAs monetize is by selling permanent character unlocks, and Arena of Valor is no different. You buy heroes in Arena of Valor for anywhere between $5 and $10 a piece, and the annoying part of getting onboard with any new MOBA is this upfront cost of getting access to the characters you want to play. Currently the game is "soft launched" in North America, and during the soft launch it seems like Tencent is giving away an absurd amount of these unlocks via in-game events.
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The main one is the "Road to Glory" event which awards two free hero unlocks per day. All you need to do to get them is play three games for each unlock (or six total) throughout the day. The cool part is, the event doesn't care if you're playing full-on 5v5 Grand Battles that can take upwards or 20 minu...