For Honor’s New Emotes Are Way Too Expensive

For Honor’s New Emotes Are Way Too Expensive

For Honor is all about deadly duels and flashy sword fights. Oh, and micro-transactions. With the release of new emotes, some fans are less than pleased with their high price.

This emote will cost most of your in-game currency.

In For Honor, you’re able to acquire an in-game currency called “steel” to spend on a variety of cosmetics and upgrades. Special character skins and particle effects are just some of the options, but there are also emotes. As first noted by Eurogamer, the latest round of combat emotes are a tad expense.

Normally, emotes will cost anywhere from 3000 to 5000 steel. While you can gain steel by playing matches and completing challenges, players are also able to purchase it. 5000 costs $7.95. The latest emotes cost 7000 steel.

For Honor’s New Emotes Are Way Too Expensive
I mean, I guess it’s kind of elegant?

I mean, I guess it’s kind of elegant?

Players eager for the new emotes have two options. The first is to grind matches for steel. Matches will yield a pittance of steel, sometimes as small as 15 units. If you’re not completing challenges, you’d need to complete over 450 matches to unlock an emote. The only other option is to pay money. But the prices seem too high for the reward.

To put the price in perspective: Destiny also sells emotes. The most expensive ones sell for 500 “silver”. A purchase of 1000 silver costs $12.95 and is enough to buy two rare emotes. Paying the same price in For Honor gives enough steel to buy one emote, with some currency left over.

“[These] exorbitant prices are a fucking slap in my face,” a Reddit poster said. The developers should be ashamed.”

These emote prices highlight a tension at the core of For Honor. Fans (including myself) greatly enjoy the core experience. Brawling and duelling is a damn good time. There’s a good game here. But the ramped up prices for these emotes and the slow pace for gaining steel without ponying up cash.

“The actual game, the simulation is spot on. It’s the coolest melee system in years,” one player said on Reddit. “Everything wrapped around that actual gameplay is just terrible.”


The Cheapest NBN 1000 Plans

Looking to bump up your internet connection and save a few bucks? Here are the cheapest plans available.

At Kotaku, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.

Comments


5 responses to “For Honor’s New Emotes Are Way Too Expensive”