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.
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.”
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5 responses to “For Honor’s New Emotes Are Way Too Expensive”
Just compare this to DOTA 2 skins, Arcana skins cost $34.99USD. But some super rare items got for hundreds because they have limited numbers and cannot be gotten again.
Ghost Recon Widlands has this too, costly cosmetic items.
Heaps of games do this kind of thing unfortunately.
I don’t know why you would, the meta is still broken. Defend, defend, parry, defend… There is no mixup unless you are PK; at which point its light, light, zone, light.
Pretty easy then.
Don’t buy the skins. But nope, gotta get on social media and have a good old fashioned whinge about it.
The Division also introduced micro-transactions recently and the pricing structure for the emotes is pretty much identical.
Emotes personally don’t give a rats toss
While the fact you can pay for Steel to scavenge for items is still something I don’t approve of, whining about the cost of something that is PURELY cosmetic is stupid.
You don’t NEED it to play the game. You simply want it and feel like it should be cheaper. Cool, for every one person who kicks up a fuss, many other will simply pick up he emote without thought.