“We never had an intention for you to unlock everything in the game.”
Many members of the For Honor community are unhappy with the game’s microtransaction system, and Ubisoft has come forward to address the backlash.
Unlocking all of the extra content in For Honor without paying requires an incredibly large amount of in-game currency. In fact, one player estimates it would take 2.5 years to acquire every customization item without spending any additional money. According to Ubisoft Montreal game director Damien Kieken during a recent livestream (via VG247), For Honor wasn’t designed for players to be able to unlock everything in this manner.
“We never had an intention for you to unlock everything in the game,” Kieken said. He likened For Honor to World of Warcraft and MOBAs, in that “you would never try to unlock everything for all the characters of the whole game.”
According to Kieken, Ubisoft didn’t expect players to use more than one to three characters. “The design is based around that,” he explained. “The cosmetic items are really for us the end-game content: the things we want you to unlock after playing for several weeks.”
For Honor launched last month, topping U.S game sales for the month of February. For our thoughts on Ubisoft’s melee-focused action game, read IGN’s For Honor review.
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