Season Pass & Heroes - are they free for all but early for pass holders? | Forums

[TyraelThunder]

Why I bought it in the first place. Ain't nobody got time for that kind of grinding!

The thing is, the money for the Season Pass is earned in a half hour or hour....depends on your income xD

But farming several dozens of hours? Hell no, I am not 14 anymore

[theromanticswb]

We'll see, but having the Lawbringer, Valkyrie, and Shugoki costing 500 means nothing, as they are base characters that simply were not included in the previous two betas. People have played them already, just at press events and other betas, etc etc. Now the Roman Centurion looking guy and the ninja? Nobody has played them, and they're probably still a work in progress. Using what we know about the current characters, and applying them to the new ones makes no sense, as simply comparing the game to R6's second season pass indicates that they like the model.

I also went and did some research on the model that RS6 used. The new characters ended up being about $5 a pop, if bought with real money. Although I don't want to say that's definitive, logic would dictate that it's probably going to be about the same in For Honor.

Again though, where did the devs say this about being able to play the DLC characters without buying them? I've been following this game for months, and have never once run into that statement. I could be wrong, but I feel that if it were true, it would greatly devalue the season pass. Which is already a net loss if the characters are $5...because that makes sense.

Sure, and I agree with you that it definitely COULD be different. Companies do get greedy and Ubisoft is no exception.

Playing DLC characters for free is implied by the wording in the season pass. They clearly state everyone can play the characters but season pass holders can play them 7 days early and don't have to pay an unlock cost. The way the game's mechanics currently work, any character can be played without paying the steel to unlock them so that you can try them out, finish the dailies that require certain archetypes to complete, etc... You only have to pay steel to unlock them to equip gear and change cosmetics. If all you ever did was play 1v1 or 2v2 though, you'd never need to unlock them to continue playing them because gear doesn't matter in those modes anyway.

Make sense?

[PhantomSamuraii]

I don't know. My point was just that you are acting like it's a sure thing when everything they've showed us with this game so far says otherwise including the 3 characters no one has ever played yet, releasing today, at 500 steel cost.

They've made comments about trying to make the R6 model better and have been making attempts at making amends with their competitive communities. It makes sense to me because the thing people will spend money is the ability customize the character, including buying gear boxes etc... for new characters. Since you can already play the characters anyway without unlocking them, it also makes sense that they may come out at the same price as current characters.

You don't need to unlock characters in this game to play them.

What I said the devs said was that DLC characters will be free to everyone but you have to pay the unlock cost (which means you can play them as much as you want and they level up and everything, you just can't customize them) and Season Pass holders get them 7 days earlier and don't have to pay for the unlock to customize them.

Everyone can play them though for FREE.

You're arguing about something you clearly don't understand or know anything about. The 3 heroes you mentioned were playable in an alpha test and held out of beta to be released at launch, They are not DLC heroes, of course they only cost 500. The DLC heroes will likely cost much more. And yes i understand you can play any of them and the steel cost is just to customize.

Unrelated but as for 25 hours of game play for enough steel for unlocks. That's insane math. You get 30 - 40 steel a match, without champ status. Making unlocking each of the normal heroes take like 12.5 games, so a couple hours maybe a few depending on the match.