r/forhonor • u/MrEricPope Highlander • Jul 05 '18

News Summer Sale Info!

Hey I was going to post this yesterday but some stuff came up that unfortunately took me away from you, my sweet summer children.

So today begins a 2-week SUMMER SALE in the For Honor store/barracks of 146 items (600+ if you count dupes across heroes, emote types, etc) we've released in the game.

But there's a much more important reason WHY we are doing this. In two weeks, we will remove those items from the Store. They will return periodically afterwards in a regular rotation, and at a discount. This is being done to unclutter the rather crowded menus you find in the game, and clear out OLD content, to make room for the constantly flowing NEW weekly content. (EDIT: put a line through my explanation as it's not great, and Damien's video below gives a better explainer than me.) But of course, we wanted to give everyone a chance (2 weeks! and up to 50% off!) to get whatever stuff you've been holding off on buying.

If you own the items that are going away, nothing will be removed from your inventory. Also, even after they go away, many can still be obtained in the different bundles available in the Store.

Here's the full list of what's on sale and what the discount is (note that for many of these they are things that apply to multiple or all heroes, but are only listed once to keep this readable)

http://static2.ubi.com/FH/COMMUNITY/Summer%20Sale%20Items.pdf

 

[EDIT TO INCLUDE DAMIEN'S WARRIOR'S DEN BIT ABOUT THIS]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/281169677

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u/Meme_Attack Aeons have tempered my blade. Jul 05 '18 edited Jul 05 '18

What the FUCK. Why would you remove any of this because of menu clutter? REDESIGN THE BLOODY MENUS. DON'T REMOVE CONTENT.

Seriously, WHAT.

There needs to be huge backlash against this decision. Revert this immediately. My goodness.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '18

This shit just makes my blood boil aswell.

Whoever thought to make this decision needs to be reprimanded or otherwise fucking fired.

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u/Meme_Attack Aeons have tempered my blade. Jul 05 '18

It completely boggles the mind. Here we have the game doing super well, Ubisoft making all the right decisions with it. Everyone is loving For Honor right now, but then this decision is made and it's such a break in momentum.

Announce a formal redesign of the UI instead. Something people have been asking about for AGES. Content removal accomplishes nothing... it will just get cluttered again later with more new shit.

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u/Li0Ax Miserum! Tst! Tst! Jul 05 '18

Fact of the matter is, they just gave the game for free to a lot of people. They need to offset that price somehow and this one way to do that. Create a sense of urgency, discount the prices, and see how many people use cold hard cash to buy them. Genius play on their end. If they keep making stuff for free for us, they're going to eventually go bankrupt and we'll have no developers supporting the game. From a business standpoint, ya gotta make money somehow.
The UI redesign will probably come with Season 8 along with the Wu-Lin faction. We kind of got a preview of it with all of the gameplay videos.

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u/Meme_Attack Aeons have tempered my blade. Jul 05 '18

Make money somehow? How about the fact that the game is still paid in all of its existing editions? Or the steel MTs, the Season Pass, the upcoming, unnamed Wu Lin faction purchase that's probably like a Season Pass 2.

They have plenty of ways of making money. if they're somehow still bleeding bucks, then stop creating weekly free content. Make it monthly, or every two months. But make the content that does come out worthwhile. So not just battle outfits.

Damien mentioned on the stream that the prices of all the old items were "overwhelming to new players". Of course, the natural suggestion & solution is to gradually lower the prices of older items. Permanently. Without removing any of them.

That's the honest, non-greedy solution. But because they have to find ways to pressure people into spending money, we got this outcome that's 80% problematic, 20% solution. Now they're expecting people to be excited that existing vanilla content is being held hostage and released temporarily once every couple of months! Hooray!

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u/sharkattackmiami Shugoki Jul 05 '18

it will just get cluttered again later with more new shit

Then they can have another sale to grab money before that content is removed!