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For Honor studio Ubisoft has bad news for anybody hoping to unlock everything the game has to offer. A recent report suggested that players would need to spend roughly $732 (£587) to unlock

everything. Based on the estimates, the average player could bypass the microtransactions and spend 2.5 years trying to earn new gear. Even hardcore players would need to spend almost year

grinding for new content. But game director Damien Kieken has since responded during a recent Q&A session (via Eurogamer), explaining: "We never had an intention for you to unlock

everything in the game. "For us that doesn't really make any sense. We applied RPG mechanics on top of a fighting game in a PvP environment. Let's say in World of Warcraft,

you would never try to unlock everything for all the characters. Same thing in a MOBA." Kieken argues that most players would only concentrate on a few characters, and that

microtransactions were there in case players couldn't wait to unlock something specific. "We forecasted that most players would play one to three characters," he continued.

"And that's what we see today in our game. Most players focus on one character, one hero, and others go up to two or three heroes. All of the design is based around that."

"We don't expect the player who bought the game to buy everything. We just expect them to buy the item they want right away because they don't want to wait a week to get it.

"You want to have an outfit, you want to have an ornament, you spend a week playing maybe one or two hours a day, and then you have it. "It's like a mid-term objective. I

really want that cool ornament they just released. I play a few days then I can have it. For the players who want it right away, they can purchase it." So it looks like these

microtransactions aren't going anywhere soon.