That doesnt make any sense. There will probably be future characters for purchase down the road yes but the character lock doesnt have anything to do with that. Even if the rolls were unlocked it wouldnt change that.
Plus TC had already said there will be lots of things that will be free and earnable. So the whole “TC is greedy” kick has passed. Let’s all find a new dead horse to kick 
*role 
Regarding your comment… I don’t think anyone would mind having Jack’s role locked to him only. He’s most definitely an exception to the rule.
+10 points for you. GG
I don’t think the TC being greedy thing has passed at all.
I don’t want to derail the thread, so just one example…
Flags were free in gears 4. Now they want $7 for them. Think about that. $7 for a flag… That is the definition of greed. You could buy a real flag in a shop for less than that.
But having the characters earnable is a nice change of pace, depending on how grindy it is of course
Even if they add new characters they will have abilities not everyone will want to use and the next game they will do this stuff again. Idk they should make a classic maybe just a Gears 4 version like some have mentioned in other topics already because it is TC’s first Gears game Horde mode. I doubt they’d make one like 3 again. But this way it takes away alot of problems like Jack and such? Then they get their way and playerbase get’s their way lol 
It might not have made sense to you but it sure made a lot of sense to others posting here. Others who see how heavily monetized this game is.
A bike and grenades with stim on road kills
I don’t think it’s a case of people not wanting to play as or try different roles. It’s a case of the aesthetics - being able to select a character skin of your choosing.
I think people will get past this once the game has been out a while and new characters have been added. I think it helps to know by recognizing the character and attributes tied to each character what you have on the battlefield in a public game in the way of perks, ultimates, etc. I play a mix of private and public horde. It’s not really an issue in private horde, but public horde will most likely benefit tremendously. Probably TCs main point.
rolls
:’(
For horde, we’re always talking about roles.
Sorry, but I’ve seen this so many times today and it’s mildly infuriating.
That’s odd! It posted an earlier incomplete version of my intended message (which had been spellchecked - honest!). I had even written a second paragraph which hasn’t appeared! 
Sentences not capitalized or ending with periods are infuriating too.
Homophones are trickier than punctuations.
Damn, you’re right! Corrected
I 'm one of many that also find the hero system mechanics incredibly restrictive and think simple changes would greatly increase the enjoyability of Horde.
That there have been multiple cases of bugged games showing duplicate characters and mismatched skins makes me hope TC can easily drop/tweak the restriction.
I’d easily accept voice lines from characters not matching w/ their ultimate (ie Faz “Come out, come out” when ghosting), or no dialogue at all in that case - in exchange for this flexibility.
I agree with that. I couldn’t care less about voice lines for character ultimates.
I just want to be able to use the character I want with the class I want. I also want duplicate characters to be allowed.
I had some really fun horde games back in gears 4. Playing as a team of 5 snipers for instance was great fun.
I always wanted to try multiple engineers with different specs. Lopsided squad composition like this made for some interesting strategies/sessions. Back to the point, being forced into what TC considers a balanced team has removed that option.
I think a smart balance would have been to allow whatever in private and keep public balanced the way it is.
That’s a reasonable compromise.
its an issue on private if you try to beat master all by yourself which is something i wouldnt mind trying to do
What’s that? Limited money?