addressing several comments and points of view here:
1. the fantasy royale emotes were never stated as being exclusive to fantasy royale - the exclusive CRL emote is the goblin kissing the trophy that players got for watching the CRL 2018 finals. THAT emote will never be available anywhere else.
if you google 'fantasy royale emotes' the cached google article even states the following "These Emotes are only available through Fantasy Royale for now, but may appear in the shop at a later time." instead of putting it in the shop for gems, we put it in the trophy road.
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- as for the feedback on the emote as a reward - we put it in the trophy road because we wanted to introduce players to cool different emotes on their journey, and let newer players enjoy what we think is a really cool emote!
we gave it out for free to players before, so we did not think that having a free reward in the trophy road that some players may have had before would be an issue.
obviously this thread proves that some players feel differently and we were wrong in our assumptions. we really apologise for that.
we used a brand new emote (royal ghost) a bit further up the trophy road and that is probably what we should have done here as well.
we will be taking this feedback on board and avoid doing this in future.
thanks again for the feedback.