The problem with honor relates back to the time when Gree introduced high stat units that you could buy with honor yes we had 10m plus honor so players including myself spent the honor and raised our own stats as this is a war game of sorts, fast forward a couple of years and we have spent our honor, we get great crafting stuff that needs 1.5m honor (don't forget a lot again was spent crafting the previous best then trying for epic) so we now have little, a standard pvp attack gives you say 30 on average now I need 1m honor to craft the next best thing for myself so do the math 1m divided my 30 is 33,333 pvp attacks factor in slowness and lag and I will prob die from boredom before I reach 1m more honor, so yes we do need it
Oh and yes I'm a free player also