Gaspard

I haven't really seen anyone who has been critical about boosters being hyperbolic. Even in the party pack thread majority of the people who were against it had reasonable and well thought out arguments, for example Tommy Troy.

Granted I could've worded my initial post way better and that was my fault. I didn't really mean to convey a concept that everything used to be free.

However I do not agree that the rate has been the same all the time coming up until this current point.

Fair enough, yes I understand there's been a mixture of paid and free costume options. But to me it just seems that the focus lately has been on paid costume pieces. I had forgotten the animated tails, that was my bad, but when comparing the options offered with monthly payment and separate payments, I still see a difference in amount and quality.

But why all the hyberbole? I haven't seen anyone else talk about "dark current regime" "rainbows" or "golden times." Sounds almost like a straw man.

Ok, I just remembered it was during year 2008, without thinking about the actual date not to mention to look it up, that was my bad. I had completely forgotten animated tails, again that was my bad. I'm a little bit skeptic about issue 16, then again I play VEATs.
Issue 17, had the most recent costume pieces I had, but again, paid update, not included withint monthly subscription. Of course I look forward to next issue hoping it can remedy.
But yeah, my bad for forgetting some of the costume pieces. I however still feel that majority of the costume sets and good looking pieces have been with paid expansions.


I don't want to be harsh to anybody, but "so what?" I'm not entitled to be slightly displeased without buying a booster pack? I haven't bought a booster pack, true. But that doesn't mean I have entirely canceled out the possibility of buying one. I think some of the options here and there in within the booster packs look nice, for example hoods in magic pack.

I think this was covered in one of the Party Pack threads, or another relevant thread.

Just off the top of my head, only couple of costume pieces have been removed. The hairy shoulders and Wyvern boots. Yes there used to be Wyvern boots for a brief period, but they only appeared under "pants" option. But then again I believe the entire thing was a mishap. Office belt was removed for a brief period, again a mishap.

Only altered costume piece I can think of is the gladiator shoulder option. Also one of the Roman chest detail armors were altered in the current issue. I tend to pay attention to details in this game, like ragdolls and textures.

As for issues with costume pieces, well, going back from i13 pretty much. Of course some of the additions weren't groundbreaking, like new hairstyles.

Edit:
Yeah, costume pieces were never included without separate payments. Of course I do apoligize if I wasn't clear enoug that I was refering to costume pieces received in "free" issues in my initial post.
To be honest, I don't even know why I'm commenting this.

True. However i13 was approximately 3 years ago and I believe by 2005 you refer to CoV which was acceptable "costume pieces and other perks" that I was willing to pay for. Technically in year 2004 they had collectors edition which had the DVD-cape exclusive, but calling it a booster is probably stretching a little bit. Again, nothing against people who wish to purchase boosters, but I don't believe anyone had that assumption about my posts to begin with.

However I still long to issues like "Invasion" with Stealth,Vanguard,Exoproto and 4-5 (can't remember) new contacts and a task force (but that's besides the cosmetics.) I believe there were costume pieces included in at least 2 or 3 of the issues when counting back from i12 or i13. So that's what keeps bothering me, but I guess that's the nature of my "fallacy."

Just saying.

Edit: typos....

Exactly.

I see the micro transactions business model is going strong, but it's probably not the devs I should be thanking for this. Remember the times when this used to be included with the monthly payment. Never bought a booster pack before and this pack doesn't really change things.

Edit: Seriously? 10 bucks? That's the price?

Oh Wow, Really ??

The Leviathan and Medi-port arcs, too?

Nah I was just wondering why new story arcs don't appear on 30s, 40s or...well, 50s. I mean is there a screaming lack of things to do on 20s or what?

Exactly.

I've been a little bit perplexed by the lvl range the devs seem to be putting out for.

Oh, wow. I'm glad they're still focusing on those particular levels, since there's a severe lack of content in mid and late 20's.

Thank you for the link.

By the way, do I get access to GR and alignment missions now, even though I haven't pre-ordered or is the GR "soft launch" just for the people who pre-ordered?

Näin käy aina joskus, hyvissäkin piireissä. :/



Other than that, english, swedish, spanish and extremely limited german.

Agreed, even though it gets better after the lvl 24 transition, it's still a huge pain in the *** to play. Personally there are only few things more painful than that; DP corruptor and a pre-IO dominator.

As a whole, I'd say No.

Yeah that's the reason why our speed run teams tend to consist heavily of SOA. Some of them are pretty good at ghosting, too.

Also, there is no time, your sword is enough.