Magic Booster Costumes Available For MA Critters?
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cursedsorcerer,
Posted on: 2009-04-14 21:09 in Mission Architect
I haven't checked, but I doubt it yet. The Cyborg pack stuff wasn't in there.
Dec out.
You need to have bought the actual booster packs it to use them in the MA.
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I haven't checked, but I doubt it yet. The Cyborg pack stuff wasn't in there.
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I could have sworn I saw the Cyborg pieces there. I know that after buying the Aura pack that I had the Eyes lasers and A.C.C.A. HUD available.
Maybe I saw the Cyborg parts after buying the Costume pack. I just can't remember now.
I won't know about the Magic pack parts for a while. I'm going to hope that the local Wal-Mart has the Architect Edition when I stop in at lunch tomorrow. If it does, I'll try to check tomorrow night, if not it will have to wait until I get a chance to drive the 30 miles to the closest Game Stop then get back home and apply the codes.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Take your cash to a grocery store/kmart/walmart/target and buy an Amex/MC/Visa gift card and use it to buy the online versions. It's cheaper that way too as you only have to pay $9.99 instead of $19.99 for the Architect version.
So they do appear if you have them? Hmmmm...I may have to go get them, then.
Dec out.
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Take your cash to a grocery store/kmart/walmart/target and buy an Amex/MC/Visa gift card and use it to buy the online versions. It's cheaper that way too as you only have to pay $9.99 instead of $19.99 for the Architect version.
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What you fail to understand is that I WANT the Architect Edition, not just a silly code.
Besides, I have plenty of Credit Cards that work perfectly well for purchases. No need to rip myself off buying cards like the ones you mention.
With the box version, I get a month of game time, a version of the game with all the patches so far to make reinstallations easier in case my hard drive and backups fail, and a pretty new box to go along with the other City of Heroes boxes I have.
EDIT: And where are you seeing this online version? It isn't showing in the online store yet.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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With the box version, I get a month of game time, a version of the game with all the patches so far to make reinstallations easier in case my hard drive and backups fail, and a pretty new box to go along with the other City of Heroes boxes I have.
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And a savings of five bucks off the booster pack. It's probably the smartest way.
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EDIT: And where are you seeing this online version? It isn't showing in the online store yet.
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I think I saw a thread that they were flooded with people trying to buy it earlier (but I'm too lazy and old-man brain-addled to remember exactly where). They might have borked the NCStore. 
Dec out.
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I haven't checked, but I doubt it yet. The Cyborg pack stuff wasn't in there.
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I've seen a lot of Cyborg stuff in MA arcs, even back in beta.
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With the box version, I get a month of game time, a version of the game with all the patches so far to make reinstallations easier in case my hard drive and backups fail, and a pretty new box to go along with the other City of Heroes boxes I have.
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And a savings of five bucks off the booster pack. It's probably the smartest way.
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EDIT: And where are you seeing this online version? It isn't showing in the online store yet.
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I think I saw a thread that they were flooded with people trying to buy it earlier (but I'm too lazy and old-man brain-addled to remember exactly where). They might have borked the NCStore.
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It's the new Magic Costume pack that is jamming up the store. The Architect Edition isn't listing on the store site at all.
And by jamming up the store, it's the purchasing and applying process that are jammed up, not the ability to see what the store is selling.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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You need to have bought the actual booster packs it to use them in the MA.
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Really? That's disappointing. I thought the point of buying them with tickets was to decouple the use of those parts in the MA from buying the expansion.
If we needed to buy the expansion anyway, we shouldn't need to also spend tickets unlocking the parts all over again. :-(
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Really? That's disappointing. I thought the point of buying them with tickets was to decouple the use of those parts in the MA from buying the expansion.
If we needed to buy the expansion anyway, we shouldn't need to also spend tickets unlocking the parts all over again. :-(
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In-game unlockables and veteran rewards, sure. But we're talking a whole other animal with purchased booster packs. You don't get access to them at all unless you pay, be it for hero costumes or for MA costumes.
And that's fine -- Paragon Studios needs money to keep the game supported. We got Powerset Proliferation by the great sales of the wedding pack, for instance. If you really want the pieces for your MA work, scraping up $10 is not that difficult.
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They are available in MA once purchased, and are very nice. They actually inspired my arc.
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In-game unlockables and veteran rewards, sure. But we're talking a whole other animal with purchased booster packs. You don't get access to them at all unless you pay, be it for hero costumes or for MA costumes.
And that's fine -- Paragon Studios needs money to keep the game supported. We got Powerset Proliferation by the great sales of the wedding pack, for instance. If you really want the pieces for your MA work, scraping up $10 is not that difficult.
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You still couldn't use the booster pack material for your own costumes without paying for those packs. That should be sufficient to encourage people to buy them. That was, after all, the whole reason people bought them before Issue 14.
To me, being able to use things like Cyborg parts in the critter editor seems like it would be good advertising for the packs.
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Just bought it...I'm such a tool.
But then again we already knew that.
Why do I do do do things I do
Nobody was ever there for me to talk to
Once I was youngster, pure and true
Now I'm running with a sick, sick crew.
I tend to share Darkonne's views on this point. Naturally, I fully respect the CoH business model for releasing separately-purchasable costume packs, which are quite affordable and help fund the speedier development of new free releases.
However, like Darkonne, I had thought that the Mission Architect editor would be a nifty means of playing with the costume pieces before having actually bought the costume pack. A hands-on form of advertising, if you will.
Besides which, the editor lets us play around with other costume pieces and weapon sets that we haven't necessarily unlocked yet for use on our playable toons - the Vanguard and Rularuu sets come immediately to mind.
I'll still probably purchase the Magic pack in any event, as $10 is not a particularly crippling fee. But I still wanted to respectfully register my disappointment.
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I won't know about the Magic pack parts for a while. I'm going to hope that the local Wal-Mart has the Architect Edition when I stop in at lunch tomorrow. If it does, I'll try to check tomorrow night, if not it will have to wait until I get a chance to drive the 30 miles to the closest Game Stop then get back home and apply the codes.
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Well, the local Wal-Mart let me down by not getting any copies of the game in.
However, I had other things come up and had to make the 30 mile drive anyway, so I stopped to see what I could find.
Best Buy surprisingly got 10 copies of the Architect Edition in. I bought 2 (1 is for a friend that is wanting to try the game on her Mac) and they had 4 left. I was asking one of the clerks if they stocked the PlayNC Time Cards, and he replied "No, we only stock for WoW and LoTRO because no one plays those other games. I play WoW and that CoH game sucks bad." My response? "Really? Why is it then that a new retail edition of the game was released yesterday, you received 10 copies, and will have only 4 left after I buy these? And since when did WoW ever allow you to create your own missions that ANYONE that plays the game can play? It sucks? I guess that must be why this thing is almost flying off your shelves and all of the WoW space is still jammed full?" One of the other employees overheard this and started laughing at him. She told me "Don't mind him, he's an idiot. The only games he knows anything about are the pre-teen games for the consoles. You know, things like the Barbie games, Nicktoons, the Disney Princess games, stuff like that. We keep him away from the real games because he's too stupid to know what's good and what isn't." She and I shared a laugh as he stormed off toward the console games section again, so all was good.
Anyway, the 2 GameStop stores each had received 1 copy of the game, both still in stock. They told me they get very few PC game people coming into the store so they don't even get to carry the game time cards except for WoW, and they seldom sell those. They did have one City of Villains 60 Day time card in stock that they've had for as long as they can remember.
The Wal-Mart in that city hadn't gotten any of the AE editions either, and it's a much higher volume store than the one where I live. The clerks looked at me like I was crazy when I asked about it since they'd never heard anything about the game. Yeah, WoW and LoTRO slots full, nothing else of any consequence on their shelves.
The local Target had mostly empty shelves and aisles (including a noted lack of customers). The employee I finally was able to find for Electronics said they'd never even gotten in any of the time cards or gift cards or whatever it was that most Target stores got a while back. He heard of them from people at other stores, and had plenty of people asking for them, but they weren't sent any from their warehouse. They were told that they were too low volume of a store to put them in.
A sad commentary on my little part of the world, I know. But, it's home, so I'm happy with it. Besides, it's a short drive (in Texas terms at least) for me to get to Austin, Corpus Christi, San Antonio of Houston. I can deal with it.
Besides, now I've got my AE edition and can use it to get the Magic pack. I've already got the Cyborg pack so it will fill my spaces. No Wedding Pack. Weddings and marriage are scary. I'll stay away from that one still I think.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Best Buy surprisingly got 10 copies of the Architect Edition in. I bought 2 (1 is for a friend that is wanting to try the game on her Mac) and they had 4 left. I was asking one of the clerks if they stocked the PlayNC Time Cards, and he replied "No, we only stock for WoW and LoTRO because no one plays those other games. I play WoW and that CoH game sucks bad." My response? "Really? Why is it then that a new retail edition of the game was released yesterday, you received 10 copies, and will have only 4 left after I buy these? And since when did WoW ever allow you to create your own missions that ANYONE that plays the game can play? It sucks? I guess that must be why this thing is almost flying off your shelves and all of the WoW space is still jammed full?" One of the other employees overheard this and started laughing at him. She told me "Don't mind him, he's an idiot. The only games he knows anything about are the pre-teen games for the consoles. You know, things like the Barbie games, Nicktoons, the Disney Princess games, stuff like that. We keep him away from the real games because he's too stupid to know what's good and what isn't." She and I shared a laugh as he stormed off toward the console games section again, so all was good.
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Hahaha! You dressed down a Best Buy clerk! Is it possible for something to be full of win and fail at the same time?
Dec out.
Interesting. The Good vs. Evil costume pieces are in there, and I do not have that pack.
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I think it only applies to the recent Booster Packs, but don't quote me.
Dec out.
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I think it only applies to the recent Booster Packs, but don't quote me.
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Yeah, it was fun dressing down the Best Buy clerk, but the guy shouldn't have ever let anything like that spill out of his mouth in the first place. The best part was the female employee laying him out like a baby on a diaper changing station and watching him slink away all red faced to the very section she said he had any knowledge of.
Besides, she was kind of hot, and I think he may have suddenly realized he no longer had any chance at ever being more than a co-worker.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Good vs Evil you have to unlock with tickets. Same goes for the Wedding pack, the Collectors Edition apparel, the CoV Preorder helmets, and the Cyborg pack.
I would suspect that the Magic pack will be included in a similar fashion "Soon(tm)".
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Do you not have the Cyborg pack? Because I didn't buy it and I haven't seen anything there.
Dec out.
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Good vs Evil you have to unlock with tickets. Same goes for the Wedding pack, the Collectors Edition apparel, the CoV Preorder helmets, and the Cyborg pack.
I would suspect that the Magic pack will be included in a similar fashion "Soon(tm)".
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You can unlock the wedding pack with tickets? I've never seen them available that way... 
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In addition, I believe the CoV pre-order helmets are there because they became a veteran reward (51 months).
Dec out.
I was wondering if anybody knew if the recently released costume pieces through the Magic Booster upgrade were available to be unlocked and used in the Mission Architect system for custom critters.
I checked earlier today with one of my toons that had about 2000 tickets in reserve, but there was no option to unlock those costume pieces. Nor did those costume pieces immediately show up when I tried to create a new character in the MA editor.
Of course, I haven't yet purchased the Magic Booster upgrade, though I eventually plan to. I just didn't know if that was a prerequisite to being able to unlock those costume pieces via the MA editor.