Discussion: City of Heroes Super Booster V: Mutant - Unlock Your Ultimate Potential!

5-15 people out of over 100K saying they won't buy another booster pack because they didn't like /this/ one..doesn't really mean all that much.

- Are you sure there is that many people still playing this game? also: It means more than it seems. Imagine the unhappy people that are active in the forums, you can see/debate with them, but what about those that don't use the forums? Might want to get a good solid census before saying "it doesn't mean all that much" An old business practice was instilled in me: for every 1 customer that complains you have 60 that share that grief that aren't speaking up.<most people don't like confrontation, so they quietly pack their bags...>

why is it.. that no matter what the devs put in the game, its never good enough?

- Paying customers want a finished quality product. Simple.

Complaining about little things like the neck and tail joints? Really?

- Really. Don't sell an incomplete product or you wont be taken seriously by your customers, the websites that are supposed to advertise, the stores that are supposed to advertise and the competition. Word gets around quick. Bad word gets around quicker.

Who the hell has their camera zoomed in that much enough to notice something like that?

- the same people that pay for the high end systems and video cards required to run this game. After forking out all that money do you think that they wouldn't?

Looks to me like people just like to complain and nic-pick about whatever they can.

-especially when they pay for it. Its their right to do so as the people complaining are paying customers. By track record its been happening every time something comes out that is incomplete.

I'm done venting and rambling..sorry.

- don't apologize. It's good to rant. + rep to you.

I think the original plan was gonna be to give the wolf tail for free but so many people complained there was no furry bits in the mutant pack...they added it. so you can thank everyone who complained for making you pay

I'm kinda new here so maybe I don't understand the issue or something. But my way of looking at it is this - there was a couple cool things and a couple of lame things, so if you liked it more than you dislike it then buy it and if vice versa then don't buy it. But it seems kinda silly to keep saying the same things over and over and over and over and oh, your still reading? Well, I think you get my point.

I will say that I think I have to agree with MrHassenpheffer's last two posts in the overall though. But who am I to judge, I haven't even finshed high school yet (ughhh!).

Heh, welcome aboard!

Welcome to the forums, Seth Fist

Looks like I'm gonna pass on this one.

I have a toon that could use the wolf tail, but I'm not paying $10 for just one costume part for one character.

The other boosters that I bought had decent powers, but this one seems meh to me. And the chance of turning into a rikti monkey? TOTALLY breaking of my RP. I would never use the power because of that. Given the awesomeness that is Ninja Run, or the mission teleporter, this weird disadvantage is a deal-breaker for me.

Ah well. Plenty of other new stuff in 7 weeks.

Well, this is the second least useful booster in terms of cossie pieces for me (the least useful being the science pack from which I only use a few pieces very rarely), but the temp power makes it worth it for me. Very useful for lowbies, still useful for high-level toons. And the setback from devolution is easily avoided by hitting the power while on the way to the mish, after a team wipe while everyone is recovering etc - waiting out one minute in such cases is no problem.

I have to say that I like most of the things about the Mutant Pack, though I still feel the furry dog tail should have been a freebie for everone. The special power is probably my favorite part for a couple reasons, but the biggest reason is that chance for a mis-fire.

I mean, we always see the occasional mis-fire in a comic or a cartoon and yet most of our powers never allow for that. This gives me a personal sense of "OH *****!" every time I use it and for me anyways, it makes it more fun and even a little more realistic.

I don't like using real world examples much, but for this one I will. While in Marine Corps Boot Camp in 1992, we got the chance to "train" with live hand grenades (dummy grenades too, but that is another story). We were told how to hold it, how to disengage the safeties, how to position for a throw and throw it, and what to do if it was a bad throw (you really prayed it wasn't a bad throw even though you had a much older and more experienced Marine Drill Instructor there to help save your A$$ if you screwed it up).

Now I have to admit that having that kind of destructive power in your hand (and a little too close to the rest of my body as far as I was concerned) was AWESOME. But, a big part of the thrill was the chance you might screw up. Then what the heck would you do?

As it turned out I did screw it up, but thankfully in a good way. The adrenaline got pumping (and fear gets the heart moving it around pretty good) and I threw the grenade the wrong way which sent it WAY to far, out of the "normal" bounds of the grenade range. It made it all the way to a dead 80 foot oak about 30 feet beyond the range and managed to blow the dang thing up and make it fall into the "kill" zone of the range.

After taking a butt chewing from every single Marine Drill Instructor out there that day (and there were a lot more than usual it seemed), they decided the easiest way to clear the debree from the range was to blow it up some more and so every single recruit after me that day (about 250 since I was the second person to throw) got a stern lecture on what his target was that day.

All in all, we had a blast (no pun intended) that would not have been possible if I had not screwed up my throw. So this whole "get turned into a Rikti Monkey" thing is not only fine by me, but I can't wait for it to happen to me.