Discussion: Party Pack Now Available In The NCsoft Store!

I don't see anyone beyond the usual whinner babys 'getting bent out of shape' over this.

What I see is a great deal of respectable forum goers voicing their concern that this is bad form. Not using hyperbole, not desperately trying to sound smarter than everyone.

The french got a perfectly understandable response concerning the overwhelmingly negative feedback.

That, in fact, is all that most of us are looking for at this point. The pack is in the store. So for one thing the 'discussion' thread needs to be locked. Beyond that, if this was my company, I'd be writing up some kind of boilerplate reponse. Bad feelings towards a company, even if they are bogus, do more to damage an image than any bad product can.
No apology is needed... This is business afterall.
No explanation is needed... It's their business plan.
A simple, we saw the feedback and have passed it on to the concerned department would instantly make 80% of us chalk this up to 'just another thing' and move on.

Instead of allowing this to keep growing and festering and spreading into the actual game. How sad is it that anyone in game I see with the emotes gets booed in broadcast?

The pack isn't a big deal, it isn't gamebreaking and you can in fact enjoy the game without ever buying it.
The bad PR is on track to derail said enjoyment for a great deal of people though... Even the ones who have no clue we even have a forum!

I think I'm getting this just to start my mastermind's Robot Dance troop!

Yeah no thanks - should have given them to everyone that attended the party instead.

I have no problems whatsoever with NCSoft selling little niche packs on top of their normal updates, as long as they aren't providing less in their normal updates to compensate for that. And while it sounds possible that that's what they did for the emotes that were supposedly in GR, I can't think of any evidence that it's been done for any of the previous packs.

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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill As stated before, not buying this pack, as I don't think it's a good value for what it delivers. But with the quotes above, Nether - they had all the feedback in the announcement of the pack with quite a number saying "If it were cheaper, I would buy it." "I'm going to buy it" and "I absolutely won't no matter what the cost" seemed to be the minority responses there. Market research? They had it in that thread. A boatload of it. And it wasn't acted on - either by increasing what's in the pack, or lowering the price of it. So you'll excuse me if I can't buy that as an excuse.

I can only assume that the marketing group decided that they wouldn't be able to sell the amount extra they'd need if they decreased the price. If they expected to sell x copies at $8 each, then they'd need to be confident of selling 2x copies at $4 each to make the same amount.

I personally think that $1 per emote is overpriced and that $4 would have been a more reasonable price for the pack. I still wouldn't have bought it anyway since I'm not into emotes like some people are, but it wouldn't have seemed such a ripoff compared to the price and contents of the other packs.

ok, i didn't read this whole thread (too many "i'm not buying it/it's not worth the money" posts) but here's the thing, i did buy it (i bought everything else, so i figured "why not?") and i have to agree, it's not worth the money. so, $8 for 8 emotes, but what do you actually get? well, 1 of them is just the open gift emote that everyone gets during the winter event, um woo?, and the other 7? cool ideas but ultimately animated very badly. i really like the idea of these though, they consist of something like 3-4 sub-animations that are then randomly selected and strung together so that you arn't just looping the same thing over and over. unfortunately, the transitions between those different sub-animations arn't always very good and the animations themselves are often times jerky and clumsy. so basically, great idea with these, but they really weren't polished enough to be released for free, much less for money, and while i'd love to see more in the future (if they're done better) i'm not going to be spending any money buying emote-only packs ever again. also, these don't work in lobster form and that's really annoying, stop doing that. and while they do work in granite form, they look a lot worse, especially the sports ones.

Hmm . . . booting someone from a team for doing one of the new emotes? Yes, that would be extreme and I would quit the team myself. Heckling them in Broadcast for using the emote? I would probably report that kind of behavior myself.

But make no mistakes, I have no problem laughing at them and letting them know I am laughing in a private or team tell. Something along the lines of:

"You mean you actually paid the $8.00 for those emotes? HHHAAAaaaaaa!"

No Costumes, No Power, No Buy...
Sorry Devs, We love you but we can't be ripped off like that. Costumes and Powers have been the primary drive for most of the boosters so far. A booster with only emotes, (4 more then the first pack but still only emotes), for only one dollar less then the rest of the packs is severely overpriced.

I will not be purchasing this booster, which is a shame cuase I have bought all the others on release day... This on just disappointed me.


~Elvnsword
PS: Want to make it work 9.00 without having to balance a power, give us the NPC Costume powers from PAX and all the other stuff. I would pay 9.00 for those and a group of emotes... That would be worth it to me, even without actualy costume pieces to use.

Look Guys NcSoft has the right to sell anything they want on there Website Store and not everything going to be to your guys liking.

Stop Complaining about it, because like it or not It doesn't change a thing.

Also it up to the Player if they want to buy it or not

Let NcSoft Be and that that, nothing going to change, Complaining about it won't Change there mind about adding on to the booster pack or Reducing the Price. The Party Pack is up there in the Store and is here to Stay.

Stop Whining about it and lets moved on.