Discussion: Party Pack Now Available In The NCsoft Store!

Sorry, NC/PS. The Party Pack is an epic fail, and I outlined my thoughts on the subject in another thread. They boil down to:

1. Emotes only, no powers or costumes. Pretty limited in terms of utility.

2. I could live with (1) above, if the price wasn't so outrageous. $8 for an emote-only pack is, with due respect, a rip off. The Going Rogue booster had emotes, AND costumes, AND a power .... for a buck CHEAPER! I would have purchased the PP had its price been somewhere south of 5 bucks.

I'm also pretty disappointed there was no Red Name response to the pretty extensive "meh" feedback on this booster.

I'm a 75-month vet, and have purchased all prior boosters to date, so my loyal customer bona fides are genuine. For the most part I keep my head down, and enjoy the game .... but this Party Pack matter has really rubbed me the wrong way.

In the past 6 months, I have purchased GR pre-order, the mutant pack, the GR pack, and paid my annual subscription. This latest attempt to squeeze more money out of me for a bunch of emotes that should have been included with GR is .... irritating.

I'll be taking a pass, thanks.

As always, IMHO.

(Please note, I acknowledge the snippy tone of my post, but have nothing but respect for the folks at PS. They make a great game that I've enjoyed for 6+ years. They've just made a mistake here, and I'm calling them out on it, like I'd call out a good friend for screwing up on something.)

The pack is overpriced, though I'd pay $1 or 2 for airguitar. I won't pay $8 for this pack of junk and I sure won't pay $8 for the next one either, even if it's got /e devilhornsalute

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Passing as well. A Party Pack has so much potential. Even if it had just a couple of extra costume bits I probably would have gotten it.

And I absolutely cannot believe no CoH Rep has even responded. Maybe marketing is forcing hands here, and Mods/Devs are just too embarrased to comment on it

Slash the price of this horse armor and I'll probably pick it up.

Lisa bounces back into thread.

know something guys..maybe our next Booster Pack will contain all the costumes to match the emotes

I mean, so far all the Boosters have been superb, they know what we like...why would they suddenly seemingly give us an outright turkey of a booster????

Maybe there is more to this than we can see right now...mayhaps there is more to that Shadowy power too

I choose to be positive now. No more being negative, and no more yelling at PvPers on the forums

Lisa

Stuff that SHOULD have been added.... (they did call it a party pack right)

/em tapkeg
/em jumpoutofcake
/em beerpong
/em mixdrink
/em dj (if they can make a giant drum appear, a dj table would not have been hard)
/em kegstand
/em baloonanimal


Ok, I realize the game has a "T" rating so the beer ones might not be acceptable, but the others would work.

Then add a "give good gift" and "give bad gift" temp power. In the good gift you would recieve a short duration buff like the read fortune thing, the bad gift would be a vacum costume piece or a really ugly tie that appears on your caracter.

Then an "party invite" power, where you could send a character to pocket d. I know most people have the Pocket D teleporter, but some don't.

Or, you could have a "Instant Dance Party" power where all the thugs from the MM power "Gang War" , appear around you and start doing the different dance emotes. Of course they wouldn't fight and you would be able to pass through them like regular summoned MM pets.

A "Summon Clown" power, or "Summon Evil Clown" redside. Blue side he would make baloon animals, redside, he would point at other villains and laugh.

Obviously some "Clown Themed" costume pieces. I would never use them, but I know people have been wanting those for years. More than just the "Jester" pieces.

Oh well. I guess the Dev's don't go to many parties. They really could have made this one fun. Add me to the "Pass on this one" list.

Passing on this one. I've bought every other pack, many of them twice, including the wedding pack. There simply is nothing worth buying in this one, as far as I'm concerned.

To preface, I read the description of what was in the pack... no suprises there. No one forced a gun to my head to buy the pack.

I also like to purchase everything that my favorite hobby(ies) put out... my way of supporting them for future endeavors as well and to show my support in general. 75+ mo veteran here, so my loyalty isn't in question.

I purchased the pack, and while the emotes look nice (in fact, really splendid overall) it is a bit overpriced for what we get. Sure, it is great for a role-playing niche, or if you are one of the talented few who make movies of their characters.

I hope we aren't seeing a trend here:

Shadowy Presence - a real loser of a power
an emote only pack at pretty much the same price as a complete frills pack
...

Suggestions? Rerelease it with a few costume change emotes (disco ball or dancing lights from 'above'... wrestling grunt & arms flexing a la Hulk Hogan) and of course give them to those of us who bought the pack in the first place. Similarly, a few more costume choices like some really snazzy party gear (glow-in-the dark necklaces/items like a raver... using the tech from bioluminescent set, for example). Heck, even a badge that said how cool we were for buying the pack! Or, what about negating the teleport-suppression in Pocket D (since obviously, we LOVE to party down and wouldn't cause any grief).

Just my 2 inf, but I'm on the bandwagon with the others who say that it isn't worth it _as is_. I also hope we get a bit better quantity/quality with the future packs.

Thanks for reading this and accepting it as one person's opinion.

The great thing about micro-transactions is that you get to pick and choose. I'm passing on this pack like I did with the science and wedding packs. Certainly not angry that they created the pack.

I only hope that they stay reasonable with their micro-trans as they have been up to now. This is a bit overpriced IMO, while the costume packs have been great bargains.

Just to echo many people here ...

I've gotten all of the booster packs, including the Mac pack, the Collector's Edition DVD packs, and the wedding pack.

This one ... however ... I will be completely skipping.

$7.99 for only eight emotes is just too much. I'd spend maybe $3.99 for that, and even then it's an iffy proposition. Now, if they had included a costume or two, I would've gladly paid $7.99 for that.

Just my 2 cents.

Pack fail. bought everything prior to this. This one is a really poor deal compared to everything else NC SOFT has put out. You guys can do better.

Passing on this one and I have also purchased every Expansion/Booster so far.

Not only is the cost to product value horribly off, IMHO, but to release a pack that is just emotes, less than a month after the release of a major expansion, especially when some of the emotes being released were tested as part of that expansion's beta.

I will confess, I will be buying this pack.
Personally, I'd rather not.
No, no one is putting a gun to my head, BAB (the character) did not bust into my room and start pounding my head on the keyboard, nor had maelstrom threatened to read his and scirocco's collaborated poetry from their Hot Topic nights.
I am buying it because marketing and/or the devs had apparently heard some of use commenting "I would buy a booster with just X!" which... included emotes, and decided see me put my money where my mouth was.
But you know... When I said I'd buy a booster with emotes only I had kind of expected more than eight.

Also, I really would like to see what marketing or the Devs have to say about all the negative feedback they've been facing so far.
No booster has EVER met this poor feedback. Not even Mutant. (A thread which Devs did respond to) So why the silence.
Not even going to try to tell us what experiment you are trying to perform?

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