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Originally Posted by Ironik
I made no comment about the pack's quality. It was not embraced, people made a fuss, they added an item and bing, more sales. That was the point.
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From my experience though, I've seen a lot of people using the other costume parts from that pack but I can count on one hand the number of wolf tails I've seen in game.
They should rename the snow aura (hair option) to "Super Dandruff".
I think Snow and Firefly auras are pretty sweet. I love how the fireflies sweep around your toon, and it's also has the combat option, which'll make a sweet start up to your powers!
I dunno if I'd just pay for an aura pack, though...
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Your mistake is to assume this would have been added for free had it not been put in this booster. I can practically guarantee you that if it weren't added in this one, it would have been bundled together with whatever animal/monster Booster that they're designing. Either or, you're not getting it for free. Your choice is between forcing Jay away from his other projects to make it NOW, possibly delaying something else, or letting him do his job and getting around to it when we get actually decent monster costumes. They chose now instead of later, but those who paid $10 just for the wolf tail would have paid $10 for it anyway, just at a later time, which strikes me as a worse situation.
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Originally Posted by Ironik
So placating buyer's remorse for crybabies over their impulse purchase outweighs those of us who asked for literal YEARS for just such a costume piece and decided NOT to buy the Mutant Pack because we didn't care for how it looked? Got it: acting like a petulant child *after* spending money trumps being annoyed over watching an obvious grab for a few more bucks.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I.e reward people for ruining their fun with horrible events (basically all of them) instead of paying for it? No, thank you. I'd rather not put myself through the pain and torture that is public events if I can help it.
If you want to reward people for participating in events, reward them with something else, like experience, money, rare drops, buffs or what have you. But NOT costumes. In fact, I have made it a point that I will pay for any costume piece added to the game, rather than having to bust my *** to unlock them for every single character every single time. If, at some later point, you feel like complaining about every new costume piece is becoming a booster pack, you have only yourself to blame for making people like me fed up enough with "capes at 20" that we will sooner pay through the nose than be stuck unlocking still more costumes. If this nonsense had died way back in I2, I would never have supported costume booster packs. EVER. However, I know that if they are indeed put into the game, they'll be put behind some kind of assinie unlock requirement. Screw this. I would sooner pay for costume pieces than have to unlock them, and I intend to continue to do so until I get the ability to have all costume items at character creation. |
Is there anything in this game you don't moan about? Personally I love the events and judging by the number of other people who take part in them, you're pretty unique in universally decrying them.
I'm with Canifax, I hope they are a craftable cossie reward.
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Yeah, anything that doesn't force me to interact with large masses of people I don't like and anything that doesn't lag my machine into a slideshow. And I've been saying the same thing since I10, so this shouldn't be surprising.|
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Is there anything in this game you don't moan about? Personally I love the events and judging by the number of other people who take part in them, you're pretty unique in universally decrying them.
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And I will say it again: I would sooner pay for costume pieces than have to unlock them. And you can take that to the bank.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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They're a part of i19, which is even better than a craftable cossie reward to me.|
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Is there anything in this game you don't moan about? Personally I love the events and judging by the number of other people who take part in them, you're pretty unique in universally decrying them.
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I'm happy about this!
I do think in an MMO that any events they have should be rewarded with proper unique rewards though, not just some inf and merits (or just badges, I don't care about badges and they are such a binary thing, once you've gotten it the event can be forgotten about). Things like versions of the IOs they gave out with preorders for certain vendors (Gamestop was it?), one of the things I liked about [Another MMO which featured scantily clad Dark Elves and thankfully not scanitly clad Chaos as factions] was the PQ system which let you earn decent items for your levelling character from doing them.
Mind you there is admittedly a fine line in those events where players can just not be bothered with some of them, either due to a lack of server population or a perception that they weren't worthwhile.
Such systems I like when they don't require too many people but you can just stumble across them whilest wandering around the outside world. They can really give a feel that a world is alive and well populated.
Obviously different people will quite rightly think the exact opposite though [Insert quote from random 80s comedy about world not moving to the beat of just one drum here]
Sweet. They do look good.
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I wouldn't have a problem with that, actually. Any reward that's not a costume piece, be it unique or otherwise, is fine in my book to be given out in an event. Unique enhancements or recipes, special powers, special titles - you name it. Quite literally anything that's not a costume piece is fine by me as a reward for an event.|
Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
I do think in an MMO that any events they have should be rewarded with proper unique rewards though, not just some inf and merits (or just badges, I don't care about badges and they are such a binary thing, once you've gotten it the event can be forgotten about). Things like versions of the IOs they gave out with preorders for certain vendors (Gamestop was it?), one of the things I liked about [Another MMO which featured scantily clad Dark Elves and thankfully not scanitly clad Chaos as factions] was the PQ system which let you earn decent items for your levelling character from doing them.
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But that's largely because of how reward mechanics work with costume design. IF unlocked costumes placed themselves in my editor at creation, I would have no problem with busting my *** to unlock them. Once. But since they have to be unlock on every character every time, and long after creation, to boot, that is not a good way to do things.
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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I wouldn't have a problem with that, actually. Any reward that's not a costume piece, be it unique or otherwise, is fine in my book to be given out in an event. Unique enhancements or recipes, special powers, special titles - you name it. Quite literally anything that's not a costume piece is fine by me as a reward for an event.
But that's largely because of how reward mechanics work with costume design. IF unlocked costumes placed themselves in my editor at creation, I would have no problem with busting my *** to unlock them. Once. But since they have to be unlock on every character every time, and long after creation, to boot, that is not a good way to do things. |
But things like the Cossie IO items I don't really mind since I can always Gleemail those to the intended character. I don't mind waiting until level 2 or 4 and going to the tailor to equip them (did it with my Plant/Empath controller).
I do mind having to wait 35 levels and then grinding Rikti to get a glowie sword, or even worse deciding on making a Roman warrior and realising I've to wait until endgame before I'd actually be able to create him properly.
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You know, Sam, most of the time I agree with your opinions in the game. But if you have such an aversion to interacting with groups of people you probably shouldn't be playing a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Yeah, anything that doesn't force me to interact with large masses of people I don't like and anything that doesn't lag my machine into a slideshow. And I've been saying the same thing since I10, so this shouldn't be surprising.
*edit* And I will say it again: I would sooner pay for costume pieces than have to unlock them. And you can take that to the bank. |
Hello, my name is @Caligdoiel and I'm an altoholic.
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I will happily pay for costume items rather than go through the stupidity of unlocking them.
I do not want to have to unlock them via event, especially. I have many, many alts and I find this tedious. I'll pay, please.
If I pay for them, level 1 characters can have them. Time to get out the card... yep.
Have had enough craftable "cossie" [ugh.... too much cutespeak sits ill with me, who the hell thought that one up] rewards to last a lifetime. I don't want to craft any more costume parts. I will happily pay to avoid this crap.
This is how we do it now. There is no going back. We pay for the really good stuff now. Good free stuff is mostly a memory, love it or hate it, this is the New World Order. Ten dollars is lunch-money to me, so its a nuisance - but a nuisance I find preferable to unlocking or waiting for a drop or using in-game cash to acquire.
Pay-for, please. THese auras specifically are going to be part of an issue? Neat. But thats the exception, not the rule these days.
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Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
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I will happily pay for costume items rather than go through the stupidity of unlocking them. I do not want to have to unlock them via event, especially. I have many, many alts and I find this tedious. I'll pay, please. If I pay for them, level 1 characters can have them. Time to get out the card... yep. Have had enough craftable "cossie" [ugh.... too much cutespeak sits ill with me, who the hell thought that one up] rewards to last a lifetime. I don't want to craft any more costume parts. I will happily pay to avoid this crap. This is how we do it now. There is no going back. We pay for the really good stuff now. Good free stuff is mostly a memory, love it or hate it, this is the New World Order. Ten dollars is lunch-money to me, so its a nuisance - but a nuisance I find preferable to unlocking or waiting for a drop or using in-game cash to acquire. Pay-for, please. THese auras specifically are going to be part of an issue? Neat. But thats the exception, not the rule these days. |
I would NOT pay to unlock a rikti emote on my BS scrapper. (HAD to stick that in for marketing.
)I too am pleasantly SHOCKED that those auras are part of issue 19. Good to know!
Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
Hehe, let's stop the debate about Unlocking vs. Purchasing and just all agree that everything should be part of the normal publishes and available from character creation.
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"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
I'd pay to unlock the rikti sword on my BS scrapper.
I would NOT pay to unlock a rikti emote on my BS scrapper. (HAD to stick that in for marketing. )I too am pleasantly SHOCKED that those auras are part of issue 19. Good to know! |
I will not pay for emotes only, even if I love the emotes, as I do with the new stances. Luckily those were free.
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NOw that we pay for it, we get it MUCH FASTER. I can live with that. What I think should stop is the further fracturing of packs: I want packs like Valkykie and Magic, where we get a metric crapton of useable parts, emotes, and maybe even a temp power or two, so our money bought us a lot of things to piece out all over the place. Fun.
Packs like Mutant, which lacked chestpieces and belts, and packs like the Basketball emote pack, which is what I call it [facepalm] are a rung or two down from that and should cease ASAP. Value for money: this is what the people want.
p.s. I like the Snow aura, especially the Eyes one. I have Body and Eyes on my cold-themed Archery blaster and I think it adds nicely to her look. NOW MAKE WITH FIREFLIES FOR WOMEN, ALREADY
Seriously awesome.
Credit to Echopryme for finding this but the SoA first costume slot, the one you can barely edit, has a Storm Cloud aura. Combines Steamy Mist with Electricity aura basically. It's rather cool! It may even have some slight sound effects attached but it's hard to tell. I could have been hearing ambient sounds near the Pocket D tailor.
I like how it trails behind you. It'd be perfect for my Storm Dragon if it would cover wings. :P As it is tho, it's pretty sweet, especially if they add variations like other Auras (hands, head, etc.).
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More pictures of Storm! Lets hoap they add a secondary color.
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Great concept on the storm aura, but yeah, it does look like it would benefit from two colors, one for the clouds the other for the lightning.
Oooooooooh... Wow
That storm cloud thing is very interesting!
Another cool and noteworthy aspect, of both the Snow and the Fireflies auras, is the inclusion of the individual left and right hand options.
Since getting the Alpha and Omega auras with those options, I've wondered if we may see those options with all the previous auras...
Would be nice, eh?
(One for each eye, like the cyborg combat aura has would be nice too, btw...)
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"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Agreed. This aura would benefit the most but I've often wanted all auras to have that option. Maybe one day!
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Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Great concept on the storm aura, but yeah, it does look like it would benefit from two colors, one for the clouds the other for the lightning.
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Oh, so very this.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Hehe, let's stop the debate about Unlocking vs. Purchasing and just all agree that everything should be part of the normal publishes and available from character creation.
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Look, if I had a choice of new costume items being available for free in character creation, I would so take this option. In a heartbeat. However, people have historically argued that costumes SHOULD be unlockable or they're worthless and the developers have historically agreed with the, sticking such things as generic Roman Armour behind a level 35+ TF. I really don't think that's an option any more. I don't think it ever was.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Hehe, let's stop the debate about Unlocking vs. Purchasing and just all agree that everything should be part of the normal publishes and available from character creation.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Those who fail to learn from historical boo boos are doomed to boo boo historically again!
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I'm not feeling well, so therefore grumpy and justifiably cynical.
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