Discussion - Check out the All New Steampunk Booster Pack Trailer!
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Posted on: 2011-05-18 11:53 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Ahhh sooo awesome -- I absolutely cannot wait to start playing with it on my characters -- Wonderful job guys 
Would be great to get some details on what exactly is in it, but I'm sure that will come with time.
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The overall look is wonderful. Definitely a day one purchase here.
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Okay, this was one awesome video.
Also, at 1:09, we see the new "face tech", and I must say I am impressed a lot. Hopefully all the faces get that treatment too.
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You know.. the dresses are pretty, and fitting for one of my characters but....
Honestly I've already bought 6 of these boosters, and I can't justify yet another one just because you finally got around to making a decent full dress for women to wear. When are you going to offer some new costume pieces for free, and quit nickel and diming us into submission?
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Originally Posted by NobleFox
You know.. the dresses are pretty, and fitting for one of my characters but....
Honestly I've already bought 6 of these boosters, and I can't justify yet another one just because you finally got around to making a decent full dress for women to wear. When are you going to offer some new costume pieces for free, and quit nickel and diming us into submission? |
If it were "free", you'd still be paying money (your sub) to get them, and most likely they'd be attached to a large Issue release, so you'd be waiting quite a while for them.
With boosters, you trade a little bit of money for getting your hands on things much, much sooner. They also don't necessarily have to be tied into whatever other content is being added. They can be a separate thing.
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With nothing more than speculation as to what it may have in it, I have to say the Steampunk Pack sounded interesting.
Then we got some pix and it went from 'interesting' to 'very interesting'.
Now that we have video, it has gone from 'very interesting' to 'I'd very much like to buy this'.
That video was extremely well put together and showed just enough of what the pack contains to leave me wanting more.
A+
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And my favourite part of the video with the pipe wrench aiming for the back of the head.
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And a slightly different bit of tech at 0:55.
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Originally Posted by Photonstorm
Also, at 1:09, we see the new "face tech", and I must say I am impressed a lot.
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All the images of the steampunk pistols and rifle makes me wonder what, if any, secondary powersets wouldn't look jarring with them. I don't suppose there's any chance of steampunk machines for the Traps set? or Devices? You know, replacement pseudo-Victorian versions of the Triage Beacon, Acid Mortar, Force Field Generator, Targeting Drone, Gun Drone, etc? Because, otherwise, I have no idea what to use the guns with that wouldn't look just plain wrong as soon as you used one of your secondary powers. (Electric Manip, maybe, I guess? or maybe Energy Manip. But still kind of wrong.)
And (too ask for too much, I know) it makes me really, really wish we could use Nemesis Jaegers as the droids for Robotics. Because a steampunk bots/traps, with that rifle, would be awesome.
Instant purchase.
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Randomly, I want to know who did the illustration slides for the trailer... I also want to know who that dashingly handsome gentleman depicted in them is? Perhaps a Steampunk earth's alternate Statesman... Stately Gentleman?
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You know what? I think you're half right but missing the entire point. Costume and weapons pieces of substance outside of booster packs has slowed to almost nothing. I can't help but think that if I and so many others hadn't paid $10 for the wedding pack way back when, we'd be getting these things with issues instead of randomly released "booster packs". This steampack stuff was likely ready to go on the last issue release, if not sooner, and it's been held back as a cynical cash grab.|
Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Look at it this way:
If it were "free", you'd still be paying money (your sub) to get them, and most likely they'd be attached to a large Issue release, so you'd be waiting quite a while for them. With boosters, you trade a little bit of money for getting your hands on things much, much sooner. They also don't necessarily have to be tied into whatever other content is being added. They can be a separate thing. |
Furthermore, why do I have to buy a pack of 98% crap I'm not interested in because they decided to cram something we've been asking for for years (decent looking formal dresses for women) for years in with it?
And if they're not just being facetious and the "new face tech" is some improvements to the character creator at large, why is something like that not included in base purchase price? I was in the beta. I preordered. I preordered the city of Villains Collector's Edition. I bought Going Rogue. Looking over my account, I've bought 9 of these nickle and dime addons, not just 6. I've paid my dues and I've missed three or four months subscription time since the game began.
I think I've paid enough to not have to buy a bunch of hideous steampunk crap just to get a decent pretty dress, and I'm starting to regret feeding the greed machine. I guess everyone has their breaking point and they've reached mine. I was already most of the way here back with the animal pack, purchased for absolutely nothing but the run power. I was able to justify the to myself because all those new animations likely went above and beyond merely the art department, but this?
This is just another set of costumes that should have been included with an issue, and I'm not paying $10 for something (dignified feminine clothing) we've been begging for since the Beta.
Loved the trailer
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Oh, I just spotted a minor issue with it. The first character portrayed is wearing the coat from the Magic pack - does it also come with the Steampunk pack? If not, there's a smidgen of false advertising going on here.
As an aside, every time they announce one of these costume packs, the same people come out of the woodwork and complain that they're not included in the subscription price. Look, people: the subscription price hasn't gone up since gasoline was below $2 a gallon and milk was $1.50 a gallon. MMO subscription fees have just plain not kept up with inflation; salaries of people working on MMOs mostly have. Unless you're interested in CoH going to $25 or $30 a month, don't complain about microtransactions and costume packs.
Let's be honest with ourselves here. If NCSoft had hit on the idea of booster packs before, we wouldn't have gotten what we got with issue 5, they would have waited a month and announced an "Anime Booster Pack". I'm genuinely sorry I fed into this and contributed my part to it. We deserve better than to be treated like we're playing some F2P when it comes to nice costume pieces.
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If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure it was noted somewhere around the time the Steampunk Booster was first revealed that they'd be using the "new face tech" in i21, and that the Steampunk Booster was a way to get a preview before the issue release.|
Originally Posted by NobleFox
And if they're not just being facetious and the "new face tech" is some improvements to the character creator at large, why is something like that not included in base purchase price?
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Also, since hindsight bias is a thing and all, can you remember the last time we got a bunch (i.e., more than a couple sets) of free costume pieces?
It was Issue 13--new costume pieces to go with all the Day Job stuff.
Prior to that? Issue 5, with Asian comic-inspired gear.
I guess Issue 10 had three free sets (though one had to be unlocked via Vanguard Merits at the time). Issue 15 came with a bunch of new faces, but no costume sets. Issue 8 brought Vet Rewards, which had wings and trenchcoats and the like, but they were all unlocked based on subscription duration.
Issues 6 and 18 were both expansions, and thus came with several new costume options, but they too were based on paying for the pack.
The "Golden Age of Free Costume Pieces" really doesn't exist, sadly.
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You are correct. Every time they release one of these they tick off more and more of their subscriber base. Everyone has their limits. One day they'll hit yours as well.|
Originally Posted by InfamousBrad
As an aside, every time they announce one of these costume packs, the same people come out of the woodwork and complain that they're not included in the subscription price. Look, people: the subscription price hasn't gone up since gasoline was below $2 a gallon and milk was $1.50 a gallon. MMO subscription fees have just plain not kept up with inflation; salaries of people working on MMOs mostly have. Unless you're interested in CoH going to $25 or $30 a month, don't complain about microtransactions and costume packs.
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Oh and while we're at it:
Movie tickets still cost me what they did ten years ago. Video games still cost me what they did ten years ago. Cable TV still costs me what it did ten years ago. Internet access costs me LESS than it did ten years ago and is infinitely faster. Televisions cost me what they did ten years ago. It shouldn;t shock anyone the monthly fee for MMOs has remained the same or gone down.
Oh and by the way, the average salaries for programmers, graphic artists, QA, and writers have all gone SHARPLY down in the last 5 years. Overhead is absolutely no excuse for them to be giving me less value for my $15/month than I was getting before they hit on the idea of charging us for what used to be included.
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According to your join date you were here for the first 8 issues. Why would you write a sentence like the one quoted above? You were here for it. Sometimes we even got costume pieces outside of issues, in random patches.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
The "Golden Age of Free Costume Pieces" really doesn't exist, sadly.
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Another way of looking at it is:
Would these purely cosmetic and fluff additions to the game be even available without the companies ability to make guaranteed money off of them?
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I actually logged into my NC Soft account today to try and buy this before I found out it wasn't to be released until June 1st.
Oh well, at least it got me to stop procrastinating about the new log in security feature. (I ended up remembering the answer to my original security Q) See, worried over nothing.
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Yes. This game operated about one month shy of 5 years without them just fine, and the overhead costs to run the game have most likely gone down since then.
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Another way of looking at it is:
Would these purely cosmetic and fluff additions to the game be even available without the companies ability to make guaranteed money off of them? |
Great trailer. Loved the background music.
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