Would you pay for an Incarnate booster pack? I would

They should just set all of the costume pieces/aruas/emotes to 1 emp merit each, but make it so they're no longer account unlocks.

How sad is it that here we are actually begging to pay for chest emblems and auras now??

Remember all those threads that popped up when the 1st booster was announced? All those threads with players vs players claiming this game had 'gone to the americans'.

The threads where we said, "Yikes, this is a slippery slope here, hope this doesn't mean we won't still get free costume updates" and all the others chiming in that we would be eating crow with all the doooom speak?

Yeah...


Look, I understand Posi and crew need to put something in the system beyond powers. Otherwise a year from now it'd be next to impossible to form leagues for the trials with everyone just waiting for the next tier to hit then blitzing them. However, if the past 7 years have taught us anything it's that this community is ardent about it's customization.

Very ardent.

Beyond that though, one of the things that has kept this game thriving for this long is the ability to create endless alts. I'd wager that a sizeable chunk of our community is still here solely for that reason. As opposed to the WoW mindset of grind one toon endlessly. What keeps this demographic subscribed is the additions of new costumes and powersets that have generally been included in Issues. Then boosters came and we slowly 'sucked it up' and relented to buying the ones we had concepts for.
Life goes on.

Now though...

I'll admit it's still in Beta so things could change. However, all I've seen indicated is they are looking at the prices, not the content. I don't expect any amount of 'shouting in the wind' will make them pull the aura's and such.

Sadly, this will not bode well for quite a few players. Hopefully they'll all just 'suck it up' some more.

In closing: I'm all for keeping the Incarnate Armor tied to the system. It makes sense and rewards those that become Incarnates. Also serves as a visual cue. I'm all for that. In truth I actually prefer boosters. As I like to give this game all the extra income I can. That said, I do miss the days of looking forward to all the new concepts I could roll when a new issue hit.
When I 1st saw the new aura's I instantly came up with concepts for 3 of them, nearly fully fleshed out one concept before I realized I'd never actually get to use them as I've choosen to opt out of the endgame.

Maestro, I think the point is more that people would rather pay cash monies than have to do 3 trials a day for 134 days to unlock one full set of costume parts.

This is unrelated to the separate topic of free costume parts vs transaction costume parts

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I'm being cautiously optimistic that those prices won't go live.

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Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution Eh, I'm sure there's a large group of us who care about both.

I'd put myself in that category.

I personally see nothing wrong w/ the trials, but I understand the current lag/pet issues can be a turn off.

Those prices are some big pile of... bull****


F that noise.

Order of Logic for me:

I'd rather free costumes than paid for costumes, but I'm happy to pay for them.

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I'd rather pay for costumes than run iTrials over and over to unlock them (when I could be using those rewards to slot my characters to make sure I don't have to go near iTrials again)

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I'd rather run iTrials than....

wait...

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wait...

No. There's nothing I'd rather do iTrials for than.

Imagine I'm a new player.

"Oh cool, you can be all these different types of character, and there's auras you can have! Wait, I have to pay or get to level 30 for auras... oh... well, okay then! Oh cool, a lightning aura from my feet that follows me around! That'd work with my idea for a robot that's like a power plant and fires lightning out! Wait, I have to get to level 50 to get that aura?

Wait, I have to get to level 50 and run these bits of content to look like that?"

There's another game, that I won't mention. It's fantasy though. There was an update and new character class combinations became available.

I got the idea for an elf warrior who hunts things, and the picture I got in my mind of this guy was black hair done up in a ponytail, a big sword, and an eyepatch.

Ponytail? Available from level 1.

Big sword? I had some low level options available thankfully.

Eyepatch? ... Nope. No level 1 option. It was there as a rare drop from some higher level content, or from some higher level quests, or from some close to max level quests as a purchasable reward.

The character was dropped and I soon lost interest in the game (having returned briefly at a group of friends bequest after burning out due to them raiding at the beginning of the year). Because the character didn't look right.

When I joined this game back in 2005, I was wary of the grind for stuff at end-game approach, and loved the 'look how you want/perform how you want regardless of actual appearance/power level' bit of the whole game.

And now it seems someone's gone 'Oh hey, you know what would be a great idea? Have people grind way in our end-game content to look how they want!'

And that's the kind of path that may lead to me considering to spend my £8.99 a month on something else. Like charity shop sci-fi books. Or a film rental subscription.

It's why I've always been a fan of capes and auras from level 1. Or even just coughing up the cash to do this from the get go, now that I've seen the alternatives.

The devs could get my monthly fee and some one-off payments from me, rather than me considering to no longer give them my monthly fee and no one-off payments. I'm not going to go "Oh, I have this Pixel Aura, now I'm going to leave." because I've been here for 6 years with costumes and RP in game. Without it, I'd have left long ago.

When it's now 'Grind for the possible use of these in characters but only if I create them, claim the token from my gleemail, take them to a tailor, then use a tailor token to put the aura on them if they fit, delete if they don't?'

No. Non. Iie. Nein. Nay. Nae. Nyet.

Heh, my only nearly finished slotted char is my Bots/Traps MM namesake. And he still finds ITrials horrific, due to the assurance that MMs will suffer most from spammed, high damage and high accuracy AoE. He also seems to have appalling luck with drop rates.

I guess you have more patience with dealing with crap in something you do to escape the crap of life Myself, less so.


Edit: Also, Z sums it up perfectly as usual.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

work, netflix, call of duty and coh are my escapes

Gods damnit, stop making me miss my Xbox and home internet when I have to grind university work for my Degree accolade

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

finger puppeteering

Another thing I started to realise...

It is Emph Merits! You can only get one Emph Merit every 20 hours...!

So... to get 401 Emph Merits... would be 401 x 20 hours if you do nothing but think of playing... Don't expect to see any incarnate armor (full) very fast ingame.

I say dump the prices from Emph Merits and make all prices in Astral Merits. That is the only way to make this even remotly possible.