Discussion: Retiring Booster Packs, Expansions and Boxed Sets on the NCsoft store on August 30

Well just bought the Steampunk pack.

Now all I'm missing is the Super Science, Animal, Party and Origin packs. Super Science I won't buy and Party is cheaper when i21 launches. Animal and Origin I'll only buy a few things so it's not worth buying the whole pack

Gawd, this tansaction limit is annoying. Only managed to get one booster tonight.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Regarding the prices going up, that's why they give a warning about that, so people can get them now and won't feel like they're being cheated (but I guess this doesn't help for some people). Except for that store problem, which I guess is the reason I haven't been able to buy that extra $1.99 CoH code I wanted.

Regarding the release date, since the word on the last Freedom Friday was that the announcement of Freedom won't be from one day to the next, I guess it won't come at the end of this month as some expected. It's still possible that something big is planned at that time, like a public beta.

I've been trying to buy a pack for the past week, and it always says that it can't process the order at this time. Is there a problem with the store, or what?

I love how I can't use the same credit card I use for my own account and my wife's account to buy things on my son's account because I've used the card on "too many accounts."

Oh well, my son doesn't need this stuff anyway.

Really? Can't use the card on more than a couple accounts? What the hell kind of business is NCSoft running? "No, I refuse to take your money because you already GAVE me some money before."

To all the people who have a problem, I contacted support and they authorised my account for 24 hours, which helped.

I've finally made my decisions.

1) Steampunk -- Yes. Worth it in terms of price, plus I just made a Clockwork-based character who I think would do great with the Steam Jump power.

2) Animal -- Yes. Worth it in terms of price. Actually was considering not getting this since I'm not much for animal themes, but I realized that if I ever did want to do an animal-themed toon in the future, the high cost of the themes at that point might keep me from going for it, so I figure I'll go ahead and bite the discounted bullet now.

3) Origins -- No. It's capes and auras, of which only a couple really impress me (Impervium Mantle Cape, Sparks Aura). If I really want those items (or any of the others, for that matter) I can get those separately at the times that I actually intend to use them.

4) Party -- No. It's full of emotes that I'll likely never use, plus they're cheaper as points items. Once again, I can get these separately at the times that I actually intend to use them.

I ended up picking up the Science Pack,

leaving the Party and Animal Packs unpurchased, but since I have no interest in the Animal Pack, and will likely purchase the party emotes ad-hoc, I left it in a good way I think.

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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

My biggest complaint is that the notice was only one week. I've been busy.

A bulk rate is desperately needed considering the over $30 prices of some of the packs a la carte.

I wish it had gone on a little longer. I only get paid once a month and would have liked to pick up one last booster pack. The week notice and the ending before the end of the month were very poor choices IMHO.

Okay, so it's been almost a week since we last heard anything. I was really expecting to hear something like Freedom's launch date today. I wonder why so much hurry to take the boosters off anyways. Couldn't they have waited for freedom? Are they just going to leave people unable to buy new content?

I welcome any news at this point because the wait is killing me lol.

Oh serious the irony, was just wrapping up my last 2 tip missions, i got a popup.. for this feature you need Going Rogue.. bingo, the allignement mission to go the other side

Oh well, few days i can wait, hopefully back up soonish?

Soooo bug: ingame message is invalid now.

My problem is that my wife, 3 children and myself have an account, for over a week we have been trying to get all the packs we want that are missing (now that we have the money to spare) and low and behold I get the message I can't buy anymore for the next 24 hours. That was last night. Billing support is closed by the time I get home from work so can't call them to unlock the accounts. Durring that week the store was down multiple times so couldn't but the packs then. So now I have 2 accounts missing the boosters they wanted and customer support can only say "Sorry you should have bought them yesterday, and you could have used email to conteact us to unlock your accounts" Yeah like that ever works. It usually takes 48 hours before I get a responce from the via email. Do us all a favor guys, put them back in the store until you actually have a start date for freedom. Kinda jumping the gun here aren't you? Well that's my 2 cents worth, for all the good it'll do.

Got my son to keep his room clean for 8 straight days by promising him a booster pack of his choice before they all went away.

He chose the Martial Arts pack.