Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 10/25/11

Does anyone know how these costume toggles work with our other player toggles or drawn weapons as far as GFX goes?

If I can draw my rikti sword or rifle, it'd be pretty cool. Almost that new AT I've been waiting for...

While I dont particularly want any of these three, and I still think 480pp is too much, its nice to seen the convention only costume changes availible. If one of them had been the Freakshow Tank, I probably would have caved and spent the cash.

Eh.. I have no use for any of those. Thanks anyway.

As a person who traveled to San Diego Comic Con a few years ago ONLY to get s costume code, I can confidently say "Yes". People, or at least a friend and I, go to conventions for that reason alone. Not saying it's normal practice or widespread but it does happen.

As far as the costume codes go, they are way too expensive points-wise for me to consider getting them at this point. Being a completist, I of course want them all but refuse to pay the kind of money it would take to get them all. I'll wait for them to go on sale or for their prices to be adjusted. I imagine they're not selling all that well based on the comments here.

Lastly, I use the costume code changes for my Shapeshifter toon. It's perfect for that but conceptually I'm not sure what else they can be used for other than "dressing up" for Halloween. Hence, why they're over-priced.

I would love to have the PPD Hardsuit for one of my characters, but I can't justify the points for a costume toggle.

In actuality, I just want those boots!

I also would love to have the PPD Hardsuit as a costume set like the IDF set instead of a toggle. But I'm going to get it anyways because its one of the best designed things in the game.

I also can say that yes, people DO go to cons they wouldn't otherwise go to for these codes. One thing I've been thankful about this last year or so is the Meet n Greet format that doesn't require a con badge but still gives people a chance to get a code - that alone has saved me PAX membership and would have saved me SDCC membership this year if not for opting out of going to San Diego at all due to a sick kitty this year. To clarify that, I would have paid the additional travel costs to go, despite not wishing to even attend the con (I can't handle the crowds as large as the crowds at SDCC, but would have traveled with my husband to San Diego to attend the meet n greet without visiting the con at all). And one year I did actually go to SDCC, and two years for PAX, for no specific reason other than the costume codes. Sure, I browsed the rest of the con and got other goodies while there, but the decision to go at all rested 100% on the CoH costume codes (that I almost never use - but darn it, I have them ALL and I'm going to find a way to keep getting them all because of my OCD completionist or collection-ist nature).

At the last Herocon, prior codes were available for $20 (and even then, not all of the previously released codes) - a friend of ours had just paid over $125 the previous week to buy a code they were missing (and yes, that code was offered for $20 from the Herocon 'store'). So people are willing to pay $6 for these - it's less than 1/3rd of the last known Paragon or NCSoft value given to these (the $20/code asking price at Herocon). I for one was shocked they weren't asking more for these than they are for some of the non-exclusive codes in the store - some of the halloween ones going for 800pts and they haven't ever been deemed "exclusive" just time limited to the Halloween event but free to anyone during that time if you ToT and get it.

Personally - I'm less willing to buy these at all because part of the fun for /me/ is the card they are printed on. I want the cards to go with the codes - so a $6 digital purchase isn't going to work for me. I would buy previous codes at Meet N Greets if reps sold previous codes with the cards for up to ~$10 and possibly as much as $20 but so far I've been lucky and have all the codes and cards thusfar released at con exclusives. I'm still bummed that I don't have a card for the Coralax costume (for example) as it was only available by "snag it first" methods and never at a con that I know of.

But yeah...I have spent the money and braved the crowds of several cons just because of these "carrots". I might have opted to go to the con for other reasons were it not for my issues with most cons due to too many people in too little space. The two Herocons I attended seemed to be just about right for me. But I braved those cons and my crowd anxiety to get those codes (and yes, enjoyed myself somewhat checking everything else out - but wouldn't have made the choice to go based on the 'maybe I'll find something interesting to look at' other than those codes).

I will certainly never buy costume codes for 480 points. I've heard about the folks who paid $20 for them at/after conventions. More power to them, and it's their money, but I think they're cookoo.

The idea of going to a con just for the codes? That's just wholly unimaginable to me.

Edit: I think the other stuff in the OP is nice and mostly reasonably priced. I won't buy it all, but the price isn't why.

So, in what way do these costumes differ from the ones you get at ToT? Besides that they are permanent?

I am usually quite supportive of this, one of my favorite games, but.. 480 PP for.. each costume? I have to agree with the nay-Sayers on this one. I like neat things like that, but not for that price. Feel sorry for those who paid $20 a pop for one.