New In-game Pack: Party Pack

I will get this pack, in part because so many people are raising up such a stink over it. I like to be contrary like that. Besides, I still value my /em stancevillain2 emote more than most things in Going Rogue.

I'm with Dragon, I own every costume/item pack available, even the stuff from the special editions of City of Heroes and City of Villains, but I'm skipping this pack for sure. I honestly have no ides WTF they were thinking

After reading through the first hundred responses in that thread this is my favorite:



$30 got me a new starting zone (1-20), the ability to finally move all my redside characters to blueside (worth the money right here), a few new powersets, some costumes and some emotes. Not bad. I would have liked more high level stuff but with the beginning of the Incarnate system due in the next issue I can hold out.

But this pack (announced 2 weeks after an expansion and released in 4 weeks) will cost me $8 for 8 emotes? I don't quite see the value proposition here. But maybe it's just me.

Edit Note: Originally said released 2 weeks after expansion.

I have gotten every booster pack available thus far, but I don't think I'll be getting this one. I spend the majority of my time either in the costume creator, actually playing, or making adjustments to my base.

Don't get me wrong; some of those emotes sound pretty fun, but for $8 I think I'll pass.

Globalization at it's finest! The only problem with globalization as a means for world domination is that by exporting our culture and outsourcing our industrial production soon we'll be the poor ones.

Half-humorous statements aside, I'm not saying that this pack won't be valuable to a segment of the players. But as a person who was reluctant to purchase a booster pack in the first place, the Party Pack certainly doesn't make me want to buy any more extras.

I think what surprised me the most is that quite a few people (at least in the first two pages because that's all I could take) said that even though they didn't want/like/need the pack, they would buy it to support the game. That goes against all my economic logic because if you keep buying it, no matter the reason, they'll keep doing it.

What does this word mean?


Ember: I posted pretty much that comment in the official forums... somewhere around page 12 I think. So I agree with you 100%
I makes no sense to buy crap like this.

I am also very happy that the development team has fixed all the QoL issues that are around.
UGH... pass.

Um... Yeah.....

The first thing I thought of when I read the title was "City of Sims".

I'll definitely be looking very hard at buying a booster pack. Mind you, it will be the Mutant pack, but still....

That must be some knd of Joke on the players!!!

True there has been people that have claimed that. Multiple times. Usually the same 30 people. Much like the PVP threads are dominated by 15 people.

OK, so I've had some time to think about it and I think I've finally figured out why this booster pack is such a huge disappointment to me. I'm thinking of posting this on the official forums, but they are so filled with asshattery that I thought I would post here first.

As I have already stated, I will be completely skipping this booster. I have purchased every single booster pack I could lay my hands on in the past. Some I have preferred more than others. Some I use extremely rarely. But they all had one thing in common. I felt that they were all quality products.

Going Rogue is without a doubt (IMO) the best work Paragon Studios has done to date. I would have a hard time coming up with something from the expansion that I didn't like. It has completely drawn me back into the game and I am excited about playing again.

So with that being said, it is a huge disappointment to me that they would back track so far and follow that up with an emote pack. This is NOT the quality that I expect from Paragon Studios. I know what they can do. I fully expected, after such a huge success like Going Rogue, that the next booster pack would completely blow me away. Instead I'm being handed a set of emotes wrapped up in a shiny CoH package and I'm expected to pay $8 for it.

As far as I'm concerned, they had the chance to continue the success they have achieved with Going Rogue and put out another quality product that would "wow" me. Instead, they decided that they would rest on their laurels and put out something that is completely mediocre at best.