It's not a one-time payment. Simple.

I would prefer to own a physical representation of what I am buying more often than not.

You will just be renting that visual image until the game is on life support. Which may be more imminent that everyone thinks. Look at the EQ card game or MTG from what I hear as well.

Ok, you would prefer to own a physical version of the fig because you can play games with your friends with them right??? For those of us unable to attend venues, or that dont have friends who play, can you really not see how the inverse would be true??? Much like you complain that you cant hold a virtual figure I would say holding a physical figure is about all I can do with it.....

Saying things like MTG is on life support is pretty ridiculous, hop on there on a weekend and look at 1000 people in the casual rooms and another couple hundred drafting non-stop throughout the day....if thats life support, sign me up....

Not all of us want a one-time payment that grants everyone the same pool of figures as everyone else, if you think of this game as a stand alone venture as opposed to a supplement to the physical version you should be able to understand why.....

Would you naysayers stop nay saying on this thread so this whole forum would be totally silent.

The love affair with plastic on this forum is unprecedented.

Paying or not....I finally got this game during my deployment and have had it running for a week now. Is all this complaining the reason why I never get to play a game. I have played one game and that was today. Is no one playing this anymore?

Log on nightly around 9:30...there are loads of people playing then.

So.....you want to boycott all of their products just because of a flawed online game? Strange...I remember WK and Neca being companies that mainly make physical products, hence the lack of polish for the online stuff.

If this is true, this is great.

It was clarified that the codes are only for the Hulk FF's. So I was wrong initially. Still cool, though.

If you read my post I said "from what I hear MTG is on life-support". I was mainly referencing the EQ card game. As that is where my experience lies.

Idc if you want to rent visual aid for pleasure. I did that with WoW for 5 years on/off. So I understand the addictive quality and the how elated it can feel.

I just prefer not to play that way because I get to play consistently and this game wasn't made for console or computer so that's now how I am going to play it. Notice the bold. Idc what you do. Your still renting a space on the interwebz.

Here is a thought, and I know some wont agree with it,
Increase cost of boosters 2 bucks and have them come with a redemtion code for the figures that way you can input it into the online game, giveing you access to the figures you just got in rl. Do this For all new items comeing out. For the old stuff set a base price for figures going off how rare or unrare they are and let folks pick what they want or come up with a difrent idea all together for the old figure but I would be willing to pay 2 bucks more pack just to have access to the figures online. Things happen in rl why not keep it open incase a kid gets sick and you cant go play in rl so go play online.

Ni!Python filler.

As somebody *not* playing HCO, I sure don't want to pay more for my boosters for no additional value.

how about make it so there is a 2 buck charge to input the code on the online game then. That way the folks that dont play online dont pay more and the folks that do are paying something that is a fair cost?

That's a pretty good idea.

Would putting in the code get you a virtual booster (of unknown content), or a virtual copy of the physical booster it came from?

For the second option, aside from the logistics of such a task, I think it could skew the virtual rarity, since you'd have people pull an uninteresting booster and decline to enter the code.

I'd think it would be more likely to see a physical booster come with a discount code to buy a corresponding virtual booster at a discount, or the corresponding FF pack.