It doesn't even get you HoT. It gets you access to HoT. You still have to buy the boosters. $1.95 gets you the seven F4 starter figures to play with. That's it.

Unreal Wizkids, unreal. If they cut those prices in half, they'd still need a butt-ton of incentives to get players.

This game was aimed at players who dont play in person much or some who havent played for a while because of other more important things that have came up ala kids and marriage or something.
HCO here is an example of one of those targets and what he/she says about it when it comes to the pricing.
Maybe the pricing was a misprint. maybe it was 1000 clix bux instead of 100.

Very sad about the pricing announcment. I will not be getting into this game. Sorry HCO

HCO was a nice thought. Especially for those hardcore players and gamers that can't have readily access to a venue.

But adding my voice to the consensus, the price point is intolerable. I struggle at times to pay for actual heroclix. But I scrimp and save, just so I can go to a venue and enjoy myself once per week. Paying for an online version doesn't make sense. Especially at the price they are asking.

Hate to break it to you Wizkids, you can't squeeze blood from a stone. You will continue to get all the support I can muster for the actual Heroclix line. But the HCO line will not see a dime from me. My apologies, I hope it succeeds, but it won't be because of me.

WK/NECA needs to see this in a nutshell. I echo every last feeling here.

Make it a real low price point game, let us buy a whole bunch of figures for a low price; let us earn online points to purchase more bunches via a store; don't ever release newer sets/exclusive on-line figures and you're good to go.

HCO should be a sorts of training grounds/friendly meet-ups, not ANOTHER aspect of the "booster opening" of Heroclix...the online aspect of that takes the feel away from it, so go away from the concept and simply do it as I described with a few better tweaks, of course.

That's only a few ideas...

I thought it was a fun product, that I would have supported at a much lower price point. At the same price as an actually physical product, no way. I can't buy every set twice. I hope someone saves the coding on this and will at least at some point release a version that can be used.

I might have considered playing but not at those prices. I don't want this to fail but I don't see many people paying the same amount for an actual brick (more in some cases) for virtual figures. Not a great move there and I can only hope it doesn't drag the rest of the brand down with it.

If they were smart, they would charge like $9.95 for Heroclix on line and that would give you access to all of the legal starter sets, the game, rules, account etc. And then when every new expansion comes out they could sell the whole "expansion" for something like $14.95 for a CUR set and $5 more for the SR's minus the LE's. (Something that you they could set up that you could win)

If they had a "low" introductory price that gave you a lot of "value" to get started and then sold virtual "sets" instead of boosters I think people would be more inclined to spend the money. MMORPG's are amazing at getting people to continually spend money on their game but a lot of them have gone back to the "free to play" approach. It's when you want to experience the rest of the game, you have to pull out your wallet. If someone picked up the "core" game and 4 sets a year, Wizkids would be getting close to $90 a year in revenue. A very successful game like Starcraft or COD isn't even getting that from their players a year.

I would be way more inclined to pick this up if it was priced like that but I'll be damned if I'm even going to spend $5 on a virtual booster just so I can pull 5 figures that I already had...

Wow, just wow. Was remodeling for a few days and hadn't played online since last week. Now I come back to find the prices were beyond anything I would consider reasonable. HCO forum threads are practically dead when I logged in this morning. I assume that online use is wayyy down, just by reading the posts and seeing the number of folks on the forum, etc.

The clixbux prices for boosters/bricks, has there been any response to people's input on this? Really, for beta with the same, one set we have been using for 6 months, we are in any way expected to fork over that kind of money? I doubt many people I know would pay that much money for a final, smooth product, with 10 releases to choose from. When I've been deployed overseas for a year a couple times, maybe I would've payed for a few boosters just to keep my hand in the game, but not at home, with a tangible collection sittign on my shelves or that can be purchased even cheaper than my digital versions.

Sorry HCO. I've been a pretty good beta tester for you, sent in many bugs, played to test and verify, not to win or use the same cheese each game, etc. But I think we may just have to break up and see other people.

I'll ask again because I'm curious and nobody responded, but where is the information about the pricing located? I didn't see it on the HCO forum.

it was an unofficial post a week ago. its speculating that there will be no other opportunities to gain clixbux. odds are that a GOOD idea WK could use is to allow you to earn clixbux by winning games. then allow people who can't wait for clix bux to spend the money for it.

Oh, so we're up in arms about something that hasn't been confirmed? I'm not trying to be patronizing, I'm honestly trying to get a handle on this.

I wouldn't doubt that they'd price virtual boosters the same as real ones despite the apparent bad decision it is, I'm just choosing to hold off on the outrage until I hear it confirmed.

http://hcforums.icarusstudios.com/hc...ted=1#post3150

Look for Yamah's post.

I see. Well hopefully something about this is changed, 'cause that seems a bit excessive. Surely they don't think that charging less would keep people from buying the physical product. I really don't see the reason of this pricing structure.