Omega Emote is Tasteless

[icrot]

Each to their own. I think it's pretty cool:

Look at Mr. Fancy Pants here bragging about his emote. I was reading the pizza thread the other day and... This community takes emotes too seriously.

[elioaiko]

I will say that it in poor taste and they used it as a way to sell it.

Now it's not so much that I feel that people are above me. Just that it's hard to get and has this awful sense of FOMO written all over it which is not a good look tbh, scaring your collectors into buying something sooner than they pay for is a classic gacha/mobile game tactic.

Also the fanfest hairstyles and outfits are bit much too but I do think they may eventually come to the mogstation.

Which should be the norm, let people who want/have money get it early to show off or whatever, but eventually bring it to the cash shop or event in game. Now before you say "no to the cash shop" , it's way cheaper than buying a 220$ statue or a ticket and flight to a fanfest.

[Saraide]

As silly as this thread looks I do hate forced bundle deals with no way of buying the individual stuff. If the emote was available standalone I could see myself buying it. Of couse I can live without it but that doesnt mean I like this practice.

[Andy_T93]

It just annoys me that there is no other way to get it, I have zero interest in the statue (have never been a collector type person, don't have any gaming merchandise, just not my thing) but I would happily pay like £30 for the emote on it's own

[RobynDaBank]

Emote looks great for sure, what a bummer it's attached to such an expensive (and apparently shoddy quality) limited item. But, eh. You can live without it.

[Packetdancer]

Emote looks great for sure, what a bummer it's attached to such an expensive (and apparently shoddy quality) limited item.

Tangential, but my Omega statue came out fine. (As much as I enjoy the emote, I actually ordered the statue for the statue because I love that raid series. So Omega sits on my desk here.)

But they very clearly did some tweakery to the production, because I saw my order to go "Preparing for Shipment", then the first deliveries happened and there was the fuss about quality, and the company made a statement about how they were going to look into the matter and try to correct it... and then my order status went back to "Pre-Ordered". And then it became "Preparing for Shipment" again five weeks later... and when my statue arrived, it looked like the actual pre-order images.

So I suspect they quickly put a stop to all the pending orders that hadn't gone out, did some serious quality-control checking on the production, and only then resumed shipping from a new production run -- and that I may have lucked out in being nearer to the end of the list.

That said, while the emote's always been a little bonus for the collector statues -- Shiva comes with the "Diamond Rain" bow attack emote, Odin with Zantetsuken, etc. -- I definitely understand the annoyance with the practice. I've seen some of the other collector-statue emotes and been like "If that was available on its own, I'd probably buy it." But I don't want any of the other statues enough -- maybe Shiva -- to merit ordering them like I did with Omega.

[Wilford111]

Oh huh, I forgot the statue was even a thing.

Maybe OP should do that, just forget about it and play the game

[Akamadoshi]

Sorry the first half of this forum made me crack up so hard I had to comment XD

[Duskane]

well omega is from Omnicron so maybe it is tasteless after all

[Atreides]

I agree, it sucks to have such a cool emote bound to a statue. The statue doesn't even look good people literally bought the emote for 200 bucks and got a statue for free not the other way around lol.