i was wrong ><

are the tails binded too?
or are them sellable?

Okay just to clarify; if you get the items via Boost or the CE pack they are not bound. If you get them via purchasing Sonic CD on Steam, they are bound.

Edit: You get the mask and the suit if you get CD negima, it's the tails tails you don't get.

eh, where does it say that? it says it is mailed to you in game

"Purchase Sonic CD and receive the Metal Sonic Suit in Spiral Knights!
Metal Sonic Suit and Mask, costume items that allow you to look like Metal Sonic whenever you like. Item is mailed to you in game when you log in."

Now that doesn't say it isn't bound, but it doesn't say it is .-.

Nick
Please explain it to me since I'm stupid. You say its unbound on purchase, support says:

Why is there no warning that sonic CD sonic costume is Bound upon arrival?
Screenshots:
"free sonic costume" - no warning its bound.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ShinigamiUA/screenshot/649876689807302051/?
"Will bind when equipped"
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ShinigamiUA/screenshot/649876689807310071
"Will bind when equipped"
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ShinigamiUA/screenshot/649876689807333478

I'm also trying to contact steam on this matter. I either want them unbound, or want my money back.

I just bought Sonic CD on steam and I didn't receive anything about binding. I'm also wearing it right now!

Amazing that you do promos for other SEGA games (especially for Sonic)

I have Sonic Generations, Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic 3 and Knuckles and Sonic 3D Blast in Steam. (The two latter came as a preorder bonus for SG) Mind doing a promo for any of those games? :D

E: Also, if any SEGA employee is watching these forums: FIX SADX :/

well in all honesty, it makes sense that it is bound on accepting, I just was hoping it wasn't so I could get a friend to get it for me. $5 is way easier to swing than $20.

But if it was unbound with Sonic CD, other people would just buy multiple copies of the game to get several suits and sell em for CE if they were so inclined.

Thanks for the quick clarification Nick :D much appreciated.

It sure is a shame I can't equip that Metal Sonic Set with a Striker Shield. /sad

Another way to think of it is this:

Yes, it's true you can get the Metal Sonic set for a minimum of five U.S. dollars, but if you want to resell the set, you'll have to pay a bit extra in order to receive an unbound set.

And I like how that sounds, because it does set up the idea that OOO is willing to give people both bound and unbound sets of costumes. Compared to a few months ago, where every costume released in a promo was typically bound-on-acquire (with Bombheads and the original Rose Regalia being the few exceptions that I know of), this is a huge step for them to make. Not only that, but it makes the costumes affordable to those who want them for themselves and resellable for those who want them for profit. Which looks like a win-win situation from my perspective.

5 bucks for a personal set to use instead of paying 9USD sounds fine to me. I don't think the set will sell for more than 400k anyway in a few months.

Everyone wants to have the next "Party Hat", but there will never be another party hat in all of online gaming.

Ever.

Sony

Unless something drastic has occured in the gaming industry, I believe you mean SEGA.

I'd like to argue that Round:

Unbound items are the exception. Almost everything in SK comes or is given to you bound, and all of the promo costumes and such are bound. Unbound stuff is specifically mentioned as "unbound", so if it has no mention, it's typically assumed that it will be bound like the rest.

@Topic:
Awesome deal.

Party Hats were a limited edition item released into circulation in Runescape 2

because only a small percentage had them, most were left uncirculated and as a result inflated to the hundreds of millions if not billions of gold in a matter of two years

I don't even want to know how much they are in 2012, because those items deregulated the market after 5 years and practically forced Jagex to create a controlled economy run by a progam similar to the NASDAQ.

By the time Rose Regalia is worth anything, I would have quit SK after grad school. Maybe it isn't as likely since the average age of video gamers is 35+ now...but I just don't see myself playing to that point. If you are young like I was when party hats came out, then buying the energy pack for an unbound item would start to show its worth in 3 years. If you really see yourself playing for that long, go for it. The players who have these limited edition items will eventually quit, the items don't go into player circulation....and bingo, you made it.

OR

buy sonic cd on steam and 3 elevator passes
play SK
?????
profit

edit: I'll be turning 21 in about 2 months if anyone was wondering

Round, you have to learn to crawl before you can walk. OOO is making progress towards meeting us at a common ground on costumes and whatnot, and that's progress. I'm not going to nitpick at how good it is, because any progress is good progress in that department. With that being said, I'd understand your concern if they were legitimate armor pieces, but they're costumes. Non-essential gameplay pieces used only for aesthetic purposes.

If push came to shove, I'm sure you could file a support ticket and get a more straightforward response if you bought the Sonic CD pack thinking it was the other way around prior to Nick's post clarifying which was bound and which was not. Though I can't imagine you'd be able to prove it without providing a receipt of some kind with the date of when you purchased it vs. the time of the announcement...

But good luck!

@round

Sonic CD is an awesome game so i dont know why anyone would complain

Its too late to complain for me now - I've been seen wearing my sonic costume in public...

I repeat: if you want to sell it, either buy $20 CE or buy from other players or buy from Boost.
Sonic CD costume offer gets you a BOUND costume. And no tails tails.

@Round:
Of course they're pushing you to buy a product from their own company, that's basic marketing; sell your products to your current customers.
It's the best way to do it. This way, I get a cool retro game /and/ free stuff for my current MMO, I win~win and they get some extra sales that they might not have got otherwise (partially becasue I never even knew the game existed until I saw this offer, the Steam Store really advertised the other Sonic more than the CD one).
You cannae fault them for doin' that; if you don't want to buy the game, then simply just buy the CE.
I mean, if you reckon the costume is worth £4 on it's own (assuming you're never gunna touch Sonic) then you might as wel just pay..what, £10 more to get over 7k CE /as well/as the costume thatyou've alreayd valued at just under half that; you're getting about 3k CE worth for your money, so buying Sonic JUST for the costume is false economy from your own pov really.

@Nicoya:
First thing I tried too. Shame that the Tails don't really suit many costumes though; the best looking combo I've seen yet is on a Wolver Suit or Sunset Duster and...well....yeah....
Will hang onto them until I find a set they go with nicely :D

@Others:
As for the Sonic Stuff? Why buy somethin' just to sell it; as things are you won't breach the CE cap anyways, since it's tagged in Boost and they're actually coming off CHEAPER than the amount of CE you're buying to get them, so you're really not likely to make much money.
Only worth it if you wanted the 7k CE and particularly dislike the Sonic Stuff and just wanna get rid of it. but buying it just to sell? Pfft. Buy it for the normal reason, just buy it becasue you personally think it looks rockin'.
I'll have mine just sittin' there forever along w/ my Plasmatech and when I find uses for them, I can (ilke putting the Sonic and Plasmatech together!! muahaha).
And becasue I got a badass wee nostalgia-driver too :D

I'd say that OOO weren't in the wrong; as I said, it's the norm for costumes in SK to be bound, and they specify when they aren't; I think that people who bought the game just to get a costume are...well, s'their fault.

What if it was "Barbie's Dress-Up Pink Fashion Parade" that gave you "Dragon Ball Z" costume (don't ask me why...) would you still buy the game then, just for the costume?

I was actually a bit disappointed when I read the announcement about another cash-costume, but as my previous post shows I did in fact pick this one up. I specifically got it with the Sonic CD bundle because A: I never really played the sonic games the first time around (nintendo 4 lyfe) and wanted to give them a shot, and B: the costume pieces came bound so I wouldn't be sitting there thinking "I *could* equip these, or..." - basically I don't feel like I wasted an opportunity to get something else by using them myself.

I think that OOO handled this promo very well. The costumes look great and aren't out of place (like a giant cartoony sonic head or something), the game bundle is very affordable, the CE bundle comes unbound, and you can buy it from boost (again unbound) without spending a single cent of real-world cash if you happen to be CE rich.

My only sadness is that the sonic costume doesn't grand a movement speed bonus. ;_;

Yeah, I think I'll be buying the Sonic CD deal on Steam and get the Metal Sonic costume with the bonus. As for the Tails Tails (redundant name), I'm debating on whether I should get the special $9.95 package for 3,500 energy and the accessory or if I should go for the $49.95 package for the extra energy and instead spend the measly sum of 3,200 energy with Boost. Any opinions as to what I should do? :)

@Neodasus
Early grats on your 21st birthday! And because I like being an up-to-date nerd, the partyhats' prices range from the purple's 1,017,302,933 gp to blue's whopping 2,147,483,647 gp (max stack, pretty much). It's amazing how much people are willing to spend for a purely cosmetic item that serves no other purpose than looking good, and/or in this case, showing off wealth.

@Nicoya-Kitty
Alternatively, you can fetch yourself some Mercurial Armour and wear it underneath for the speed boost (though you might encounter some mis-matching levels in doing so). I am wondering if Three Rings are planning on opening up for Movement Speed Increase above Medium.