darkSpyro

I just went out and grabbed a few from Walmart, and it occurred to me that I might be able to put in codes already. Do we know when there will be a game update? Are they waiting until later today, or even the Monday update?

I noticed the "Swap Force pre-sale" ads are gone, so they've at least done that already.

I'd really be surprised if they put them all in at once. I know there was talk of it, but they gradually rolled out the Giants. I came in late to the game, though, so I'm not sure how they did that. It could have just been the Giants themselves that they rolled out over time. Plus, I think, Lost Islands came out around the same time as Giants, so who knows how they'll do it. I know a lot of people, here, would rather them not do a huge update. I haven't had huge issues as others have, but I'm not even sure I want a huge update. I'm still trying to get all the other Skylanders. I still need 15 more. They're mostly variants (Legendaries, Polar Whirlwind, Granite Crusher and Punch Pop Fizz) and sidekicks. Over the past couple of weeks, I actually accumulated quite a bit of gold, so I finally broke down and spun a few times expecting Swap Force characters to be implemented, thus, more than likely, eliminating my chances to get the specials, sidekicks, etc. I got my last regular Skylander (Flashwing...since I had Jade and didn't get to enter it until after they introduced her, so no double dipping). I kept thinking Bouncer was considered a regular Skylander (I have Legendary Bouncer, but not the regular Bouncer), but I let my son spin and he got Terrabite. I guess giants count as "special" too. I spun again and got Dark Spyro. So that really leaves me with what I said above. I'm down to 14 million gold, so I'm not sure if I should spin a couple more times or just wait. I'm afraid that if they introduce Swap Force characters, then my spins will start picking those up and I won't be able to get my missing specials (especially Legendaries for the Hall of Legends, and sidekicks). I've needed to finish a few quests (it bugs me when I have incomplete ones) which require me buying a bunch of buildings to get the mabu I need. So I need the gold for that. But maybe I should just put them off some more and try a couple more spins.

I wish they would tell us what they plan to do. And if they do introduce them all at once (or, at least, the core characters), that they would give us the option not to add them, yet, so that we can finish our other collection.

In Australia, we can't buy the game until the 16th, so maybe the update won't come until after that.

Obidawsn,

I see you have well studied the topic of spins,

With my money, I have been getting normal skylanders first, and special after, except "sidekick", of which I am missing 4 of them. Now I am missing only 4 siderkick (I also missing two good alter ego), then I will complete the collection.

What do you recommend me? continue to spin or save my money if they put new swap force skylanders?

Amapole, im in a similar spot Personally, I've been spinning like crazy because all that are left are variants and sidekicks I'm not getting physical versions of. So the only way I'll get them is through spins. If they put the swap force characters in the game, and they can be won at the same time or in advance of the variants and sidekicks, I'll stop spinning again because why waste the gold when I will be getting codes for some of those figures?

I wonder if the swap force characters will have gold bonuses like giants...

I didn't think about late releases for other places! That's a good point.

I swear I saw in an interview somewhere that they said Swap Force would be updated into the game "on launch," but maybe I misheard or they're waiting for everyone to have it.

You are not crazy because I read the same thing. Maybe the guy didn't realize the launch was on a Sunday which is not a normal launch day for video games. Also who will be updating the servers on the weekend......imagine if it was automated and there were actual bugs they needed to fix immediately.......yeah I wasn't surprised this was not released today.

i can confirm you did not mishear. they definitely did say the words "on launch", im from the UK and it isnt out until the 18th here, but naturally i presumed the update would be at american launch, as that technically counts as the games launch, it is out and available, it has launched.
so i have been waiting, to nothing yet...

Well the game did not add giants till 2 or 3 months after giants came out. And with all of the glitches we have now they may have pushed back the update.

Midas, thanks for your answer.

I think you're right, because if you've spent the gold with a twist, and then you buy the physical version of the Skylander, I do not think they get a refund when typing the code (I thought the Skylander purchased with gems, they returned the gems .... but not ...)

And sure my son will want to buy him some swap force-skylanders when the new version comes out in Spain (in Spain comes the October 18).

Since, as Skylander I just missing are 4 sidekicks, I think I worth purchasing with the spin, then give bonuses like a giant....

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Well the game did not add giants till 2 or 3 months after giants came out. And with all of the glitches we have now they may have pushed back the update.

It seems that in Spain we are more retarded ......
We bought a Eye-Brawl and Ninjini ( physical version) when they were on sale at shops, and I remember that we could enter the code right away because they were already in the game, we hadn't to wait 2 months ...

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Quote: darkrai848

Well the game did not add giants till 2 or 3 months after giants came out. And with all of the glitches we have now they may have pushed back the update.

It seems that in Spain we are more retarded ......
We bought a Eye-Brawl and Ninjini ( physical version) when they were on sale at shops, and I remember that we could enter the code right away because they were already in the game, we hadn't to wait 2 months ...

That's because they were probably already in the game by then. I'm not sure when you bought them, but they were released well after the game. Ninjini was the last giant to be released. By then, Lost Islands had caught up. Darkrai was talking about 2 or 3 months after the game was launched, so that would have put it about the time Eye Brawl was released. Maybe even before.

Sure!

We had bought the game for the NDS for Christmas (¡¡Sta Claus!!), and around that time was when we started playing "lost islands", only had the giant Tree rex and we could play with him.
Probably lost islands came before, but we didn't know it until we had the NDS game, probably there is this difference in 2 months which you speak.

Anyway, my son saw "eye-brawl" in some catalog and we had to wait to buy it physically; as we had it, we could play with him on the island. Same with Ninjini ..... However, we had to wait at least 1 or 2 months to play with trigger snappy and terrabite.


Well, to see what happens today ...... bring them something new?

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Sure!

We had bought the game for the NDS for Christmas (¡¡Sta Claus!!), and around that time was when we started playing "lost islands", only had the giant Tree rex and we could play with him.
Probably lost islands came before, but we didn't know it until we had the NDS game, probably there is this difference in 2 months which you speak.

Anyway, my son saw "eye-brawl" in some catalog and we had to wait to buy it physically; as we had it, we could play with him on the island. Same with Ninjini ..... However, we had to wait at least 1 or 2 months to play with trigger snappy and terrabite.


Well, to see what happens today ...... bring them something new?

Giants was released October 2012, so Christmas would have been a couple of months. That's probably about the time they started. I can't say, exactly, because I didn't get into Lost Islands until around March or April.

In case you haven't heard.. they're already out with the latest 1.7.0 update..