Paragon Points Clarification

I certainly think the prices, so far look well thought out. Im intrigued as to how the prices will be adjusted to Euros and Pounds Sterling though.

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Originally Posted by MechaCrash So...not directly related to the subject at hand, but this always bothered me. Why is it five dollars for four hundred points? Why not five dollars for five hundred points (with prices adjusted accordingly)? It'd make the mental math a lot cleaner.

You've got to remember not everyone in the world pays in US $ - I pay in pounds sterling and others in Euros (and they are the prices listed - don't forget there are loads of different currencies throughout the world!). So just because if they made it $5 = 500 points doesn't mean the maths would work out for everyone else

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Originally Posted by Psyte That'd be $25 and $50, respectively. That won't sell. 400 ($5) to 1200 ($15) max would be my opinion. I'd personally guess maybe around 800 ($10) to buy the powerset for all applicable AT's, but that's just a gut feeling.

I really hope this is not the case. I personally am hoping for them to be around 200 points, although I imagine they will be 400.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger Quote: 16. Has Paragon Studios redefined "player" to require your mouse to subscribe separately from your keyboard? If your mouse has greater processing power than your gfx card, the answer is yes.

This looks good so far.

1 question - The signature story arcs are they solo or team missions(both my wife and me will be subscribed so wont matter much)

1 comment - the respec prices could be lower that way you sell more. I can see alot of newer players using respces left and right at $10 they may not, at $5 I think you would sell more.

Hope you have lots of new stuff since i have all the other boosters and the like so far, I will need to spend my points somewhere.

I hope there's going to be something in place, like what's illustrated in the example, of where certain costume pieces, auras, etc. might have come from originally so I don't accidentally re-buy them and waste points! I imagine with every costume piece, aura, costume change emote, etc. being sold in the in-game store it's going to be a rather long convoluted list and something that's difficult for someone to remember if they have or not. Right now, it's easy. I have them all. I purchased each and every booster pack. However, as time goes on the list grows and grows I hope it's going to be easy to determine if a particular piece was originally from a booster pack or not.

Thank you for that post Ghost Falcon. That was a nice informative list. Now I have a solid feel for where you are going to aim prices in the store and what a Paragon Point is worth.

My thoughts are that in order for them to make money on this store at these prices they will need an etreme amount of content I.E fluff and stuff. I am all for that cause we need more chest emblems.

While you're being generous with pricing information, a friend of mine who's planning on picking up a free subscription wants to know how much it would cost a VIP account to unlock Mastermind or Controller access?

Yes exactly. And upon reflection, the Steampunk Pack came with something more like 33 pieces or more, since I forgot auras, weapons, and back details. Actually I keep randomly thinking of other pieces I forgot to count, so it may be in the range of 40 or more. Granted, other boosters may not have contained as many... ~14 in the cyborg pack? But even still if you want all the pieces, the bundles will cost less than a la cart.

Agreed, this works out well for everyone.

I've worked it out between the Monthly Signature Story ($5), the 400 Paragon Points ($5), and my Yearly Subscription rate ($11.95/mo) that my monthly subscription fee basically comes down to 1.95 a month once Freedom hits the live servers! Not counting the Monthly Signature Story (since it is included with VIP after all) that's still a craaaaaaaaazy $6.95/mo!