Paragon Points Clarification

So, I am sure the Art Dept. at Paragon Studios has this well in hand, but I thought I might suggest a logo to denote PPs:

And here is an example of it in usage, just like a $, which of course makes sense as you might as well say that the introduction of this new Hybrid Model is akin to money in the bank.

The conversion rate not being 1¢ --> 1PP is intentional for the very reason you stated as not liking it! It encourages math errors, which will likely work in the company's favor. Also, it makes folks less aware of the fact that it is, for all intents and purposes, money.

As for the use of 400 to 500¢, and not 40 to 500¢ or somesuch? I think that is due to the ability to have a bit finer control of what values are associated with things. Something in this case could go for 5, where in the other system it would need to be rounded up to 1. Does that make sense?

Of course, most of that is guessing.

I'd like to throw in my two cents on rewarding VIPs for playing with Freeps and Preems: I actually think this sends the wrong message. "You have cooties so bad that we have to bribe our VIPs to play with you." The very thing that is most likely to get Freeps to want to become Preems or VIPs is how awesome and helpful and friendly and knowledgeable our community is. I'd like to think there are plenty of veteran players who are happy to team with (and tutor) Freeps without a bribe, and I think that sends a better message.

Thanks for everyone's continued feedback and discussion.

I've got the Community Team working up summaries of each of the feedback threads we posted late last week to present to the Dev and Management team. We definitely appreciate all of your suggestions and comments regarding the store pricing examples and will take your shared collective thoughts into account in our discussions this week.

Thanks!

- Z

Will we be able to buy base gear with Paragon Points?

There is a vicious rumor going around that we won't be permitted to ride free players as mounts. Could you please put that to rest?

Sad, but true Dumple. <shrug> Whattayagonnado?

Being a pessimist, if something looks too good to be true it usually is.

Being a realist it looks like it's going to cost more to play COH than it did before if you go VIP.

Is the value difference between what we got before and what we'll get after worth it? I don't know. I don't know if the inconvenience of having to micro manage Paragon Points is going to be so irritating it will break the game for me or not.

I'm really getting bad vibrations off this whole thing right now.

Will the new store notify you if you've already purchased something? I'd assume yes, but with the previous NC Soft store, it didn't.

Preferably, I'd like to see it along-side the listing with the price.

Like:

Origin Pack Capes - $x.xx - (already owned) <-- something to that effect.

Or have the entry grayed out. That would work too.

And if we already have certain packs applied to our account, that should be noted accordingly with the purchasable items.

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They've said items you don't own will appear in the cosutme creator with a little lock icon beside them - so I assume that icon will disappear once you unlock it, so there shouldn't be any danger of buying something more than once.

Will the in game store (as it will be handling real money transactions) be compliant with the PCIDSS? In what way will we be insured of these transactions being secured to prevent fraud as there have been a number of gaming companies who have been hit lately? Can you lay out the plans for incorporating transactional processing to the game clients?

Do I understand it correctly that there are only two payment costs right now... free and $15, or is the monthly price for VIP different now too? Is there anything in between?

Although I rarely comment on things, I am cool with the addition of Freedom and paragon points. I pay by the year (loan/grant money being my main income), I can't really see disadvantages to the PP system.
Freedom = more players and PP = more money to keep the game going.
I would like to see them start lifetime subs like they (apparently) did early on.
I am not a big micro transaction person but I see the advantages there.
New tutorials are a welcome sight (after GR, I was rolling new toons Praetorian side for that) as well.
New content/areas for red side are welcome as well. Mercy seems almost wasted as well as other stuff (the ghost hunting missions in PO, etc.) on red side.
Personally, I adore some of the lesser played areas such as the Shadow Shard, Orob, Cimerrora) and would like to see more for them as well.
Maybe allow access for villains in the Shard (such a HUGE group of areas) for 200 PP maybe?
Wondering if they will allow the purchase of entire booster packs for PP in addition to individual parts?
What do you think?