Paragon Market prices

Yeah my main and really only complaint about the Market is that it looks like the UI was written by an intern who has never seen an online store. It really is terrible, although it's better than it was! Come to think of it, the one thing that Paragon Studios can be reliably expected to do badly is UI stuff; you guys do all right on the important bits, I find

While I agree the UI could use work, I can remember changing jumpers on sound cards just to play different games.

Having to click through a clunky interface is not, in any way, going to daunt me from finding and purchasing the goodies I desire.

I mean, if I wait in line at a retail establishment or restaurant and endure the inane conversations of the patrons ahead of me that don't understand what things like 'on the side' or 'buy 5 get one free' mean, I can have the patience to navigate through a few menus.

For me, there is no mistrust, there is no fear, there are only goodies waiting for me to acquire them.

Is the Paragon Market just a web browser using somethin like PHP or is it some costume built code (like C++) that just looks like a web browser?

I agree that the UI is surprisingly bad, especially since this is supposed to be the seamless heart of the whole Freedom push. You'd have thought that they would have hired in some e-commerce interface people to do it. it is a bit concerning that it didn't get much, much more attetion paid to it during beta. It probably does need a from the ground rebuild.

The UI and experience is at least better than it used to be in closed beta. I'm finding it much easier to get around and find things than it used to be, and it makes more sense. I would agree that it needs more detailed descriptions of items and could resize better, but I'm hopeful that those things will be adjusted, given the improvements since July.

Prices, I dunno. I don't mind SOME powersets needing to be purchased, since we get points as VIPs. I won't be so happy if we start getting no new "free" powersets, though. I think the discount to Beam Weapons made it a more palatable purchase as well, though I'd still say a permanent price point of 600 points is much more reasonable. The Archetype unlocks are also unreasonably high, along with some of the other things mentioned here (costume slots, enhancement slots, etc.). I don't think all of that stuff should be dirt cheap (like 200 points or less), but I think they're on the high side. If they were more reasonably priced, I think you could see more people springing for them than you do now, making the profit margin go higher.

I am quite happy to see costume sets on there as bundles, however. That is a nice feature and makes the shopping easier, and also provides a nice discount. Most of them are certainly worth the 400 points, too. I'd like to see that approach taken with more items (not that everything be 400 points, but that the price match what you are getting more). You can also get just the specific things you want from the sets... case in point, I wanted the steampunk set and got it, whereas I just wanted parts of the Valkyrie. Quite happy with that.

I put my free points where my mouth was and happily bought the cape and aura unlocks.

Well worth 320 points.

Edit - it's definitely account based.

Some fluid CSS should have been implemented to allow for scaling; do you have any idea how teeny things get on a 1440x900 monitor when the market window is a fixed size?

When they see what people are buying and what not, prices are going to change.
If something is not selling that will eventually get discount.
They couldn't see that on beta because with free points we were buying everything possible we could, for real money people won't be buying what they doesn't need, so overpriced thing might become cheaper.


(And like I said on beta - I am willing to buy server transfers for 1$ or 2$, but would never buy them for 10$ or 20$ - so thanks for that discount)

The rearranged the buyable enhancements, so now if you are looking to buy something specific, you need to know the max level of the set. Why is that a useful piece of information? Wouldn't lowest level of set be better because then you could be sure to only look at things you can use now? How about set type - like in the market - so you can quickly look at options for the powers you actually have.

For organization, it seems odd to pick one of the more insignificant aspects of the sets and to organize by that.

As for the pricing, I bought my way to t9, and I expect that will last me until this game no longer exists. I bought beam weapon and a costume piece (thinking of buying a second piece, but still not sure), and I don't really want anything else in the store.

Vault storage is a perfect example. I have probably 30-40 completely empty vaults, because getting stuff from vaults to move between characters is annoying - it's easier just to use the market. Give me a 20 space shared vault that holds recipes and I will buy it just to avoid the mediocre mail system, but getting more of something that is already of limited use is not a tempting deal.

I can find the "aura unlock" via text search. But, for the life of me, I can't figure out which menu they have it buried under.

I'm now just curious to figure out where the heck they stuck it just for the sake of knowing.

Any clues?

Costumes/Tailor/Aura Unlock