Why VIPs get server transfer instead of 800 more points?

The company doesn't care if you choose to only play one character, or just on one server. The people that do that are in the minority. The majority of players have many characters on many servers and for them it's a bargain.

Sure the company could probably make a lot more money off of players if they sold them on an individual character basis. Most players wouldn't think twice about dropping 400 points on each tray per character. But that's only because people, in general, are stupid. One only has to work in customer service to learn that little fact of life.

Nice try but I only make eight grand a year, and it's still a bargain.

And they know that a server transfer is giving nothing to 99% of the players, I know I'll likely never use one, ever. So, they are giving me nothing.

'Bargain' is a value judgement and entirely subjective. I have "many characters on many servers" and I think it's too expensive.

The free Paragon Points are a means to allow VIPs to continue to get the same content they recieved before, while still charging for them.

That 400 points of month, if saved, will go towards things like new powersets, and thusly the free points help maintain the same content as before Freedom.

But ten, the devs know there will be plenty of people who see the free points and go..."Oooh! Shiney I wanted, but may have never bought before if it was included in a paid for booster!" *spend points*

Then smile as they release the content you would of gotten free, if you saved your points, and then paid for them with the free PP instead.

You can see it on the forums already. People complaining about having to buy powersets and not having any points. They spent them

And that's what the devs want. They want you spending the points on the little shinies, so when the big ones come out you're all "D'OH!" and then spending extra.

And for those who just say "Frag it. I'll save up my next two months of free PP."? Then they just say "Well, we were never going to get them to spend extra anyways."

It's win/win for them! Either you're staying subscribed or you're spending extra Making money either way.

Now the one's they're losing money on, are the total F2P, who will actually continue to play, and evr so slooowly work their way up the tier's (which what...4 years for tier 3?) , but for those, they're just wasting bandwidth, while giving their payingsubcribers a potential teammate, and making the servers look busier.

This.

I don't want to move any of my characters either, but there have been a few I wanted to rename.

By giving me a free transfer every month, they are effectively giving me a free rename every other month.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Ever wanted to rename a character? Every two server transferes turns into a free rename token.

That said, I don't think it's 99% of the player base this is useless for.

I just used one of mine to move a 50 from Virtue to Exalted. Sooo...since I don't consider myself any more special than any other player, and thusly just one of the common folk, it would seem to be that the server transfers will be commonly used.

Is it the reward I would have prefered? Naaa. Free rename tokens would of been better for me. But eh, it's not like I haven't spent money on a rename token before.

The "total F2P" people will never work their way up the tiers. If they are truly "total F2P" that means they will never spend money on the game, and thus will never progress. Only people who spend money progress (via subscription, buying points, or both).

The ones you're referring to are "premiums" and "potential premiums" (freemies who are willing to spend money).

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

This! Or a character slot . I actually came to the forum to suggest that window today, and here it is. They're the same value in points, same general amount of uselessness to certain people, etc.

The company decided on what they feel is good price for an account-wide purchase for the people that gotta have everything now. As a VIP you can choose to simply wait and get it in a few months for free once you've saved up enough points.

Nope. Character slots were never sold individually for $9.99.

I knew this was the reason. For all the people who screamed "I have X characters and I don't want to play with noobs/kids/X I shouldn't have to pay more to get away from it because you changed the game".

I also realized another reason the devs want people on Exalted; Dropping Sub. If you move all your alts to exalted then decide you want to drop VIP you'd have to move your characters to a different server and lose your SG/Friends/etc all over again, "locking" you into staying VIP once you've labeled Exhaled home ebil Freedom Marketeers .

Or I can choose not to buy it at all. I have a boatload of points, which has little to no bearing on the fact I think they are too expensive. If they go on sale, I might buy if they are cheap enough.

So how much of a discount on "free" do you think you'll get if they go on sale?

It's one thing to feel ignored... and another to have it confirmed, haha!

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The point wasn't to do with how much any one person earns, but that people with plenty of points spare will be able to afford this while people who don't won't. At 800 (or even 1k) points I'd buy enough points (so far bought about 3k) to buy the two trays. As it is I won't because they are too expensive.

Never understood this idea, for years it's been:
Reactionary Players: "Oh Noes game is dying..." / "Nobody plays this game NEMore..."
Devs: "Ooh look new players..."
RP: "Quick give us VIP only server so we don't have to interact with new players..."

((Sorry to fail at pop speak...))

Atlas Park last night was well filled, mostly by players who didn't have a clue that you don't need every pool power there is... but full. And way back in the beginning that was enjoyable, all these players who might be friends in the future. Personally I'd never have added a VIP server... or not until after i21 launch so I could have gauged how many f2p players there were and how much chaos they were causing.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

$9.99 bought you two I believe.

I think it went $5.99 for 1, $9.99 for 2, and $19.99 for 5. Obviously the $19.99 was the best deal.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

That appears to match the current rate. I believe under the new market system, 1 slot is 480 points, 2 cost 800 points, and 5 go for 1600. That translates to $6.00, $10.00, and $20.00 respectively.

Wait, they snuck in a 1 cent surcharge per transaction!