Paragon Points and Costume Slots


Acroyear2

 

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I don't know if this has been talked about or not, and I wouldn't mind some feedback on what others think, but in my opinion, $10 is entirely too much for a single extra costume slot. I know they were on sale a week or so ago for 200 points less, equivalent to about $2.50. And I know if you purchase points in bulk you get a discount for the points, but that doesn't remove the fact that the base price for Paragon Points is $5 for 400 points. That means a single costume slot is $10. Before Freedom went live it's true that we paid $10 for costume parts, as well as a permanent temp power as well as a costume change emote. Now we're asked to pay $10 for a single costume slot, with no added bonuses or anything extra.

What do you think, are costume slots overpriced in the Store?


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Yes, I just checked that, it is for all characters. Sorry. I still think it's overpriced. My suggestion is it would be worth $5, but not $10.


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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU View Post
Wrong, it's $10 for a single costume slot for *all* characters on your account.
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Yes, I just checked that, it is for all characters. Sorry. I still think it's overpriced. My suggestion is it would be worth $5, but not $10.
It's not just for a single costume slot for all characters for an entire account (which could be dozens) it's also a PERMANENT slot for as long as you play the game. That could be for a number of years into the future. I factored in all those considerations when I bought mine. For what it's worth I love having brand new characters with 7 costume slots available (1 default + 5 extra + 1 Halloween).

As far as the current price being too much or not I fully expect that sooner or later the price will in fact be reduced. It's really just a matter of how long you want to wait for that. They might permanently lower the price next week but it might just as easily be a year or more before that happens. It's up to everyone to decide the trade-offs between waiting or not.


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$10 is just way, way, way too much money for a costume slot, even if it is account wide. It should be $5.00.


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Originally Posted by Acroyear2 View Post
$10 is just way, way, way too much money for a costume slot, even if it is account wide. It should be $5.00.
Really? Assuming that the average person has between 10-20 characters, it's between $0.50 and $1.00 per character.

For me, it turns out to be ridiculously cheap per character because I have in the neighborhood of 40 characters.


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$10 is just way, way, way too much money for a costume slot, even if it is account wide. It should be $5.00.
It "should" be whatever the Devs think will make them the most money. My guess is that there are still currently enough people buying them at the $10 price point because if no one was buying them they would have permanently lowered the price already. *shrugs*

As I previously mentioned in this thread I fully expect the price for the costume slots to be lowered eventually. It's just a matter of how long you want to wait for that.


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If not enough people will buy the item @ price X then they may lower the price.

I am actively not-buying a number of items.
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