Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 2/14/12

Super Packs are now available in the Paragon Market™!

Heros and Villains Super Pack - New!

Feel like you've opened a surprise present with every pack! Get a randomized set of items ranging from the new Archetype Enhancements, new Elemental Order Costume Set pieces, valuable Inspirations, Unslotters, or Boosters!

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1 Pack - 80 Paragon Points
12 Packs - 840 Paragon Points
24 Packs - 1440 Paragon Points

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Some nice costume pieces you have there to bad your not willing to just sell them to me outright, oh well your loss.

No SSA 6? *sigh*

That's a gorgeous costume set, but I don't understand...

You want me to buy random packs of stuff and hope that I get my money's worth? I would honestly have preferred the entire Elemental Order costume set at a steeper price than the chance of discovering one in a random Super Pack. Along with unslotters, boosters and inspirations that I don't want.

Or am I misunderstanding?

Just a note: I'm not seeing the 12 pack option under featured, although it comes up on search. Intentional or an oversight?

I look forward to buying some of these!

With the 24 Pack Pack you'd have to be very unlucky not to get the full costume set.

You'll get about 12 ATOs which you can sell; or trade them to make two full sets you can use.

You'll get about 1,000 Merits or more. There are several ways to translate that into 2 billion Influence.

Plus advanced inspirations and other stuff which Snow Globe will immediately respond to and say they are worthless. Well that's one opinion... many can find good uses for them.

The packs are completely ignorable. If you do buy them, they have good stuff that makes them worthwhile for anyone who isn't preemptively declaring everything worthless to themselves.

Just don't try to get the Black Wolf vanity pet. On average, it will take close to 200 packs to have a good *chance* to get it. Might take you 500 packs since it's so rare. If you get it while going for something else, just consider yourself lucky. OTOH, if you're a millionaire... go for it and thank you for funding the game.

If the devs don't use some of those costume parts to revamp the Nemesis Army, then they'e crazy

And with the Elemental costumes now comes the ability to make TRON: Legacy costumes.

I don't about these packs, think I'll wait awhile.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Words cannot convey my disgust with this development.

To echo what I said in the unofficial discussion thread:

On Beta, by the time I finished buying packs, opening packs, and then selling or deleting the large number of things for which I had no use, I cared less that I finally had the full Elemental Order set, and more so that I had lost over a half hour of game play time.

I'm a minimalist: I buy what I need/intend to use, and don't bother with the other stuff. These packs are practically the opposite of that, especially since I only (currently) have use for 2-3 of the Elemental Order pieces. I will pass on these for the time being.

My compliments to the designers, though, as the set is quite awesome and I like it a lot. It is the manner in which is obtained that I dislike.

Yay, superpacks!

Excitement over exclusivity is a bad road.
I like the costume set (and the black wolf). If they were up for sale outright, I'd buy them.
Super Packs = no sale + a hefty amount of disappointment in Paragon Studios

Sorry, I find the use of the term "Costume Bundle" to be highly misleading.

It's not a costume bundle. It's a costume set that you have to buy all sorts of extraneous crap to (hopefully) assemble.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

There was another game I had $20 saved up over time to purchase an item which would not be released to my character because I was too low. So I went out and spent the money (a rather sizeable amount for the game) on pack that gave random rewards. Yes, there were a few specific items I wanted. By the time I opened up about 25 packs, I got none of the items I really wanted, and massive duplicates of the items I would not have minded having (and those were unique). After that experience I knew I would never do that again.

So the costume looks great. And I mean really great. You aren't, on my life, going to get me to ever purchase random packs, but I applaud your artistic department for the design. Your marketing department on the other hand needs to do some more research and try giving people multiple options then see which options your customers tend to gravitate toward most.

Beautiful costume set, but I don't buy anything random. It's bad enough that being a subscriber here gets you so little vs being a points-buying player for the same $15, but no, I'm not about to spend points on wishes for something.

I'm guessing the people who don't like these things also don't like, or never collected trading cards, because that's the closest, most obvious analog I can think of to these superpacks.

As someone who spent too much of his allowance as a kid on Wacky Packages, and Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back trading cards, and too much of his income as an adult on Buffy, and Star Wars Galaxy trading cards, I think these are a fun idea. I'll probably buy a 24 pack on each of my accounts and be done with it.

Does anyone know what the actual odds of any given item are? In the first pack I opened, I got 1 common, 3 uncommon and 1 very rare item.

Pretty simple, buy it if you want it. Don't if you don't. Morally Bankrupt??? seriously? I know morally bankrupt people. They aren't out for my 80 cents. They are giving us a choice to buy or not. Our choice. Buy and rejoice if you are happy with the results or stop buying if you are not. Trying to convince me I should be unhappy before I see the results is silly. If you don't buy, just don't be expressing your unhappiness about not having the stuff.


Personally, I love that I can have the choice to buy more stuff that I might want then ever before Freedom. It's almost like they thought of giving me a choice when they thought of that name.

I am eager to see what people get. Zombie Man was enlightening. Thank you.

I am hyped. I have been waiting for these super packs to come out.

Skip the costume set, I'll get it through buying, but I'm super excited about all the other stuff.

Rename Tokens? Respec Tokens? Reward Merits, for a doller!? You gotta be kidding me, thats a pieloving great deal.

You complainers need to start screaming into your entitlement pillow and stop wasting precious time posting. Because at the end of the day the judgement will come from how much money they make with the super packs, which I will personally ensure to be mounds.

Screw morals, I want ATOs!