Would you use Paragon Points to buy Epic/Power Pool customization?

Yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

Abso-bloody-lutely not.

They started the power customization project, but didn't finish. We've gotten the "We know" from them, and they keep putting it off.

I'll buy something else if they say "The money's not there, so funds for this are earmarked to get this done." I'll buy extra customizations when they do finish it, like I do for some costume pieces or did for titan weapons. But just to pay to turn hasten or superspeed's eyesore effects off? No way, man.

Probably not beause that's a step too far IMO

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

I have an idea, kinda like a bake sale.

Devs, use the frisbee tech to release the Big Red Ball on the Paragon Market. Use proceeds from it to speed up development of Power Customization 2.0.

There, we're still paying but its kinda backhanded.

I read the whole thread, I understand what each side is saying. In the frustration and anger of the posts I can see both sides and their reasonings...

I also recall, with my very very bad memory, that when a poster once asked if we could have power customization *at all* we were told a flat out "No." That it could not be done.

When it came out I wasn't a huge reader of the forums, but as a player it was my understanding that what they released was the finished product.

Granted, the power pool customization request has been positively huge since. The Devs are quite aware we want it. Some are willing to pay, some are dead set against it. It comes up at any time the Devs open themselves up for any kind of public questioning.

Would I pay? I honestly do not know. Probably, unless the cost was prohibitive, like on the leprechaun pet. Not a guarantee.

Would I be happy about having to pay? I'm not happy paying $40 for a tank of gas when I have to fill up. I'm not happy shelling out $11.50 for a movie ticket for one person. I really hate spending $3.68 for a gallon of milk. I dislike spending money in general, so no, I wouldn't be thrilled.

What ruffles my feathers, though, is the Devs are very aware this is a Much Desired Feature and don't seem willing to find time/make time to include it on the schedule. I've waited almost 6 years for Staff Melee. I'd rather they shelve any "ooh new shiney cool idea" and stick with looking through requests of highly desired items (backpacks, quivers, power pool customization, waist capes for male widows) and fulfill some of those.

Pretty please with hot fudge, homemade whipped cream, and a cherry on top?

Heh, what if they made it one of the rewards of a Super Pack?

You know, might get it in the next one, might not get it for a number of packs...

Wouldn't that be better marketing? I bet that sure would sell a heck of a lot of Super Packs, if they made it rare enough.

I think it should be free for the same reason that I think it would be silly if certain costume pieces suddenly required a fee of real money in order to change their color. The groundwork of this feature has already been expressed as something that I get as a basic functionality of the game, thus I come to a conclusion that I shouldn't have to pay extra for it.

That doesn't mean they won't still charge for it, just that my expectation is that it's a feature, not an extra.

As mentioned before, however, I'd buy it if that's really what they wanted to do. It would be far more deserving of my money than, say, a leprechaun.

Nope. I'd even take it on myself to raise a fuss if it was a VIP only feature. This is something that should have delayed power customization until it was actually finished. Going forward, it would set a terrible precedent to nickle and dime everyone for cool stuff that really should be just added for free.

Updates to bases, a PvP system overhaul, the return of base raids and Items of Power, Supergroup improvements/leveling/benefits, pool power customization, more character specific alternate advancement, zone revamps, and so on, are all things I'd put under the categories of "should be top priority" and "things that should be a part of issue releases for free and not microtransactioned."

Whether I would pay or not is less relevant than what charging for it would say about Paragon Studios as a company. And what it would say is a whole lot of really bad things. Paragon Studios and, to some extent, NCsoft, are in a somewhat unique position with City of Heroes, in that community involvement has earned them a lot of good will with the player base, and much of our support comes as much out of good will as it does out of a customer-vendor relationship.

As such, pulling a dick move like charging for what we should have gotten as part of our subscription two years ago is likely to cost them a LOT more than it's ever going to make. One has to remember that micro-transactions aren't just pure revenue source. They have a cost above and beyond what the content in them costs to develop, and that's the cost of good will. And the cost of good will, whenever people have to pay it, is VERY high indeed.

I can see why players would be tossing the idea around - we've done that for years: "Can I get what I want if it's in a paid pack?" I sincerely hope, however, that the people in charge just know better than to consider this, themselves. That is NOT a good idea.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

While I think it's something that should be free (at the very least to VIPs) and possibly tied to a tier unlock (so free to VIPs and at a certain point for Premiums)...I do know if they made it pay only, I'd pay it.

Doesn't mean I'm for it being that way except under the conditions I mentioned.