Discussion: Announcing a New Paragon Market Pilot Program - Freebie Friday!
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Posted on: 2012-05-09 09:44 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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The item is given to you through a Market transaction. You go to the Paragon Market, select the item, add it to your cart and check out. The only difference is that it costs you zero paragon points. If the item isn't something you want, you're more than welcome to not put it in your cart.
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Originally Posted by Duneman
If its something stupid like a windfall, restore, xp booster can I choose not to accept it? I have 600 of each of these and will have 600 of each 10 years from now.
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Not that I'm an expert or have secret knowledge about this promotion, but I'm going to answer this anyway:|
Originally Posted by Duneman
If its something stupid like a windfall, restore, xp booster can I choose not to accept it? I have 600 of each of these and will have 600 of each 10 years from now.
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Sure, just don't log into the market and click on it. If you can't NOT do that, then, well... maybe see a doctor about your compulsive behavior?
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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Between that comment and the image in your post, I'm suddenly now wondering:|
Originally Posted by Horusaurus
Lets haul out a few more dead horses to beat. This thread is pancakin' amazing.
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Is it okay to look a dead gift horse in the mouth?
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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This thread would blow the dead horse up and then complain about that.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Between that comment and the image in your post, I'm suddenly now wondering:
Is it okay to look a dead gift horse in the mouth? |
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Heck, left to its own devices, I'm pretty sure nature would take care of that by itself. As proven with the honey badger, nature can be quite nasty.
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Originally Posted by Horusaurus
This thread would blow the dead horse up and then complain about that.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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Honey Badger don't care....Honey badger just eats and eats. Is that a Cobra? Ew it's eating a snake!
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Heck, left to its own devices, I'm pretty sure nature would take care of that by itself. As proven with the honey badger, nature can be quite nasty.
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I'm Dutch. Getting stuff for free is a national sport.
Confirmed: Free item to be (1) super pack.
This will get people to use the market, AND expose them to super packs and the fun therein.
I accept your offer of: (1) super pack.
Or whatever else it is regardless. Awsome free stuff is awsome.
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I'm not saying an AE slot would be a perfect item to give out for free, that was more just me nudging them about maybe putting those slots on sale at some point. (Infusing the community with more talk about the architect was a good topic to try and engender though, IMO.)|
Originally Posted by Arctic Man
Even so, you would still have people complaining, no matter what the reward. In the above example, people who don't use AE (and freebies and premium players with no access to AE) would find little use for it
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And people will always complain, always, yeah, sure. But I think there's a sharp difference between a random number of people randomly losing out thanks to a blind gamble and a specific range of people not getting use out of a particular week's offering.
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Oh, if Friday you're Free, why don't you come with me, and we'll poison the pigeons in the park?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
As Primal Earth makes Praetorian Earth look like a bunch of kindergarten rejects, so does Actual Earth make Primal Earth look like a bunch of senior citizens feeding the pigeons in the park.
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Thanks for this, and I think it's a great idea! If you're a free/premium player who is restricted from some of what we VIPs and longer-time premium players kind of take for granted, this will probably aid greatly in your enjoyment of the game.
I hope it goes over well and has good participation rate, as I'd like to see it continue.
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This is POPPYCOCK.
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Originally Posted by Puppycrusader
It seems like there's more people complaining about complaining in this thread, than there is
actual complaining, though. What complaints there are, are getting greatly magnified and blown up by the jibes and out of proportion whining about complainers. So... ENDLESS. |
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That's Eastern time. Your accessible time frame will be from 7:00pm on Thursday until 7:00pm on Friday. You will probably not receive any warning that your 24 hours is up, you'll just have to make a mental note of it.|
Originally Posted by American_Valor
So I'm at -5 hours from the time zone. so when will my 24 hours end and how would I know this.
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If you miss one, I seriously doubt it will be a big deal. It sounds like they'll just be doling out some of the lesser-priced consumables. Worst case scenario, if they're giving out something you simply have to have, you can always buy some for cheap on the Paragon Store.
Edit: That's Eastern Standard Time. Eastern Daylight Time is UTC-0400. If you are literally at -5 right now, you're on Central Daylight Time, and your window will be from 6:00pm Thursday until 6:00pm on Friday.
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I liked this in another MMO, so glad to see it here.
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No doubt. Still, from what Black Pebble said on the Ustream, it sounds like some not-insignificant percentage of the playerbase is not using the market at all, and this is a way to nudge people into at least opening it up and having a look. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
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Originally Posted by OneFrigidWitch
I think, based on Arcanavilles numbers the other day, that the market is doing quite well.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
So to review. Within four hours of Paragon Studios announcing they are giving stuff away for free, we have:
1. At least one person claiming giving stuff away is a "cheesy gimmick." 2. An assertion that twenty-four hours is a poor definition of a day. 3. The inevitable reference to addiction and gambling that occurs when the dev team does something related to addiction and gambling, such as displacing air or absorbing gravitons. 4. A red name unable to tell time. 5. At least one accusation of desperation. 6. Some confusion over how many times "once" is. 7. A slap in the face. 8. Some discussion about what specific thing "almost anything" probably actually refers to. As Primal Earth makes Praetorian Earth look like a bunch of kindergarten rejects, so does Actual Earth make Primal Earth look like a bunch of senior citizens feeding the pigeons in the park. |
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What I hope its like:
Everbody gets a free car! You get a car! And you get a car! And you get a car too!
What I think its like:
You get a st. Louis Slammer! You get a bubble of patrol XP! You get a freebee badge! And you get 1,000,000 Debt!!!!!!
Its all good I'll hit the button and take me chances.
I think the Freebie, once it goes live for good, should be random, with a small chance of something that buffs and "debuffs", just like a Fortune, or turns you into a random NPC for 60 seconds, like the Mutation. This would cover all the bases in the "I'll never use this because of X" game that some players like to play. The very small chance that something not good would happen might send them into orbit. They'd be able to complain about something being both free and a punishment.
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If only there was something you could do with them...
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Originally Posted by Duneman
If its something stupid like a windfall, restore, xp booster can I choose not to accept it? I have 600 of each of these and will have 600 of each 10 years from now.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Im very pleased to announce a new pilot program for the Paragon Market: Freebie Friday (not to be confused with Freaky Friday. We tried that and the Freakshow just got out of hand.)
Freebie Friday is a new test program in the Paragon Market where all players, Free, Premium and VIP, can claim (only once per offer) a random free item! The item could be almost anything currently available in the Paragon Market and will change every week! Currently, we plan for each promotional item to be available for 24 hours. For the trial run, well be putting the item up at 4:00 PM PDT/7:00 PM EDT/12:00 AM BST this Thursday, May 10th, 2012. The item will be available until the same time (4:00 PM PDT) on Friday, May 11th, 2012. You can find the Freebie Friday item under the Featured Items section of the Paragon Market. Its pretty simple: Step 1: Play City of Heroes Freedom! Step 2: Log in and claim your Freebie Friday item from the Paragon Market! Step 3: ???? Step 4: PROFIT!* (*Please note that there is technically no profit since the item is free.) Join us in testing a potentially new regular feature for the Paragon Market and please feel free to leave your feedback in the Community Discussion below! |
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Gee, that sounds really familiar...|
Originally Posted by JKCarrier
No doubt. Still, from what Black Pebble said on the Ustream, it sounds like some not-insignificant percentage of the playerbase is not using the market at all, and this is a way to nudge people into at least opening it up and having a look. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
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Always good to reaffirm that I've got my finger on the pulse of the development team, I guess.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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Except that it won't be random (this time), and everybody will be getting the exact same freebie, so there's no element of chance whatsoever.|
Originally Posted by GPBunny
Its all good I'll hit the button and take me chances.
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(Unless the freebie is a/some Super Pack(s), in which case, yeah, there's actually some chance involved.)
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!
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I'll always be a "Champion" at heart. My server away from home.
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