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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
If you are willing to put up the money to max out my character slots on all 16 servers for me, I'll grant you the $0.05 / slot.
As it is I play, at most, 5 characters regularly.
My comparison was apples to apples: Global Costume Slots in one game vs Global Costume Slots in another. In one game the cost per character slot is 225 points for a global costume slot. In the other game it is 800 points for a global costume slot. Ok, game 1's purchase is 2 costume slots (can be bought more times than game 2's, by the way) is 450 points vs 1,600 points for 2 costume slots in game 2.
Given that both are charging $1 per 80 points, that is a fair comparison to see relative value: game 1 is charging $5.63 for two global costume slots while game 2 is charging $20.
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Seldom:
Costume slots are 800 PP ($10) per costume slot. The only way to spend $50 is to buy all 5 slots.
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This is the most glaring area of disparity between the two markets.
Another area is character renames. CoH is the standard 800 points. In the other market, it's 280 points. $10 vs. $3.5 There is one I'd be willing to pay, one I wouldn't.
Costume sets are actually pretty close, 400 vs 380.
'you get 400 points a month, save those!' Sure, fine, fair enough. Except that other place also gives it's subscribers 400 a month. You could actually buy a rename token with the cost of your sub and still have a little left over for some costume pieces.
Regarding the power set pricing: Looking at it from a non-subscriber position, if I want to buy the Widow Archetype, that is 1000 points, and that comes with two power sets. If I want to buy Beam Rifle outside of a sale, it's 800, for a single power set.
Now I had made my choice in hero games, and clearly I'm here and not there, so I'm not comparing anything other than the cost of the two markets. I know there's no rule saying you have to be the same price or lower than your competitors, especially if you feel you offer more content. I will say for myself, being -that- far out of whack is questionable, and it certainly makes my 400 points a month seem fairly paltry, compared to what it would buy elsewhere.
