Premium Player

Overview

A Premium Player is any non-subscription account holder who has ever spent money with NCsoft on the City of Heroes product. VIP Players whose subscriptions lapse turn into Premium Players. Premium Players may have limited access to some game features and systems.

Nicknames include preems, freemium, and premies.

Description

Premium Player account status is a result of the hybrid model adopted when City of Heroes Freedom launched. They include, but are not limited to:

• Free Players joining the game since Issue 21, who have purchased points through the Paragon Market
• Free Players who apply a Game Time Card to their account and then don't apply another to overlap it
• Free Players who subscribed to City of Heroes Freedom and then let their subscription lapse
• Returning Players who maintained a City of Heroes monthly subscription for at least 30 days or applied a game time card, any time from the game's launch in 2004 until the release of City of Heroes Freedom in late 2011
• VIP players with a lapsed subscription
• Secondary accounts of VIP players

The features and systems available to Premium Players compared to VIP Players are very strongly and directly tied to the Paragon Rewards Program. See also Converting from Veteran Rewards Program.

Features Accessible

For Free

• Access at least 8 Archetypes (Blaster, Brute, Corruptor, Defender, Dominator, Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker)
• At least two Character Slots across all servers
• Create costumes from billions of combinations
• Play as a Hero or Villain up to Level 50
• 105 Power Sets
• Play in 45 different game zones
• Play stories within the Mission Architect (no rewards)
• Join Supergroups
• Access to Local, Team, Tell, Supergroup, Coalition, Help, Pets, Friends, League, Arena, Leveling Pact, Looking for Group, Emote, and Architect Communication Channels
• Mail System Access
• Reward Drops including small Inspirations, Training [TO], Dual-Origin [DO], Single-Origin [SO] and Special Enhancements
• Player-to-Player Trading
• +2 Salvage Inventory, +1 Recipe Inventory
• Inf Cap of 500 million inf per character
• Ability to buy anything from the Paragon Market
• Read the Official Forums

Paragon Rewards Program Only

• Access to all of the Communication Channels and Ability to Join Global Chat Channels
• Inf cap of 2 Billion per character
• Ability to earn Reward Merits
• Ability to earn Vanguard Merits (subject to Prerequisites)
• Medium and Large Inspiration drops

Paragon Rewards Program, Paragon Market

• Invention License
• Mission Architect License
• Auction House License
• Controller and Mastermind Archetypes
• Additional Character Slots

Paragon Market, VIP Status

• Peacebringer, Warshade, Arachnos Soldier and Arachnos Widow Archetypes
• Alignment system access
• Praetoria access
• Praetorian Character Creation
• Going Rogue Power Sets: Dual Pistols, Kinetic Melee, Electric Control, and Demon Summoning
• Going Rogue Costume Sets

VIP Status Only

• Access to Incarnate content, powers and drops
• Access to VIP Server
• Ability to Create or Moderate Global Chat Channels
• Create Supergroups
• Edit Supergroup Bases
• Post on the Official Forums
• Priority Server Queueing
• Premium In-Game Customer Support

Benefits

• Get everything a Free Player gets.
• Retain nearly everything you already purchased including Super Boosters, Mission Architect Story Slots, and directly purchased Character Slots.
• Retain access to most features and benefits enabled by expansions like Going Rogue. This could include game-play mechanics (such as side-switching), zones (such as Praetoria), costumes, emotes, special powers and powersets (such as Dual Pistols and Kinetic Melee). This does not include the Incarnate System.
• Retain all the Veteran Rewards you earned including character slots and respecs/character power respecification.
• Retain all the Veteran Rewards badges previously earned.

What you get by going VIP

• At least 400 free Paragon Points per month
• One Server Transfer per month
• A Reward Token for every month of paid VIP subscription

See Also

• Free Player
• VIP Player
• Converting from Veteran Rewards Program