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. It is impossible to downgrade from a Premium Player to a Free Player.

Nicknames include preems, freemium, and premies.

Description

Premium Player account status is an intermediary access tier in the hybrid model adopted when City of Heroes Freedom launched, between Free Players and VIP Players. Premium Players include, but are not limited to:

• Players joining the game as Free Players after Issue 21, who have purchased points through the Paragon Market
• Players joining as Free Players after Issue 21, who subscribe (including Time Cards and Game Cards) or apply a retail code, and then let their subscription lapse
• Returning players who applied a retail code to their account, subscribed to the game, or applied a game time card, at any time in the game's history, but do not renew their subscription after Freedom launch

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 Global Character Slot Tokens across all servers (details on the Global Character Slot page)
• 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
• Consignment 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 Reward 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