Free Player

Overview

Free Players are non-subscription account holders who have never spent money on City of Heroes. Free Players have extremely restricted in-game options, much like the Trial Account had prior to moving to free-to-play. As soon as a Free Player spends any money on City of Heroes, their account upgrades to Premium Player. Note that it is impossible to downgrade from a Premium Player back into a Free Player.

Trial Accounts from prior to City of Heroes Freedom launch will be treated as Free Players when logging in.

Nicknames include freebs, freeps, freeks, freems, and freemies.

Features Accessible

For Free

• Access 8 Archetypes (Blaster, Brute, Corruptor, Defender, Dominator, Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker)
• A total of 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.
• Access to Local, Team, Help, Pets, Friends, League, Arena, Leveling Pact, Looking for Group, Emote, and Architect Communication Channels
• Reward Drops including small Inspirations, Training [TO], Dual-Origin [DO], Single-Origin [SO] and Special Enhancements
• Inf Cap of 25 million inf per character
• Limited Inventory
• 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
• Join Supergroups
• Inf cap of 2 Billion per character
• Player-to-Player Trading
• 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

See Also

• Premium Player
• VIP Player
• Paragon Rewards Program