Apparenty nobody else cares, but I'm really, really addicted to this game right now. I like it a lot. I've got some complaints about the "deathball" aspect of it, but with a good team it's sometimes possible to counter this, and I've had a great time with Paragon so far.
 
I'm mildly surprised nobody else on the forum seems to be interested in it. If you're a MOBA fan, and a shooter fan, this is an interesting mix of those.

I played during the beta but just couldn't get into it. It felt really slow paced and clunky. I did enjoy the graphics and some of the new ideas they brought to the genre.

Cool GTX
Are teams ranked or do you just have to hope that  blind luck is on your side, on who you play against ?
 
Can you chose who you will play with, aka just your friend for a friendly game as you learn the ropes ?

You can group up as a team, but you will have no control over what team you play against. There is a co-op vs AI mode as well, so if you're just learning the game you can team up with your friends (5-man team) and beat up AI bots for a while, until you at least have the basic mechanics down. Then you transition to PvP and find out you're not nearly as good as you thought you were.
 
Obviously PvP is much harder than vs AI. There are some lamer aspects of it, like two players teaming up and running around at the start of the game ganking single players they can catch out. This can be avoided somewhat if your team will use wards (devices you play that show enemies within range on the minimap), but it seems in most games I play I'm still one of the very few who conscienciously use wards. Still I get ganked a lot less now than I did a week or two ago. Also, games are supposedly matchmade, where the system tries to pair you against similar skilled players. Sometimes it works better than others.

The worst is if you only have a three-man team and get pair with two randoms, and they turn out to be bozos. It can be frustrating, but if they are decent players you can have a great match. I've had some pretty epic games. Last night I was grouped with two guys, the two randoms were OK but not stellar, and the other team was doing very well and were ahead in nearly any metric you could think of (slight level advantage, slight card advantage, one or two more towers down) and then we took down one of their inhibitors, which immediately absorbed a lot of their attention fighting off our super minions. We grabbed the Orb Prime while they were fighting off our super minions and attacked the core and killed it. They must have been pissed, and we pulled off one of those "snatch victory from the jaws of defeat" kinds of scenarios. It was great fun.