My Experience With Recent Crown Store Releases

Lord_Eomer

This is my personal experience and read some threads across forum, not sure if ZOS is even noticing such issues.

Recently ZOS have good and average crown store releases, which definitely affecting their sales one way to another (I may be not a better person to comment on this). Few of my concerns are:

1. Breton Costume, i bought it but feeling regret. I am never using this costume its pretty weirdo design and wasted my crowns. Just see your toon running while wearing this, seems like he will feel down (costume is all the way squeezed b/w legs)

2. Race Change, wow i was excited for this and bought many crowns to change 2-3 races but have not made single change. 3000 Crowns is a whopping price

3. Imperial City Collector Edition, ZOS probably knows i am subscribing on PC and PS4 both and buying lot of crowns and had already bought Imperial City DLC so i should pay half price for this edition instead of paying full amount (why twicely charging me for buying a skin)

4. Merchant and Banker, well i am happy with my banker but not with merchan, feeling wasted 5000 Crowns as can not repair items (pretty much limited). I have enough gold and do not want to sell penny stuff to merchants (not bothering to pickup)

5. Mount voices, very poor indeed. My Senchie or Demonic Wolf voices makes me feel riding a goat

I bought all additional characters slots immediately (reasonable price), personally i now fear ZOS they may remove it like happening with Costumes...


My suggestion is ZOS should add Rating (1-5) to their crown store items, may be this can only convince them about crown store releases quality.

Julia_Nix

Was waiting to get the mind-shriven skin too too. Got ESO plus and bought the DLC on release.... too bad ZOS is greedy and don't care about loyal costumers and the community at all

ADarklore

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

This is my personal experience and read some threads across forum, not sure if ZOS is even noticing such issues.

Recently ZOS have good and average crown store releases, which definitely affecting their sales one way to another (I may be not a better person to comment on this). Few of my concerns are:

1. Breton Costume, i bought it but feeling regret. I am never using this costume its pretty weirdo design and wasted my crowns. Just see your toon running while wearing this, seems like he will feel down (costume is all the way squeezed b/w legs)

2. Race Change, wow i was excited for this and bought many crowns to change 2-3 races but have not made single change. 3000 Crowns is a whopping price

3. Imperial City Collector Edition, ZOS probably knows i am subscribing on PC and PS4 both and buying lot of crowns and had already bought Imperial City DLC so i should pay half price for this edition instead of paying full amount (why twicely charging me for buying a skin)

4. Merchant and Banker, well i am happy with my banker but not with merchan, feeling wasted 5000 Crowns as can not repair items (pretty much limited). I have enough gold and do not want to sell penny stuff to merchants (not bothering to pickup)

5. Mount voices, very poor indeed. My Senchie or Demonic Wolf voices makes me feel riding a goat

I bought all additional characters slots immediately (reasonable price), personally i now fear ZOS they may remove it like happening with Costumes...


My suggestion is ZOS should add Rating (1-5) to their crown store items, may be this can only convince them about crown store releases quality.

In regards to Merchant... you do realize that they SELL repair kits in the Crown Store, right? They're not about to take away a source of steady revenue by giving you the chance to repair 'free for life' in the field. So they make it inconvenient for you to repair so you either have to stop grinding to go find a merchant for repairs OR buy repair kits from the Crown Store.

Ourorboros

Clearly the crown store is only about making money. While I sympathize with OP, in the end it is CAVEAT EMPTOR.

ADarklore

Just like the CEO of Mylan said of the massive EPIpen cost increase... "We are a for-profit business".

Wow

ZOS is a company, not your hero. They exist for the sake of money in your wallet. They mean business.

idk

Wow. So much logic in this thread.

Yes, preview for costumes works great and has always looked the same on my character sans hide head slot.

Race change is priced to invoke more serious thought so it's not something many would change often.

If you want the special package and it's that important to you the the price is probably irrelevant.

Didn't we all know the merchant didn't repair but sold repair kits? If not some research before buying the item is worth the time. It was all over the forums before the DLC dropped.

Should have bought the recent masked bear mount. Voice irrelevant, we get to pet the bear when he is moaning.

Pangnirtung

Ourorboros wrote: »

Clearly the crown store is only about making money. While I sympathize with OP, in the end it is CAVEAT EMPTOR.

This one million times.

I agree the crown store items are over priced for what they deliver and totally not worth it for me. If someone else loves it and thinks that it is great value, good on them.

I vote ewith my dollar and chose NOT to buy these items. Too expensive or not interested in them at all.

Lord_Eomer

Wow wrote: »

ZOS is a company, not your hero. They exist for the sake of money in your wallet. They mean business.

What I am trying to say is that with much higher prices ZOS is losing sales atleast i did not buy couple of things which i wanted to.

On some average items like breton costume quality is far behind.

nimander99

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

Wow wrote: »

ZOS is a company, not your hero. They exist for the sake of money in your wallet. They mean business.

What I am trying to say is that with much higher prices ZOS is losing sales atleast i did not buy couple of things which i wanted to.

On some average items like breton costume quality is far behind.

Check out the prices for costumes in Black Desert and you wont feel so bad about ESO's costume system. It's one of the more fair costume systems in MMO's today (excluding when Crown Gamble Boxes drop).

Xsorus

ADarklore wrote: »

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

This is my personal experience and read some threads across forum, not sure if ZOS is even noticing such issues.

Recently ZOS have good and average crown store releases, which definitely affecting their sales one way to another (I may be not a better person to comment on this). Few of my concerns are:

1. Breton Costume, i bought it but feeling regret. I am never using this costume its pretty weirdo design and wasted my crowns. Just see your toon running while wearing this, seems like he will feel down (costume is all the way squeezed b/w legs)

2. Race Change, wow i was excited for this and bought many crowns to change 2-3 races but have not made single change. 3000 Crowns is a whopping price

3. Imperial City Collector Edition, ZOS probably knows i am subscribing on PC and PS4 both and buying lot of crowns and had already bought Imperial City DLC so i should pay half price for this edition instead of paying full amount (why twicely charging me for buying a skin)

4. Merchant and Banker, well i am happy with my banker but not with merchan, feeling wasted 5000 Crowns as can not repair items (pretty much limited). I have enough gold and do not want to sell penny stuff to merchants (not bothering to pickup)

5. Mount voices, very poor indeed. My Senchie or Demonic Wolf voices makes me feel riding a goat

I bought all additional characters slots immediately (reasonable price), personally i now fear ZOS they may remove it like happening with Costumes...


My suggestion is ZOS should add Rating (1-5) to their crown store items, may be this can only convince them about crown store releases quality.

In regards to Merchant... you do realize that they SELL repair kits in the Crown Store, right? They're not about to take away a source of steady revenue by giving you the chance to repair 'free for life' in the field. So they make it inconvenient for you to repair so you either have to stop grinding to go find a merchant for repairs OR buy repair kits from the Crown Store.

Do you actually buy Repair kits from the crownstore?

you get them from doing Crafting Writs, I have like 200+ on multiple characters...and *** if its just leveling alts or what not..Make some level 4 gear..Go to Wrothgar and buy about 50 of the level 4 repair kits for less then 200 gold and you can level all way to max level there and repair while leveling...

There is absolutely zero reason to ever have to stop grinding in this game to got o a Merchant or buy repair kits on the Crownstore.

Darth_Trumpious

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

Wow wrote: »

ZOS is a company, not your hero. They exist for the sake of money in your wallet. They mean business.

What I am trying to say is that with much higher prices ZOS is losing sales atleast i did not buy couple of things which i wanted to.

On some average items like breton costume quality is far behind.

Price is fair tbh compared with other MMOs. While "you" feel ZOS is losing sales because "you" did not buy, they see it much clearer with background sales data (just like what happened with the Dro-Amotha Senche sale last time - people on forum are making numerous posts complaining how the price was not acceptable, while more players just bought it in-game without hesitation). All these mounts / costumes / skins in crown stores are purely cosmetic - you can always choose to vote with your dollar not to buy it, or wait for future discounts etc.