Official Discussion Thread for "Check Out the ESO Black-Friday Sale & ESO: Morrowind Mount Giveaway"

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

This is the official discussion thread for the Check Out ESO’s Black Friday Sale and Get A Free Mount with ESO: Morrowind blog article.

Black Fredas has returned to Tamriel with sales on ESO and ESO: Morrowind, an all-new Black Fredas Special Bundle in the Crown Store, and a free Nix-Ox mount for new and current Morrowind owners!

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Tyrion87

Does it mean that there won't be any Crown Packs sale this year? This is something we all have been waiting for the most, especially since the prices of Crown Packs have increased in most countries...

I ask because in your article from last year you wrote about discounts on all ESO Crown Packs (source: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25865).

However there is no such statement in this years article.

Turelus

Bundle seems good (like most the bundles done). Already own Morrowind so no discount joys for me.

coop500

No crown sale? I've been waiting for one from Black Friday, maybe Cyber Monday?

Left4Daud

I'm absolutely loving the free Nix-Ox mount. Boy is it a joy to ride and the sound design is awesome! Not terribly interested in the Black Fredas Bundle because although the Tuxedo Bear is charming, he is way too similar to the Masked Bear of which I am already a proud owner of.

As has been stated above, curious to see no mention of a sale on Crown Packs for this time of year. Maybe you guys are waiting until most people who stockpiled Crowns from the QuakeCon sale deplete their savings on the new Flame Atronach Crown Crate season? It could be that the next Crown sale will be tied closer to December and the holidays I suppose.

I guess we shall see!

palahnyurchin

I agree with others - the bundle is pretty good but I already have the normal cave bear and I would prefer a crown sale

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

Zorvan

When are PC and PS4 getting their free play weekend? After you guys gave one to Xbone, it was said ours would be coming up, then nothing.

coop500

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

Welp, darn....

Tyrion87

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

Oh... what a crappy Black Friday then...

Left4Daud

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

To quote our beloved Prophet "Curious and curiouser..." but thank you for the official update!

Elsonso

Will this include the Morrowind upgrade?

alceleniel

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

That's sad because I am running out of crowns.

Apache_Kid

Well this is disappointing to say the least.

Sinolai

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Hi. I just realized this might be my chance to cut Steam out of our love triangle but before I do that I wanna make sure this works:

Currently, there is no way of playing Morrowind content without having steam running in the backround if you bought the chapter update from Steam, right? (Atleast that is what the customer support told me the second time when I contacted them. Before that they said it will be possible after offical launch (I pre-ordered the game and got the access a bit earlier and also asked them about this issue before the chapter was offically out).
So can I buy another copy of Morrowind to upgrade an account that already has an upgrade in Steam and will there be any conflicts if I launch the game via Steam?

Oh, and one more thing: When you create the second chapter, could you make sure that players can access the chapter content even when Steam servers are down? The current model is making Steam's problems your problems. Could you take this message to who ever is creating the chapters? I really hate to cancel raids becouse of not being able to connect to Steam.

Cinbri

No Crowns discount sales?! What an irrational waste.

Octopuss

Nothing more than this? I hoped some things might get discounted...

Zorvan

Sinolai wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Hi. I just realized this might be my chance to cut Steam out of our love triangle but before I do that I wanna make sure this works:

Currently, there is no way of playing Morrowind content without having steam running in the backround if you bought the chapter update from Steam, right? (Atleast that is what the customer support told me the second time when I contacted them. Before that they said it will be possible after offical launch (I pre-ordered the game and got the access a bit earlier and also asked them about this issue before the chapter was offically out).
So can I buy another copy of Morrowind to upgrade an account that already has an upgrade in Steam and will there be any conflicts if I launch the game via Steam?

Oh, and one more thing: When you create the second chapter, could you make sure that players can access the chapter content even when Steam servers are down? The current model is making Steam's problems your problems. Could you take this message to who ever is creating the chapters? I really hate to cancel raids becouse of not being able to connect to Steam.

You can link and switch an existing ZOS ESO account to Steam, but you cannot switch a Steam account to ZOS. So since your account is bound to Steam already ( as it is since you bought Morrowind from there ), you're stuck with Steam and any issues Steam has. This is one of the requirements Steam gives to mmo devs putting their games there ( Black Desert, Secret World, etc., have the same "locked to Steam once you use Steam" setup ).

Sinolai

Zorvan wrote: »

Sinolai wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Hi. I just realized this might be my chance to cut Steam out of our love triangle but before I do that I wanna make sure this works:

Currently, there is no way of playing Morrowind content without having steam running in the backround if you bought the chapter update from Steam, right? (Atleast that is what the customer support told me the second time when I contacted them. Before that they said it will be possible after offical launch (I pre-ordered the game and got the access a bit earlier and also asked them about this issue before the chapter was offically out).
So can I buy another copy of Morrowind to upgrade an account that already has an upgrade in Steam and will there be any conflicts if I launch the game via Steam?

Oh, and one more thing: When you create the second chapter, could you make sure that players can access the chapter content even when Steam servers are down? The current model is making Steam's problems your problems. Could you take this message to who ever is creating the chapters? I really hate to cancel raids becouse of not being able to connect to Steam.

You can link and switch an existing ZOS ESO account to Steam, but you cannot switch a Steam account to ZOS. So since your account is bound to Steam already ( as it is since you bought Morrowind from there ), you're stuck with Steam and any issues Steam has.

But can I buy a new copy to activate Morrowind outside of Steam and will steam go crazy if it notices I have 2 active morrowind chapters? Now that it is on sale it would be a perfect time to do that.
Edit: And can I still access my cool emote and warden's bear skin & other deluxe-pre-order-super-additional-collectors-stuff if I only buy a vanilla versioin? I think I'll contact the customer support again...

HidesFromSun

Dang. I have to admit, im kind of disappointed. I was hoping for a sale on ESO Plus, and perhaps even some crowns. I've been waiting since the beginning of the month to buy the aforementioned just in case there was a sale.

MalaVrazica

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

Virtually everyone has been waiting for the crowns sale... disappointing...

Tyrion87

MalaVrazica wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

Virtually everyone has been waiting for the crowns sale... disappointing...

ZOS seems to tell everybody: We don't want your money.

So I'm gonna keep it and spend elsewhere.

coop500

Tyrion87 wrote: »

MalaVrazica wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

Virtually everyone has been waiting for the crowns sale... disappointing...

ZOS seems to tell everybody: We don't want your money.

So I'm gonna keep it and spend elsewhere.

Seems pretty lame to not let people give them our money.

driosketch

Zorvan wrote: »

When are PC and PS4 getting their free play weekend? After you guys gave one to Xbone, it was said ours would be coming up, then nothing.

I'm still hoping to see a crown sale during the free to play week. I don't expect a heads up if this is the case though, they'll want people to buy full price crown packs instead of waiting for a sale.

Zorvan

Sinolai wrote: »

Zorvan wrote: »

Sinolai wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Hi. I just realized this might be my chance to cut Steam out of our love triangle but before I do that I wanna make sure this works:

Currently, there is no way of playing Morrowind content without having steam running in the backround if you bought the chapter update from Steam, right? (Atleast that is what the customer support told me the second time when I contacted them. Before that they said it will be possible after offical launch (I pre-ordered the game and got the access a bit earlier and also asked them about this issue before the chapter was offically out).
So can I buy another copy of Morrowind to upgrade an account that already has an upgrade in Steam and will there be any conflicts if I launch the game via Steam?

Oh, and one more thing: When you create the second chapter, could you make sure that players can access the chapter content even when Steam servers are down? The current model is making Steam's problems your problems. Could you take this message to who ever is creating the chapters? I really hate to cancel raids becouse of not being able to connect to Steam.

You can link and switch an existing ZOS ESO account to Steam, but you cannot switch a Steam account to ZOS. So since your account is bound to Steam already ( as it is since you bought Morrowind from there ), you're stuck with Steam and any issues Steam has.

But can I buy a new copy to activate Morrowind outside of Steam and will steam go crazy if it notices I have 2 active morrowind chapters? Now that it is on sale it would be a perfect time to do that.
Edit: And can I still access my cool emote and warden's bear skin & other deluxe-pre-order-super-additional-collectors-stuff if I only buy a vanilla versioin? I think I'll contact the customer support again...

If you want to make a completely new account with ZOS ( meaning no you won't be having anything you had before like pre-order stuff, emotes, and whatnot unless they also come with the new versions your buying), you can use the regular ESO client without Steam even with Steam and your Steam ESO client installed..Steam only cares about the client that's connected to Steam itself. But if you're going to be using your already existing account, then no. Everything on the account attached to Steam stays with Steam.

In short, you cannot unattach your existing Steam ESO account, or anything on it from Steam regardless what you do.

Sotha_Sil

coop500 wrote: »

Tyrion87 wrote: »

MalaVrazica wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

Virtually everyone has been waiting for the crowns sale... disappointing...

ZOS seems to tell everybody: We don't want your money.

So I'm gonna keep it and spend elsewhere.

Seems pretty lame to not let people give them our money.

New crown crates are coming so they want people to fully spend their money this time! No discount allowed!

I was also waiting for a crown sale and I will not buy any without it so, keeping my money.

Sinolai

Zorvan wrote: »

Sinolai wrote: »

Zorvan wrote: »

Sinolai wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Hi. I just realized this might be my chance to cut Steam out of our love triangle but before I do that I wanna make sure this works:

Currently, there is no way of playing Morrowind content without having steam running in the backround if you bought the chapter update from Steam, right? (Atleast that is what the customer support told me the second time when I contacted them. Before that they said it will be possible after offical launch (I pre-ordered the game and got the access a bit earlier and also asked them about this issue before the chapter was offically out).
So can I buy another copy of Morrowind to upgrade an account that already has an upgrade in Steam and will there be any conflicts if I launch the game via Steam?

Oh, and one more thing: When you create the second chapter, could you make sure that players can access the chapter content even when Steam servers are down? The current model is making Steam's problems your problems. Could you take this message to who ever is creating the chapters? I really hate to cancel raids becouse of not being able to connect to Steam.

You can link and switch an existing ZOS ESO account to Steam, but you cannot switch a Steam account to ZOS. So since your account is bound to Steam already ( as it is since you bought Morrowind from there ), you're stuck with Steam and any issues Steam has.

But can I buy a new copy to activate Morrowind outside of Steam and will steam go crazy if it notices I have 2 active morrowind chapters? Now that it is on sale it would be a perfect time to do that.
Edit: And can I still access my cool emote and warden's bear skin & other deluxe-pre-order-super-additional-collectors-stuff if I only buy a vanilla versioin? I think I'll contact the customer support again...

If you want to make a completely new account with ZOS ( meaning no you won't be having anything you had before like pre-order stuff, emotes, and whatnot unless they also come with the new versions your buying), you can use the regular ESO client without Steam even with Steam and your Steam ESO client installed..Steam only cares about the client that's connected to Steam itself. But if you're going to be using your already existing account, then no. Everything on the account attached to Steam stays with Steam.

But on the other hand, I can play my Warden as if I had Morrowind even when not using steam and just checked that atleast the bear skin and /kissthis are still unlocked in my collection. I just cant acceess Morrowind or Battlegrounds.

Edit: I need to restart my computer and try again. For the first time in 6 months, I launched the game without launching Steam (I think) and I ACTUALLY CAN ACCESS TO VVARDENFELL?!! Before I start celebrating, I need to check that the Steam is not running somewhere in the background

Zorvan

Sinolai wrote: »

Zorvan wrote: »

Sinolai wrote: »

Zorvan wrote: »

Sinolai wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Hi. I just realized this might be my chance to cut Steam out of our love triangle but before I do that I wanna make sure this works:

Currently, there is no way of playing Morrowind content without having steam running in the backround if you bought the chapter update from Steam, right? (Atleast that is what the customer support told me the second time when I contacted them. Before that they said it will be possible after offical launch (I pre-ordered the game and got the access a bit earlier and also asked them about this issue before the chapter was offically out).
So can I buy another copy of Morrowind to upgrade an account that already has an upgrade in Steam and will there be any conflicts if I launch the game via Steam?

Oh, and one more thing: When you create the second chapter, could you make sure that players can access the chapter content even when Steam servers are down? The current model is making Steam's problems your problems. Could you take this message to who ever is creating the chapters? I really hate to cancel raids becouse of not being able to connect to Steam.

You can link and switch an existing ZOS ESO account to Steam, but you cannot switch a Steam account to ZOS. So since your account is bound to Steam already ( as it is since you bought Morrowind from there ), you're stuck with Steam and any issues Steam has.

But can I buy a new copy to activate Morrowind outside of Steam and will steam go crazy if it notices I have 2 active morrowind chapters? Now that it is on sale it would be a perfect time to do that.
Edit: And can I still access my cool emote and warden's bear skin & other deluxe-pre-order-super-additional-collectors-stuff if I only buy a vanilla versioin? I think I'll contact the customer support again...

If you want to make a completely new account with ZOS ( meaning no you won't be having anything you had before like pre-order stuff, emotes, and whatnot unless they also come with the new versions your buying), you can use the regular ESO client without Steam even with Steam and your Steam ESO client installed..Steam only cares about the client that's connected to Steam itself. But if you're going to be using your already existing account, then no. Everything on the account attached to Steam stays with Steam.

But on the other hand, I can play my Warden as if I had Morrowind even when not using steam and just checked that atleast the bear skin and /kissthis are still unlocked in my collection. I just cant acceess Morrowind or Battlegrounds.

Then yeah stick with customer support, something's screwed up somewhere.

MornaBaine

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

One more update on the ESO Store: The sale for ESO and Morrowind on PC will be live around 1pm EST (not 11am EST.)

We don't have a Crown Pack sale as part of our Black Friday offerings this year.

No crown sale? Well that was literally the only thing I wanted. I find the offerings presented here extremely lackluster. Sale on Morrowind? When you can literally get it elsewhere for cheaper already? I don't care for the bear mount so there's nothing to induce me to buy consumables in the black fredas pack. No sales/discounts on other crown store items even? Could you have possibly gone to LESS trouble this year?

No crown sale for me? Then I guess I don't have any money for you.

Zorvan

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Just a heads-up to everyone that the sale pricing for PC/Mac versions of ESO and Morrowind is not yet live in our store. The sale pricing will be live around 1pm EST.

(Edited to update timing.)

Seems it's already live in ESO store, but not Steam.