Skyshard crown cost

CleymenZero

RodneyRegis wrote: »

CleymenZero wrote: »

Lumenn wrote: »

While I wouldn't be THRILLED with 1500 per faction I'd be much more inclined than per zone. I have friends who won't play due to the eso plus all dlc included but we'll call THESE chapters instead and charge(yes Zos, I'm sure you know the gaming community talks, and crown store nickel and dime, p2w, rumors, true or not can scare off potential customers)

Skyshard shortcut in my opinion isn't a p2w but a reasonable charge could go a long way(and possibly make you more money) to ease a money hungry, bad customer service, reputation. A charge per faction group > than charge per shard, or zone.

Glad to see there are more with a bit of hope. It would pay well in PR and in revenue if the price was relatively low (read accessible to everyone).

Looking at how pessimistic people are about the pricing on these, they would gain a bit of recognition from making these more available.

À relatively low price would net them more money I think. They'd make a huge chunk right away instead of making 1.5k crumb by crumb. The ones with 1-2 alts would buy everything right away and keep buying as they make more characters and the ones with many alts wouldn't be priced out of this feature. I gather, those with 1-2 alts would probably make a lot more characters and end up buying more as they go when they realize the huge QoL improvement that feature would bring. I'd play a lot of my alts more as well.

Finally, if this feature is expensive, it has to be account-wide to be fair to players with many and few alts.

The racial passive changes was a blow to those with many alts if there were changes, as mild as they could be, that would justify a switch... I took a hit with that, I won't with this new feature...

They are not looking to make a huge chunk straight away. They want to make it gradually. You say make it accessible to everyone, but what does that mean? People are talking about $300 for account-wide - that's INSANE money. That's not accessible to all, I pay for ESO+ and expansions, I wouldn't pay another penny. It's not about fairness, it's about extracting money from whales whilst gating it behind a grind for the vast majority of players. As before, you don't need many skyshards for a viable build.

- "They are not looking to make a huge chunk straight away. They want to make it gradually."
=> I've said as much in another post (probably multiple times actually).

- "People are talking about $300 for account-wide - that's INSANE money. That's not accessible to all, I pay for ESO+ and expansions, I wouldn't pay another penny. It's not about fairness, it's about extracting money from whales whilst gating it behind a grind for the vast majority of players. As before, you don't need many skyshards for a viable build."
=> I agree with that statement and said as much, I still wish for it to be more accessible. I only suggest 300$ because I know it can't be cheap. I'm hoping for 300$ and not 1k$ even though it will probably be more than 1K$ per alt at which point I'm completely out.

CleymenZero

RodneyRegis wrote: »

CleymenZero wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

You know.... they're going to charge you all the earth, the moon, and all the galaxies for this. Because some of you want the shortcuts, you'll pay whatever it costs.

This won't be the first time a game has offered a "pay to bypass playing" option. And it won't be the last. I myself paid for several level 90s in WoW (after I already had 40, which covered close to every race and class). But of course, blizz went down a road I didn't care to travel, so all those girls are still just sitting there on all their gold (a LOT of gold.... millions, actually almost a billion over all of them....) but hey, game wasn't going to be fun after WoD, so I wasn't paying or playing any more. Canceled 7 accounts. Never been back.

I get what you say. It just looks like they are not going to charge me anything. I just stocked on Crowns for nothing. I'm a person of principle, I've broken a few since I started this game but this is my limit.

Never bought a house because I could never fathom paying 100$ for a piece of virtual land. I was of course super happy they gave a large one out.

I only buy Crowns when on special and only buy items that upgrade the account (character slots, Imperial upgrade, any race any alliance etc.). I guess I'm just not their target customer. I still spent over 1k$ on this game in 2 years... It just looks like won't be spending a dime on skyshards. Not that I didn't want to but they're surely gonna price me out of this market.

You spent a grand? On a computer game? Yeah, you are their target audience.

In your currency it's probably 600-700$. 2 years of ESO+ is already half of that amount. Base game, DLCs and chapter add another 150$? Add 100-150$ in Crown Packs when on special and you get pretty close.

And the Crowns weren't used for much more than account upgrades. All character slots, Merchant, Banker, important Mundus when they were 40% off. Imperial upgrade, any race any alliance.

You still think I'm their target audience? There's a thread where users were listing what they spent on this game. Search for it.

rotaugen454

We’ll all know in two weeks.