They mention that the screenshot shows the mount with all the riding skills maxed out. If you don't have the riding skills the mount wont have the armor and other accessories I believe.

Those are the preview images from the shop system (probably ripped from the PTS client).

They're showing the mounts with minimal skill. There's probably quite a bit to add when skills are maxed.

tengri wrote: »

Anyway when the announcement came about the reward mount I was gonna stay subscribed for this one last month to get it.
But now I will not - I can handle not being able to play in this 14-day window before March 17th. Not gonna pay extra 15 bucks anymore for something everyone can get for only a few.

Don't expect to buy it for a few bucks. Guars cost 1300 crowns, senche will cost at least as much. If you're missing only two weeks, it might indeed be a good idea to pay $15 to get the senche plus 1500 crowns for remaining ESO Plus days - which is about enough for another mount and a pet.

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The problem with making the lore coherency argument in general boils down to the assumptions people think are inherent when dealing with and interpreting lore in the first place.

If we look at "lore" with respect to any real life ancient civilization it is clear our knowledge base is ever evolving. New discoveries will often change or rewrite the "lore" of those civilizations thus changing our preception of them.

Therefore, arguing that there should be strict lore coherence requirements is an inherently flawed perspective. A strict adherence to the currently known and accepted "lore" effectively ignores the possibility that any lore can be rewritten or changed at any time. Is it so unreasonable that lore associated with a certain time frame may have been lost throughout the ages, never to be mentioned or even known 1000 years from now? Since knowledge can be lost over any time period, having a strict lore adherence policy puts too much restriction on what can reasonably be found and added as lore during a different time period.

Therefore I argue that it would be reasonable to add a wide variety of mounts to the game given that we don't know if their existence in the game would create or break lore.

Lore is a perspective at a given time, not a definitive conditional.

Told ya so.

Joejudas wrote: »

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You know, I do think it would have been unfair if no one else had been able to get a Senche mount. I certainly didn't want others NOT to get it. What was really sleazy was the way this was rolled out. It was first, "Oh here super loyal long time subscribers, we are going to give JUST YOU something supremely awesome!" And then, a couple days later after the freak out they darn well KNEW would ensue, "Oh here everyone else, you get it too! But hey super loyal long time subscribers, ONLY YOU get the stripey one! That still makes it special!" If they had just said, "There are going to be Senche mounts and our long time subscribers are going to have the option to have a skin only available to long time subscribers PLUS they actually get that mount for free!" that would have sounded and indeed felt so much better. Sometimes I have to wonder if the head of their PR department is an addled skooma addict. Because it's like he TRIES to figure out ways to present things in the worst possible light and in the way that will upset the maximum number of players.

As someone who was going to get the Senche anyway you know what would have impressed me? 1. Choosing the skin of my choice. They could have still made an exclusive skin available to long time subscribers only but giving us the option to choose which one we wanted would have been far nicer. 2. In addition, the "loyalty" mount SHOULD have special armor and it should be fairly elaborate. THAT would have been the awesome "distinguishing" feature between the loyalty mount and the regular one. These would have been easy things to do and would have made the "loyalty reward" feel much more special instead of the inevitable letdown that it feels like now while NOT causing a ridiculous panic among those who were initially afraid they weren't going to ever be able to get a Senche.

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olemanwinter wrote: »

LULZ. You're gonna feel so bad@ss riding on your "striped" tiger that shows how loyal you are.......next to another guy riding his "variated" tiger that he bought for $3.99 in the cash shop.

"Naw bruh, my mudcrab is beige. Your's is only tan."

This.

Not even surprised. And was I reading the latest Road Ahead correctly with which it was said the loyalty program is done (for good)?

Zershar_Vemod wrote: »

olemanwinter wrote: »

LULZ. You're gonna feel so bad@ss riding on your "striped" tiger that shows how loyal you are.......next to another guy riding his "variated" tiger that he bought for $3.99 in the cash shop.

"Naw bruh, my mudcrab is beige. Your's is only tan."

This.

Not even surprised. And was I reading the latest Road Ahead correctly with which it was said the loyalty program is done (for good)?

Leave it to everyone to complain about a free gift lol. Anyways the loyalty program as we knew it is done yes. Instead they are giving subscribers 1500 crowns a month to choose whatever they wish. As opposed to getting yet another pet you did not want for example.

We've come to an age that people can't be happy with what they have or have the right to have but also have to bother with what they have that others do not to be happy...

No wonder the world is ***.

I mean... can't we all agree to be happy because everyone will be able to have a tiger and move on with it?

"Oh, but those lowly peasants will have tigers so what's so special about my exclusive tiger??"

DEAL WITH IT. Be happy they're giving you SOMETHING, technically you paid for the game time and they wouldn't need to give you anything.

Zershar_Vemod wrote: »

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

Zershar_Vemod wrote: »

olemanwinter wrote: »

LULZ. You're gonna feel so bad@ss riding on your "striped" tiger that shows how loyal you are.......next to another guy riding his "variated" tiger that he bought for $3.99 in the cash shop.

"Naw bruh, my mudcrab is beige. Your's is only tan."

This.

Not even surprised. And was I reading the latest Road Ahead correctly with which it was said the loyalty program is done (for good)?

Leave it to everyone to complain about a free gift lol. Anyways the loyalty program as we knew it is done yes. Instead they are giving subscribers 1500 crowns a month to choose whatever they wish. As opposed to getting yet another pet you did not want for example.

Huh?

I was saying I'm not surprised a "thank you" was then slapped with different skins and sold on a store.

But thanks for the clarification with the ending of the loyalty program.

We have no idea if the senche mounts in the store are the same size. So I think it is very very premature to complain about that. Lets wait and see what happens. I know they confirmed the senche mount would eventually be in the store. They never said it was a reskinned version of the one we get for having paid 300 days.

dharbert wrote: »

So what's so special about the loyalty mount then?

Nothing, all of us that have been here from beta and on are being screwed over. What a slap in the face to all of us that is still beta testing for these people. LFG still broken, that is a question I would like answered once and for all. Also do you guys feel at all bad about screwing us all over?

Why won't you at least give us what we all deserve, free lifetime sub to the game. All the rest you are saying we get is just BS that will end up going in store others can get. Don't think we don't understand how this all works. Free lifetime sub is the only thing you can give us that shows your thanks for us testing this out for you.

You know they didnt have to do anything at all for people. We got to play the game all this time. Why not just be happy about what we get?

olemanwinter wrote: »

LULZ. You're gonna feel so bad@ss riding on your "striped" tiger that shows how loyal you are.......next to another guy riding his "variated" tiger that he bought for $3.99 in the cash shop.

"Naw bruh, my mudcrab is beige. Your's is only tan."

worst,you will be riding your striped cat "showing that you are a long time player" ..............next to a totally new player with your same striped cat that just paid for 300 days on march 15 lol

It says right in the article ..."a special Striped Senche (giant cat) mount"

...and here....

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

We pinged our resident loremaster about this and are awaiting an answer. In the meantime, we can tell you that there was some internal discussion about whether or not the Striped Senche is a Senche Tiger or not. Though there are some naming remnants in the game (on PTS) that say it is a Senche Tiger, it actually isn't. Apparently those beasties are the size of elephants.

Clearly by saying (giant cat) and size of elephants. and knowing there's gonna be some senche in the crown store these cats are gonna be obviously different.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

You know they didnt have to do anything at all for people. We got to play the game all this time. Why not just be happy about what we get?

Actually we got the better game . In the beginning it was harder and the drops better. The current game is easier and the dungeons boring. ESO is older but not better.

dharbert wrote: »

So what's so special about the loyalty mount then?

loyalty mount has better looking armor, and its free for those loyal customers...and it shows how loyal u have been, hence the "loyalty reward"...

Its more about your status as a player than an actual EXCLUSIVEEEEEE mount