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Game Cards gone?

TheDarkRuler
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Normally I purchase my ESO+ by buying game cards for two months on authorized sites.
However in the past few days I've been looking around and almost any site has stated, the offer is not possible at the time being.

Has ZoS stopped Game Card selling? Can we only purchase ESO+ from the main site now?
Why is that so?
  • Elsonso
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    Normally I purchase my ESO+ by buying game cards for two months on authorized sites.
    However in the past few days I've been looking around and almost any site has stated, the offer is not possible at the time being.

    Has ZoS stopped Game Card selling? Can we only purchase ESO+ from the main site now?
    Why is that so?

    I have not seen any in retail outlets for a long time. It might be that Bethesda is no longer selling them, or that no one is using them. I would not be surprised if they phase them out in favor of some Bethesda.Net currency that can be used for both ESO and their other online games.
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  • JD2013
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    Haven't seen game cards for a long long time.

    It's entirely possible they are phasing them out for BethesdaNet currency, or just through the website as that costs nothing to produce and ship out. I do still however see Crown pack cards.
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  • elvenmad
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    I purchased a 60 day card just before 1T, all the 'usual' authorized seller had them in stock, couple of weeks after 1T they all suddenly were out of stock, there is none anywhere. My ESO+ expires soon and I will not be renewing it until I see how the Crown Crate implementation and its impact on the community goes.

    Obviously the game time cards have all been withdrawn and not been re issued, it is too much a coincidence for them all to just vanish at the same time.

    Makes me wonder the direction this game is heading, quite a lot as changed since the announcement of Crown Crates, and now they have a new employee on the marketing team the impact of this has been quite noticeable if you take the time to look. There as definitely been a big shift towards generating more income than there as fixing issues in the game or making new content, or in fact anything in game related.

    I am waiting for the Crown Carets to 'appear' , I fear the worse, seen these introduced as 'harmless' in too many games, it does not take long for their real intent to become clear, and also the reason I ended up leaving those games also.. I can understand company's manipulating people to buy things to enjoy more in a game, BUT being manipulated to gamble is just down right wrong and is the lowest of the low strategy to generate income.

    The ZoS team have been extremely quiet lately for far too long, there is something going on, and its coming up to their most lucrative part of the year from a business point of view.

    Edited by elvenmad on 26 November 2016 16:04
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  • Wow
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    My ESO Plus expired today, tried to renew it I checked that my usual authorized sellers went Out of stock. I've checked other store all of them out of stock,

    What the hell is happening? I used game time card instead of directly from ZoS because it's cheaper that way :'( and no Recurring thing since it's a prepaid card
    Edited by Wow on 28 November 2016 13:22
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  • Wow
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    Have these simply disappeared? All authorized sellers that I often use went out of stock on. I also checked grey sites as well and all of them out of stock. What's happening?
    Please someone give me a source. My ESO Plus expired today.
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  • NewBlacksmurf
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    Wow wrote: »
    My ESO Plus expired today, tried to renew it I checked that my usual authorized sellers went Out of stock. I've checked other store all of them out of stock,

    What the hell is happening? I used game time card instead of directly from ZoS because it's cheaper that way :'( and no Recurring thing since it's a prepaid card

    That's the issue....not sure if they're done forever but supposedly they stopped making them over a year ago and many were supposed to have been sent back to ZOS. I also know that ppl were selling them online but it prob was limited stocl
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  • aelurosa
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    Ack, I just noticed this today too. Nary a card to be found anywhere! :s
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  • Wow
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    aelurosa wrote: »
    Ack, I just noticed this today too. Nary a card to be found anywhere! :s

    it's troubling, since I don't have credit cards. I can't just subscribe ESO+ through zenimax since I need card, even via paypal they will still need me to have credit cards linked in order to subscribe.

    I only have my wallet, so I usually throw that to my store, then redeem the time card painlessly... But now they all extinct!!!
    Edited by Wow on 29 November 2016 07:04
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  • SantieClaws
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    Khajiit recalls when Tamriel became Unlimited - as unlimited as the crowns in your pocket yes. Then about six weeks before it became impossible to purchase a long period of subbing time.

    For those weeks the speculation raged like Molag Bal with a thorn in his foot and they said nothing at all. Then the news it was broken on another gaming site.

    How does khajiit recall this with such clairity? Because it was this one herself that saw the news and was the first to link it here as official.

    This one cannot help but have a little feeling of the Day Ja Flu yes about the recent silence and now the disappearance of the game cards. This one hates to feel like a conspiracy theorist but alas always before this one has been sadly proved to be right.

    Khajiit she wonders what else might be on the near horizon along with the con crates. She wonders and yes she worries too.

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  • Yuls
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    and now the disappearance of the game cards

    They didn't disappear over night, you know. They're out of stock in most places in Europe for almost 2 years now. There were new physical TU cards in the US, but I never saw a new physical one here. Or any physical ones, for a very very long time. If you're not lucky to stumble upon some on ebay. There were codes to buy on the usual sites, but they were all from "old" cards.
    So no, they didn't rip them from the shelves suddenly...


    Oh, and I just checked with my other account, just for fun. You can sub for 6 months just fine again. It might not be there to "upgrade" from an existing sub, but for new ones the option is there.
    Edited by Yuls on 29 November 2016 08:55
  • Milvan
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    I'm from Brazil and I'm really sad that I can't buy subscription cards from Kinguin anymore. They much more affordable for us ~50% cheaper than paying the full subscription from the website or from steam. I hope they come back soon.
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  • ookami007
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    I can subscribe just fine, I just don't want my financial information setting out there on their computers.

    I prefer to pay by a method that can't be hacked and then charged up. Nay say all you want, but it's all fun in games until you get that first bill from your credit card company for $10,000 in tupperware and computers sent over to some eastern European nation with no extradition to the U.S.

    My first question when I saw that was: WHY tupperware?!
  • ericprydz82ub17_ESO
    Just purchase a prepaid debit card and use that to subscribe.
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  • Elsonso
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    This one cannot help but have a little feeling of the Day Ja Flu yes about the recent silence and now the disappearance of the game cards. This one hates to feel like a conspiracy theorist but alas always before this one has been sadly proved to be right.

    It is cheaper to not make the cards. They have to pay for the cards, then give the retail outlet a cut of the sale. My guess is that most of these are online transactions, anyway. Bethesda makes more money from this if the PC/Mac people stop by their store to pick up this stuff than picking up a card in a retail outlet.

    I have one of the new Tamriel Unlimited ESO Plus cards remaining, unused, purchased back in November 2015 from Best Buy. I have not seen them since in either Best Buy or Target, where I normally got them. Walmart stopped carrying them long before then.

    It would be nice if one of the Community Managers could run over and ask Bethesda if the cards are still being distributed out to retail outlets, and maybe which ones, but I don't expect that this would be a priority query.
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  • aelurosa
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    Its been a while, but wanted to confirm that you can get 60 day cards (with 3k crowns) at Gamestop. They'll print a code out for you at the same cost as a normal sub.. They'll need to search for TESO, rather than elder scrolls online (sales guy told me how he found them.)

    I think Best Buy might sell them too, but I can't confirm that myself.
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  • Kodrac
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    Best Buy would *** it up anyway.
  • Wifeaggro13
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    The writing was on the wall over a year ago when they hired the same company that handled Neverwinter , and Tor gameshop. Look at the dlcs. Smaller and smaller more repurpose content, mounts and skins unique to resold dlcs. Inventory bank and crafting inventory lol. Come now the kajiht speaks the truth.
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