Apache_Kid wrote: »

Guys, I bought it.

Post some pictures when you're done furnishing. ;P

Apache_Kid wrote: »

dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »

Apache_Kid wrote: »

dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »

You are going to need to befriend someone that can make the diagrams/praxis or get the diagrams yourself if you don't want to spend a lot of money decorating to look halfway decent.

Also a good point. I'd be buying it furnished but I'd still want to move things around and add stuff to make it my own.

@Apache_Kid - I can make quite a number of the Clockwork diagrams. Look me up on NA-PC server sometime if you would like help. I realize that you bought furniture with the house, which is a really good idea. I did the same thing for Tel Galen house for much the same reason. To this very day I'm struggling to get the Telvanni Diagrams that I want to finally make this house look like what I really want it to be. It is unfortunate but they're squeezing dollars out of us this way. Personally, if I can't earn it myself in game though I'll lose interest. I think ZoS needs to be careful how they do this because part of the fun of building the house is doing it yourself like in Skyrim's homestead (or was it hearthfire) dlc. I am also running into this problem with the Imperial style which seems fairly unfortunate given the fact that they are one of the playable races. I'm hopeful they eventually revisit some of this because in my own personal view this kind of thing is not the sort of item that is fun to purchase with real life money. Its like paying to skip content, and it feels wrong. If I'm paying to skip content why don't I just skip the whole thing? - That's how I feel.

A good friend of mine in game has the Observatory as well. Its a neat house I just imagine its not for everyone.

Dang. I am on Xbox NA unfortunately.

I completely agree about the grind for DLC furnishing plans. The drop-rates are an absolute joke. If they are going to maintain the drop rates then the DLC plans need to be added in the Hlaalu furnishing document loot tables. You'd have the be the most naive player on the planet to not realize that the low drop rate of DLC furnishings is a blatant money-grab. And you just KNOW there are going to be special summerset isle style furnishing plans coming out in like 6 months that have just as bad drop rates and will be available in the crown store. I wonder if the people working on this game feel bad that they are being forced to implement these low drop rates because I would feel terrible about what I am doing to the players. RIP to the invaluable free-time I spend looking inside virtual containers only to find virtual lockpicks and virtual water and virtual rocks. I've always been very vocal about how disgusting of a tactic this is to drive players to the crown store but now that I actually own one of these DLC homes my disgust is turning into anger and frustration and and empty wallet.

The solution is to stick to your guns and buck the trend. I have no problem buying something like these houses. In many cases I prefer to use in game gold but I can live with it in the same way I can live with purchasing ships like I did on STO. It becomes a problem when the whole game is about hitting a pay wall everywhere you go. This is the same problem a lot of games are facing. Just watch half the episodes of Angry Joe flipping out about the gaming industry. My view of it is this: Stick to your guns and play the game in a manner that is fun. If the game can't be fun because they've put up too many hurdles, don't play the game. I'm already determined that ESO is the last one for me. It all hangs in the balance with this game for me. Hopefully the developers are smart enough to recognize that many of us feel this way and they're really wasting revenue by causing people to opt out of the market. It is unfortunate but many of these gaming companies are really looking for the 'gambling addict' mentality or I guess 'gamer addict'. They want to latch onto that desire to play video games and use it to suck the life force out of the gamer. Its a pretty disgusting habit that the industry has fallen into and one that I could not personally see myself going for. There are just some businesses I would never go into: casino-owner, pimp, drug dealer, hitman and cash-shop video game developer. I am a strong believer in the power of business to do good in the world not only for the owner but for the world at large. Corporations are not all the evil hydras that some people believe them to be. Some are and many aren't. Corporations are just people getting together to do business. I just want to do businesses that I can be proud of and I think most people feel the same way. Hopefully the gaming industry will get the memo (battlefront didn't).

Apache_Kid wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

Honestly, the constant movement and sound was enough to make me uncomfortable while previewing it.It didn't feel like a home I could relax in.

As someone who sleeps with a fan on at night the sounds of the house is one of my favorite features! I almost always need some sort of noise or white noise in my life.

That makes a certain amount of sense. That sort of background noise makes me edgy until I get used to it, but I can see where it would make for good white noise.