I'm sad Frost Atronach crates aren't here. Does that mean we won't get them this month yet?

Greystag wrote: »

I'm sad Frost Atronach crates aren't here. Does that mean we won't get them this month yet?

Crates have their own articles now, so expect one at the end of the month.

Terrible. No Murkmire stuff?

TiaFrye wrote: »

Wow, that's... Underwhelming. Too much returning items that no one asked for.

Yep not much effort put in if you ask me

TiaFrye wrote: »

Wow, that's... Underwhelming. Too much returning items that no one asked for.

And none of the items people have been asking for returned.

Langdon64 wrote: »

As a newer player, I'm really happy to see the Snow Globe home and New Life furnishing pack. I have been waiting patiently since June so, no disappointment here!

The house was guaranteed to return, as it's the holiday house, so no surprise there. As well as the holiday furnishing pack - it was pretty much guaranteed to come back as well.

I don't mind returning items, as I believe that new players should have a chance to purchase older items. It's just that most of the stuff in this showcase is returning, so there's little new stuff for older players to get excited for. In fact, there isn't anything in this showcase that I either don't already own or don't want.

I'll get the new motif in-game. Already have the two caps since they were daily log-in rewards last year - don't care about the broadbrim ones.

And I had hoped for at least something else in addition to the statuette for ESO+ members. Instead, we just got a few discounts on old items. Last year, we got the Priestess of Mara costume in addition to a statuette. And frankly, I'm getting kinda tired of our only free item being a statuette. A little variety would be nice, even with the statuettes, since we're getting yet another cat statuette - I think there's at least one more that was datamined. Basically the new ESO+ benefits is just a free statuette every month and then discounts on gambling or returning items. And, the only exclusive offers we ever got was a discount on a few items a month before everyone else was able to buy them - which they discontinued after a few months. Now, we're left with discounts only on gambling or returning items, many of which we bought at full price earlier.

Ah, well - they got my crowns with the discount on the cat merchants, but I'll be saving the rest for next year, it seems.

ETA: I should have mentioned the extra 150 crowns/month, which is nice to have. But the rest of the new perks have been lackluster, at best.

We a repeat of things available in the past - which is nice for those that don't already have them, especially frostcaster but then why not grim harlequin like so many asked for this last month? notably, I already have literally all the things in this month's showcase

People will be happy to have the cowgirl hat that don't already

But it seems even the crown store folks are getting lazy this year - the featured things this last month are crown gem items that one could have gotten the entire time anyway. But a super expensive House that was super limited time... while those crown crate items were available seemingly forever now

The bureaucracy evident in the assortment and timing is evident and so strange, and really needs to be looked at. What possible rationale is there for something like 1) announce a statuette for ESO+ members that's basically a variation on the dozen or more we already all have? 2) announce specifically when that will be available, then withdrawn? How could it possibly matter? You want to give ESO+ members a little something extra why not just in-game mail it when it's done, with a little note, rather than have it's timing in an article on the website? Same with in-game furniture purchase items... a footnote about a sale in an otherwise unrelated article "courtyard items for sale Nov 23rd through 27th" I would hazard to guess most people are wholly unaware of the housing editor furnishing purchase option most of the time, and even less of those people read a footnote at the end of a festival article announcing this. But the New Moon cat is in the crown showcase as a "featured" item even though anyone who is even vaguely aware of the crown store has seen it there for over a month already.

This is not a complaint about these things as clearly I am one of the minuscule percentage of people who do read and notice these things. It's just odd how you come up with a template of how one of your teams will do something and repeatedly perform the same pattern without analyzing whether the initial plan, in fact, makes any sense.


What's probably the most pertinent info in that article and I will highlight it here is the frostcaster motif is one of the only crown-store only motifs so if you really want it remember you have to purchase it, it's not available in-game so mark your calendar.

@ZOS_SarahHecker ,
I'm really surprised that the Iceheart motif is only going to be available for two weeks (December 23 to January 2), rather than the usual 4-5 weeks for previous monster head/shoulder/arms sets. This gives us much less time than usual to try farm the mask style page from vet Direfrost, especially given that it overlaps with the New Life Festival. Could ZoS please consider extending this period or starting the availability period earlier?

Update: Oops, I just realized this is a re-release of a style page that was previously available, so many players (including myself) already have this...

Also, does the absence of any mention of an Undaunted catch-up event indicate that ZoS have given up on a catch-up event for the Undaunted? Or is the team still making the call as to if/when to redo that event, or perhaps extend the New Life (or increase tickets from the New Life event) instead? Thanks for any update.

I've never bought a motif book before, but I'd strongly consider the Bonesnap one 😉

Lots of returning items as others have said... I was really hoping for some new hairstyles and adornments, it's been a while.