Not everything should be BOUGHT!

BretonMage · May 3

ImmortalCX wrote: »

There need to be apex rewards that represent skill and systems, not just cash.

The antiquities system has nothing to do with skill and everything to do with RNG. I'd rather all antiquities be purchaseable by gold than relying on RNG.

At least in-game gold is respectful of our time. RNG is not. Ever tried to get the full 3 codices for an antiquity in the IA or West Weald? I'd rather grind for 10M in gold. And no, I don't get it from crafting dailies, nor does ESO+ make much of a difference.

AvalonRanger · May 3

"I was proud of my stack of antiquity furnishings. Today I found out you
can buy most/all of them from a vendor, for relatively cheap."

Both agree and disagree.

I have a too many of golden housing object now, but I'm not much interesting in it.
On the contrary, I want more general structure parts than too much special shape model.

But, some of general structure object need special material, I can't crank it out from my craft bench easily.

So. I want to sell more golden housing object for buying things I actually want.

Danikat · May 3

I think it's ok to have things to spend gold on, especially if you have to earn the ability to buy them. Otherwise what's the point of having gold?

Koshka · May 3

To be fair, getting 3 copies of certain antiquities is already very difficult. I am looking at you, Apocryphal Well!

SeaGtGruff · May 3

I see this as akin to the Achievement Vendor, where you can buy certain furnishings only after earning a specific achievement in the game. Apparently scrying and excavating 3 of those Antiquity furnishings is an achievement, so once you've earned the achievement-- which is not as easy as it sounds, given the RNG involved-- you're rewarded with the ability to buy more of them for gold if you want. At least they aren't like those Antiquity furnishings that drop like candy until you've got several dozens of them, and keep finding more leads for them even though you've already got more than you know what to do with.

ADarklore · May 3

How DARE a 'for profit' company offer things that make them a profit.

fakingfocused · May 3

The game could really benefit from having certain items exclusively available to tougher achievements. There is something about the thrill of the hunt for unique items and the harder to obtain the more it is appreciated. Or the rarer the item the more thrilll of the chase. Miss the days of actually sweating to get solo arena weapons because they were that cut above, but felt good putting in the work to earn them and then enjoying them after brought such joy from the sense of accomplishment and slight power chase.

Cooperharley · May 3

ADarklore wrote: »

How DARE a 'for profit' company offer things that make them a profit.

I think it's naive to think that a "for profit" company wouldn't have an online store. Like you said, they gotta keep the lights on and pay our developers!

The issue many have is the quantity and quality, which ultimately take away from things in game. There's a balance, and ESO is HEAVILY invested on the microtransaction side over the in-game earnable rewards side

Diminish · May 6

I don't get the correlation between ESO+ and having substantially more in-game gold. Want to get "rich"? Farm quality items, not quantity. Less hassle to maintain selling everything, takes up way less bag space. I'm currently sitting on 20-30M in monster style masks, and just recently (since campaign reset a few days ago) started farming war torte recipes, another ~11M or so there... not including all the bonus mats, which is pushing 20k unrefined in total, you get farming the recipe drops). By these sitting in my inventory I lose like 10 bag space. Go farm 30-40M worth of mats and tell me what your bag space is looking like if you don't have ESO+.

I said it earlier, and I'll say it again... ESO+ is a steal for what you get. It's definitely not going to make you noticeably richer... The crown store would be the same ol' crown store (if not worse) if ESO+ didn't exist, and in-game rewards would still be just as non-existent as they currently are.

To me, it sounds like it's your approach to "becoming rich" that is all wrong; completely unrelated to ESO+. You know what happens when you finally have a lot of gold? Not much of anything different. Some people splurge and go on spending sprees... Personally, I literally hardly ever spend gold myself; the number in the bank just keeps getting bigger. That has nothing to do with ESO+.