Consideration for Account-Wide Gold Management

peacenote · May 28

Now, I don't feel strongly about this, and if it were implemented I wouldn't complain. ESO has bigger things to be concerned with, either way.

However. I will point out that for some MMO players, individual gold levels are a mild role play feature. Some people like each character to only use what they themselves earn. I myself used to play this way.

Players who prefer to think of each alt as starting the game over completely have lost a lot of supporting features for this playstyle, especially (you guessed it) due to the implementation of AwA.

So, I'm just going to point out that current state is a mild inconvenience for players who don't care about character separation, but changing this would remove yet another choice from players who may purposely choose not to put all gold into the bank or on one character for purposes of role play and/or playthrough separation. Now we all can choose whether to use our central bank or not. This proposed QoL feature would be slightly less inclusive to players who purposely choose not to.

For this reason, I would be mildly against this change. If it were implemented, it would not help me much, personally, as I am always moving other kinds of inventory between characters anyway, like motifs, recipes, and scribing scripts. We would have to have a full universal inventory for me to avoid the login/logout dance. Money is actually the least of my problems because I use my bank (which is almost always completely full of items but always has room for gold.)

Elsonso · May 28

I store everything in my bank and just extract what I need. Most times, I am pushing to the bank. I rarely pull gold out. I guess I would not stop playing if this was the next step in erasing character based RPG elements, but I would not endorse it.

LalMirchi · May 28

Arcturus wrote: »

Constantly logging in and out to transfer gold between characters, such as moving funds from daily writ characters to a main, is quite tedious. As far as I’m aware, there are no current plans to make gold an account-wide currency (per server), but I believe this would be a significant QoL improvement if implemented. I'm no expert, but I don’t see any major drawbacks to such a change.

As a clearly marked option per account I would not object but I vote no to this being the rule with no choice. Everyone of my characters is a separate entity and I abhor account wide rules.