AzuraFan wrote: »

Never. Gifting isn't enabled on my account.

Wow…it seems like I’ve seen you posting on the forms for forever about a lot of topics! I really would have thought they would have enabled gifting for you long before now!

when friend birthday or something my friend very like

at all since it is restricted to so many player´s I gone down to gifting things at christmas times only

I don't even buy crown store items. So I wouldn't be able to gift anything either.

That said, gifting is a feature that ZoS themselves implemented. It was their idea. And then they were the ones who introduced restrictions. And those restrictions are to a large degree, completely understandable. But the process behind enabling gifting isn't very transparent. And of course, I imagine the amount of people gifting has gone down, since well... people stopped being able to gift.

I personally still don't understand why players can't have a clear and well defined list of conditions that make an account eligible to have gifting enabled. The entire issue at the moment is that people have to play some sort of guessing game. Apply, reapply. Every forum thread about is just a bunch of speculation, most of it useless, other people playing the same guessing game of "why is this ancient account that has been part of multiple trading guilds, is active 24/7 since the literal release of the game not showing consistent activity?"

It seems that whatever criteria they use is already strict enough to not have to hide it as some additional security measure. I doubt that criminal elements with brand new accounts are going to suddenly accumulate X amounts of hours just because they read they need to, or acquire a lengthy log of guild and trading activity, or whatever else.

My baseless speculation is that regions play a role in this whole thing and are one of the reasons ZoS are not particularly transparent about this. A big, if not major, part of the reason gifting was restricted is that people would gift from poorer regions and "abuse" the exchange rates, buying crowns for cheaper and then gifting to other regions with higher prices. Of course costing ZoS a chunk of profit in the process. And I would not be surprised, if even now, ZoS look into people's regions when considering whether to enable gifting or not. Which... as long as the player is otherwise following the ToS, is kind of discriminatory. IF that happens. Which, how would we know if ZoS don't tell us.

ghastley wrote: »

Crown Store items are cosmetic. I prefer to give something useful, like making a crafted set, or helping with dungeon runs for dropped ones.

Not all Crown Store items are cosmetic. I gifted someone a zone DLC once, gifted someone else a class, and gifted someone a limited-time house-- but I received gold in exchange for the house, so I don't consider that to be "gifting" per se.

I don't gift at all since ZOS AI has decided that 10 years of active play with multiple guilds and zero violations doesn't qualify. Guess I'll continue sitting on 47k crowns because I really don't personally want anything from the crown store.

I gift when I need gold otherwise I use them myself.

PoppaVape wrote: »

I don't gift at all since ZOS AI has decided that 10 years of active play with multiple guilds and zero violations doesn't qualify. Guess I'll continue sitting on 47k crowns because I really don't personally want anything from the crown store.

Oooh noo don't say that! They don't use AI cause all are checked by hand!!! That's why we always get the same exact answer when we getting denied right :') ?

Other from poll:
Not anymore since they still won't allow the gifting for over 8 months....
I have given up on trying to get it back... Even cancelled my eso+ renewal due to this. In the end it's a big loss to them and not for me
I rather now spend the money on buying gifts at other companies then here on ESO.

Never. Why would I spend money on people I don't know, when I can get something for myself instead?

I gifted once or twice years ago, but my friends stopped playing this game.

I quite often buy my friends stuff from the crown store

Never. Who would I gift them to?

1-2 per year

kah wrote: »

A lot of guildees I've talked to have agreed it's not worth the hassle after finding out many long-term players can't gift. With the time limit on items, a lot of time it's not worth putting in a ticket. The item will be gone before any gifting issue is or isn't resolved.

Yeah, the whole thing makes little to no sense. I brought my wife in to the game 10 years ago. Neither of us have ever had a TOS violation. We belong to the same guilds and run similar content. We both play regularly. She has two accounts, one can gift the other can't. I tried to send her a gift and was surprised to find that I couldn't. Even more surprised when I was denied and told to play regularly and then reapply. I looked at the logs, I have over 429 days played, 1696 hours in the last year alone...hmm? I don't get it.

I do to my wife about every other moth