Character Slots Limits

Cold91 · April 24

Greetings,

I'm not sure if there is a specific category for this topic, so I'm just posting in General. As the title suggests I've a burning question about character slot limits.

Does ZOS have any plans to increase the character slot limit past the 20 maximum that exists now? If they did, would it need to be alongside another class release as in the past?

I personally have maxed my slots, and still would like more, at least 3 more but preferably 5 more. I don't think character slot additions need to be married to any class release. To the best of my recollection, at least once ZOS has added extra slots independent of any class release. I'm sure any future plans ZOS may have about adding or not any new classes won't be answered here. I did however want to get the question out, and post about my own desire for it. Hopefully some others will add their voices to, and ZOS will see the demand, and sell us some more character slots!

Adhara · April 24

[snip] I am once again asking for more character slots
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PeacefulAnarchy · April 24

When they added arc a number of people asked them to add 3 slots instead of 2, but they did not. So as much as I would like a few more character slots I'm not holding my breath.

heimdall14_9 · April 24

having 78 characters between 16 accounts with both pc and psn mains being maxed i would have enjoyed having more a long time ago , but now until other areas of the game get looked at and fixed i dont have a need for new characters ... tho its a good idea i think zos could use their time in development on bigger things

wolfie1.0. · April 24

heimdall14_9 wrote: »

having 78 characters between 16 accounts with both pc and psn mains being maxed i would have enjoyed having more a long time ago , but now until other areas of the game get looked at and fixed i dont have a need for new characters ... tho its a good idea i think zos could use their time in development on bigger things

Ya i have done the multiple accounts thing. I have like 30 accounts and down to 180 characters. (Deleted quite a few on alts)

I wouldnt mind a few more 24 or 25 are nice numbers.

But honestly I think i am good as is. Between my 3 primary accounts that I care about i have plenty to do

Emeratis · April 24

This is on my top three most wished for things in game right now. I have several character concepts I'd love to have in game. Almost every other mmo offers at least double the character slots eso does and it would be really nice to see even a slight increase before more classes. I know a lot of rpers who would be very happy with just a few more slots to play with.

Nemesis7884 · April 24

At least 1 additional slot so we can have 3 per class... would be amazing for update 50

eashi · April 24

Please, more character slots. We need more RP characters.

Also for people who have multiple accounts. Good for you for finding a workaround that worked for you. This workaround doesn't work for a lot of people for a few reasons.

1. A lot of people play only on one account.
2. Collectibles. Any Motif, emote, mount, pet, etc. This is huge as it would take a ton more time to grind all of the stuff out on a second account and some of the stuff only drops for a limited time or is no longer dropping.
3. Housing. First off, just the houses themselves but also being able to make things to go into the houses and set them up. yes you could just travel to one of your "friends" (your primary account) house but housing is still important here.
4. Titles/Achievements/Clears: Many people have specific titles they use on specific characters or have run through specific content on a character for a reason. If they have a new character on their main account and they want a title, they might already have that. On a second account they would have to get this title again. This gets challenging when a new account needs to be leveled and geared.
5. CP. Champion points are account wide, you would have to re-farm CP on subsequent accounts.
6. Gear. Same thing with gear as with CP. Gear is account bound.

Those are just some of the reasons that the whole multiple account thing is a non-starter as a solution for a lot of people.

Cold91 · April 24

I'm seeing lots of agreement and lots of good reasons. Makes me glad to see that the demand is real.

I didn't even consider the people who would need more slots for RP reasons, or the master crafters who need slots like a factory needs machines. I just enjoy making Character concepts and bringing them to life, creating bespoke builds for them, and playing the content that seems most appropriate and thematic.

C'mon ZOS, throw us all a bone. More crown sales, more player engagement, increased longevity of active accounts for you. And more slots for us. Win Win.

Blood_again · April 24

I still have 3 slots free, so...

Yes, give us MORE slots please!!!

AlienSlof · April 24

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

I have like 30 accounts and down to 180 characters. (Deleted quite a few on alts)

I wouldnt mind a few more 24 or 25 are nice numbers.

My mind is blown!

Adhara · April 24

I have 3 WoW accounts (though all currently inactive, because the most recent expansion seems tailor-made to annoy me specifically) but the only reason I can do that is they're all linked to the same Battle.net account so that my mounts, cosmetics, etc. are shared. If there were a way to do that for ESO accounts, I might consider having multiple accounts, but we don't even share our things across servers in the same platform in this game (I had to start over from scratch buying cool cosmetics when I started playing on PC-EU).

Joe_90 · April 24

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

heimdall14_9 wrote: »

having 78 characters between 16 accounts with both pc and psn mains being maxed i would have enjoyed having more a long time ago , but now until other areas of the game get looked at and fixed i dont have a need for new characters ... tho its a good idea i think zos could use their time in development on bigger things

Ya i have done the multiple accounts thing. I have like 30 accounts and down to 180 characters. (Deleted quite a few on alts)

I wouldnt mind a few more 24 or 25 are nice numbers.

But honestly I think i am good as is. Between my 3 primary accounts that I care about i have plenty to do

Sorry but wow! There is life out there Jim

16BitForestCat · April 24

ZOS could make even more money off me. But I'm not going buy character slots to create any further new characters and fill up my five remaining slots. Not when I don't even know if we're ever going to get a new class or race that would make me "need" to have new alts. If ZOS would guarantee that we could always buy new slots over the "normal max" in order to create chars when new content drops, I'd have maxed out my slots years ago. Instead, even though I've got ideas for many new alts, I'm not buying slots and making them. I don't want to be put into a position of having to delete a character I invested a lot of time in, just to make a new one for the latest class or race. I do have multiple accounts, but I only seriously play on my main, which has ESO+ and all the good stuff unlocked.

Back when we were getting new classes every few years, I hoped ZOS would change things so that even if you were at max slots, you could still buy at least three new ones per expansion. One each for mag/stam/hybrid builds, for those interested in such things. Me, I just want more chars for adventure RP and storage.

Nemesis7884 · April 25

Since this is a very frequent request, I am wondering why we dont hear feedback on this or why its not happening; yea I would assume additional character slots cost some more server capacity (but not memory since only 1 can be in game at a time); but my assumption would be that the additional server cost is easily compensated by additional revenues since more characters means more engagement, more outfits, more mounts, more crown store etc...?

playsforfun · April 27

Yes I would also like more character slots, I have purposely left the last 2 slots empty just incase they do ever bring a new class out so it's at 18/20 but I would love more as it annoys me those 2 slots are not being used just incase of future classes releasing.

Esha76 · April 27

I too would like to let the Devs know I would enjoy the ability to purchase more character slots. I have all 20 slots filled, and I have repeatedly deleted and created new characters due to new combinations possible from new gear, subclassing, scribing, etc.... I enjoy re-experiencing the game from other class/combination perspectives.

illutian · April 27

I mean...sure...I guess. Assuming the infrastructure of the database can handle the increased 'per user' data storage.

But why do you need more slots than there are classes to play???

Tra_Lalan · April 27

Would be great to have at least one more slot when the challange difficulty goes live and go full vestige on a new character.

onyxorb · April 27

I would LOVE more character slots (my main PC/NA has all 20 full), my other accounts are not maxed out yet.

While not a true RP, I 'do' like having a theme/background to my toons which means fashion, weapons, skills, mount, home all fit that theme.

All that being said, I have a hunch that adding more character slots will impact performance in some way, so I'm totally fine with just having deal with the current limit for now, and shoehorning multiple themes onto one character (combo of armory slots and outfit slots and addons) when posssible.

At least until they figure out a way to increase the limit, without reaching a point where my PC can't even load the game anymore.

erickhwk · April 27

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Since this is a very frequent request, I am wondering why we dont hear feedback on this or why its not happening; yea I would assume additional character slots cost some more server capacity (but not memory since only 1 can be in game at a time); but my assumption would be that the additional server cost is easily compensated by additional revenues since more characters means more engagement, more outfits, more mounts, more crown store etc...?

Characters are just a row in their database. Considering most of the community has never reached the character limit (I’ve already done this, unfortunately), the cost for them would be negligible.