PurpleScroll wrote: »

So I want to buy the premium+bonus tome, but the ingame button to do so does absolutely nothing. I have payment info on my account, but nothing happens ingame and nothing shows up on my billing history. I've tried disabling all addons, which didn't fix it. I'm on PC-EU and in the UK, and there doesn't seem to be any way of buying the upgrade outside of the game?

I had this issue. It started working properly once I turned my steam overlay back on. If you have it on steam, try this.

The snow lay quiet across Wrothgar, unbroken save for the steady passage of hooves.

Taarente Stormaen, Grand Overlord, rode at an unhurried pace, her indrik Sable moving with calm assurance.

There were no war horns.
No banners.
No scouts reporting enemy movement.

Only a small rabbit beneath a frost-laden tree.

Taarente reined in.

For a moment, she said nothing.

Sable lowered her head slightly, watching.

The rabbit twitched once, unaware it had become, for reasons unclear, a matter of importance.

Taarente considered it with the same measured calm she might bring to a siege.

“I do not believe this is what they meant by conquest.”

The staff came to hand. Lightning gathered, clean, precise, utterly disproportionate.

The rabbit did not resist.

Later, when the count had reached one hundred, the snow told its own quiet story.

Taarente stood still, looking across the hillside.

“This is not a campaign,” she said at last. “It is an accounting exercise.”

They rode back without ceremony.

No songs marked their return. Only a merchant, polite and unsurprised, accepted the tally.

A small, soft toy rabbit was placed upon the counter.

Taarente regarded it for a moment, then set down the tokens she had earned.

“We came here with purpose once,” she said quietly. “I should like to do so again.”

They left the toy where it lay.

And turned their path toward something that mattered.

Mudcrabs

Thumbless_Bot wrote: »

This post is answering a question that doesnt need to be answered.

It's the equivalent of saying what is the best way to mow a sidewalk.

What makes weaving good design, rather than just something players adapted to?

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Kallykat wrote: »

Auto-looting with excess points at the end is better than just losing the points, but I'm still not sure why there has to be a cap to begin with (especially one that wasn't made clear by the devs up front or in the game). So what if people can unlock all the pages of the next tome automatically? If they'd rather save their points for the next season and be able to buy what they want in one go, who cares? I hate timers, and I hate having rewards that I want but can't claim yet because I have to slowly unlock them hanging over my head for long stretches of time. I also don't like having one currency just to unlock access to things which you need to earn another currency in order to actually acquire.

This is where “this is a player-focused method to improve things that allows people to play less” conflicts with “this is a corporation-focused method to keep people interacting with the game (an therefore more inclined to spend money)”

The idea of Season Passes in any game, not just ESO, is that they want players to be incentivized to interact with the game frequently. If it were set up in a way where someone could just grind one season and then log off for three whole months because they have enough currency, that’s three whole months of that player not interacting with the game… and not spending money on it.

Sure, everyone can argue “but I would spend more money if I wasn’t feeling forced to!” but… that’s one person. Pretty well every Live-service game is trying to add FOMO passes of this sort because they work and there’s a lot of research showing that they do.

The devs can try to make things more player-friendly, but they also have to answer to the suits who are basically seeing players as moneybags. It is a painful position for the devs, honestly so I don’t blame them, but I understand why some things are going in the direction they are.

I disagree.
The concept of Season Passes is to gain revenue for future development.

What studies are you referencing. I found studies for FoMO as it relates to emotional responses from lonely persons. I did not find a valid study that relates FoMO to gaming options. If you could point toward a specific valid study, I would read it.

(Disclaimer: I think the concept of battle passes work to keep players engaged comes from the same folks that think the concept 'play together: stay together' actually works to keep a game alive. One of the indications that a business is struggling financially is down-sizing. When a business starts reducing employees and closing unproductive locations it is because they are removing what doesn't work. One of the indicators that a game is struggling is when they start removing or neutralizing PvP and group events. They do this because PvP and Group play are not profitable in an MMORPG game.)

Speaking from a position of being both a creator and a 'suit.' I will suggest that no one cares more about the consumer base than the executive level. We know where the revenue comes from. We know that unhappy consumers do not spend money. Gaming is a business. It has to make money to keep making products. It is not fair to blame executives if the development is not going your way. The development team is a creative group that is influenced first and most by their own personal preferences. If the player base does not like what they like, they do tend to take it personally. (This is why fitting the development team to the project is very important.) If you do not like the direction things are going, it IS the development team that comes up with the ideas and pitches them toward a green.

Their lack of creativity for the endeavor/challenges is astounding.

Someone might ask you, what makes a hero? One who can admirably vanquish 1000 tiny creatures that can't defend themselves, of course. Now, go forth and make Alduin (insert any other ruthless being you wish here) proud. Do try and stay awake though.

I think the idea is to set the expectation that a tome will have 10 pages and then may or may not have some unknown number of bonus pages which unlock together.

Or maybe they just can't count above 10, who knows.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

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Broken23 wrote: »

Beautiful character! Which face tattoo is that?

That would be part of the Midnight Rising Makeup

Edited to add: Its part of the Order of the Lamp Crown Crates which are coming back this month ~