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Did they just monetize login incentives via the tome system?
While I do acknowledge that the seasonal tome has more interesting rewards than we have been getting, there is a way in which these rewards aren't exlusive.
Most common: We have been getting potions and scrolls for free for a long time.
Moderately common: We have been getting materials and gold for free for a long time.
Less common: We have been getting visual changing items once in a while.
Overall, I don't have a problem with players funding the game. I even encourage others to spend money on the game and encourage development to release new exciting things for us to buy such as limited availability skills or powerful weapons to use in combat. I personally feel that the way that I like to play the game was remorselessly destroyed by development and I still purchased the premium tome with the hopes that the game improves.
That said, I've been a low information player when it comes to the seasonal tome rewards. My first thought was "wait a minute, we just stopped getting all of this stuff for free and now some of it we have to pay for the privilige for?"
Does anyone else feel that way regarding the premium rewards? I definitely have had a chuckle about this transpiring.
Most common: We have been getting potions and scrolls for free for a long time.
Moderately common: We have been getting materials and gold for free for a long time.
Less common: We have been getting visual changing items once in a while.
Overall, I don't have a problem with players funding the game. I even encourage others to spend money on the game and encourage development to release new exciting things for us to buy such as limited availability skills or powerful weapons to use in combat. I personally feel that the way that I like to play the game was remorselessly destroyed by development and I still purchased the premium tome with the hopes that the game improves.
That said, I've been a low information player when it comes to the seasonal tome rewards. My first thought was "wait a minute, we just stopped getting all of this stuff for free and now some of it we have to pay for the privilige for?"
Does anyone else feel that way regarding the premium rewards? I definitely have had a chuckle about this transpiring.
Re: Did they just monetize login incentives via the tome system?
It seems like everyone is looking at the rewards and do not notice that the grind level went way up to get them, which is probably there in order disguise the bare minimum of new playable content we will be getting.
katanagirl1
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Re: Did they just monetize login incentives via the tome system?
It's fair to compare them. There are 8,000 seals in the 97-day free Tome. That's about 547 per week at 13.8 weeks total.
Daily endeavors used to give us about 540 seals per week (225 per weekly + 7x 45, sometimes more or less).
So they're very comparable, but honestly, we also have a few crates, styles pages, Crown-exclusive furnishings, and more in the free track. So I personally think we're getting more, and I prefer it (if they would only improve the UI), but I think it's fair to say that they're comparable and unfounded to say that it's a scam/money grab.
There are fewer things from daily rewards like Crown Potions, but also more non-consumable rewards.
This is all free, so there's no monetization of daily Seals or daily rewards the way I look at it.
Daily endeavors used to give us about 540 seals per week (225 per weekly + 7x 45, sometimes more or less).
So they're very comparable, but honestly, we also have a few crates, styles pages, Crown-exclusive furnishings, and more in the free track. So I personally think we're getting more, and I prefer it (if they would only improve the UI), but I think it's fair to say that they're comparable and unfounded to say that it's a scam/money grab.
There are fewer things from daily rewards like Crown Potions, but also more non-consumable rewards.
This is all free, so there's no monetization of daily Seals or daily rewards the way I look at it.
Re: Scrying and Excavating Takes Too Long to Level Up
its fine. Just level it up to level 5-7 in artaeum with scrolls and then do the better leads in the world
Re: Scrying and Excavating Takes Too Long to Level Up
AcadianPaladin wrote: »While the ideas here to make leveling scrying/excavation a bit less painful are indeed welcome and helpful, I agree with OP that both skills level too slowly.
I honestly wouldn't care how long they take to level if they would just move the treasure chest passive to level 2 so I didn't have to keep constantly leveling any character that does dungeons. It's not like I need multiple characters able to scry and excavate, but that passive is pretty nice.
Re: Claim 99 Daily Logins in 97 Days
And to redeem every free and premium tier reward, you need less than 20K. (And if you are just redeeming free tier, it's more like 10K.) So 25-42K total possible. When you need only 10-20K. So in that context, missing 15 from missing a day is mostly background noise
20k to unlock all pages, 15990 for claim all free tier rewards.
Re: Expiration for tome points and tome point caches?
Today I received a response to my Ticket:
This suggests they have decided to restore Caches for those who ask (for those affected by the current currency-expiry-not-clearly-communicated-in-game situation at least). That might be reading too much into the response though.[...] I understand you are reaching out about opening your Cache of Tome Points and wish to have them restored. I'll do my best to help get this resolved for you.
In order for us to best assist you, please provide the following information:
- How many Cache of Tome Points have you opened?
- How many of the opened Cache of Tome Points do you wish to be resotred?
As soon as we have this info, we will investigate this issue for you further and be back in touch as soon as possible. [...]
JeroenB
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Re: Moongrave Fane Achievements - CUBED and DROP THE BLOCK
1 — it’s 3 seconds between each, not 3 seconds total.
2 — Try hitting the cube instead of waiting for it to fall from the sky, not sure if this works but worth a shot.
2 — Try hitting the cube instead of waiting for it to fall from the sky, not sure if this works but worth a shot.
Soarora
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Re: April 20th Vengeance Only..
Erickson9610 wrote: »When Vengeance becomes permanent in Update 50, you should be able to queue in there instantly and then PvP in there while waiting for the queue for Gray Host. Update 49 added the ability to queue for other Cyrodiil/IC campaigns while you're already in one.
I like both Vengeance and Gray Host. I hope ZOS adds Werewolf to Vengeance soon, preferably some time after we get the reworked Werewolf in Update 50.
technically speaking, you have always been able to queue up for multiple cyro camps at the same time
what ive done in the past is queue for grey host (notice i has 20-30 person queue) and then queue for blackreach (which pops immediately), so i can be in blackreach while i still am queued for grey host
the recent update just made it easier by allowing you to start the queue while already in cyro instead of having to jump outside of cyro to do the same thing
Re: College of Winterhold Feature Request
Just a reminder: the standard schools of magic do not exist at this point in Elder Scrolls lore.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Proposal:_Schools_of_Magic
Shad Astula uses a format similar to them, but it has yet to be adopted by the Mages Guild. In fact, it is more common for magic of 2E Tamriel to be defined by the adventurers themselves:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:What's_an_Arcanist?_Part_1
It was not until well after ESO where the standard schools of magic became commonplace.
As for a Doylist explanation though, it has been confirmed that the Class refresh is essentially preventing the addition of anything new to combat (e.g. new Classes, Skills, weapons, etc) until it is finished.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Proposal:_Schools_of_Magic
Shad Astula uses a format similar to them, but it has yet to be adopted by the Mages Guild. In fact, it is more common for magic of 2E Tamriel to be defined by the adventurers themselves:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:What's_an_Arcanist?_Part_1
It was not until well after ESO where the standard schools of magic became commonplace.
As for a Doylist explanation though, it has been confirmed that the Class refresh is essentially preventing the addition of anything new to combat (e.g. new Classes, Skills, weapons, etc) until it is finished.
agelonestar wrote: »agelonestar wrote: »Very disappointing.
2025 was a total write-off. It looks like 2026 will be too. Where's a new content? I mean real content, not just some added quests or updated systems? If you're a long term player, there's nothing new here.
What would you like to have seen content wise?
I understand the desire from a studio perspective to move away from a crushing schedule - and I'm not saying the changes being made aren't welcome. That said, let's be honest - most of what we're seeing is a change/upgrade to existing game structures, with a few quests and bit and pieces thrown in.
Where's the new zone to explore? The new architecture? The furnishing that goes with it? The stories? The new characters? What about new classes, new skill lines, new weapons, new races..... anything actually NEW?
When I think about the breadth and scope of what was delivered with - for example - Summerset, versus what came out last year and what appears to be planned for this year, there is just no comparison. There is a distinct lack of new content. Period. But your pricing structure won't reflect that.
So just a few things to follow up on. Thank you for providing your thoughts on some of the content we showed today.
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What about new classes, new skill lines, new weapons, new races
The team is in the middle of the class refresh, so these are out of scope for time being. Once we get through a good portion of these, we can get back to working on items like this. But they are things we would like to get to in the next few years.
