$10 Buys you... what?

Fenris Wolffe

I pre-ordered the Imperial Edition.
I defended the game to friends, saying I was sure the bugs would all get worked out.
I've stuck around with a Nightblade main, and waited for him to be viable in medium armor with dual wield and a bow.

Now, today, I can see the same things I paid almost $100 for, on sale for $10 at several stores.

The game is still buggy. Skills are still broken. I have ONE bank shared by ALL my alts, but the number of slots doesn't increase automatically to fit the alts using it.

How much longer do we expect this game to last at this rate? Sorely disappointed, because it is beautiful to look at, and is fun to play most of the time....

Darrett

It's the standard edition that's on sale for $10, and only the physical version if it's still in stock in that particular store.

But I get the point. ZOS is just moving too slow to react to the problems, and confidence is eroding.

zgrssd

Darrett wrote: »

It's the standard edition that's on sale for $10, and only the physical version if it's still in stock in that particular store.

That.
They propably just ordered too many physical copies. I and my 3 friends got it from the internet. We haven dozens of games where we have no physical copy for. Steam in particular, but also gog.com, gamersgate and the like.

Actually: Are there still people buying physical games?

Kulrig

zgrssd wrote: »

Actually: Are there still people buying physical games?

For collector's edition stuff I want, yeah. Sometimes console games. That said, so far this year the only physical copies I bought were ESO and Dark Souls 2. Before that it was Diablo 3 a couple of years back.

DireKit

$10.00 buys you about £7.33 worth of potatoes.

But not if you want exploding potatoes. Nitroglycerin costs extra.

seneferab16_ESO

zgrssd wrote: »

Darrett wrote: »

It's the standard edition that's on sale for $10, and only the physical version if it's still in stock in that particular store.

That.
They propably just ordered too many physical copies. I and my 3 friends got it from the internet. We haven dozens of games where we have no physical copy for. Steam in particular, but also gog.com, gamersgate and the like.

Actually: Are there still people buying physical games?

This.
And well.. If you get upset because a product you paid full price for happens to go on sale.. then.. well.. honey.. you're going to spend the rest of your adult life upset.

Rodario

zgrssd wrote: »

Darrett wrote: »

It's the standard edition that's on sale for $10, and only the physical version if it's still in stock in that particular store.

That.
They propably just ordered too many physical copies. I and my 3 friends got it from the internet. We haven dozens of games where we have no physical copy for. Steam in particular, but also gog.com, gamersgate and the like.

Actually: Are there still people buying physical games?

Right here, mate. I only buy digital copies of old games, cause they're cheap on steam and mostly don't exist as physical copies anymore. Otherwise I vastly prefer physical CEs, which look nice on my shelves.

Ragekniv

Yeah, count me among the livid!

Are you kidding me, I pre-paid $112.59 for the PS4 Imperial edition at Gamestop in February!

Fortunately, I returned that pre-paid PS4 Imperial edition after the holiday massacre patch and the benching of my Templar!

Beta and three months subscription revenue later with no game stability, workable solution to bots and class balance leaves me questioning how long ESO will remain relevant.

Shiroro

I ain't even mad that I bought the imperial edition for full price. I got my money's worth from the purchase price. I just want them to fix the game man.

boris719b14_ESO

Fenris Wolffe wrote: »

I've stuck around with a Nightblade main, and waited for him to be viable in medium armor with dual wield and a bow.

I quote this part because I just made a post on the topic, since I too am a nightblade dual wielder with medium armor who can't stay alive.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/108618/unreasonable-weakness-vulnerability?new=1

Dusty5

Its called a fire sale. They know what is about to hit and they need to clean the shelves at the stores before they get stuck with 100's of copies no one wants.

Ninnghizhidda

It all depends on how you see it. It cost me 120 Pounds to pre-order a physical copy of the Imperial Edition and get it shipped to my country since it wasn't available over here. And I am perfectly happy with it.

Most things will "devalue" given enough time, especially if there is still large stocks available. Some others though, will go up in price ten times, if they become rare and much wanted.

This is how "collector's items" work, and collectors have a slightly different mindset than the average gamer (nothing wrong with them). I have been building a collection of "special" editions since the times when games came on floppy discs, and I will always buy the physical edition of a game. It is exactly like having an album on MP3s versus a limited collector's vinyl edition.

Hadria

It's the name of the game digital all the way party woo...

DireKit

Ninnghizhidda wrote: »

It all depends on how you see it. It cost me 120 Pounds to pre-order a physical copy of the Imperial Edition and get it shipped to my country since it wasn't available over here. And I am perfectly happy with it.

Most things will "devalue" given enough time, especially if there is still large stocks available. Some others though, will go up in price ten times, if they become rare and much wanted.

This is how "collector's items" work, and collectors have a slightly different mindset than the average gamer (nothing wrong with them). I have been building a collection of "special" editions since the times when games came on floppy discs, and I will always buy the physical edition of a game. It is exactly like having an album on MP3s versus a limited collector's vinyl edition.

Plus without the Molag Bal statue thinger, what is our fluffy, fat, bug-eyed unicorn plushie supposed to have epic battles to the death with, We ask you?! WHAT?!

IS THIS WHAT THIS WORLD IS COMING TO? Because if it is, We don't wanna live on this planet anymore!

Gilvoth

I too am a nightblade dual wielder with medium armor who can't stay alive.

noah_Skeennub18_ESO

I feel pretty cheated paying for the Imperial Edition. I hope this brings more people into the game though. $10 is SOO cheap! people on the fence should give the game a go.

Blackwidow

It was not guaranteed to be fun. Should have looked on the box.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4

Carnage2K4

For $10 you can get 2/3rds of a horse from the online sore...

stungateb14_ESO

Ive seen physical copies of CE World of Warcraft sale on ebay for over a $1000.00 autographed ones over $10,000 lets see a digital copy resale for a... peanut.

DrOrpheus

Plus huge companies like walmart and amzaon ( who had a sale last week, albeit not as low) mean nothing towards the games success. Now if zeni dropped the price significantly we'd know something is up. Hell you could get standard edition for like 39.99 before launch and imperial for the price of the normal standard price, both were a month plus before launch. Also in walmarts case physical copies of mmo's rarely sell well from retail stores unless they are special editions, they probably jumped on the bandwagon and saw all the pre-orders and thought they could cash in on it.

Ragekniv

stungateb14_ESO wrote: »

Ive seen physical copies of CE World of Warcraft sale on ebay for over a $1000.00 autographed ones over $10,000 lets see a digital copy resale for a... peanut.

Apples and oranges! WoW release date was November 23, 2004.

WoW had epic dungeon crawls, pvp battlegrounds, end game content, social dungeons, etc. Even with its critics, they have been very successful as a MMO franchise.

Let's see if ESO is still around or relevant in ten years!

Maverick827

$10 gets you one more account towards the 10 requirement in your small guild so that you can get a guild bank.

AlexDougherty

Fenris Wolffe wrote: »

I pre-ordered the Imperial Edition.
I defended the game to friends, saying I was sure the bugs would all get worked out.
I've stuck around with a Nightblade main, and waited for him to be viable in medium armor with dual wield and a bow.

Now, today, I can see the same things I paid almost $100 for, on sale for $10 at several stores.

The game is still buggy. Skills are still broken. I have ONE bank shared by ALL my alts, but the number of slots doesn't increase automatically to fit the alts using it.

How much longer do we expect this game to last at this rate? Sorely disappointed, because it is beautiful to look at, and is fun to play most of the time....

Yeah it was overpriced imo, even with the statue.

And in Britain it was £100, that's about $150, which is why I bought the other version with the explorers pack.