firstdecan wrote: »This assumes that the new DLCs will be something you can play through, basically just another zone in the game. If ZoS manages to design something that is genuinely replayable, sub hopping may not be the best option for that DLC (if you enjoy it and want to play it more than a month).
Other than that, your plan is sound. The only thing you've forgotten is the 1500 crowns you'll get for your 1 month sub. So if there's 3 DLCs a year, you can sub hop 2 of them and then buy the third with your accumulated crowns, thus spending only $30.00.
firstdecan wrote: »This assumes that the new DLCs will be something you can play through, basically just another zone in the game. If ZoS manages to design something that is genuinely replayable, sub hopping may not be the best option for that DLC (if you enjoy it and want to play it more than a month).
Other than that, your plan is sound. The only thing you've forgotten is the 1500 crowns you'll get for your 1 month sub. So if there's 3 DLCs a year, you can sub hop 2 of them and then buy the third with your accumulated crowns, thus spending only $30.00.
AH! I really like this idea... using the crowns given during the sub-periods to buy the DLCs... I guess I could buy DLCs I REALLY love.
And yea, @Ixtyr is right, it REALLY depends on the cost of the DLC. I was thinking DLC would cost like $30 or $40... but if they follow DCUOs model they would be $10 A piece and release about 2-3 year. If THAT's the case... subscribing at all seems kind of like a waste of money to me...
So I was considering the whole subscription model and the lack of future loyalty rewards and I was wondering if the following would actually be a viable subscription hopping plan.If 3 DLC packs are released a year and they cost $30 each (pure conjecture), that would be $90 for the year to play the DLC packs, but sub-hopping would allow you to play the same DLC and only have to pay $45… that’s a 50% savings!
- Unsubscribe to ESO once ESO:TU is released.
- Subscribe when new DLC content is released.
- Play through that content within 1 month.
- Unsubscribe after finished with content.
- Repeat steps 2-4.
Would there be any downside to this sort of plan if my chief concern is playing content and I don’t care about the 10% bonuses/1500 crowns/owning DLC?
So I was considering the whole subscription model and the lack of future loyalty rewards and I was wondering if the following would actually be a viable subscription hopping plan.If 3 DLC packs are released a year and they cost $30 each (pure conjecture), that would be $90 for the year to play the DLC packs, but sub-hopping would allow you to play the same DLC and only have to pay $45… that’s a 50% savings!
- Unsubscribe to ESO once ESO:TU is released.
- Subscribe when new DLC content is released.
- Play through that content within 1 month.
- Unsubscribe after finished with content.
- Repeat steps 2-4.
Would there be any downside to this sort of plan if my chief concern is playing content and I don’t care about the 10% bonuses/1500 crowns/owning DLC?
This gives me a headache.
Pay the huge subscription of 12 euro a month or whatever. Its a pizza and a few beers....
Then you get everything and when you want to stop playing, you stop paying. Come back, pay sub again and get everything.
My head hurts...
So I was considering the whole subscription model and the lack of future loyalty rewards and I was wondering if the following would actually be a viable subscription hopping plan.If 3 DLC packs are released a year and they cost $30 each (pure conjecture), that would be $90 for the year to play the DLC packs, but sub-hopping would allow you to play the same DLC and only have to pay $45… that’s a 50% savings!
- Unsubscribe to ESO once ESO:TU is released.
- Subscribe when new DLC content is released.
- Play through that content within 1 month.
- Unsubscribe after finished with content.
- Repeat steps 2-4.
Would there be any downside to this sort of plan if my chief concern is playing content and I don’t care about the 10% bonuses/1500 crowns/owning DLC?
This gives me a headache.
Pay the huge subscription of 12 euro a month or whatever. Its a pizza and a few beers....
Then you get everything and when you want to stop playing, you stop paying. Come back, pay sub again and get everything.
My head hurts...
Or just pay for the DLC packs that interest you and never pay a sub fee again. $167 per year in discounted sub costs vs maybe $40 worth of DLC pack purchases AND you get to access them until the game is extinct.
If there's only one DLC pack per year that I want to purchase then imagine how many pizzas I can buy per year to eat with my friends or family just from those savings? Although, I doubt that ZO$ will be able to churn out more than one *quality* DLC per quarter and sustain it past this year. They haven't been able to give us a quality update under a sub model for months.
So I was considering the whole subscription model and the lack of future loyalty rewards and I was wondering if the following would actually be a viable subscription hopping plan.If 3 DLC packs are released a year and they cost $30 each (pure conjecture), that would be $90 for the year to play the DLC packs, but sub-hopping would allow you to play the same DLC and only have to pay $45… that’s a 50% savings!
- Unsubscribe to ESO once ESO:TU is released.
- Subscribe when new DLC content is released.
- Play through that content within 1 month.
- Unsubscribe after finished with content.
- Repeat steps 2-4.
Would there be any downside to this sort of plan if my chief concern is playing content and I don’t care about the 10% bonuses/1500 crowns/owning DLC?
This gives me a headache.
Pay the huge subscription of 12 euro a month or whatever. Its a pizza and a few beers....
Then you get everything and when you want to stop playing, you stop paying. Come back, pay sub again and get everything.
My head hurts...
Or just pay for the DLC packs that interest you and never pay a sub fee again. $167 per year in discounted sub costs vs maybe $40 worth of DLC pack purchases AND you get to access them until the game is extinct.
If there's only one DLC pack per year that I want to purchase then imagine how many pizzas I can buy per year to eat with my friends or family just from those savings? Although, I doubt that ZO$ will be able to churn out more than one *quality* DLC per quarter and sustain that rate past this year. They haven't been able to give us a quality update under a sub model for months.
DLC´s in games are usually mechanics, else nobody would sub or buy them. Sure a new map with some quests sounds nice at first, but its nothing you would pay a lot of money for.
Therefore DLC´s are usually key game mechanics such as housing, barber shops, dye systems, new professions, pvp & pve access such as dungeons or Bgs, new race & class, spell crafting ...
That said, right now it seems more reasonable to just buy the DLC and never sub. Keep in mind, if you sub then you still don't own the DLC, you can only use it for the time being. As soon you unsub, all is gone.
DLC´s in games are usually mechanics, else nobody would sub or buy them. Sure a new map with some quests sounds nice at first, but its nothing you would pay a lot of money for.
Therefore DLC´s are usually key game mechanics such as housing, barber shops, dye systems, new professions, pvp & pve access such as dungeons or Bgs, new race & class, spell crafting ...
That said, right now it seems more reasonable to just buy the DLC and never sub. Keep in mind, if you sub then you still don't own the DLC, you can only use it for the time being. As soon you unsub, all is gone.
ugh... I was hoping the mechanics would be behind the free releases and new areas would be the pay-DLC. But, you're probably right.