Official Discussion Thread for "Crown Store Showcase: June 26th, 2015"

ZOS_JasonLeavey

This is the official discussion thread for the web article, "Crown Store Showcase: June 26th, 2015."



We've got some exciting new additions coming to the Crown Store next month, including a limited time Frost Mare mount. Check out the full article to see all of our upcoming offerings!

gresiac

Im haveing à holiday so i cant buy the horse what now ? @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

LuminaLilly

Especially psyched for the evening dress. I just wish it wasn't so poofy, like the wedding dress.

BlackEar

I need that horse in my collection when riding through Cyrodiil!

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kongkim

gresiac wrote: »

Im haveing à holiday so i cant buy the horse what now ? @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

To bad for you then. its not their problem

nimander99

Woot!!! Best crown store update so far!

LillyAngel

OMG... That dress will fit my Vampire Dunmer DK just perfectly and the horse... oh my... thanks ZOS. Amazing stuff


Keep it coming

Darkknight2366

Is this going to be on the consoles aswell?

ZOS_JasonLeavey

It sure is, @Darkknight2366! You'll be able to get your Frost Mare during the advertised period on consoles, too.

Anlaemar

Not to be negative, but more crown store items and still nothing about the next content update/DLC? Not asking for every lick of information, but just something we haven't heard to keep us begging for more. SOMETHING to keep us going. The silence about it is killing me!

ZOS_JasonLeavey

@Anlaemar we've stated that we'll be sharing more details about Imperial City in July--that's pretty soon.

Anlaemar

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

@Anlaemar we've stated that we'll be sharing more details about Imperial City in July--that's pretty soon.

Ok, not much talk about that time frame that I've noticed so that's just my fault. Thanks for the information, though.

k9mouse

Can someone please help me to understand the lore behind the ice horse in more detail? How this follow lore of the TES games? From my understanding, summoning Oblivion critters only be done by train mages, not every Joe on the street and his mother. So ZOS, how can you have that everyone has an ice horse from the planes of Oblivion and still keep it with establish lore?

TBH, I don't like the fire horse or the stupid bear for the same reason I don't like an ice horse -- [snip] I still hate the idea in games that says: "if it can move, let us make a mount with it."

I can live with gold farmers, bugs, delay updates or server crashes, the quickest way to drive me and many others who love the TES game lore is to throw it out of the window. Lore SHOULD always go 1st.

The rest of the items of the items in this preview looks cool and I am digging the Gothic dress. It is / will be hard to over look lore mistakes like fire, ice and bear mounts. Worst case, I can wait for BGS who is the true master of TES games to make TES 6 and respect their lore. ESO is a spin off game after all, I am still loading out hope for it in the lore department. If ZOS keep breaking TES lore, then ZOS will force me to leave ESO.

Can anyone ( I hope ZOS can) help me with my lore concerns? Thanks.

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Andarne

k9mouse wrote: »

Can someone please to me the lore behind the ice horse in more detail? How this follow lore of the TES games? From my understanding, summoning Oblivion critters only be done by train mages, not every Joe on the street and his mother. So ZOS, how can you that everyone has an ice horse from the planes of Oblivion and still keep it with estabish lore?

TBH, I don't like the fire horse or the stupid bear for the same reason I don't like an ice horse -- [snip] I still hate the idea in games that says: "if it can move, let us make a mount with it."

I can live with gold farmers, bugs, delay updates or server crashs, the quickest way to drive me and many others who love the TES game lore is to throw it out of the window. Lore SHOULD always go 1st.

I agree, completely. Bethesda has usually been very good with this sort of thing; I can only hope that Zenimax learns from mistakes. The extreme liklihood is that they are using them as money-sinks for us gullable idiots.

The rest of the items of the items in this preview looks cool and I am digging the Gothic dress. It is / will be hard to over look lore mistakes like fire, ice and bear mounts. Worst case, I can wait for BGS who is the true master of TES games to make TES 6 and respect their lore. ESO is a spin off game after all, I am still loading out hope for it in the lore department. If ZOS keep breaking TES lore, then ZOS will force me to leave ESO.

Can anyone ( I hope ZOS can) help me with my lore concerns? Thanks.

You're not alone. It was like this with me when I played LotRO on the dedicated RP server Laurelin - so many things were lore-breaking, eventually culminating in me leaving because Turbine went for buck against book.

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ZylnorWrath_ESO

really enjoy this! the new mount and pet is great, and the outfit is very nice. I just wish there was more male outfits that stand out. We have the wedding dress, and now this Evening dress. why not have the same for male characters?

Cously

k9mouse wrote: »

Can someone please to me the lore behind the ice horse in more detail? How this follow lore of the TES games? From my understanding, summoning Oblivion critters only be done by train mages, not every Joe on the street and his mother. So ZOS, how can you that everyone has an ice horse from the planes of Oblivion and still keep it with estabish lore?

TBH, I don't like the fire horse or the stupid bear for the same reason I don't like an ice horse -- [snip] I still hate the idea in games that says: "if it can move, let us make a mount with it."

I can live with gold farmers, bugs, delay updates or server crashs, the quickest way to drive me and many others who love the TES game lore is to throw it out of the window. Lore SHOULD always go 1st.

The rest of the items of the items in this preview looks cool and I am digging the Gothic dress. It is / will be hard to over look lore mistakes like fire, ice and bear mounts. Worst case, I can wait for BGS who is the true master of TES games to make TES 6 and respect their lore. ESO is a spin off game after all, I am still loading out hope for it in the lore department. If ZOS keep breaking TES lore, then ZOS will force me to leave ESO.

Can anyone ( I hope ZOS can) help me with my lore concerns? Thanks.

It's a high fantasy game. A neon green bloated pig with pink glows and golden wings can be lore correct in a magical world as Nirn. Every Joe on the street and his mother probably beat Molag Bal by now and any class can do overpowered moves anyways. If there is an universe that magic stuff is so common is the Elder Scrolls one.

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BergisMacBride

Like the looks of the horse. Unfortunately, I won't get it or any other horse due to the huge, ugly and obnoxious horse saddlebags that appear with purchased storage slots. I've sent feedback on this numerous times but guess there are no plans for the Devs to adjust the horse bag art or at least allow us to hide them. Oh well, guess I'll keep riding my cats.

MisterBigglesworth

k9mouse wrote: »

Can someone please help me to understand the lore behind the ice horse in more detail? How this follow lore of the TES games? From my understanding, summoning Oblivion critters only be done by train mages, not every Joe on the street and his mother. So ZOS, how can you have that everyone has an ice horse from the planes of Oblivion and still keep it with establish lore?

Lore went out the window the moment they decided to have a "chosen one" storyline in an MMO setting.

Vrienda

No discounts this time? Pity I was hoping to spend my 500 console crowns on something.

KerinKor

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

@Anlaemar we've stated that we'll be sharing more details about Imperial City in July--that's pretty soon.

That would be more details than you announced round about last September when you said it was close to being finished I assume.

vladimilianoub17_ESO1

And now you can see the reason why they wont allow costumes to be dyed so they can "dye" it and sell it as a new costume.So lame.

Threemoons

Would it be too much to ask Zmax to please fix the patch manifest errors and stuff like that before putting out more eye candy for cash?

Snit

Is anybody else unable to get to the article?

Clicking on the link takes me to the agegate: http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/agegate

Filling in my DOB takes me to the front page: http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us

Clicking on "Continue to gaming site takes me to: http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/home

Clicking on the Crown Store Article takes me back to the age gate.

I have tried two different browsers (Firefox and IE).

WhiteCoatSyndrome

@k9mouse: FYI bear mounts were already in lore; there was one being used as a mount in one of the books by Greg Keyes.

k9mouse

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

@k9mouse: FYI bear mounts were already in lore; there was one being used as a mount in one of the books by Greg Keyes.

@WhiteCoatSyndrome
Thanks! Do you know the name of the said in game book by chance?

Rosveen

k9mouse wrote: »

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

@k9mouse: FYI bear mounts were already in lore; there was one being used as a mount in one of the books by Greg Keyes.

@WhiteCoatSyndrome
Thanks! Do you know the name of the said in game book by chance?

They're real physical books, not in-game lorebooks. There are two, The Infernal City and Lord of Souls. The bear in question was ridden by one of Hircine's hunters.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Not an in-game book. It's an actual hold-in-your-hands book, one of two. *checks* The bear mount is in the first one, "The Infernal City" by Greg Keys. Part 3, Chapter 7, appears on page 241 if it makes a difference. And it's rider is a werebear.

Forztr

BergisMacBride wrote: »

Like the looks of the horse. Unfortunately, I won't get it or any other horse due to the huge, ugly and obnoxious horse saddlebags that appear with purchased storage slots. I've sent feedback on this numerous times but guess there are no plans for the Devs to adjust the horse bag art or at least allow us to hide them. Oh well, guess I'll keep riding my cats.

I only train capacity up to 19 on most of my toons for this very reason.
I wish you could turn on/off the straps/bags/armor for mounts.
I also wish you had different looking upgrades and the ability to dye them.
I didn't bother getting the black senche after seeing a fully upgraded one. Red leg warmers was just a deal breaker for me.

Drazhar14

I hope that when you bring this frost mount back in the future, you sell a quest to obtain it for lore/immersion's sake.

xaraan

Pretty horse. Ugly saddlebags. bleh

Faulgor

k9mouse wrote: »

Can someone please help me to understand the lore behind the ice horse in more detail? How this follow lore of the TES games? From my understanding, summoning Oblivion critters only be done by train mages, not every Joe on the street and his mother. So ZOS, how can you have that everyone has an ice horse from the planes of Oblivion and still keep it with establish lore?

TBH, I don't like the fire horse or the stupid bear for the same reason I don't like an ice horse -- [snip] I still hate the idea in games that says: "if it can move, let us make a mount with it."

I can live with gold farmers, bugs, delay updates or server crashes, the quickest way to drive me and many others who love the TES game lore is to throw it out of the window. Lore SHOULD always go 1st.

The rest of the items of the items in this preview looks cool and I am digging the Gothic dress. It is / will be hard to over look lore mistakes like fire, ice and bear mounts. Worst case, I can wait for BGS who is the true master of TES games to make TES 6 and respect their lore. ESO is a spin off game after all, I am still loading out hope for it in the lore department. If ZOS keep breaking TES lore, then ZOS will force me to leave ESO.

Can anyone ( I hope ZOS can) help me with my lore concerns? Thanks.

There is no reason it should exist. We had this discussion before, and somehow decided that it is a normal horse that has been fed some kind of Frostsalt diet or potion over a period of time.

It's not the first time the community has to come up with lore-appropriate explanations, but in this case it feels unsettling because it's such an obvious cash-thing. Some word from Lawrence Schick on this would be great, though.

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