Limited Frost Mare Mount Available in the Crown Store

ZOS_GinaBruno

Hello everyone!

We are now rolling out the Frost Mare mount to the PC/Mac and console Crown Stores, which will be available for a limited time only. With its icy gaze and steaming breath, the frigid Frost Mare seems carved from the very glaciers of Skyrim. Its exact origin is unknown, but the Mages Guild believes it may originally have come from Takubar, the plane of origin of Cold Flame Atronachs.

You can purchase your very own Frost Mare today until July 7th at 10:00AM EDT for 3000 crowns.

jcollinson10preub18_ESO

3000, ouch.

project-2501-84neb18_ESO

Can we get an update on the status of the rollout?

Elsonso

3000 crowns. Holy Molag Bal!

Carterboy254

What about console??

lonewolf26

project-2501-84neb18_ESO wrote: »

Can we get an update on the status of the rollout?

It appears to be available on the PC NA Megaserver's crown store now.

ZOS_GinaBruno

The Frost Mare is now available on all PC and console megaservers!

MorHawk

What in the name of sacred cheese are they gonna charge for expansions?!?

Rosveen

MorHawk wrote: »

What in the name of sacred cheese are they gonna charge for expansions?!?

Your soul.

Desolationz

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

The Frost Mare is now available on all PC and console megaservers!

Why does the Frost Mare mount not emit any noises? Is this intended.

Prestidigitor

3000 crowns for one mount.. Very well, how often are these "limited edition" items going to come and how recurring will they be.

Aetherderius

PLEASE Gina! Just one little undead mount.

Dagoth_Rac

MorHawk wrote: »

What in the name of sacred cheese are they gonna charge for expansions?!?

Ridiculously overpriced mounts seem to be a thing with MMOs. I think the-game-that-shall-not-be-mentioned has $30 mounts, too. I would not read too much into what DLC will cost based on a vanity mount. If only a handful of whales buy an overpriced cosmetic item, life goes on. If only a handful of whales buy an overpriced DLC, their business is in big trouble.

BloodWolfe

3000 crowns? You guys are insane!

2500 was a lot for previous time-limited mounts but now going to 3000 is ridiculous! These limited-time mounts are showing up far too often now and the price is just going up so guess what, I won't be buying anything else from the crown shop. I play on PC and PS4 depending who I am playing with, buy that for just one system is far too expensive so playing across 2 and having to buy something twice if I want or split which version gets which items as you keep increasing the prices just turns me off from the crown shop even more.

I spent money to support the game but I hate B2P and F2P as a rule and hoped this wouldn't be as bad but you are definitely getting to the point that it is turning me off from the crown shop completely and even to an extent the game. I have started eyeing FFXIV again since I can play the same progress across both platforms (I understand why that wasn't possible here but it sucks when crown shop purchases or ESO+, if it becomes worth while, can't be shared since the PS4 is tied to my PC account anyway).

If this is a sign of things to come where you are doing everything as time-limited with constant increase to the costs then I'm going to go play a sub-based game again. I much prefer sub-based MMO's to avoid the blatant and outright greed and up until this point I defended this game but clearly you are going the route all tend to go (cash shop item quantity for ridiculous prices over content and quality). This also makes me fear what the costs of any DLC will be. I should have known not to get sucked back into ESO once the crown shop came into effect but I thought nah so far it's not offending me, but now it is.

For the time being, I will never buy crowns again or an ESO+ membership and will play the game completely free. If DLC ends up being too expensive then I will drop this game completely and for good!

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Desolationz wrote: »

Why does the Frost Mare mount not emit any noises? Is this intended.

The Frost Mare does have sound. If yours is not properly playing sound, please try repairing the game? That usually does the trick for missing sound issues.

eventide03b14a_ESO

Why is this thing 3000 crowns? Your addition of crown items has been less than impressive so far and now you want to gouge us? That's just greedy. If this is the way things are going I don't see any reason to stay subbed so I can pay for a mount with two months worth of sub fees.

Aluluei

I admit it, I bought the Frost Mare purely for my DC bank/writ alts who are stationed in the scorching Alik'r Desert. Most refreshing when paired with the Ice Wraith pet.

Garion

So ugly

Snowgoons

I like how ZOS_JessicaFolsom and ZOS_GinaBruno can come in here and answer every question except why the hell this is priced so ignorantly, it's good to see that though, knowing what kind of people you are dealing with before you hand over money.

MorHawk

Snowgoons wrote: »

I like how ZOS_JessicaFolsom and ZOS_GinaBruno can come in here and answer every question except why the hell this is priced so ignorantly, it's good to see that though, knowing what kind of people you are dealing with before you hand over money.

In fairness, what do you expect them to say? It's not their decision, but even if they disagree they can't obviously say that. All they can do is fix problems. Yes though, their silence is indeed telling.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

MorHawk wrote: »

Snowgoons wrote: »

I like how ZOS_JessicaFolsom and ZOS_GinaBruno can come in here and answer every question except why the hell this is priced so ignorantly, it's good to see that though, knowing what kind of people you are dealing with before you hand over money.

In fairness, what do you expect them to say? It's not their decision, but even if they disagree they can't obviously say that. All they can do is fix problems. Yes though, their silence is indeed telling.

One of our (the Community Team) responsibilities is to relay player feedback to other teams, which we will certainly do.

Rosveen

Snowgoons wrote: »

I like how ZOS_JessicaFolsom and ZOS_GinaBruno can come in here and answer every question except why the hell this is priced so ignorantly, it's good to see that though, knowing what kind of people you are dealing with before you hand over money.

For all we know the limited offer mounts are selling just fine. If they didn't, it wouldn't make sense for ZOS to price the new one even higher, would it?

MorHawk

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/189984/3000cr-for-a-mount-is-this-reasonable

Just because I like to make trouble.

Preyfar

BloodWolfe wrote: »

3000 crowns? You guys are insane!

In all honesty, I'm glad this is 3,000 crowns. I think it looks horrible and find it immersion breaking. Standing around 5 people who were riding them took me out of the game and felt awkward. But that's fine. Different mounts will appeal to different people, but at least the price will also help prevent them from flooding the market and still be a rarer item.

Desolationz

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Desolationz wrote: »

Why does the Frost Mare mount not emit any noises? Is this intended.

The Frost Mare does have sound. If yours is not properly playing sound, please try repairing the game? That usually does the trick for missing sound issues.

Still no sound from the Frost Mare, no sound whatsoever when it gallops, during rearing it up on it's hind legs or even when it's mouth opens. How do I repair the game exactly? Thanks.

EDIT: Nevermind, I found out, repairing game now.

GTech_1

ZeniMax, your marketing department needs a refresher in the basics of making a sale.

Marketing 101: Excessive overpricing results in far fewer transactions, wasting the company resources applied to create the product. Worse yet, it alienates previously devoted customers. Overpricing is simply bad business.

The company's target should be to create as much profit as possible from each asset in the cash shop, not to squeeze as much as possible out of each transaction.

If ZeniMax wants to actually make real money on items like this, they need to price them below the bar set by other MMOs. Lower pricing results in a remarkable increase in total revenue, and a committed player base.

Direct feedback: Even though we like it, my Wife and I will not be buying this mount. We are also heavily reconsidering our sub, since the only thing of value we get from it is Crowns, now totalling only 1/2 the value of the "Mount of the month".

Sincerely,
~GTech_1

Desolationz

Double Post

Desolationz

Yes repairing the game has resolved the issue, thanks @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Damores

If you have an Eso+ account at 15.00 a month but does not come out till the 9th can I purchase the 30.00 and buy the mount and also cover my monthly 15.00 eso charge? Or will I be billed again on the 9th?

Rosveen

Damores wrote: »

If you have an Eso+ account at 15.00 a month but does not come out till the 9th can I purchase the 30.00 and buy the mount and also cover my monthly 15.00 eso charge? Or will I be billed again on the 9th?

You will be billed when your current subscription ends and receive your alloted ESO+ crowns. Any crown pack you buy before that is a separate purchase.

Damores

If thata the case then I guess I will not be buying this mount it goes off the market on the 7th and I get billed on the 9th and I will not be paying 45.00 for a mount.