Official Discussion Thread for "Meet Your New Assistants"

ZOS_GinaBruno

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Meet Your New Assistants. Check out the article to learn about the two new assistants coming to the Crown Store later this week!

slumber_sandb16_ESO

Ouch, 5000 crowns. The price of a deluxe DLC. As much as I'd want these I'm going to have to skip buying them and save it for the next DLC instead.

Paulington

A fair price for the amount of utility these provide, coupled with being account wide and usable by everyone in your group et cetera.

Personally I don't think the Merchant is all that useful (needs to sell repair kits and such) but other than that she is fine.

Woenprom

Next Year: Cyrodiil-only assistants just for 9999 crowns!

SturgeHammer

5000 per assistant or 5000 for both?

Elsonso

I do wish equivalent function was also available through in-game means.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

5000 crowns is too rich for my blood. Ill zone back to town.

Giraffon

Questions:

1) If purchased, are the assistants available account wide?

2) Does the banking assistant allow access to guild resources such as guild bank and guild store?

3) Does the merchant assistant do repairs to your equipment?

Legoless

That's a shame, guess I'll be passing on assistants.

mertusta

Giraffon wrote: »

Questions:

1) If purchased, are the assistants available account wide?

2) Does the banking assistant allow access to guild resources such as guild bank and guild store?

3) Does the merchant assistant do repairs to your equipment?

1) Yes, account wide.
2) Not guild bank, only your own bank.
3) Yes.

At least, that was how did they designed back in the pts.

Legoless

mertusta wrote: »

Giraffon wrote: »

3) Does the merchant assistant do repairs to your equipment?

3) Yes.

No, she doesn't offer repairs.

Giraffon

mertusta wrote: »

Giraffon wrote: »

Questions:

1) If purchased, are the assistants available account wide?

2) Does the banking assistant allow access to guild resources such as guild bank and guild store?

3) Does the merchant assistant do repairs to your equipment?

1) Yes, account wide.
2) Not guild bank, only your own bank.
3) Yes.

At least, that was how did they designed back in the pts.

Hmm. Guild resources would have been a good selling point for me on the banking assistant. You know...if they threw in an extra 50 bank slots as part of the deal it might be worth it. Ahem...ZOS....did you see that? Give me 50 extra bank slots to go with this banking assistant and you've got a deal! Otherwise...having price/value disconnect.

Merchant needs to have some kind of golden perk as well....Maybe include free equipment repairs from your merchant and this might be a good deal. Otherwise...having price/value disconnect.

As a non-subscriber that buys all of the DLC as I go this price point is too high, but if I was still subscribing I would likely have more crowns than I would know what to do with so I would buy these both without giving it a thought.

Actually...include them both as part of the subscription and I might re-sub. How about that deal?

crazmadsci

Ouch 5k per is definitely something I'll unfortunately have to think about. I absolutely love their functionality on the PTS but definitely a steep cost. I was going to buy them instantly but can't currently afford it. I was expecting 3k apiece but 5 is tough. Guess I'll have to wait til my 6 month sub renews

Ourorboros

5000 crowns is only 'convenient' for deep pockets or poor money managers. Like almost everything in the crown store. Even if I could afford this, I wouldn't pay for the assistants on principle. zos continues to focus on pumping profits while the game remains bug-ridden, with new bugs introduced with each DLC.

Vrienda

Ooch, usually I buy anything like this but that's way too expensive.

Maybe when they go on sale.

RazielDERF

Clearly this is an outrage to ESO players. I been a long time Elder Scrolls player along with ESO Beta. This is by far one of the worst slaps in the face to us. I pay for ESO+ and also own a total of 5 accounts (4 of them free to play) but 5k for each assistant is ridiculous. Maybe, just maybe would I accept the 5k for both combined but highly doubt it. Many will simply teleport back into town to do their business. If you think about it though, you don't benefit much from these assistance considering what is being charged for them. You are only getting the convenience of spawning them wherever you want. For those of the long term players like myself we have plenty of bag space that isn't required to go back into town to dump your load. We can also use addons like Wyykyds mailbox and RTS items to other players or accounts which is actually just 10 gold for each email with 6 items. Not a heavy price to pay at all. Also considering that Crafting Bags is coming to ESO it will save even more space. Let's not forget about the merchants who walk around throughout the lands to also offer their services to repair and use their stores. 5,000 Crowns is ridiculous to be asking for and I hope other ESO members feel the same way about this in order for Zenimax Online to hear us out and lower the cost or simply allow us to beat a quest line to attain them just like with thieves guild.

Shame on you Zenimax, I am so disappointed with your decision to charge this much.

Lord_Eomer

Way too expensive for each assistant, should be around 3000 crowns..

quadraxis666

5000 crowns?!?!?!

ObsidianKaesken

If it's 5,000 crowns for both, I can see myself purchasing it later down the road but if that's each, I'll have to agree with jamesharv2005ub17_ESO and say pass.

Another thing that would reflect my decision on purchasing them is whether or not they repair damaged armor or, at the very least, sell the repair armor kits.

Although Giraffon's idea to include them in the ESO Plus package sounds amazing, they already give the DLCs to their ESO Plus members for free (as long as their membership stays active), but a percentage off as a member would be nice.

Going back to the assistant. If it's 5k per assistant, you guys are going to have to sweeten the deal more for me to want to purchase them because in order to get both, I'd have to spend $79.98 and right now, I just don't see spending that much. It's a nice feature but it's not one of those MUST GET NOW features.

Don't get me wrong, though. I'm not one of those cheap spenders. I've spent my fair amount of money in ESO for myself and my 6 year old daughter (who LOVES her horse and pet). Not bragging, just trying to give you the general idea that even I wouldn't pay that much for this. Sorry, but it doesn't bother me that much to go back to town to sell my unwanted gear.

Tyrion87

That price is like slapping players in the face... Everybody was waiting for this and now we get it with that ridiculous cost. I'm gonna pass, especially if they don't provide access to guild store/bank and cannot repair your gear. Such services are the most useful for me. ZOS seems to be more and more desperate and greedy with their prices.

shawn.macgillivaryb16_ESO

That's 100$CND....ouch. Oh well it's not like I"m being forced to buy them. Still love playing this game Maybe someday the price will drop to something a little more reasonable.

Jim_Pipp

I really want to support this game, I love this game, but charging this much money for one item feels exploitative.The reactions on this page are pretty consistent, people will put their money elsewhere if they don't feel they are getting a good deal.

Sunver

So, the banker guy won't offer the ability to post auctions and view listings in the guild store?(no mention of it in the article).

Darkestnght

Why not something for nothing. This should have been part of the base game as far as I am concerned.

Tyrion87

One more thing. I feel very sorry for people who will eventually buy these assistants in the belief that they provide the same services as any other banker/merchant. And then they will open their services' windows and see what they have bought for 5k crowns... So my advice to ZOS is, if you really wish to set your prices that high, in the pop-up window/crown store provide players with accurate and not misleading information regarding which services are NOT included and do NOT call these assistants as 'bankers' or 'merchants'. Otherwise players, who don't read the forum or blog articles, will feel like they were deceived and misled.

Arkvoril

Been waiting for this.............but now I can forget about it. Pricing is ridiculous! Not to mention the Bank Assistant can't even access the guilds?!?

Wont be buying this one. Ill run back to town like I always have.......and put some stuff up for sale while I am at it.

MissBizz

Paulington wrote: »

A fair price for the amount of utility these provide, coupled with being account wide and usable by everyone in your group et cetera.

Personally I don't think the Merchant is all that useful (needs to sell repair kits and such) but other than that she is fine.

I agree @Paulington . I personally will not be buying the vendor as it seems a bit useless to me. (I'll store junk in the bank until I head to town instead of selling it to that merchant). If it did repairs somehow I would have bought it.

I will be purchasing the banker. This adds a ton of convenience so the high price fits that. As well, you can share the abilities with group members.. so when you pull up your banker, all your group members can use them to access their own personal bank too. That's really nice.

flubber77

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Meet Your New Assistants. Check out the article to learn about the two new assistants coming to the Crown Store later this week!

This price is so wrong.........

crazmadsci

MissBizz wrote: »

I will be purchasing the banker. This adds a ton of convenience so the high price fits that. As well, you can share the abilities with group members.. so when you pull up your banker, all your group members can use them to access their own personal bank too. That's really nice.

Agreed, however I still think the 5k price tag should include guild banks then I say it is worth it definitely. However it is still very steep.

michalmack

I agree that the merchant is useless. Especially considering that at vet 16 you r deconstructing everything for materials. You're only really selling junk jewelry. Soooooo not worth 5000 crowns.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

I'm a ESO Plus member with crowns to spare and I think the price for these "convience npcs" is excessive.