Official Discussion Thread for "Crown Store Showcase: April 29, 2016"

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · April 2016

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Crown Store Showcase: April 29, 2016. We hope you enjoy the latest offerings that are coming in April, including the Dro-m'Athra Senche, new costumes, pets, and more!

Rajajshka · April 2016

Looking forward to the Dro-m'Athra senche! Also goodbye Palomino Horse

Sentinel · April 2016

All I have to say...

Treasure Hunter.

Make more unique adventurer armors with backpacks and tools

Ilsabet · April 2016

Skyrim fanboiz rejoice.

Also kind of strange that they're taking out some of the newer costumes. The Doeskin-and-Chamois Woods Wear literally just came out.

Tyrion87 · April 2016

So much to buy, so little money...

Alp · April 2016

Maybe a bit much with 2 limited mounts in one month..

Paulington · April 2016

Ghrimn · April 2016

Might as well say goodbye to all my crowns.
Dragon Priest, Dragon Warrior, Treasure Hunter... HERE I COME!

Now on a serious note: While I don't support the whole Dragon Warrior costume (it feels a bit meta to me), I have to say it looks awesome. Nice job!

nimander99 · April 2016

Dragon Priest OMG WOOOT!!!!! (See forum Avatar pic

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This entire month of CS stuff looks like the best we've had thus far!

Acrolas · April 2016

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

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RomansXXI · April 2016

Finally the black camel! Now my pirate thief redguard is complete!

Ra'Shtar · April 2016

I don't understand why you guys have to remove things from the crown store, when a new player joins the game an opens the crown store and sees a plethora of nice costumes pets and mounts it makes him excited (if the costumer is the kind of which likes to buy that kind of things) and makes him feel like a kid in a candy store!!! This comes from personal experience in other games, please reconsider this decision having more things to show on the crown store is good for business.

Sotha_Sil · April 2016

OMG FINALLY THANK YOU FOR THIS AWESOME DRAGON PRIEST COSTUME !!

VaxtinTheWolf · April 2016

Dro-m'Athra Senche. That's what I was waiting for. Clinging to my 6k crowns.

...Soon.

Mojmir · April 2016

Any details on prices for droth mount and dragon priest?

Van_0S · April 2016

I hope Dro-m'Athra Senche is not that expensive?.*cough* banker/vendor Assistant *cough*.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · April 2016

*frantically checks dates* Phew! Thank you Zeni for starting the dro-M'Athra Sench on a Thursday! I'm sure I'm not the only one planning to be out of town that weekend.

Xeroxed · April 2016

...I'm going to be as honest as I can without cursing but why on earth do you need to get rid of a bunch of Crown Store items to "make room for new stock"... in a DIGITAL store with near infinite copies of things? And this isn't stuff that was advertised as being for a limited time - I get why those go bye bye. Having a larger selection HELPS you to sell more you know, and all these purges seem to be accomplishing is miffing me royally, and probably others too. : /

Acrolas · April 2016

Xeroxed wrote: »

...I'm going to be as honest as I can without cursing but why on earth do you need to get rid of a bunch of Crown Store items to "make room for new stock"... in a DIGITAL store with near infinite copies of things? And this isn't stuff that was advertised as being for a limited time - I get why those go bye bye. Having a larger selection HELPS you to sell more you know, and all these purges seem to be accomplishing is miffing me royally, and probably others too. : /

Studies on the topic have suggested that more items will get you more traffic, but fewer comparable items offered will get you more sales.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2013/04/30/successful-retailers-learn-that-fewer-choices-lead-to-higher-sales
https://hbr.org/2010/12/could-fewer-products-lead-to-m.html

Xeroxed · April 2016

Acrolas wrote: »

Studies on the topic have suggested that more items will get you more traffic, but fewer comparable items offered will get you more sales.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2013/04/30/successful-retailers-learn-that-fewer-choices-lead-to-higher-sales
https://hbr.org/2010/12/could-fewer-products-lead-to-m.html

I think the factors are maybe a fair bit different with commodities like digital items that aren't scarce, and given how many role players there are in ESO having lots of costume choices is good because then anyone who joins the game bandwagon later on can still dress the part they need to. It seriously deprives anyone who joins the game later on. I like say Champions Online precisely because I have so much customization choice because that's a core part of the game, and such is true in the Elder Scrolls universe also. It's not really the same as the indecision that comes with deciding which smartphone to buy I feel, and deviates away from precisely WHY people like Elder Scrolls so much. :P

Leogon · April 2016

YurtTheSilentChief wrote: »

I hope Dro-m'Athra Senche is not that expensive?.*cough* banker/vendor Assistant *cough*.

The other limited-time senche mounts cost 2500 crowns.

WhiteNoiseMaker · April 2016

Didn't the doeskin outfit *just* come out? Why is it being retired so quickly?

Sir Daniel Fortesque · April 2016

We need to create a thread to stop these crown store cuts, because I would like to have some of the items that are being removed and at the same time I need to save up for DB and Dro-m'Athra Senche.

petraeus1 · April 2016

AndrewXV wrote: »

We need to create a thread to stop these crown store cuts, because I would like to have some of the items that are being removed and at the same time I need to save up for DB and Dro-m'Athra Senche.

ZOS will recycle them at some point, no doubt.

Feynn · April 2016

I am very happy about new items coming to the Crown Store, but please reconsider removing old items. Maybe you could restyle the Crown Store menu, if you feel it's getting too cluttered? You could have a section with older items in which you only show their icons, instead of the whole picture?

Having a Crown Store full of things is very nice, especially for new players who didn't have the chance to buy them before, or for those of us who simply don't have enough crowns to buy everything that's on stock at any given time. I hope you will at least have (frequent) re-sales of the old items? Maybe for a reduced price, if they are not selling that well...? (hint hint)

WhiteCoatSyndrome · April 2016

Feynn wrote: »

I hope you will at least have (frequent) re-sales of the old items? Maybe for a reduced price, if they are not selling that well...? (hint hint)

Can you have garage sales without garages? What would the Tamriel equivalent be?

Xeroxed · April 2016

WhiteNoiseMaker wrote: »

Didn't the doeskin outfit *just* come out? Why is it being retired so quickly?

Yeah by brain went "WTF?" at that one. Might as well have announced it as a limited time item from the get go.

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Feynn wrote: »

I hope you will at least have (frequent) re-sales of the old items? Maybe for a reduced price, if they are not selling that well...? (hint hint)

Can you have garage sales without garages? What would the Tamriel equivalent be?

I think "yard sale" would still work as a term, yes?

AndrewXV wrote: »

We need to create a thread to stop these crown store cuts, because I would like to have some of the items that are being removed and at the same time I need to save up for DB and Dro-m'Athra Senche.

You make it, I'll go and complain some more in it, haha. If you don't I just might have to.

Wolfkeks · April 2016

Need so save some crowns for the Senche, also would love to buy the Black Camel of Ill Omen, but man, 2 limited mounts at the same time? And shortly before DB?

staracino_ESO · April 2016

The majority of the items they are pulling A) most likely do not sell well, and

are very low quality and are in need of reworking. Like, a lot of them look like Babby's First Texture Design (cough Shornhelm Shepard). Yes, even the Doeskin has those terribly done beads on it. Notice they are NOT pulling the Graht-Climber, which is arguably the better of the pair.

Hopefully they will be re-introducing them to the store once they rework them, otherwise, I do not care for artificial scarcity. Unless their servers truly can't handle that many items in the Crown Store at once...

czar · May 2016

I'm actually happy they pull items from the crown store from time to time, and although I didn't like the limited offers before, I've come to appreciate them. Creates more diversity amongst players. It's not like there aren't enough items to buy, and I think they've done a good job at making varied items.

I wish there was some way to remove items you've bought though, or give/sell them to other players. I'd rather not have stuff I don't use clogging my collection - especially the costume bundles... more often than not there's only one I'm interested in, and the two others are left rotting in my collection.

Skcarkden · May 2016

"REMOVAL OF EXISTING CROWN STORE ITEMS

In order to make room for new stock, the following items will be retired from the Crown Store on all platforms on May 30th."

"make room for new stock"

You know.... There are brick and mortar stores out there that still somehow manage to have more 'room' than you... and they face the actual problem of dealing with physical items. This is digital, how can you be out of room?