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Mandragora

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Mandragora

Wouldn't this be much better?

MissBizz

Mandragora wrote: »

Wouldn't this be much better?

Yes. Yes it would be. It'd be like a golden for the crown store. Limited wanted goods.

Rohamad_Ali

OH hell yeah and those prices are spot on .

ThePaleItalian

This makes way too much sense...my head hurts..

Rohamad_Ali

Mrs @ZOS_GinaBruno , this is the good publicity ZOS needs . Pacrooti deserves it .

DragonSamurai360

BRING THIS TO XBOX ONE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! Sorry I miss my Clouded Senche Leopard from my PC account that I can't have on Xbox One now.

Mashille

Honestly I think this sounds like a great idea. A weekend Vendor in the Crown Store that doesn't force you to spend £100's just to get 1 silly mount. They could even add that RnG they love so much into it and have a small chance of revealing a Storm Atronach mount for someone and letting them be able to buy it mounts for 3000 crowns of something

Problem is, this all makes a lot more sense than it makes $. So I can't see ZOS doing it.

wayfarerx

#SavePacrooti

MBite

Since when did ZOS use good idea?

Acrolas

Except the senche was 2500 crowns and the brocade robe was 1,000.
Soul-shriven clothing was 233 crowns prorated from the 700 trio.

The best method is to sell them outright at a price that isn't being a *** to everyone who's already bought them. Sales are okay. Blatant devaluation isn't.

Second best would be a 5500 crown box that guarantees one atro mount and one or two other collectibles.

There are six atro mounts. Somebody would pay 5500 times six to get all of them much more quickly than the possibility of paying 5500 time six and getting none of them. It's taking or forfeiting the $232.74 ($240 minus the $7.24 standard transaction fee), and if I were hard up for money, I'd take it.

The only people guaranteed to buy the 400 crown boxes are streamers and video monetizers who are getting other people to pay for them. It's easy to dump free money into a bad idea. There's no risk.

But blah blah thread already exists blah blah compartmentalization blah blah closed.

Slurg

I love this idea. It makes a lot more sense for Pacrooti to hustle stolen goods. I think he would charge higher prices though.

MissBizz

The more I think about this idea, the more I like it. Let me know if you like these ideas for it.

Prices need to be higher. For normal crown store items they could be equal, or a tad higher than they originally were due to them being removed.

Any "limited time" items should have their price doubled, or almost. This system (or crates) is obviously to make Zos some more money, so if you missed it the first time, you pay the price.

Pacrooti could show up for the weekend like the Golden, so it's limited time in a sense.

Pacrooti could offer you 4 cards. You could be given 3 chances per weekend to change those cards. What's the catch? If you get him to deal you a new hand... you no longer can go back to the first 4. So essentially you'd feel a bit pressured to buy something you kind of like on your first hand before asking for a new deal etc. Little bit of RNG for Zos, but in a much more transparent way.

The last point would kind of make it like... a "crown crate" that you get to CHOOSE if you want to buy the item. If you get dealt a new hand (or open a new crate, whatever) then you know you (for that weekend) lost your chance at purchasing anything from the first hand if you didn't buy it. (unless of course that item get's offered to you again in one of the other hands)

Oh, keep the 5 card mechanic. Rarely give someone a 5th card, that offers them a super special item pertaining to the theme (and ONLY those items that perfectly match the theme) such as an atronach mounts. Maybe some "lesser" themed items that have a chance showing up in the main 4 cards (the other 2 atro themed things)

Runs

MissBizz wrote: »

The more I think about this idea, the more I like it. Let me know if you like these ideas for it.

Prices need to be higher. For normal crown store items they could be equal, or a tad higher than they originally were due to them being removed.

Any "limited time" items should have their price doubled, or almost. This system (or crates) is obviously to make Zos some more money, so if you missed it the first time, you pay the price.

Pacrooti could show up for the weekend like the Golden, so it's limited time in a sense.

Pacrooti could offer you 4 cards. You could be given 3 chances per weekend to change those cards. What's the catch? If you get him to deal you a new hand... you no longer can go back to the first 4. So essentially you'd feel a bit pressured to buy something you kind of like on your first hand before asking for a new deal etc. Little bit of RNG for Zos, but in a much more transparent way.

The last point would kind of make it like... a "crown crate" that you get to CHOOSE if you want to buy the item. If you get dealt a new hand (or open a new crate, whatever) then you know you (for that weekend) lost your chance at purchasing anything from the first hand if you didn't buy it.

This, I could really get behind. I really do hope they scrap the gambling aspect for something like this.

SantieClaws

Khajiit thinks the crates should be ditched in the ocean where they belong and Pacrooti made to eternally sweep the floors at the Rosy Lion for his shameless attempts to scam all of Tamriel.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

MissBizz

Runs wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

The more I think about this idea, the more I like it. Let me know if you like these ideas for it.

Prices need to be higher. For normal crown store items they could be equal, or a tad higher than they originally were due to them being removed.

Any "limited time" items should have their price doubled, or almost. This system (or crates) is obviously to make Zos some more money, so if you missed it the first time, you pay the price.

Pacrooti could show up for the weekend like the Golden, so it's limited time in a sense.

Pacrooti could offer you 4 cards. You could be given 3 chances per weekend to change those cards. What's the catch? If you get him to deal you a new hand... you no longer can go back to the first 4. So essentially you'd feel a bit pressured to buy something you kind of like on your first hand before asking for a new deal etc. Little bit of RNG for Zos, but in a much more transparent way.

The last point would kind of make it like... a "crown crate" that you get to CHOOSE if you want to buy the item. If you get dealt a new hand (or open a new crate, whatever) then you know you (for that weekend) lost your chance at purchasing anything from the first hand if you didn't buy it.

This, I could really get behind. I really do hope they scrap the gambling aspect for something like this.

@Runs I added a wee bit to my post if you wanna check it out. I know Zos wants to make money, and obviously they're hoping for more money than what they make from informed purchases on the crown store. So I don't know, I feel my idea WOULD put pressure for people to spend more money, but at least they retain to ability to DECIDE to purchase an item at a given price, and hey, if you want to go and just make Pacrooti deal you 3 hands every weekend because you wanna see if you get an atronach amount... well, you may be more likely to buy stuff if you're visiting every weekend and seeing things. "Oh yeah! I kinda forgot I missed that mount.. and now looking at it I think I want it"

HeroOfNone

Seems good, but the cost has to be higher. If folks don't buy it when it's on sale because it could be cheaper later wouldn't be good.

Morimizo

If you mean that I can actually purchase the plethora of new items (that they've obviously been working on a long time to pad this corrupt system) straight-up in the Crown Store again, great.

But ZOS has clearly demonstrated that any money that has been spent on their product so far is insufficient, and that even doubling prices for sure things would not be enough.

The customer fleecing will continue. Don't want to get sheared? Get out of line.

wayfarerx

I'm really liking this idea, I think the OP had a good start and other posters are fleshing it out nicely, great work!

However, I'm thinking this whole thing is coming up a little short on the supervillian-esque evil end of things that ZOS seems to be going for. So a small suggestion, if we could work in something like the Pacrooti interaction being powered by the soul of an unloved orphan child, maybe this would appeal to ZOS more. You know, meet them in the middle.

Just an idea though, keep those other suggestions coming!

CJohnson81

I like that gold border on the senche card, so maybe something similar can be used on all cards to standardize the pricing.

Gold = 2500
Silver = 1000
Bronze = 500
Bone = 200

Or something like that.

Otherwise heck yes to this idea. You could also make Pacrooti a traveling vendor, so you'd have to find him somewhere in One Tamriel. It could be like a weekly Pacrooti treasure hunt.

Necrelios

I erect the spine of disbelief!

Phinix1

Mandragora wrote: »

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This would be AWESOME.

Sadly I think ZOS is dead set on their Casino Crates. I sincerely hope not...

Really good idea though.

Danikat

This is a great idea, much better than the original design of the crates!

noxayloxub17_ESO

I love this! It would good if was unique offers for each player, but with no obligation to buy before you see what the offers are.

I also agree the prices should be higher than when it was offered in the crown store, to incentivize limited time offers first.

Korah_Eaglecry

This is looking really good. Wish ZOS had thought of this.

MadLarkin

Mandragora wrote: »

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This is an excellent idea. Have items in a rotation. Maybe even have an event/challenge on a weekly basis that must be completed in order to find/gain access to Pacrooti. If someone owns all the items available that week, then, MAYBE, make crates with random goodies in them available for purchase. At least that way, the player has some semblance of control and can wait until their desired item enters the rotation.

FLuFFyxMuFFiN

I found a new use for the Guillotine in Wayrest and that use is to chop off Pacrooti's head.

DragonSamurai360

Wait a second I noticed on the screenshot it says something about PTS(Public Test Server). Is this going to be a real thing, or is this supposed to be a joke? Yes serious question, because I am confused.

FLuFFyxMuFFiN

DragonSamurai360 wrote: »

Wait a second I noticed on the screenshot it says something about PTS(Public Test Server). Is this going to be a real thing, or is this supposed to be a joke? Yes serious question, because I am confused.

@DragonSamurai360

This is a representation of how these crown crates should have been implemented similar to the Golden vendor in Cyrodiil that only shows up on the weekends. Only Pacrooti would have crown store items for sale instead. Right now the crates are 400 crowns each with a chance to get a good cosmetic item that you want. From my experience though it is spend upwards of $100-$200 worth of crowns for a mount that would normally cost 5k crowns at most.

noxayloxub17_ESO

DragonSamurai360 wrote: »

Wait a second I noticed on the screenshot it says something about PTS(Public Test Server). Is this going to be a real thing, or is this supposed to be a joke? Yes serious question, because I am confused.

This is a edited screenshot of the crown crate interaction from the PTS.

LrdRahvin

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

DragonSamurai360 wrote: »

Wait a second I noticed on the screenshot it says something about PTS(Public Test Server). Is this going to be a real thing, or is this supposed to be a joke? Yes serious question, because I am confused.

@DragonSamurai360

This is a representation of how these crown crates should have been implemented similar to the Golden vendor in Cyrodiil that only shows up on the weekends. Only Pacrooti would have crown store items for sale instead.

It's also a really excellent idea...much better than ZOS' Crack Crates.