Tell us when Crown Crates are being released (Announced)

Cazzy

Update: Announced they will be released later this week with an article published tomorrow.

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Tell us when Crown Crates are being released

(For the record: I'd like them never to happen. I just cannot stand the anxious feeling of not knowing when to expect them.)

FLuFFyxMuFFiN

The fact that they haven't been mentioned at all since they were taken off of PTS gives me hope they may never arrive but I am probably just getting my hopes up.

Tryxus

Double Negative

Tryxus

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

The fact that they haven't been mentioned at all since they were taken off of PTS gives me hope they may never arrive but I am probably just getting my hopes up.

Hope makes crazy ppl live in happiness...

I do know one thing: if they do get a release date, then I'm outta here. Let ZOS milk the remaining few dry for all I care until the game dies shortly thereafter, but I won't be around to see it

Skayaq

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

The fact that they haven't been mentioned at all since they were taken off of PTS gives me hope they may never arrive but I am probably just getting my hopes up.

I don't think they would have added the crown gems to the store interface if they had decided to scrap the crown crates.

prettynink

this exactly! Why would anyone wonder when they are going to be released, when they shouldn't be released EVER.

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

The fact that they haven't been mentioned at all since they were taken off of PTS gives me hope they may never arrive but I am probably just getting my hopes up.

Cazzy

Agreed. They shouldn't. They should be burned in a pit of all other bad ideas. But I don't think we matter I genuinely can't play ESO without anxiety that they're going to pop up. It's a weird feeling tbh. I just think we deserve answers.

acw37162

One could hope for never but I'm going to be disappointed.

DigitalShibby

Nothing wrong with crown crates as long as the items inside are bound to your account and cannot be traded or sold, but simply used exclusively by the player who purchased it. To me, something like crown crates would be a massive boost to revenue for ESO because you're going to hit that gambling addiction crowd who max out their credit cards with lady luck.

Siriana_IthilRakka

Here's a crazy idea? Don't buy them if you don't want them? People who do have no issues with the idea, people who don't, need never think about it. There's nothing in them that gives anyone an advantage, have a little impulse control and they're fine. Nothing is going to "pop up" and force you to spend all your money.

DigitalShibby

Siriana_IthilRakka wrote: »

Here's a crazy idea? Don't buy them if you don't want them? People who do have no issues with the idea, people who don't, need never think about it. There's nothing in them that gives anyone an advantage, have a little impulse control and they're fine. Nothing is going to "pop up" and force you to spend all your money.

Well... to be fair they did say "rare and retired items" were possible to get through crown crates.. no one would buy them if you simply get a load of rough oak for 400 crowns.

Waffennacht

I don't understand why you spend so much time thinking about them.

FLuFFyxMuFFiN

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Nothing wrong with crown crates as long as the items inside are bound to your account and cannot be traded or sold, but simply used exclusively by the player who purchased it. To me, something like crown crates would be a massive boost to revenue for ESO because you're going to hit that gambling addiction crowd who max out their credit cards with lady luck.

Yeah but people will argue that restricting certain pets and mounts to the crates is a bit scummy on ZOS's part and will eventually lead to them putting most of the new mounts and pets into the crates as the only way to get them. Also when they were first announced they had an XP scroll better than the craftable xp pots in the game which is why they added that new xp pot to craft.

Siriana_IthilRakka

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Well... to be fair they did say "rare and retired items" were possible to get through crown crates.. no one would buy them if you simply get a load of rough oak for 400 crowns.

Sure, but it's still a decision you make on your own, not under duress. Want the chance of a rare item? Play the lucky dip game. Don't want to lose all your money? Don't play it! It is possible to walk into a casino, spend $5 on the slot machines and walk out $5 poorer with nothing lost but that. Put some limits on yourself and the gambling game is fine. The onus is on the player to have a little self control, not the casino.

wayfarerx

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Nothing wrong with crown crates as long as the items inside are bound to your account and cannot be traded or sold, but simply used exclusively by the player who purchased it. To me, something like crown crates would be a massive boost to revenue for ESO because you're going to hit that gambling addiction crowd who max out their credit cards with lady luck.

Ah yes, exploiting the vulnerable among us for personal financial gain. Thanks 2016.

DigitalShibby

Siriana_IthilRakka wrote: »

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Well... to be fair they did say "rare and retired items" were possible to get through crown crates.. no one would buy them if you simply get a load of rough oak for 400 crowns.

Sure, but it's still a decision you make on your own, not under duress. Want the chance of a rare item? Play the lucky dip game. Don't want to lose all your money? Don't play it! It is possible to walk into a casino, spend $5 on the slot machines and walk out $5 poorer with nothing lost but that. Put some limits on yourself and the gambling game is fine. The onus is on the player to have a little self control, not the casino.

Hey I'm not saying anyone's forced to buy it, simply pointing out you're going to have people addicted to buying it lol.

TerraDewBerry

I don't care when they come because I won't be buying crown crates ever... if no one buys them.. they will eventually (hopefully) realize they were a bad idea, and remove them.

prettynink

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Nothing wrong with crown crates as long as the items inside are bound to your account and cannot be traded or sold, but simply used exclusively by the player who purchased it. To me, something like crown crates would be a massive boost to revenue for ESO because you're going to hit that gambling addiction crowd who max out their credit cards with lady luck.

Yeah but people will argue that restricting certain pets and mounts to the crates is a bit scummy on ZOS's part and will eventually lead to them putting most of the new mounts and pets into the crates as the only way to get them. Also when they were first announced they had an XP scroll better than the craftable xp pots in the game which is why they added that new xp pot to craft.

Precisely scummy indeed, and here i thought the 4k crowns I paid towards the special blue senche was overpriced. Still buying a mount flatout would be far better than locking what otherwise would be relatively cheap mounts,pets,costumes behind an rng pay wall.

Doctordarkspawn

LET THEM NEVER BE RELEASED. LET THEM LEARN, NOT TO RELEASE THIS BOLLOCKS.

Cazzy

Siriana_IthilRakka wrote: »

Here's a crazy idea? Don't buy them if you don't want them? People who do have no issues with the idea, people who don't, need never think about it. There's nothing in them that gives anyone an advantage, have a little impulse control and they're fine. Nothing is going to "pop up" and force you to spend all your money.

I'm really sorry but I've explained hundreds of times why that's not the case. I can't anymore...

Tryxus

prettynink wrote: »

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Nothing wrong with crown crates as long as the items inside are bound to your account and cannot be traded or sold, but simply used exclusively by the player who purchased it. To me, something like crown crates would be a massive boost to revenue for ESO because you're going to hit that gambling addiction crowd who max out their credit cards with lady luck.

Yeah but people will argue that restricting certain pets and mounts to the crates is a bit scummy on ZOS's part and will eventually lead to them putting most of the new mounts and pets into the crates as the only way to get them. Also when they were first announced they had an XP scroll better than the craftable xp pots in the game which is why they added that new xp pot to craft.

Precisely scummy indeed, and here i thought the 4k crowns I paid towards the special blue senche was overpriced. Still buying a mount flatout would be far better than locking what otherwise would be relatively cheap mounts,pets,costumes behind an rng pay wall.

Here's some food for thought: who controls the chances to obtain those exclusive items from the Crates?

The Crown Crates are shady at best, theft at worst. And ZOS is still trying to make them more acceptable by not releasing them right away and by throwing us a bone: the new XP Pots that are as good as the ones from the Crates.

Ppl will buy them, and get robbed more than likely while ZOS is gonna count the € and $ they make from them

Tandor

While I understand that some people are concerned about them, they've known long enough that the crates were being introduced for those people to have quit already if they felt that strongly about it. We've always been told they were coming towards the end of the year, so I'm not clear what difference knowing the precise release date makes. Most principled objectors would have gone when the crates were announced, yet I suspect most objectors are still here and will be so after the crates have been introduced.

Rohamad_Ali

Hopefully never ever but if you're looking to duck out before , I think it's around the 1st of December .

prettynink

Tryxus wrote: »

prettynink wrote: »

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Nothing wrong with crown crates as long as the items inside are bound to your account and cannot be traded or sold, but simply used exclusively by the player who purchased it. To me, something like crown crates would be a massive boost to revenue for ESO because you're going to hit that gambling addiction crowd who max out their credit cards with lady luck.

Yeah but people will argue that restricting certain pets and mounts to the crates is a bit scummy on ZOS's part and will eventually lead to them putting most of the new mounts and pets into the crates as the only way to get them. Also when they were first announced they had an XP scroll better than the craftable xp pots in the game which is why they added that new xp pot to craft.

Precisely scummy indeed, and here i thought the 4k crowns I paid towards the special blue senche was overpriced. Still buying a mount flatout would be far better than locking what otherwise would be relatively cheap mounts,pets,costumes behind an rng pay wall.

Here's some food for thought: who controls the chances to obtain those exclusive items from the Crates?

The Crown Crates are shady at best, theft at worst. And ZOS is still trying to make them more acceptable by not releasing them right away and by throwing us a bone: the new XP Pots that are as good as the ones from the Crates.

Ppl will buy them, and get robbed more than likely while ZOS is gonna count the € and $ they make from them

They will not be counting my money thats for sure. As far as the xp pots I have all 12 of my toons maxed, maxed cp, I have no use for grinding my eyes eyes out over the ILLUSIVE xp thing whatever that they released. Guildies , new to the game they will have to accept the xp pot I have already and count their luck they didn't have to grind to v16 8x's over

prettynink

Who's ducking out? Are you ducking out? The 1st of Dec huh, what leads you to think that?

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Hopefully never ever but if you're looking to duck out before , I think it's around the 1st of December .

elvenmad

I've been trying to find the quote from the PTS forum and not had any luck as yet, but it was mentioned on the PTS forums quite a while ago in a statement that if I remember correctly said they would not be testing them any further on PTS, they had gathered all the info they required, they were also looking into reworking 'some' of the contents due to player response and any further fine tuning would be done after they are live.

Well, their 'reworking of some of the contents' was at the time of the discovery of the Crown Crate XP scrolls and we already know now, their answer to those was to introduce into the live game the Mythic ambrosia recipes. So to me it seems obvious their goals concerning Crown Crates are pretty much set and to try and make them more acceptable in the game they are changing items in the game instead of changing the Crate contents.

Sorry, its no suprise , seen it all before, the very same strategies and also silence in other games I have played who coincidentally at the time employed the same person ZoS has recently, its for me Deja-vu and sad thing is these were the reasons I left those other games.

Personally and looking at it from a business point of view Crates will be here before Xmas, I expect early December, it is the most profitable time of year for these kind of items to be available and I doubt very much a company would miss such a big opportunity for a big influx of revenue for zero outlay, which is what the Crates are all about.

prettynink

elvenmad wrote: »

I've been trying to find the quote from the PTS forum and not had any luck as yet, but it was mentioned on the PTS forums quite a while ago in a statement that if I remember correctly said they would not be testing them any further on PTS, they had gathered all the info they required, they were also looking into reworking 'some' of the contents due to player response and any further fine tuning would be done after they are live.

Well, their 'reworking of some of the contents' was at the time of the discovery of the Crown Crate XP scrolls and we already know now, their answer to those was to introduce into the live game the Mythic ambrosia recipes. So to me it seems obvious their goals concerning Crown Crates are pretty much set and to try and make them more acceptable in the game they are changing items in the game instead of changing the Crate contents.

Sorry, its no suprise , seen it all before, the very same strategies and also silence in other games I have played who coincidentally at the time employed the same person ZoS has recently, its for me Deja-vu and sad thing is these were the reasons I left those other games.

Personally and looking at it from a business point of view Crates will be here before Xmas, I expect early December, it is the most profitable time of year for these kind of items to be available and I doubt very much a company would miss such a big opportunity for a big influx of revenue for zero outlay, which is what the Crates are all about.

Well due to your knowledge and given your experiences with other games you have played that implemented this same garbo. What are your thoughts on their (reworking of some of the contents)?

Cazzy

elvenmad wrote: »

I've been trying to find the quote from the PTS forum and not had any luck as yet, but it was mentioned on the PTS forums quite a while ago in a statement that if I remember correctly said they would not be testing them any further on PTS, they had gathered all the info they required, they were also looking into reworking 'some' of the contents due to player response and any further fine tuning would be done after they are live.

Well, their 'reworking of some of the contents' was at the time of the discovery of the Crown Crate XP scrolls and we already know now, their answer to those was to introduce into the live game the Mythic ambrosia recipes. So to me it seems obvious their goals concerning Crown Crates are pretty much set and to try and make them more acceptable in the game they are changing items in the game instead of changing the Crate contents.

Sorry, its no suprise , seen it all before, the very same strategies and also silence in other games I have played who coincidentally at the time employed the same person ZoS has recently, its for me Deja-vu and sad thing is these were the reasons I left those other games.

Personally and looking at it from a business point of view Crates will be here before Xmas, I expect early December, it is the most profitable time of year for these kind of items to be available and I doubt very much a company would miss such a big opportunity for a big influx of revenue for zero outlay, which is what the Crates are all about.

That sounds about right. Was hoping they'd release info to let us know what was changed exactly. Silly me, thinking they'd want further feedback.

elvenmad

prettynink wrote: »

elvenmad wrote: »

I've been trying to find the quote from the PTS forum and not had any luck as yet, but it was mentioned on the PTS forums quite a while ago in a statement that if I remember correctly said they would not be testing them any further on PTS, they had gathered all the info they required, they were also looking into reworking 'some' of the contents due to player response and any further fine tuning would be done after they are live.

Well, their 'reworking of some of the contents' was at the time of the discovery of the Crown Crate XP scrolls and we already know now, their answer to those was to introduce into the live game the Mythic ambrosia recipes. So to me it seems obvious their goals concerning Crown Crates are pretty much set and to try and make them more acceptable in the game they are changing items in the game instead of changing the Crate contents.

Sorry, its no suprise , seen it all before, the very same strategies and also silence in other games I have played who coincidentally at the time employed the same person ZoS has recently, its for me Deja-vu and sad thing is these were the reasons I left those other games.

Personally and looking at it from a business point of view Crates will be here before Xmas, I expect early December, it is the most profitable time of year for these kind of items to be available and I doubt very much a company would miss such a big opportunity for a big influx of revenue for zero outlay, which is what the Crates are all about.

Well due to your knowledge and given your experiences with other games you have played that implemented this same garbo. What are your thoughts on their (reworking of some of the contents)?

Its already changed so many times since they were first announced as 'Purely Cosmetic' (just like they were also advertised in other games), they also said they would contain random Consumables that were already available in game.

There is a link on Reddit to a video of their announcement, and already they are still not live yet so much as been changed (contrary to what they originally stated), all I can say is wait till there in the game and keep an eye out for more 'special' Crown Crate consumables and at the same time the in game equivalents seem to become rare.

It does not matter what they do, what they say they are going to do, seen and heard it all before, I know exactly where these are heading in the end and I'm sure there are many other players on the forums who know and have experience of this too.

prettynink

elvenmad wrote: »

prettynink wrote: »

elvenmad wrote: »

I've been trying to find the quote from the PTS forum and not had any luck as yet, but it was mentioned on the PTS forums quite a while ago in a statement that if I remember correctly said they would not be testing them any further on PTS, they had gathered all the info they required, they were also looking into reworking 'some' of the contents due to player response and any further fine tuning would be done after they are live.

Well, their 'reworking of some of the contents' was at the time of the discovery of the Crown Crate XP scrolls and we already know now, their answer to those was to introduce into the live game the Mythic ambrosia recipes. So to me it seems obvious their goals concerning Crown Crates are pretty much set and to try and make them more acceptable in the game they are changing items in the game instead of changing the Crate contents.

Sorry, its no suprise , seen it all before, the very same strategies and also silence in other games I have played who coincidentally at the time employed the same person ZoS has recently, its for me Deja-vu and sad thing is these were the reasons I left those other games.

Personally and looking at it from a business point of view Crates will be here before Xmas, I expect early December, it is the most profitable time of year for these kind of items to be available and I doubt very much a company would miss such a big opportunity for a big influx of revenue for zero outlay, which is what the Crates are all about.

Well due to your knowledge and given your experiences with other games you have played that implemented this same garbo. What are your thoughts on their (reworking of some of the contents)?

Its already changed so many times since they were first announced as 'Purely Cosmetic' (just like they were also advertised in other games), they also said they would contain random Consumables that were already available in game.

There is a link on Reddit to a video of their announcement, and already they are still not live yet so much as been changed (contrary to what they originally stated), all I can say is wait till there in the game and keep an eye out for more 'special' Crown Crate consumables and at the same time the in game equivalents seem to become rare.

It does not matter what they do, what they say they are going to do, seen and heard it all before, I know exactly where these are heading in the end and I'm sure there are many other players on the forums who know and have experience if this too.



I will have to check that video out for sure. Thank you for your feedback btw. These(special) consumables you mention, do you think, maybe perhaps would you be alluding to anything p2w. Like putting tempers and such in these crates?

elvenmad

prettynink wrote: »

elvenmad wrote: »

prettynink wrote: »

elvenmad wrote: »

I've been trying to find the quote from the PTS forum and not had any luck as yet, but it was mentioned on the PTS forums quite a while ago in a statement that if I remember correctly said they would not be testing them any further on PTS, they had gathered all the info they required, they were also looking into reworking 'some' of the contents due to player response and any further fine tuning would be done after they are live.

Well, their 'reworking of some of the contents' was at the time of the discovery of the Crown Crate XP scrolls and we already know now, their answer to those was to introduce into the live game the Mythic ambrosia recipes. So to me it seems obvious their goals concerning Crown Crates are pretty much set and to try and make them more acceptable in the game they are changing items in the game instead of changing the Crate contents.

Sorry, its no suprise , seen it all before, the very same strategies and also silence in other games I have played who coincidentally at the time employed the same person ZoS has recently, its for me Deja-vu and sad thing is these were the reasons I left those other games.

Personally and looking at it from a business point of view Crates will be here before Xmas, I expect early December, it is the most profitable time of year for these kind of items to be available and I doubt very much a company would miss such a big opportunity for a big influx of revenue for zero outlay, which is what the Crates are all about.

Well due to your knowledge and given your experiences with other games you have played that implemented this same garbo. What are your thoughts on their (reworking of some of the contents)?

Its already changed so many times since they were first announced as 'Purely Cosmetic' (just like they were also advertised in other games), they also said they would contain random Consumables that were already available in game.

There is a link on Reddit to a video of their announcement, and already they are still not live yet so much as been changed (contrary to what they originally stated), all I can say is wait till there in the game and keep an eye out for more 'special' Crown Crate consumables and at the same time the in game equivalents seem to become rare.

It does not matter what they do, what they say they are going to do, seen and heard it all before, I know exactly where these are heading in the end and I'm sure there are many other players on the forums who know and have experience if this too.



I will have to check that video out for sure. Thank you for your feedback btw. These(special) consumables you mention, do you think, maybe perhaps would you be alluding to anything p2w. Like putting tempers and such in these crates?

All I can say, is think of it from their point of view, they said at first it would be mounts and rare pets etc, cosmetics, but things like those are, for most, one time purchases.

If you want people to keep buying a box of items you have to put in it items that they want or items that they need to progress.... so yeah once they are in the game, its pretty much fair game for anything to 'appear' in the crates, ALL they have to do is say there is an equivalent in the game, whether anybody actually ever see's this 'equivalent' is another matter, THEY say it is there


I am not saying it is going to go this way, but they are laying the foundations to make it very possible and very easy to do.