trbrelinskib14_ESO wrote: »This is completely ridiculous.
ESO+ is a way to support this game and in so doing you are in turn given benefits. Those benefits are more value than the $14.99 a month cost for ESO+. You literally get your $14.99 a month in Crown Store Coins with ESO+. That alone covers the cost of ESO+. Then you get the Craft Bag... arguably that alone is worth ESO+. Then you get experience gain on all categories (crafting, character, and trait), Cosmetic options (dyes on costumes), and access to DLC (that's a great money saver as well).
You can try to argue that Expansion and DLC are the same, but they are not period. I have not seen so many negative, critical, entitled and rude people before. You wouldn't be happy with anything it seems. If it's not one thing it's another. I have no idea how you could feel ripped off or betrayed? Do you literally think you should have everything handed to you for free? As stated above, the cost for ESO+ is already less than what you are getting for ESO+...and you want more? Think people... sheesh.
If ZOS was really wanting to be money grabbers, they would really gimp free accounts (reduced storage and in game coin acquisition and make you pay to upgrade those in the Crown Store) like all other free to play games (LOTRO and SWTOR come to mind), but they don't. You can play the game as it was when it was subscription only with no restrictions with a free account. That is pretty darn good. They include a lot of great base game quality of life upgrades in the base game patches as well. ZOS is in no way trying to rip you off. Not even near what I've seen other companies do.
This is like people complaining about Crown Crates... really? They do nothing but give you convenience or cosmetic items. You don't have to buy them to play the game and be successful. And people say ZOS is money grabbing...engage your brain people... Yeah they would be if you had to buy them to be successful in the game... but that is definitely not the case. All the Crown Store stuff is not needed and does not make you more powerful. It's fluff, and people like to buy fluff. If you don't like them, then don't buy them. It's not pay to win.
Another person who missed the point of why people are angry.
While there maybe some people who want something for free a large amount of people who are angry about it are not angry because they didn't get something for free (which btw regardless of value getting expansion access while using ESO+ is still paying for them and on top of that its temporary assuming your membership runs out), people are angry because things were changed on them literally overnight if nobody had pointed it out they would of gotten away with stealth editing the ESO+ conditions and while they are legally allowed to do so, the way they did essentially threw community good will out the window and it felt like a knife in the pack because people were promised all future content access.
These people have a right to be angry and furious about how this has been handled.
These people have a right to feel betrayed.
These people have a right to feel lied to.
They said nothing about expansions (not mentioning something doesnt automatically exclude it from something).
They promised the player base all future content. Promise broken.
They promised four quatre DLC releases, 2 that no longer count towards ESO+ as homestead is base game and Morrowind is an "expansion". Like it or not they still broke that promise. 1 permanently removed.
Are you getting it yet? its not that it costs money or something is devalued or overvalued its the brazen way in which they did it and then shoved it in our faces after being so loyal to the game, no heads up, no update months back that they would be changing their business model nope, they just dropped it on people. Sorry but thats a *** move and dont try to say it isn't because you know it is. I appreciate your opposing view to this but its mired in high road sentiment which is just mind numbing to read.
You're judging all these people on the basis that they're being whiny unappreciative children, which they are not. Yes you didn't say that directly, but just read what you've said back and think about the tone because its there.
I guarantee you if they had actually said ANYTHING about this a month or so before hand people would not have reacted as aggressively as they have since the announcement.
You ever heard of the saying "hearing what you want to hear" or in this case "reading what you want to read"? after reading what you've posted you are definitely reading what you want to read and not actually reading what is being said.
There are trolls here as well people who will say anything to stoke the fire, be mindful of what you read provided you take everyone's view into account instead of spouting such judgemental crap with that attitude.
JasonSilverSpring wrote: »Businesses sometimes change their business model. ZOS announced this change 4 months in advance. Every single ESO plus subscriber still gets the same benefit today as before. There was never an open ended promise for eternity.
If ESO plus lost its value currently despite no immediate change in what it provides then cancel. Subscribing was never to gain future content.
JasonSilverSpring wrote: »Businesses sometimes change their business model. ZOS announced this change 4 months in advance. Every single ESO plus subscriber still gets the same benefit today as before. There was never an open ended promise for eternity.
If ESO plus lost its value currently despite no immediate change in what it provides then cancel. Subscribing was never to gain future content.
The last DLC was 6 months ago. So yes, whilst ESO+ members are *NOW* fully informed of the change to the business model and can make a decision as to whether paying a subscription is still worth it's value, for the last 6 months subscribers have been paying for the old business model without receiving the promised DLC content. ZOS didn't just wake up at the start of the week and make these changes. They have been known about for a long time. Yet ZOS continued to take subscribers money knowing full well there would be no more 'DLC' until Q3 2017.
JasonSilverSpring wrote: »And for those 6 months you got access to all current content as advertised.
It all depends, did you agree to allow them to make changes at any time for any reason like you did when you agreed to the TOS before you were allowed to play ESO?!?
They can make whatever changes they like. However that doesn't make it right or mean the customer has no right to feel aggrieved by it. And in some countries, due to consumer laws, taking money and not providing the promised services for that money is...shall we say, frowned upon. No matter what the T&C's might say.
It all depends, did you agree to allow them to make changes at any time for any reason like you did when you agreed to the TOS before you were allowed to play ESO?!?
They can make whatever changes they like. However that doesn't make it right or mean the customer has no right to feel aggrieved by it. And in some countries, due to consumer laws, taking money and not providing the promised services for that money is...shall we say, frowned upon. No matter what the T&C's might say.
well, there is this thing that rights and laws of nations generally do not apply to the internet, this is why american companies, run by americans have deleted, censored, posts and banned accounts for arbitrary reasons against american companies, all of which is a violation of the freedom of speech clause. you have no rights on the internet except what the company whose site you are using grants to you.
It all depends, did you agree to allow them to make changes at any time for any reason like you did when you agreed to the TOS before you were allowed to play ESO?!?
So the price for Morrowind.....Seriously? that amount of money for an expansion? Your just as well better off getting the collectors edition compared to what the standard is up on the store. Your paying at a full game price already. Granted Amazon and other stores have not released their prices yet, and you can't pre-order from them in the UK but I'm still shocked at the price tag of the expansion. (the psn store always seems to up the price tag on everything)
The price you have posted is for the base game + the Morrowind 'Expansion pack'. There should be a digital version available to buy if you already own the game, that is just the 'Expansion Pack'. I don't have a PS4, but perhaps check PSN to see if it is listed? The PC version is £29.99.
Yup. Sounds about right.Cherryblossom wrote: »I was paying for the convenience of not needing to think
silvereyes wrote: »Could someone provide a link to where ZOS ever promised 4 pay-gated DLCs per year? I keep hearing that claim made, but all I've ever heard them say is 4 "major updates" per year, which they have done.
Expect to see a named dlc pack of some kind quarterly.
So every 12 weeks or so you will see something named with the cool concept, content, new systems, things like that.
The way it works is if you are an ESO+ member you get all the dlc content included as part of eso+ for as long as you are a subscriber.
You can of course purchase it from the store if you want to
silvereyes wrote: »Could someone provide a link to where ZOS ever promised 4 pay-gated DLCs per year? I keep hearing that claim made, but all I've ever heard them say is 4 "major updates" per year, which they have done.
Matt Firor said it at Quakecon in 2015
00:20:00Expect to see a named dlc pack of some kind quarterly.
So every 12 weeks or so you will see something named with the cool concept, content, new systems, things like that.
The way it works is if you are an ESO+ member you get all the dlc content included as part of eso+ for as long as you are a subscriber.
You can of course purchase it from the store if you want to
lordrichter wrote: »silvereyes wrote: »Could someone provide a link to where ZOS ever promised 4 pay-gated DLCs per year? I keep hearing that claim made, but all I've ever heard them say is 4 "major updates" per year, which they have done.
Matt Firor said it at Quakecon in 2015
00:20:00Expect to see a named dlc pack of some kind quarterly.
So every 12 weeks or so you will see something named with the cool concept, content, new systems, things like that.
The way it works is if you are an ESO+ member you get all the dlc content included as part of eso+ for as long as you are a subscriber.
You can of course purchase it from the store if you want to
So, based on the quote above, which includes both content and systems, they have pretty much done 4 per year, except for 2015, I guess.
BadArgonian wrote: »Spidersick wrote: »
Obviously everyone that post comments over here are expressing their own opinion.
Indeed, although some present those comments as if they were indisputable fact.
Not sure if you were following the beginning of this discussion, but all @Spidersick said is "I guess ESO+ is officially for crafting bags for now on." That looked more like an opinion than indisputable fact to me, but again this is just my point of view.
BadArgonian wrote: »Spidersick wrote: »
Obviously everyone that post comments over here are expressing their own opinion.
Indeed, although some present those comments as if they were indisputable fact.
Not sure if you were following the beginning of this discussion, but all @Spidersick said is "I guess ESO+ is officially for crafting bags for now on." That looked more like an opinion than indisputable fact to me, but again this is just my point of view.
I was responding to his comment that I quoted, nothing more.
lordrichter wrote: »silvereyes wrote: »Could someone provide a link to where ZOS ever promised 4 pay-gated DLCs per year? I keep hearing that claim made, but all I've ever heard them say is 4 "major updates" per year, which they have done.
Matt Firor said it at Quakecon in 2015
00:20:00Expect to see a named dlc pack of some kind quarterly.
So every 12 weeks or so you will see something named with the cool concept, content, new systems, things like that.
The way it works is if you are an ESO+ member you get all the dlc content included as part of eso+ for as long as you are a subscriber.
You can of course purchase it from the store if you want to
So, based on the quote above, which includes both content and systems, they have pretty much done 4 per year, except for 2015, I guess.
silvereyes wrote: »Could someone provide a link to where ZOS ever promised 4 pay-gated DLCs per year? I keep hearing that claim made, but all I've ever heard them say is 4 "major updates" per year, which they have done.
Regardless of such claims, people had 10 months of advanced notice of no DLC to cancel their subs if they were in it for the DLC. PTS patch notes for 1T and Matt Firor's BE3 news post announcing it had no DLC were released back in August 2016. Homestead was announced back in December 2016, also revealing no new DLC. Add on the 4 months of advanced notice we just got about the new Chapters release cadence, and that makes 10 months.
The only people who have any right to feel slighted by ZOS are those that subscribed for 12 months back in June 2016 before the 1T announcement. Everybody else: you've had plenty of notice to cancel your subs.Yup. Sounds about right.Cherryblossom wrote: »I was paying for the convenience of not needing to think
To be fairly honest, I was expecting this. Their previous model wasn't exactly profitable for ZOS (which is clearly shown by the fact that they added those cursed Clown Crates).
I see the expansion as worth buying. So I pre-ordered it. And yes, I am and will continue to be an ESO+ Subscriber. The crafting bag and costume dyeing - along with the 1500 Crowns - are worth it to me to stay subscribed.
Should they have announced a change in DLC Policy before announcing Morrowind? Sure. But they've shown that they like changing things on the fly (again referencing the sudden announcement of the Clown Crates through PTS Patch Notes of all places).
If you feel betrayed, I understand. Lack of information on policy changes has always been a problem with ZOS. Personally, as long as the content they release is fun for me, I'll bite. For example, Homestead will probably completely pass me by. It was fun on the PTS, but the grindiness of the system is not something I am interested in.
Morrowind, just based on its description, seems worth it to me.
Oh well, can't please everyone.
$40 is $40. If you can't save $40 in 3 months or it's a super big deal then you probably shouldn't be subscribed to the game to begin with, honestly.
If you personally do not see the value in a subscription, then don't subscribe.
If you don't see the value in the expansion, do not buy it.
That's really all there is to it.
Complaining on the forum isn't going to do much for your stance. Either you hit them in the wallets, if you believe it is "unjust" or you're really just posturing.
I have subbed since release, I fully expected a expansion to come that I would have to pay for. Then again, I play WoW and other MMOs where expansions and/or DLC are fully paid for so I guess getting free crowns every month doesnt translate for some people to getting something for your sub dollars whereas it does for me.
I love this game and I love Elder Scrolls and the fact that I can support the continued work into a universe I love makes me happy and excited to offer that support.
Thanks! I was wondering where that was all coming from!Matt Firor said it at Quakecon in 2015
00:20:00
Given they have not explicitly stated how this 'expansion' works with ESO+, I'm 99% sure even ESO+ members are going to charged $40 for this. They are being very coy.
dramsb14_ESO wrote: »silvereyes wrote: »Could someone provide a link to where ZOS ever promised 4 pay-gated DLCs per year? I keep hearing that claim made, but all I've ever heard them say is 4 "major updates" per year, which they have done.
Regardless of such claims, people had 10 months of advanced notice of no DLC to cancel their subs if they were in it for the DLC. PTS patch notes for 1T and Matt Firor's BE3 news post announcing it had no DLC were released back in August 2016. Homestead was announced back in December 2016, also revealing no new DLC. Add on the 4 months of advanced notice we just got about the new Chapters release cadence, and that makes 10 months.
The only people who have any right to feel slighted by ZOS are those that subscribed for 12 months back in June 2016 before the 1T announcement. Everybody else: you've had plenty of notice to cancel your subs.Yup. Sounds about right.Cherryblossom wrote: »I was paying for the convenience of not needing to think
A more recent comment, which calls it quarterly "updates" and not necessarily DLC.
How do you know they won't? All we have at this point is a bunch of PR material about the expansion, but there has been no communication about what the base game update will entail or what new systems, if any, there will be in June. The CE pack contents seems to indicate there may be pet skins coming, but that's not been confirmed.old_mufasa wrote: »What I do not understand is why they didn't add any perks at all for ESO plus for Morrowind.