Free Crowns Weekend?

Veuth

I've posted nothing but negativity so far, and I don't want to post any more since I don't think that's very good for this forum.

I have a pretty cool suggestion regarding the Crown Crates, it seems like the only way to obtain crowns is to pay for them and that's it. But of course if crowns were free drops in-game then no one would buy them which means Zenimax wouldn't be earning enough revenue. Much like how there was a "Free 2 Play weekend" I think a free crowns earning weekend would be a good idea as well.

This is an example of how it could work:

Complete a quest: 30 crowns
Defeat a World Boss/Dark Anchor: 60 crowns
Complete a Group Dungeon: 120 crowns
Complete a Trial Dungeon: 300 crowns
Become Emperor in PVP: 10,000 crowns

Of course, this is just an example and the amount of crowns earned can be changed to be made more fair if they actually plan on doing something like this.

Does anyone else think this is a good idea?

Cpt_Teemo

I think its a bad idea tbh, real $ currency should stick to real $ not in game content

Veuth

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

I think its a bad idea tbh, real $ currency should stick to real $ not in game content

But this game required a subscription before, and then introduced a f2p weekend so I don't see how this is very different.

Waffennacht

I always liked in game exchanges. Like I'll buy your crown at 1000 gold per.

I had to earn that gold so it's not like we're generating any and you bought your crowns so ZoS got their money. You don't have to grind like I did and I can have a cool mount.

Seems like a win win to me...

Beardimus

W2P instead of P2W?

Lynx7386

Not a bad idea but your numbers are way off.

In alikr, you can finish a dolmen every 3-5 minutes. That's like 700-800 crowns per hour easily with huge groups doing the loop 24/7.

Cpt_Teemo

But they also gave us crowns based on how many months we had during the previous conversion.

FloppyTouch

Yeah! Or like become an ESO+ member and get like 1,500 crowns a month.

parkham

I think an easier way to do it would keep crowns like they are and have items in the crown store as monster drops and placed in containers on special occasions. Would be a more sane option and probably a whole lot easier to code.

Lynx7386

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

I think its a bad idea tbh, real $ currency should stick to real $ not in game content

I disagree, most games with a microtransaction setup have some way for players to earn that stuff through gameplay instead of extra cash.

In swtor, for example, items purchased from the cartel Market (aka crown store) can freely be sold to other players, even items like name changes.

In others, you can exchange in game currency like gold for store currency like crowns.

Veuth

parkham wrote: »

I think an easier way to do it would keep crowns like they are and have items in the crown store as monster drops and placed in containers on special occasions. Would be a more sane option and probably a whole lot easier to code.

Or have some kind of Easter hunt where free crowns are in a few locations but lootable for everyone so there's no fights over it.

JWKe

Bad idea. It means folks like myself will hold off buying crowns altogether until a similar event like this happen again. Maybe what I'll do is line up a bunch of quest to be completed then wait till the event to begin and turn them all in.

Runs

The only way this is comparable to the free play weekends is if you lose the crowns and anything bought with them when the weekend is over, unless of course you decide to buy the crowns. Don't get me wrong I don't think it's a bad idea, I just don't think it is comparable to the free play weekends.

The amounts would have to be smaller and probably have a limit per account to prevent abuse. But give people who don't normally buy crowns a small taste of what they are like, and they may become hooked. I think a promotion like that if handled properly could be positive.

BlackSparrow

Lynx7386 wrote: »

Not a bad idea but your numbers are way off.

In alikr, you can finish a dolmen every 3-5 minutes. That's like 700-800 crowns per hour easily with huge groups doing the loop 24/7.

Exactly what I was thinking. Plus, this would make dolmen botting much, much worse.

Veuth

JWKe wrote: »

Bad idea. It means folks like myself will hold off buying crowns altogether until a similar event like this happen again. Maybe what I'll do is line up a bunch of quest to be completed then wait till the event to begin and turn them all in.

Black Ops 3 had a similar event called Double Cryptokey weekend where players could earn twice the amount in games, people could just wait till that event to stack up all the cryptokeys and open a bunch of Supply Drops.

Many people to this day still despise the supply drops in Black Ops 3 and accuse Activision of being greedy, I doubt a free crown earnings weekend would be TOO much of a good thing, just a small bonus to make things more fair.

Veuth

Lynx7386 wrote: »

Not a bad idea but your numbers are way off.

In alikr, you can finish a dolmen every 3-5 minutes. That's like 700-800 crowns per hour easily with huge groups doing the loop 24/7.

Yeah, that is true. I couldn't really be bothered to think of fair numbers so I just typed it all down but if this free crown earnings weekend actually happens then I'm sure Zenimax will make it as fair as possible.

UrQuan

Beardimus wrote: »

W2P instead of P2W?

You definitely deserve an awesome for that

andreasranasen

I dunno what OP is smoking, but i want some

Veuth

andreasranasen wrote: »

I dunno what OP is smoking, but i want some

Just smoking that daily dose of oxygen.

Nestor

The Currency for Free Crowns can't be deposited in Chase to pay the bills and salaries of the employees.

DeadlyRecluse

A better idea would be to just put an "event questgiver" out when they roll out new crates, complete the quest and you get 1 crate.

I actually am very surprised they don't "tease" crates to people with a few freebies.

Veuth

Nestor wrote: »

The Currency for Free Crowns can't be deposited in Chase to pay the bills and salaries of the employees.

Activision made $3.7 billion dollars on Supply Drops alone from all the people buying them, and the currency to unlock the drops are obtainable in-game. If the event "free crowns weekend" is made balanced and fair then I'm highly sure that Zenimax will still be earning a lot of money nonetheless.

SickDuck

You realise that you can't farm LOLs anymore?

phairdon

Gw2 has this in game. Once you earn certain levels in achievement points, you get 400 gems. By no means a large amount at all and the gap between each achievement level is quite high. A currency swap was also introduced. Players can swap gold for gems. For example, I buy 1500 crowns here, I can put them up for currency trade, on a guild trader, for players willing to part with their gold.
Do not know whether introducing free crowns into this game would be a good idea and doubt it will ever happen.

Purrmaid

MOBAs use this idea, I've seen smite espessially often have "crown-weekends". Where it is play x amount of games and you get a tiny amount of crowns.

I would rather use a "log in daily reward" system in ESO. Kind of like what GW2 has going on? You log in day 1, but not day 2, it doesn't reset the reward but once you log in on day 3, you'll get a check on the day 2 reward.

Every 7th reward could be a tiny amount of crown, or maybe a crown crate.
And every 30th could be something big. Like a mount? That'd be pretty sweet.

Kodrac

Well damn, I thought it said free clowns weekend.

mb10

lol thats like telling your company at work, pay me extra this month to be nice?

phairdon

Kodrac wrote: »

Well damn, I thought it said free clowns weekend.

Good point lol. Look at the first part of what i said, ignore the rest.

Veuth

mb10 wrote: »

lol thats like telling your company at work, pay me extra this month to be nice?

Well, other games are doing this just so it's a tad bit more fair and also reduces the amount of people accusing them of being greedy.