Is there any way to get eso plus time and crowns instead of "recurring" system?

Sukenlihol

Question is title.

As you know, 60-day game time cards are died. I want to pay 180 day eso plus membership and get game time and crowns instantly. Membership screen says "You will be charged on May XX, 2017 for €XX.XXEUR (plus applicable taxes, if any)".

is there any way?

Turelus

Buy the sub, get the sub stuff, cancel the sub.

You won't lose anything you already have, but it won't auto bill you again at the end of the cycle.

Edit: Unless you mean you're already in a sub and want the rewards early, in which case no only time codes work that way.

Sukenlihol

i have one month sub already and 15 days left. System says you will be charged after it ends. I want to add 180 days game time and crowns to my account now.

In the other words, i want to stack my game times and crowns instantly.

Turelus

Not something you can do sadly.

You have to wait for the billing cycle to get any benefits, this has always been one of the issues of ESO+ subscriptions as often people are stuck wanting their large stash of Crowns for a limited purchase but their sub renews only two days after it leaves the store.

NewBlacksmurf

No kinda dumb being that you can cancel right away.

Seems odd that there is any sub and not benefits for buying crowns instead.

Someone seems to think it's fine as is tho

Danikat

If you want more crowns now the only option is to buy a crown pack.

The 1,500 crown pack costs the same as a 30 day sub (but obviously doesn't include the other benefits) and the 3,000 and 5,500 crown packs work out slightly cheaper per crown.

MissBizz

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

No kinda dumb being that you can cancel right away.

Seems odd that there is any sub and not benefits for buying crowns instead.

Someone seems to think it's fine as is tho

I've never seen an automatically reoccurring subscription that I can't instantly cancel...

Willow

I just bought 3 60 day time cards for eso on Gamestop last night. Thye worked fine. are the going away?

Sakiri

Maybe they aren't available where op is?

lagrue

Totomushen wrote: »

i have one month sub already and 15 days left. System says you will be charged after it ends. I want to add 180 days game time and crowns to my account now.

In the other words, i want to stack my game times and crowns instantly.

Wow... force once something consoles have that PC don't? And strange at that - I was able to buy 3 years worth of subs.

Amerin

You can add 180 days game time and all the crowns will be deposited in your account at once. It is recurring now it seems so you will have to cancel it if you don't want to renew in 6 mos. I'm thinking of doing this myself.

Jayne_Doe

lagrue wrote: »

Totomushen wrote: »

i have one month sub already and 15 days left. System says you will be charged after it ends. I want to add 180 days game time and crowns to my account now.

In the other words, i want to stack my game times and crowns instantly.

Wow... force once something consoles have that PC don't? And strange at that - I was able to buy 3 years worth of subs.

Unfortunately, that's just PS4, where you can purchase several months worth of subscription that's non-renewing, plus I think there's still the monthly sub. XB only has monthly sub, which if you cancel right away, still only means that it won't renew, so you can't cancel and then re-sub until after the current month lapses.

PC, at least, has monthly, 3-month, and 6-month options, but they are all recurring subs.