Official Discussion thread for "Crown Store Showcase: July 2017"

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

This is the official discussion thread for the Crown Store Showcase: July 2017 blog article. Impressive costumes, a ferocious mount, a cute pet, and a fashionable accessory await in July. See them all in our latest Showcase!

DeadlyRecluse

Big fan of this one. Good looking hairstyle, hats, some okay costumes.

Turelus

RIP this months pay cheque...

This is a great selection, I'm worried about some of the prices, especially with how popular Nauru's costume will be. Wait and see on that one I guess.

Also why are you posting Jess? Shouldn't you have a day off?

Eweroun

It was hard to see no Crown Store Sale was announced... you know... this is kinda hard to choose from..

Elsonso

A lot of potentially expensive limited time stuff in a narrow window this month.

Stocking up on popcorn.

bloodthirstyvampire

My eso plus just ran out lots of limited edition items that end on the 10th I get paid on the 13th bottom line

TheNuminous1

Ugh more dunmer more morrowind related junk. Ugh

Legoless

Nice crowns!

Neirymn

Okay, okay... *sigh* I'll buy some of these.

bloodthirstyvampire

Can you not extend it all to the 13th @ZOS_JessicaFolsom you know the things that start on the 6th

Acrolas

No idea why the Brassy Assassin picture needed a horizontal flip, but it's super-obvious when you're selling Naryu's costume in the same month.

Leogon

I have a suggestion for your next showcase. How about some hairstyles(preferably short ones) that don't make male characters look feminine? Thanks!

Osteos

Great showcase! Ill be spending my crowns.

Alp

Feels kinda wrong that 7/10 of the new things are limited to a few days. I get the stuff related to events but the rest is just betting on making people feel like they will miss a chance to get something purely cosmetic.

It bothers me that it's apparently a better marketing strategy to aim for the few people spending lots of money instead of expanding the choice of content available on the store for the time to come. I am sure some people would buy it later who aren't able to this month. Just as sure as I am that some people will buy it just because it's limited.

I will buy stuff. But I will also skip stuff and never have a chance to buy it in the future unless I randomly get it in a crown crate which is hit or miss with my luck so far. Gotten at least 2 things I wanted from the crates so far but mostly just gotten a feeling of regret, that I would have gotten more out of my money had I spend it on specific stuff I really wanted.

Since 90% of my crowns come from my subscription its not like you lose out on me saving my crowns for later bigger stuff instead of buying it all at once because it's limited. And doing it right after releasing new crown crates. Luckily my subscription lapsed so I got a bit this month. At least subscribers get a few crates for free with the event. But that was cleverly announced a little while after the crates were released because announcing it at the same time or too soon after would be a potential loss of profit. I get that.

Whoever decides these things is smart, doing their job well. But I still think it's wrong from the perspective of a customer. But I already gave my money so no loss in scaring me away with money-centric marketing strategies.

Elsonso

Alp wrote: »

It bothers me that it's apparently a better marketing strategy to aim for the few people spending lots of money instead of expanding the choice of content available on the store for the time to come.

Whoever decides these things is smart, doing their job well. But I still think it's wrong from the perspective of a customer. But I already gave my money so no loss in scaring me away with money-centric marketing strategies.

Welcome to the world of FB2P

Recremen

Got some pretty great looking things coming, but I really need to ask, what is the dye situation of the "Buoyant Gentility" and "Seyda Neen Jodhpur" Ensemble?? And when will the dye issues with the “Holiday in Balmora" Outfit be fixed?? I really want to buy the Holiday in Balmora getup, it looks lovely, but it's such a complete disaster in terms of dyes right now. This can't really be intended, can it?

Abeille

Okay, there are several things in that page that are important to me. Hair, pet, personality and dress, oh my. Glad my sub crowns had been piling up lately.

Can you tell us if the Midyear Mayhem Crowns can be worn by Argonian and Khajiit too, please?

Vizikul

Yay, more limited time stuff! Skeevers...

Jayne_Doe

As I posted in another thread that popped up prior to the official one, I like most of the items this month, but most of the ones I do are limited. But, I'd rather have them be limited than locked behind a clown crate. Never gonna buy any of them, even if I do end up opening my free ones (the jury's still out on that, since I haven't yet opened the one from my pre-order).

But, it is disappointing that only 3 of the items are being added to the store on a "permanent" basis.

I'm happy with all the Dunmer/MW stuff - keep it coming! Seriously though, it'll play itself out - probably next month will be the last when they release the top-tier versions of the costumes.

Brother_Numsie

So far seeing them in game it's kind of meh.

The mount is ok, but it's just another armored saber. The costume (Morag Tong) somehow flattens my butt, even on an Argonian with a tail. I play an Argonian so the hairstyle is no use to me, really need to start adding an Argonian equivalent with these hairstyles. The personality is lackluster, was expecting maybe a little more sass with the idles. Idle1 and idle2 are way too similar. Also needs a run animation and a couple of more emotes.
Think I'll just save up for the tattoo when it comes out, but I may hold off on that too. To be honest, most of the armors in game cover up most everything, so what is the point?
The Vvardvark, that little cutie, will be an instant buy.

Caseyladner

It is depressing to me that everything is so darn expensive. Hard to justify spending anymore money on this game. I have probably spent 300 hundred dollars total buying the game, all the DLC, a cool mount, and a big house.... Felt guilty after spending that much money and the sad part is that I want to spend more but I know it will only depress me. Is spending 100's of dollars on virtual items that don't really do anything besides add cool ascetics to a video game the best use of my money? Probably not

Scyantific

Obviously you were not here for the 4k tron-cat mount/4.5k elk fiascos.

Or the 6k Celestial motif fiasco

JasonSilverSpring

Naryu's Morag Tong Costume clips on the back of the head for my character when I preview it. I was tempted to get it, but not with that glitch. Also, I wish the hood was optional. I guess one could choose another hat, but that would not be the same.

MAEK

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

Naryu's Morag Tong Costume clips on the back of the head for my character when I preview it. I was tempted to get it, but not with that glitch. Also, I wish the hood was optional. I guess one could choose another hat, but that would not be the same.

You can use hide helmet under gameplay settings, and the hood will disappear.

JasonSilverSpring

MAEK wrote: »

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

Naryu's Morag Tong Costume clips on the back of the head for my character when I preview it. I was tempted to get it, but not with that glitch. Also, I wish the hood was optional. I guess one could choose another hat, but that would not be the same.

You can use hide helmet under gameplay settings, and the hood will disappear.

Oh really? I thought that only worked on armor and not costumes. That is good to know, but I still hope they fix the clipping issue.

bottleofsyrup

These seem to dye better than their counterparts from a couple of weeks ago.

SlayerSyrena

Still disappointed we only had 4 days to possibly buy the Morag Tong pack/costume/personality. Just one more day and I would've been good to buy it. Why the ridiculously short windows for this exclusive content? Not everyone gets paid at the same time.

Abeille

So, about August's showcase... Do we have an ETA?

MissBizz

Abeille wrote: »

So, about August's showcase... Do we have an ETA?

They have been doing the showcase's as late as can be lately. Hopefully soon!

Abeille

MissBizz wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

So, about August's showcase... Do we have an ETA?

They have been doing the showcase's as late as can be lately. Hopefully soon!

Yeah... I hoped they would have released it last Friday since they often go for the last Friday of the month. Hopefully it comes out today or tomorrow and the first items of the month hit the store this Thursday. The first items of the month are often the ones that interest me (style parlour stuff).

MornaBaine

When will the August showcase be up?

July was very much a mixed bag. The hairstyle was nice but I'm STILL waiting for some LONG hairstyles for both males and females! The assassin personality and costume were the standouts. The other female costumes suffer from an inability to dye them anything but pastels which really made a lot of us very angry. There needs to be a DYE PREVIEW if you are going to continue to pump out costumes that aren't going to dye properly. The Mayhem crowns are a mess and suffer from a bunch of problems. I will be surprised if this is fixed though as the MO of the crown store seems to be to completely ignore all things once they go live. The crown store in general is in desperate need of some serious quality control.