Official Discussion Thread for "Announcing the ESO Plus Bonus Event!"

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

This is the official discussion thread for the Announcing the ESO Plus Bonus Event! blog article.

Know what makes adventuring in Tamriel even more awesome? Free stuff! From July 5-9, ESO Plus members can log in to receive up to five free Dwarven Crown Crates. Not an ESO Plus member? You can enjoy a free trial of the service for the duration of the event, no strings attached. This includes access to the DLC game packs, the Craft Bag, and bonuses to XP and Gold gains. Check out the details in our announcement article!

Turelus

Sounds like an awesome event, I hope it helps bring some more people over to ESO+

Also free stuff! Who doesn't like free stuff?

psypanda

yaaay

RABIDxWOLVERINE

Of course you guys give stuff away for free and my Xbox decides to break... WTF lol

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

Of course you guys give stuff away for free and my Xbox decides to break... WTF lol

Oh noooo. So sorry to hear that, @RABIDxWOLVERINE!

lpfan678

Why are earned crates being given on the 17th? Why not just give them when you log in?

RABIDxWOLVERINE

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

Of course you guys give stuff away for free and my Xbox decides to break... WTF lol

Oh noooo. So sorry to hear that, @RABIDxWOLVERINE!

I appreciate your sympathy but that's my luck haha it happens.

Insomnia rex

Awesome! Now i don't have to destroy the next thousand fish, but can instead put them in my craft bag fish collection. Count wise my craft bag is likely >90% fish

bottleofsyrup

This is awesome!

ManwithBeard9

Must have been hemorrhaging subs with the Morrowind chapter announcement.

LadyNalcarya

Yay for free stuff!

psypanda wrote: »

yaaay

I hope Ill get enough nix hounds to afford that fancy hairstyle

Zaldan

Is it just me or does this along with all the time limited offers in the clown store scream cash flow problems?

Titansteele

Great idea!

Feed the inventory started people a little respite - let them see how good it is when you have bank and inventory space available and they will never want to go back to the cheap seats.

I like the cut of your jib!

Turelus

ManwithBeard9 wrote: »

Must have been hemorrhaging subs with the Morrowind chapter announcement.

Can't we just believe this is a nice thing with good intentions, for once?

Neirymn

Thanks for the free crates!

Enodoc

lpfan678 wrote: »

Why are earned crates being given on the 17th? Why not just give them when you log in?

Probably some obtuse technical reason that they don't want to divulge. Maybe that's how long it takes to manually go through five days of login records?

Curson

psypanda wrote: »

yaaay

I can't breathe

Docmandu

Instead of luring more customers, how about responding to your actual current customers regarding the daily cyrodiil server crashes. Maybe put some effort into actually trying to keep your current customers.

olsborg

Im on vacation from the 4th to the 11th of july lol, rip.

Recremen

This is to be frank a completely terrible idea and I was extremely disappointed to hear about it. When I heard that more ESO+ benefits were being looked into to make up for the difference between the originally-advertised benefits and the current delivery, I was excited. There were a lot of great ideas, chief among them various ideas regarding a restyling system for weapons and armor. This, however, is not the kind of service I was looking for.

The opportunity to engage in gambling is not an appropriate benefit. We already have the opportunity to buy gambling boxes with the crowns we get from subbing, so extra gambling boxes is nothing new or interesting. An alternative, I suppose, would be to give more crowns during this month to subscribers so that we could spend them as we wish, but I'm not dumb, it seems pretty obvious what this is about. This is nothing more than an attempt at getting people more hooked and invested into the gambling box system. It was only approved because the belief is that if people get a few "free" ones now for subscribing they'll buy much, much more later as they try to get the gambling prizes they invariably didn't receive the first time.

I won't be opening these gambling boxes just as I did not open the one I got as part of the Morrowind collector's edition package. I absolutely, categorically, unilaterally refuse to participate in any part of the gambling box system, "free" or not. It's a blight on the game, it brings out the worst kind of attitudes in people, and it exploits players in a scheme that I truly and dearly hope is made illegal one day.

Turelus

Recremen wrote: »

This is to be frank a completely terrible idea and I was extremely disappointed to hear about it. When I heard that more ESO+ benefits were being looked into to make up for the difference between the originally-advertised benefits and the current delivery, I was excited. There were a lot of great ideas, chief among them various ideas regarding a restyling system for weapons and armor. This, however, is not the kind of service I was looking for.

Transmog system (as it's better known) is in the works and will be coming to ESO at a later day, this may or may not still be an ESO+ feature (I personally hope not).

Just because this event is happening doesn't mean it's the final benefit ESO+ will get and we won't have any more again. I would imagine ZOS wants to continue to have ESO+ feel rewarding for those who purchase it.

Think of this as just a nice extra you didn't have to do anything for, whilst also offering players who are on the fence about ESO+ a chance to try all the features (or even just take advantage of extra house item slots) for a while.

Arkvoril

Recremen wrote: »

This is to be frank a completely terrible idea and I was extremely disappointed to hear about it. When I heard that more ESO+ benefits were being looked into to make up for the difference between the originally-advertised benefits and the current delivery, I was excited. There were a lot of great ideas, chief among them various ideas regarding a restyling system for weapons and armor. This, however, is not the kind of service I was looking for.

The opportunity to engage in gambling is not an appropriate benefit. We already have the opportunity to buy gambling boxes with the crowns we get from subbing, so extra gambling boxes is nothing new or interesting. An alternative, I suppose, would be to give more crowns during this month to subscribers so that we could spend them as we wish, but I'm not dumb, it seems pretty obvious what this is about. This is nothing more than an attempt at getting people more hooked and invested into the gambling box system. It was only approved because the belief is that if people get a few "free" ones now for subscribing they'll buy much, much more later as they try to get the gambling prizes they invariably didn't receive the first time.

I won't be opening these gambling boxes just as I did not open the one I got as part of the Morrowind collector's edition package. I absolutely, categorically, unilaterally refuse to participate in any part of the gambling box system, "free" or not. It's a blight on the game, it brings out the worst kind of attitudes in people, and it exploits players in a scheme that I truly and dearly hope is made illegal one day.

I agree with your post mostly. I don't buy crates either because I can resist temptation but i sure will open these. Probably for more potions, food, gem, and poisons like the first free one I got, but I am still opening them. Its about time for the ESO+ members to be able to have some of the items these "Whales" have that can drop untold amounts of money.

P.S. Not hating on people with money, just wish I had that kind of money to drop and feel okay about it.

P.S.S. Yes I know we can buy Crates also as ESO+ members. Some members are against this for certain reasons(Not topic right now.). As an ESO+ member can i at least have some different mounts for the love of the gods.

rhapsodious

I'm pretty sure the crates are a one-off thing and not planned to be a continuing benefit; I think it's a nice gesture, personally. Sure, marketing has ulterior motives as they always do, regardless of industry, but I appreciate it.

Pls no nix hounds tho ):

UrbanMonk

#SAYNOTOCROWNCRATES- free or not.

NBrookus

I think the ESO+ free trial is a GREAT idea. And I appreciate the token to reward existing subs so the event is good for them, too.

I dislike that the token you are offering are crown crates tho. Why not just give subs a reward like a unique mount, something ala the senche tiger that long term subs got as a thank you a while back? Then the reward is special, not a round of garbage crown potions and gambling.

Krayzie

WOW FREE CRATES

This will certainly distract the user base from all the broken/unstable content, not to mention the 1000s of server crashes a week LOL

cFos

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GinaBruno

Will ESO+ members get the free crates on both servers if they play on both servers and log in on both servers during the bonus period? Or is the award limited to 1 server? The article does not specify; however, as an ESO+ member I notice I am ESO+ on both servers. Please clarify - is it one free crate per subscription or 1 (bound to whichever server you log into) or is it free crate per subscription per server (a total of 10 crates - 5 per server)? As above, ESO+ subscriptions cross servers; however, crown store purchases do not.

Beardimus

Unreal that people are complaining, this is a great initiative and will help people explore DLC's they were considering, and its just cool.

QUESTION @ZOS_GinaBruno - for non ESO Plus users will they keep the Crafting bag and bank space akin to cancelling ESO Plus? i.e. they can access the stuff just cant add to it?

Master_Fluff

Neat. Free stuff for two of my accounts. A good way to get in the mood for my summer vacation. Only 3 workweeks left now.

helediron

My alt account subscriptions expire tomorrow and i won't renew them. Crates are uninteresting. I don't think ZOS is panicking because of my subs, but what if many others decided the same? After all, Wardenfell turned out to be little fun, much irritation. I just run my daily routines and watch if the game ever recovers.

HansK

OK, let's see if I get this right @ZOS_JessicaFolsom . You write

"To participate, simply log into the game with an active ESO Plus membership between 12:00am EDT and 11:59pm EDT (Eastern)"

As I am in Europe I'm on CEST. As I read this, it means I'll have to log-in between 18.00 CEST and 06.00 CEST the following morning. Logging in during the day doesn't count towards a free crate, only logging in during the evening and night. Or is this some typo and does logging in during the full 24 hours of a day suffice?