White-Gold Imperial Courser & Pony Available in the Crown Store (All Platforms) - Feb. 8 to Feb. 12

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An all-new mount, pet, and dye stamps are here! Look for them in the ESO Crown Store, starting this week.


MOUNT
White-Gold Imperial Courser

Created after years of extensive breeding, the White-Gold Imperial Courser is said to be the most beautiful horse in all of Tamriel. With its almost ethereal beauty, these horses have been owned by only the wealthiest riders—until now!

The White-Gold Imperial Courser are available for a limited time on all platforms from February 8 to February 12, and costs 3,500 crowns.


PET
White-Gold Imperial Pony

The White-Gold Imperial Pony was said to have made its debut as the birthday present for a noble's daughter, though which family can claim this prestige for themselves is still hotly debated by the aristocrats of Cyrodiil.

The White-Gold Imperial Pony are available for a limited time on all platforms from February 8 to February 12, and costs 1,000 crowns.


DYE STAMPS
Blushing


The Blushing dye stamps are available on all platforms from February 8 to February 12 at 10am EST and cost from 50 to 100 crowns.


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playerkiller247

Whooooo!

LadyAstrum

Ooh pretty. Getting the horse. Might get the pony.

Leeched

BEST MOUNT EVER!

alceleniel

Can we get a discount if we buy both (horse and pet)?

VaranisArano

I had the realization a few weeks back as my Dunmer noblewoman was jumping around on her horse waiting to go in PVP that Cyrodiil was the Horse Riding game that my younger self would have loved.



Its just that now I've grown up. Instead of riding her horse along beaches and forest trails, my princess rides into battle in full armor, screaming "Blood for the Pact!" and slaughtering her enemies. Sometimes, growing up is awesome.

Jaeysa

@Rilis - Question, does it sparkle in game?

Bleakraven

@Jaeysa Yes and it's ridiculous.
Don't get me wrong, it's beautiful, but the sparkles ruin it.

DiNanna63

I LOVE the sparkles and the gold hoof prints - perfect for my Warden Princess Ayriah!!

bethsheba

I would have bought this horse instantly. But someone totally MLPed it with those sparkles. All it is missing is to fart out rainbows. Devs have to realize that many players love ESO because it is so much more immersive than other games as far as it's realistic graphics. With every glowy skin, freaky pet, and wacky mount, some of the immersion effect is lost to us. I know that on the other end of the scale, players who love this kind of thing would miss it. Just wish there were client side options to select which pets/mounts/skins were visible to a player.

Buuut, that seems like huge request, so please, next time the horse comes, ditch the sparkles.

Elsonso

The sparkles were a deal breaker for me, too. That's OK. I have 3500 Crowns to spend on something else.

Rohamad_Ali

Nice to see new horses .

Darkestnght

Nice horse but it is a little too pretty for me.

MarbleQuiche

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

LadyAstrum

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

Mojmir

Lol 3500 crowns, *** no

Elsonso

LadyAstrum wrote: »

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

You sort of just did.

But you do bring up a point, between the two of you. One that is not a stranger to these conversations. It isn't enough to simply "not buy" these "monstrosities" when we see them all over Tamriel because others buy them.

Seems to me that someone once suggested an Option under Gameplay that would make it so that everyone was riding a normal horse. Something like that. That is a little extreme, but I can understand the sentiment.

LadyAstrum

lordrichter wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

You sort of just did.

But you do bring up a point, between the two of you. One that is not a stranger to these conversations. It isn't enough to simply "not buy" these "monstrosities" when we see them all over Tamriel because others buy them.

Seems to me that someone once suggested an Option under Gameplay that would make it so that everyone was riding a normal horse. Something like that. That is a little extreme, but I can understand the sentiment.

I'm adult enough to respect someone else's choices, whether it is visually appealing to me or not. Therefore, I wouldn't use anything that showed someone sitting on a "normal" horse. Monstrosity or otherwise, that player chose an orange fire mount, or whatever else, as part of their characters identity, I'm not about to advocate for a setting to censor other people.

I just think the upset over a few sparkles is silly.

MarbleQuiche

LadyAstrum wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

You sort of just did.

But you do bring up a point, between the two of you. One that is not a stranger to these conversations. It isn't enough to simply "not buy" these "monstrosities" when we see them all over Tamriel because others buy them.

Seems to me that someone once suggested an Option under Gameplay that would make it so that everyone was riding a normal horse. Something like that. That is a little extreme, but I can understand the sentiment.

I'm adult enough to respect someone else's choices, whether it is visually appealing to me or not. Therefore, I wouldn't use anything that showed someone sitting on a "normal" horse. Monstrosity or otherwise, that player chose an orange fire mount, or whatever else, as part of their characters identity, I'm not about to advocate for a setting to censor other people.

I just think the upset over a few sparkles is silly.

I'm also adult enough to respect someone else's choices. You can agree or not, but I'm certainly not making judgements on other people.

I'd be grateful if you didn't put words to that effect in my mouth.

LadyAstrum

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

You sort of just did.

But you do bring up a point, between the two of you. One that is not a stranger to these conversations. It isn't enough to simply "not buy" these "monstrosities" when we see them all over Tamriel because others buy them.

Seems to me that someone once suggested an Option under Gameplay that would make it so that everyone was riding a normal horse. Something like that. That is a little extreme, but I can understand the sentiment.

I'm adult enough to respect someone else's choices, whether it is visually appealing to me or not. Therefore, I wouldn't use anything that showed someone sitting on a "normal" horse. Monstrosity or otherwise, that player chose an orange fire mount, or whatever else, as part of their characters identity, I'm not about to advocate for a setting to censor other people.

I just think the upset over a few sparkles is silly.

I'm also adult enough to respect someone else's choices. You can agree or not, but I'm certainly not making judgements on other people.

I'd be grateful if you didn't put words to that effect in my mouth.

That quote wasn't about you.

Svenja

https://youtu.be/4_Bjqm2_2_o

I bought both the pet and the mount and made a quick video of them. First part is with all mount upgrades hidden, at 1:00 you can see the horse with all upgrades visible though.
They sparkle and leave golden glowing footprints on soft ground, and they make a "sparkle"-sound, don't know how to describe that.

playerkiller247

So happy with the new mount! It's so pretty, my character looks awesome riding around on it!

MarbleQuiche

LadyAstrum wrote: »

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

This one, at the beginning of the that thread, was. Please accept my apologies for jumping down your throat.

I await the same.

playerkiller247

DiNanna63 wrote: »

I LOVE the sparkles and the gold hoof prints - perfect for my Warden Princess Ayriah!!

I actually didn't notice the golden hoof prints, that's really cool. Thanks for sharing!

Elsonso

LadyAstrum wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

You sort of just did.

But you do bring up a point, between the two of you. One that is not a stranger to these conversations. It isn't enough to simply "not buy" these "monstrosities" when we see them all over Tamriel because others buy them.

Seems to me that someone once suggested an Option under Gameplay that would make it so that everyone was riding a normal horse. Something like that. That is a little extreme, but I can understand the sentiment.

I'm adult enough to respect someone else's choices, whether it is visually appealing to me or not. Therefore, I wouldn't use anything that showed someone sitting on a "normal" horse. Monstrosity or otherwise, that player chose an orange fire mount, or whatever else, as part of their characters identity, I'm not about to advocate for a setting to censor other people.

I just think the upset over a few sparkles is silly.

For me, the problem with Sparkle Horse is that they took an attractive mount that did not need any sparkles, and added sparkles to it. The horse was fine before they added the sparkles. I don't think that the sparkles add to the horse. In a way, they distract from it.

This does not make me upset, and I don't hate people who buy it. I know that in 6 months I won't be seeing much of this horse in the game. Until then, I will see it in the game, but given the hefty price, probably not as much as the atronach mounts or the orange people.

What it does mean is that I didn't buy a 3500 Crown horse that I would have thought seriously about buying between now and Monday.

You know, I had an amusing thought during New Life Festival. We tromp off to Alcaire Castle and juggle flames and daggers, and swallow a sword, and they all stand around us cheering like we just did something amazing. Then, we jump on a flaming mount and ride off, and that is somehow normal and everyday.

OlafdieWaldfee

This is without any doubt the ugliest horse I have ever seen in a contemporary computer game!
It has a small resemblance to a real horse but not very convincing. Head, legs and rump are way off. Like somebody took a thin dog and boltet a mane on it. Plus sparkles.
The old ESO-horses may look a little bit dated - but THIS thing is not even in the equine ballpark.

Shanjijri

Svenja wrote: »

https://youtu.be/4_Bjqm2_2_o

I bought both the pet and the mount and made a quick video of them. First part is with all mount upgrades hidden, at 1:00 you can see the horse with all upgrades visible though.
They sparkle and leave golden glowing footprints on soft underground, and they make a "sparkle"-sound, don't know how to describe that.

Thanks for the video. If I was not in love with my tiger mount, I would buy that perfect horse for my kitty. I love the sparkles.

LadyAstrum

lordrichter wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

The sparkles are ridiculous. I might have bought it without (3500 crowns is also ridiculous, and I'm sitting on tens of thousands).

Game is filling up with visual incoherence. It's one thing passing on something you don't like and another when such jarring things are forced on you. I feel like I paid for a game aesthetic that Zeni are not honouring. We play video games. Video and game. Those are the two components to your product. People would be rightly upset if the game part was changed out to be a single player RTS. That's what exactly what's happening to the video part.

It's mind-boggling how much influence short-term revenue decisions are having on this game. A beautiful model absolutely decimated in a rush to target a demographic this IP isn't for.

I don't know what else to say.

I don't like those orange monstrosities people pay gems for but I don't feel a need to make posts about how my visual enjoyment of the game has been impaired or hint that people that like such things shouldn't be catered to.

You sort of just did.

But you do bring up a point, between the two of you. One that is not a stranger to these conversations. It isn't enough to simply "not buy" these "monstrosities" when we see them all over Tamriel because others buy them.

Seems to me that someone once suggested an Option under Gameplay that would make it so that everyone was riding a normal horse. Something like that. That is a little extreme, but I can understand the sentiment.

I'm adult enough to respect someone else's choices, whether it is visually appealing to me or not. Therefore, I wouldn't use anything that showed someone sitting on a "normal" horse. Monstrosity or otherwise, that player chose an orange fire mount, or whatever else, as part of their characters identity, I'm not about to advocate for a setting to censor other people.

I just think the upset over a few sparkles is silly.

For me, the problem with Sparkle Horse is that they took an attractive mount that did not need any sparkles, and added sparkles to it. The horse was fine before they added the sparkles. I don't think that the sparkles add to the horse. In a way, they distract from it.

This does not make me upset, and I don't hate people who buy it. I know that in 6 months I won't be seeing much of this horse in the game. Until then, I will see it in the game, but given the hefty price, probably not as much as the atronach mounts or the orange people.

What it does mean is that I didn't buy a 3500 Crown horse that I would have thought seriously about buying between now and Monday.

You know, I had an amusing thought during New Life Festival. We tromp off to Alcaire Castle and juggle flames and daggers, and swallow a sword, and they all stand around us cheering like we just did something amazing. Then, we jump on a flaming mount and ride off, and that is somehow normal and everyday.

I see your point and understand. I didn't expect the sparkles, and agree it doesn't need it, though for me it's a cute addition. It just feels it's nice to have a mount with effects that appeals to me for a change, though it wouldn't bother me if the sparkle was toggable like the stamina upgrade is, for example.

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

This one, at the beginning of the that thread, was. Please accept my apologies for jumping down your throat.

I await the same.

That's ok, I apologise too

Rouven

I think in general it's awesome that there are more and different horses available. People asked for it a while back.

Sparkles or no, for myself I don't agree with the price.

Ankael07

bethsheba wrote: »

I would have bought this horse instantly. But someone totally MLPed it with those sparkles. All it is missing is to fart out rainbows. Devs have to realize that many players love ESO because it is so much more immersive than other games as far as it's realistic graphics. With every glowy skin, freaky pet, and wacky mount, some of the immersion effect is lost to us. I know that on the other end of the scale, players who love this kind of thing would miss it. Just wish there were client side options to select which pets/mounts/skins were visible to a player.

Buuut, that seems like huge request, so please, next time the horse comes, ditch the sparkles.

LOL its hilarious that we have the option to disable combat animations (not even an option in Cyrodiil) but not flashy mount animations. Gives me an idea where the game is heading

LadyAstrum

The sparkle really isn't too bright and flashy. It's quite subtle in my opinion.