Gifting?

Tyralbin

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but I think it would be nice to be able to gift friends from the crown store.

I have 23k crowns from ESO+ would love to gift a few DLCs to deserving guildies/friends

redspecter23

It's a new feature coming with Summerset. You'll be able to gift most things that aren't houses.

Tyralbin

That is good to hear

AlnilamE

If you head over to the PTS forum, they explain how it will work.

rafaelcsmaia

While i believe this a nice introduction, this will create an indirect "gold selling market", people will be able to buy crowns with money, and trade them for gold with willing people

AlienatedGoat

I'm scratching my head and wondering why houses are excluded.

Kind of BS if you ask me.

MissBizz

Phage wrote: »

I'm scratching my head and wondering why houses are excluded.

Kind of BS if you ask me.

I think it's a technical thing. Right now if you message support, there's 1 support person that can facilitate gifting. AFAIK they can only gift empty houses (non-furnished). Bit odd you can't gift houses at all, but I think it must be something technical.

AlienatedGoat

MissBizz wrote: »

Phage wrote: »

I'm scratching my head and wondering why houses are excluded.

Kind of BS if you ask me.

I think it's a technical thing. Right now if you message support, there's 1 support person that can facilitate gifting. AFAIK they can only gift empty houses (non-furnished). Bit odd you can't gift houses at all, but I think it must be something technical.

Yeah the first place my mind went to was guilds.

Still, I guess it works for furniture packs and such maybe.

Donari

I'd imagine it's similar to GW2's giftable gem store items, where one-time account upgrades can't be gifted due to the headaches associated with untangling spent money on upgrades for an account that already has them.

Once you have a house, you can't buy it again, so what happens to the buyer's spent crowns?

Iselin

So how are they going to stop gifts for gold exchanges among "friends"? Or do they care?

redspecter23

Iselin wrote: »

So how are they going to stop gifts for gold exchanges among "friends"? Or do they care?

I would assume that they are fully aware this will be done and that may have caused some hesitation in implementing it. At this point they have to be ok with it as there isn't a way to stop it from happening outside of asking players not to do it. If someone wants to gift me a mount and I want to gift them 1 million gold, they can come in and ban both players after the fact I suppose, but then you have to be very careful about sending anything to anyone who ever gifts you anything out of fear of a false flag. If my wife wants to gift me a few crown crates, then a week later I give her 1 million gold to cover some of her housing costs, would we deserve punishment for that?

Queo

Iselin wrote: »

So how are they going to stop gifts for gold exchanges among "friends"? Or do they care?

So what if they do? It's going to be a great way to move move money around on the servers. There isn't much that "pay2win" ...

Iselin

Queo wrote: »

Iselin wrote: »

So how are they going to stop gifts for gold exchanges among "friends"? Or do they care?

So what if they do? It's going to be a great way to move move money around on the servers. There isn't much that "pay2win" ...

P2W lol. No that's not it. What it does is it opens the door to in game scams since there is no trading interface you can use for this. Any such trades will have to be done on faith just like WW/Vamp bites.

This gifting in exchange for gold will become very popular and there will be a flood of "I got ripped off" complaints flowing from it. That's the problem I suspect will raise its ugly head quite quickly after this goes live.

Queo

So what, be smart buy from guildies and friends. Never buy from a stranger....

They could solve this by just letting us sell the CS items at a guild store...

redspecter23

Iselin wrote: »

Queo wrote: »

Iselin wrote: »

So how are they going to stop gifts for gold exchanges among "friends"? Or do they care?

So what if they do? It's going to be a great way to move move money around on the servers. There isn't much that "pay2win" ...

P2W lol. No that's not it. What it does is it opens the door to in game scams since there is no trading interface you can use for this. Any such trades will have to be done on faith just like WW/Vamp bites.

This gifting in exchange for gold will become very popular and there will be a flood of "I got ripped off" complaints flowing from it. That's the problem I suspect will raise its ugly head quite quickly after this goes live.

I get where they are coming with the gifting system but it will lead to complaints of being ripped off for sure. It would probably have been better to just put the crown store items in a completely trade-able box which you could then post to guild stores or in the trade interface. Once opened, the item is then bound. Players are going to trade crown items anyway. It might as well be made safer and legitimate to do so.