How much have you spent?

NeroBad

$300-$400

305 Dollars, and the future spending is dependant on how they will monetize.

maroite

$300-$400

Marginis wrote: »

Tavore1138 wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Every digital deluxe edition, full price, preordered as it came out, a full subscription until the sub requirement was lifted, then ESO plus on and off (about 6 months total of ESO plus), every single DLC, so a sub is not required to play them, EVERY. SINGLE. crown store item released up to Shadows of the Hist was released, somewhere between 500 and 1000 dollars on crown crates (so I KNOW how much of anrip off they are - still not a single radiant apex mount), several other crown store items since Shadows of the Hist (at least 50 bucks a month spent on that, I'd say), and a few other things, like furnishings and appearance change tokens (luckily I did all my researches and horse trainings with in game gold), totalling around 500 dollars (thank the divines there was a crown store sale when I got the mundus stone furnishings). This is a conservative estimate. I'll let you do the actual math (I'm afraid what I'll find).

I've played since the beta, I love TES, and I was there for a lot of firsts, so I'm invested. I can't say I should have spent all this money, or that I'd do it again given a redo, or that I really have the money to spend... but ESO has a lot of things I like, and I think it's a game deserving of compensation for everything it provides.

This also happens to be one of the reasons I feel wrongs in the game should be righted, and why I have such vehement hatred toward crown crates and other predatory practices. Those shouldn't need to be implemented when there are players like me, right (this is a rhetorical question)?

But yeah, judge me if you will. Have at it.

So, I was looking for something to do over my lunch break. I worked out some math, combining some estimates, some wiki data, and ESO crown store pricing. I estimated I spent about 3520 as a low estimate, which I rounded to somewhere between 3500 and 4000 US dollars.

I was wrong. Looked up actual billing history, and before factoring in tax and change (I rounded to the nearest dollar amount when adding) I spent $526USD on Elder Scrolls Online on PC, before the console release. On console, to date, I've spent $4,670USD on ESO, not counting xbox live gold. That's $5,196USD spent on ESO to date, or about $1000 a year. That's roughly half of what I'd spent on every videogame related thing I've ever owned up to 2013, just spent on ESO, one game. There's a poll option for $500+, where's the one for $5,000+?

Kinda makes me wonder if there's anyone else in the 5,000+ club, or if I have single handedly spent the most money on this game of any individual person as a player (I sincerely hope so, for everyone's sake).

Sad thing is, I would've spent more, but the crown crates (specifically the crown crate rewards you can only get with RNG) and the rising cost of crown store items soured me on the idea. If not for the prohibitively high cost of buying every single item (like 40 dollars PER MOUNT, or having to buy a million crates AND get lucky just to get a few rare crate mounts) I would still be buying every single crown store item ZOS releases. As it is now, I only spend money if it's something that isn't some sort of duplicate of what I already have or if I really love the cosmetics of it. That's why I could care less if they release another senche mount now, whereas, if not for the aforementioned reasons, I would still be pretty excited and buy it immediately. I will gladly be a whale for a company that treats me right, but it's harder when they don't. It's also harder when I'm really more of a dolphin than a whale, but I'm a generous sea mammal, so I can get past that.

tl;dr Please tell me I'm not the only one who's spent over $5,000 bucks on this game.

You’re fine mine comes in at just under $6k if I convert to those dollar things you folks use.

I'm so sorry.

Sorry for what? o.O

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

Charliff1966 wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Every digital deluxe edition, full price, preordered as it came out, a full subscription until the sub requirement was lifted, then ESO plus on and off (about 6 months total of ESO plus), every single DLC, so a sub is not required to play them, EVERY. SINGLE. crown store item released up to Shadows of the Hist was released, somewhere between 500 and 1000 dollars on crown crates (so I KNOW how much of anrip off they are - still not a single radiant apex mount), several other crown store items since Shadows of the Hist (at least 50 bucks a month spent on that, I'd say), and a few other things, like furnishings and appearance change tokens (luckily I did all my researches and horse trainings with in game gold), totalling around 500 dollars (thank the divines there was a crown store sale when I got the mundus stone furnishings). This is a conservative estimate. I'll let you do the actual math (I'm afraid what I'll find).

I've played since the beta, I love TES, and I was there for a lot of firsts, so I'm invested. I can't say I should have spent all this money, or that I'd do it again given a redo, or that I really have the money to spend... but ESO has a lot of things I like, and I think it's a game deserving of compensation for everything it provides.

This also happens to be one of the reasons I feel wrongs in the game should be righted, and why I have such vehement hatred toward crown crates and other predatory practices. Those shouldn't need to be implemented when there are players like me, right (this is a rhetorical question)?

But yeah, judge me if you will. Have at it.

tl;dr Please tell me I'm not the only one who's spent over $5,000 bucks on this game.

Nope, you aren't. My wife is above it. "ooh i like that house", "Now i need furniture", "That pet looks cute" and so on and so on. It's her hobby and she has the money to do so. Others spent thousands on a different hobby, hers is gaming.

stop complaining and be happy is not shopping...she would drag you along if so

I feel like my wife buying digital items is much better than her buying more shoes. I'm running out of closet space...

Rohamad_Ali

$400-$500

Adding everything since 1014 $460 .

Charliff1966

$500-Above

maroite wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Tavore1138 wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Every digital deluxe edition, full price, preordered as it came out, a full subscription until the sub requirement was lifted, then ESO plus on and off (about 6 months total of ESO plus), every single DLC, so a sub is not required to play them, EVERY. SINGLE. crown store item released up to Shadows of the Hist was released, somewhere between 500 and 1000 dollars on crown crates (so I KNOW how much of anrip off they are - still not a single radiant apex mount), several other crown store items since Shadows of the Hist (at least 50 bucks a month spent on that, I'd say), and a few other things, like furnishings and appearance change tokens (luckily I did all my researches and horse trainings with in game gold), totalling around 500 dollars (thank the divines there was a crown store sale when I got the mundus stone furnishings). This is a conservative estimate. I'll let you do the actual math (I'm afraid what I'll find).

I've played since the beta, I love TES, and I was there for a lot of firsts, so I'm invested. I can't say I should have spent all this money, or that I'd do it again given a redo, or that I really have the money to spend... but ESO has a lot of things I like, and I think it's a game deserving of compensation for everything it provides.

This also happens to be one of the reasons I feel wrongs in the game should be righted, and why I have such vehement hatred toward crown crates and other predatory practices. Those shouldn't need to be implemented when there are players like me, right (this is a rhetorical question)?

But yeah, judge me if you will. Have at it.

So, I was looking for something to do over my lunch break. I worked out some math, combining some estimates, some wiki data, and ESO crown store pricing. I estimated I spent about 3520 as a low estimate, which I rounded to somewhere between 3500 and 4000 US dollars.

I was wrong. Looked up actual billing history, and before factoring in tax and change (I rounded to the nearest dollar amount when adding) I spent $526USD on Elder Scrolls Online on PC, before the console release. On console, to date, I've spent $4,670USD on ESO, not counting xbox live gold. That's $5,196USD spent on ESO to date, or about $1000 a year. That's roughly half of what I'd spent on every videogame related thing I've ever owned up to 2013, just spent on ESO, one game. There's a poll option for $500+, where's the one for $5,000+?

Kinda makes me wonder if there's anyone else in the 5,000+ club, or if I have single handedly spent the most money on this game of any individual person as a player (I sincerely hope so, for everyone's sake).

Sad thing is, I would've spent more, but the crown crates (specifically the crown crate rewards you can only get with RNG) and the rising cost of crown store items soured me on the idea. If not for the prohibitively high cost of buying every single item (like 40 dollars PER MOUNT, or having to buy a million crates AND get lucky just to get a few rare crate mounts) I would still be buying every single crown store item ZOS releases. As it is now, I only spend money if it's something that isn't some sort of duplicate of what I already have or if I really love the cosmetics of it. That's why I could care less if they release another senche mount now, whereas, if not for the aforementioned reasons, I would still be pretty excited and buy it immediately. I will gladly be a whale for a company that treats me right, but it's harder when they don't. It's also harder when I'm really more of a dolphin than a whale, but I'm a generous sea mammal, so I can get past that.

tl;dr Please tell me I'm not the only one who's spent over $5,000 bucks on this game.

You’re fine mine comes in at just under $6k if I convert to those dollar things you folks use.

I'm so sorry.

Sorry for what? o.O

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

Charliff1966 wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Every digital deluxe edition, full price, preordered as it came out, a full subscription until the sub requirement was lifted, then ESO plus on and off (about 6 months total of ESO plus), every single DLC, so a sub is not required to play them, EVERY. SINGLE. crown store item released up to Shadows of the Hist was released, somewhere between 500 and 1000 dollars on crown crates (so I KNOW how much of anrip off they are - still not a single radiant apex mount), several other crown store items since Shadows of the Hist (at least 50 bucks a month spent on that, I'd say), and a few other things, like furnishings and appearance change tokens (luckily I did all my researches and horse trainings with in game gold), totalling around 500 dollars (thank the divines there was a crown store sale when I got the mundus stone furnishings). This is a conservative estimate. I'll let you do the actual math (I'm afraid what I'll find).

I've played since the beta, I love TES, and I was there for a lot of firsts, so I'm invested. I can't say I should have spent all this money, or that I'd do it again given a redo, or that I really have the money to spend... but ESO has a lot of things I like, and I think it's a game deserving of compensation for everything it provides.

This also happens to be one of the reasons I feel wrongs in the game should be righted, and why I have such vehement hatred toward crown crates and other predatory practices. Those shouldn't need to be implemented when there are players like me, right (this is a rhetorical question)?

But yeah, judge me if you will. Have at it.

tl;dr Please tell me I'm not the only one who's spent over $5,000 bucks on this game.

Nope, you aren't. My wife is above it. "ooh i like that house", "Now i need furniture", "That pet looks cute" and so on and so on. It's her hobby and she has the money to do so. Others spent thousands on a different hobby, hers is gaming.

stop complaining and be happy is not shopping...she would drag you along if so

I feel like my wife buying digital items is much better than her buying more shoes. I'm running out of closet space...

Not the shoes problem here, just dont get me started about handbags.

DanteYoda

$100-$200

Standard ESO at release
3 months sub that i canceled after 1 month

$16 on Morrowind a few weeks ago
$60 on Deluxe Summerset
3 months ESO+

NeroBad

$300-$400

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Adding everything since 1014 $460 .

Playing ESO before it was cool

Darkhorse1975

$500-Above

Shadowasrial

$500-Above

Iv spent close to 10 grand since launch

Saturnana

$400-$500

30,- on the game's Gold edition
180,- for ESO+ that's running for 15 months now
60,- on crown sales
40,- on Morrowind pre-order
40,- on Summerset pre-order
- - - - - - -
€ 350,- / $ 430,-
Which is ~€ 22,- a month, on average (16 months)
Or € 0,25 per hour of game-play (1400 hrs)

Seems about right.
Expected it to be higher, really.. xD

JD2013

$500-Above

In GBP £531.52.

This is broken down as:

4 Years of continuous Sub (8.99 a month)
Base game
Morrowind
Summerset.

For all of the hours I have played this game, that ain't too bad.

Asardes

$200-$300

Darkhorse1975 wrote: »

A few bricks of those may buy you ESO+ for a couple of weeks

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

$300-$400

Bout tree fiddy

Srs Idk the answer

Violynne

$300-$400

Darkhorse1975 wrote: »

Isn't that about 17 cents USD?

Hoolielulu

$300-$400

I estimate I'm around $350 as well. I have a friend who has spent more than $1000 on Funko Pop collectables so I think he's the crazy one.

I'M THE SANE ONE, JASON, YOU HEAR ME?!

Cpt_Teemo

Asardes wrote: »

Darkhorse1975 wrote: »

A few bricks of those may buy you ESO+ for a couple of weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/zimbabwe-offers-new-exchange-rate-1-for-35000000000000000-old-dollars

ArvenAldmeri

$500-Above

Probably couple thousand. Sub since start, buying cosmetics/mounts /houses I like, buying the collectors chapter, buying crown cratew each season (from 45 to 80 crates).

Eeri_Ravencaw

$100-$200

Morrowind, 6 month sub and Summerset

Aurie

$500-Above

500$ and above is quite common these days.

You need an extra couple of options on your poll.

Marginis

$500-Above

maroite wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Tavore1138 wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Every digital deluxe edition, full price, preordered as it came out, a full subscription until the sub requirement was lifted, then ESO plus on and off (about 6 months total of ESO plus), every single DLC, so a sub is not required to play them, EVERY. SINGLE. crown store item released up to Shadows of the Hist was released, somewhere between 500 and 1000 dollars on crown crates (so I KNOW how much of anrip off they are - still not a single radiant apex mount), several other crown store items since Shadows of the Hist (at least 50 bucks a month spent on that, I'd say), and a few other things, like furnishings and appearance change tokens (luckily I did all my researches and horse trainings with in game gold), totalling around 500 dollars (thank the divines there was a crown store sale when I got the mundus stone furnishings). This is a conservative estimate. I'll let you do the actual math (I'm afraid what I'll find).

I've played since the beta, I love TES, and I was there for a lot of firsts, so I'm invested. I can't say I should have spent all this money, or that I'd do it again given a redo, or that I really have the money to spend... but ESO has a lot of things I like, and I think it's a game deserving of compensation for everything it provides.

This also happens to be one of the reasons I feel wrongs in the game should be righted, and why I have such vehement hatred toward crown crates and other predatory practices. Those shouldn't need to be implemented when there are players like me, right (this is a rhetorical question)?

But yeah, judge me if you will. Have at it.

So, I was looking for something to do over my lunch break. I worked out some math, combining some estimates, some wiki data, and ESO crown store pricing. I estimated I spent about 3520 as a low estimate, which I rounded to somewhere between 3500 and 4000 US dollars.

I was wrong. Looked up actual billing history, and before factoring in tax and change (I rounded to the nearest dollar amount when adding) I spent $526USD on Elder Scrolls Online on PC, before the console release. On console, to date, I've spent $4,670USD on ESO, not counting xbox live gold. That's $5,196USD spent on ESO to date, or about $1000 a year. That's roughly half of what I'd spent on every videogame related thing I've ever owned up to 2013, just spent on ESO, one game. There's a poll option for $500+, where's the one for $5,000+?

Kinda makes me wonder if there's anyone else in the 5,000+ club, or if I have single handedly spent the most money on this game of any individual person as a player (I sincerely hope so, for everyone's sake).

Sad thing is, I would've spent more, but the crown crates (specifically the crown crate rewards you can only get with RNG) and the rising cost of crown store items soured me on the idea. If not for the prohibitively high cost of buying every single item (like 40 dollars PER MOUNT, or having to buy a million crates AND get lucky just to get a few rare crate mounts) I would still be buying every single crown store item ZOS releases. As it is now, I only spend money if it's something that isn't some sort of duplicate of what I already have or if I really love the cosmetics of it. That's why I could care less if they release another senche mount now, whereas, if not for the aforementioned reasons, I would still be pretty excited and buy it immediately. I will gladly be a whale for a company that treats me right, but it's harder when they don't. It's also harder when I'm really more of a dolphin than a whale, but I'm a generous sea mammal, so I can get past that.

tl;dr Please tell me I'm not the only one who's spent over $5,000 bucks on this game.

You’re fine mine comes in at just under $6k if I convert to those dollar things you folks use.

I'm so sorry.

Sorry for what? o.O

I'm sorry for your loss. That currency will be mourned, but never forgotten.

Tis but a joke.

DMuehlhausen

$500-Above

CE of Base Game, Morrowind, and Summerset.

On average 39.99 on crowns a month

I pre-ordered and paid for the ESO statues (the heros from the trailers) those were 300$-330$ each...

Yeah....

Cynnalia

$500-Above

Hoolielulu wrote: »

I estimate I'm around $350 as well. I have a friend who has spent more than $1000 on Funko Pop collectables so I think he's the crazy one.

I'M THE SANE ONE, JASON, YOU HEAR ME?!

I've spent well over $1,000 on ESO since launch AND I have a sizable Funko Pop collection! ^_^

BozzyTheDrummer

$500-Above

I have spent about $120 on two games (PS4 and Xbox)

roughly $150-$200 on crowns across both platforms (best guess)

Morrowind Expansion for I think, $40 each for PS4 and Xbox.

Roughly $90+ on the physical Summerset Collector's Edition.

Won't bother counting how much each month on ESO plus since 2015 lol






Now......not ESO related, but let me tell you how much money I have spent on copies of Oblivion and Skyrim. I still, to this day, buy each copy of Oblivion I see in stores (used of course, since it's older, different packaging or not) because I love Elder Scrolls so much. It's become a bad habit, and a costly one.

Zhaedri

$500-Above

Base game (not on sale), 1x base game on sale (for a friend)

2x copies of morrowind (one for a friend)

summerset collectors edition preorder x1

monthly sub since march 2016

At least $40 worth of crowns per month on top of that....

....uh wow. Yeah.

(Edited as i forgot the preorder)

Darkhorse1975

$500-Above

Violynne wrote: »

Darkhorse1975 wrote: »

Isn't that about 17 cents USD?

Sense or cents? Both can be so fleeting

Shadowasrial

$500-Above

8,799 Between preordering all dlc since beta buying over 100 mounts and pets crown crates and crown sales every notable home and some of the smaller ones. Eso plus since day one and buying crown upgrades for mount and bank for multiple characters and god knows how many furnishing packs and individual furnishings. I think iv got everythone beat. I also have all 3 radiant apex mounts from the most recent crown crate. And almost every single apex mount from prior crown crates

Galen

$500-Above

Approximate amounts spent since launch:

Preordered physical Imperial Edition (PC) - ~$100
1yr worth of 6mo subs (PC) - ~$160

(I then took a long break from ESO from the Tamriel Unlimited rebranding until Morrowind launched. Also switched to XB1 version since ESO outgrew my PC's capabilities and so that I could play with friends. Really regret missing out on the character/account transfer that was only available around original console launch though...)

Preordered physical Morrowind Collector's Edition (XB1) - ~$100
9mo of ESO+ (XB1) - ~$135 (Why can't we buy 3mo/6mo ESO+ for Xbox???)
Occasional Crowns (mostly on sale) - ~$200-$300??? (I should probably track this better, lol.)
Preordered physical Summerset Collector's Edition (XB1) - ~$90


Overall, I've apparently spent a minimum of ~$785 total on ESO since launch (and interestingly is almost split evenly between collector editions, crowns, and subs).

Add in the cost of XBL Gold (ESO is the main reason I have/keep Gold) and the likely possibility that I've bought more Crowns than I remember, I would get really close to hitting the $1k mark. If I hadn't taken a break from ESO, I'd definitely be over the $1k mark...

Marginis

$500-Above

Shadowasrial wrote: »

8,799 Between preordering all dlc since beta buying over 100 mounts and pets crown crates and crown sales every notable home and some of the smaller ones. Eso plus since day one and buying crown upgrades for mount and bank for multiple characters and god knows how many furnishing packs and individual furnishings. I think iv got everythone beat. I also have all 3 radiant apex mounts from the most recent crown crate. And almost every single apex mount from prior crown crates

On average it seems like we may be able to infer the average cost of radiant apex mounts is $1000 each. I wonder if that's at all accurate.

Banana

I dont want to know and the wife certainly doesnt need to know

Mystrius_Archaion

$500-Above

Your estimate of which option people would choose is a little low, especially after more than 2 years for myself here.
A subscription, optional or mandatory, can be up to $180 a year which would put it over $500 after 4 years.

ArtCommissions

Enough to buy a PS4 Pro and Xbox One, and some pretty good games. I don't want to know the exact numbers, but ya... But considering Im playing on 2 accounts, PC and PS4, that figure would be halved if I am only playing on 1 account. Not comforting, still... haha.