FireCowCommando wrote: »You get drunk one time and let ZoS "butt stuff" you with the crown store and now every time your in bed its all ZoS wants....
Cant hate on people considered whales. Obviously they are financially successful enough to afford it. Wish they added apex mounts for gems. They should get that much.
Sure, some things can be Exclusive, never said otherwise. However, it seems that anything that comes out for the Crown Store is both Over Priced, and/or Exclusive Time Limited.
b.bredfeldtub17_ESO wrote: »You spent how much on this game?
I have to admit I’m a whale when it comes to cash shops in games. In most MMO’s I play I spend good amounts of euro’s to get those nice cosmetics. Furthermore I’m a collector and due to that whenever I see something I need to get it. Did this in other games like WoW, GW2, SWTOR and ofcourse ESO. With ESO I managed to get all stuff until the crown crates and even with the crown crates, the first two seasons I got all items eventually because you actually could even if your RNG sucked. But ZO$ being greedy added more items and added items you could not get through the gems so basically you had the chance (a very big one) to not get everything before the season was over.
Which meant as collector I could not get everything anymore. Because of this I have been spending less money on the cash shop then before, this whale got killed. So I made an analysis from my expenses from the account page and holy *** I spend over 4000 euro’s on ESO. But the good thing is that ever since the change to the way ZO$ is trying to grab more cash I spend less and less on ESO. So I would like to thank ZO$ for this, got cash to spend on other games which do not throw me under the RNG bus.
Below my spend euro's on ESO on crowns over the years per quarter:
It's even worse.... now you have to collect motifs, piece by piece, in crown crates. They are introducing this practice on the next crate season on PTS. What would crafters say about it?
Ydrisselle wrote: »
Are you talking about the Pyandonean motif? It will be available through fishing, not only in the Crown Crates.
TelvanniWizard wrote: »
Fishing eh? So, it will be available through payed RNG or through grindy RNG...
Ydrisselle wrote: »
It's even worse.... now you have to collect motifs, piece by piece, in crown crates. They are introducing this practice on the next crate season on PTS. What would crafters say about it?
TelvanniWizard wrote: »
Yes
But the other motifs could be bought directly, for an outrageous price, though.
2k euros are pocket change for some.
What annoys is not 2k-4k but the fact that if you really, REALLY want something, you still won't have it because of RNG + time limits they impose.
What happens is that if a collector starts missing 2-3 items, he's not feeling being a collector any more. Thus he drops the whole operation and hops to another game where he CAN purchase ALL.
DieAlteHexe wrote: »
Same here. 20% just wasn't enough enticement. I can wait.
Thought I'd seen 2 days but I am happy to be corrected. Point still holds. I've rarely seen (as in can't remember seeing) offers in the "real world" that were that limited timewise.
What part of the world do you stay in? I worked in retail for several decades, it's quite common to see a 3 day sale or less, especially around holidays you'll see sales that only last for a few hours in the early day with extremely low stock on hand just to get customers in the door.
Ydrisselle wrote: »
Are you talking about the Pyandonean motif? It will be available through fishing, not only in the Crown Crates.
DieAlteHexe wrote: »
Yeah, someone above made a good point about that!