Why can't we gift ESOPlus?

Kuramas9tails

Mureel wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

Post this is the Crown Store & ESO Plus section of the forums.

But to be honest, I am surprised that you can't gift ESO+ to players. Though that might be because of current technical limitations for accounts. ZoS might not have appending ESO+ months to a current subscription ready at the moment, or even the permissions setup for that specific kind of public account manipulation. (Though I am pulling this out of my ass)

@ZOS_GinaBruno Any insight on this?

Well, one way to look at it, maybe if someone gets a taste of the membership someone else bought them, maybe it would incline them to purchase it themselves? Get them to start a DLC quest they want to finish or a skill line or something. Maybe that thought will fish ZOS to do it.

YOU CAN gift a month.

It will take a day or 2. YOu need 1500 crowns in your account, then write customer service with their @ name.

ZOS will deduct the crowns from your account and give them the ESO+

If you have the crowns already in your acct, it is faster than if they have to tell you that, then you have to wait again after they have bought.

I've gifted a month this way.

Awesome! I will see what ZOS and customer service can do for me! Thank you!

Kuramas9tails

Androconium wrote: »

Because GIFT is not a verb, it's a noun.

GIVE is the verb.

Cryptical

I have doubts that pay-by-crown will work for a length of time.

Say you sub. You pay your 15 and get all the benefits of it. Zeni received one subscription payment and handed one set of sub benefits.

But the pay-by-crown has Zeni handing out 2 craft bags, 2 sets of xp bonuses, 2 sets of research reduction bonuses, 2 sets of gold drop increases, etc. for only one subscription payment.

Might work for a month to give a friend a taste, but from a business standpoint that’s unsustainable.

dennissomb16_ESO

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

It's probably because the subscription system isn't actually set up for one-off payments. If you want to buy just 30 days of ESO+ you have to set up a reoccurring subscription and then cancel it.

@Danikat I have mine reoccurring but my boyfriend pays monthly and repays for it every month (not reoccurring but purchase it every time if you get what I mean). He's just short this month so I wanted to gift it to him instead so we can go in the Imperial Sewers together.

Is it possible to buy Imperial City DLC for your boyfriend?

Kuramas9tails

Cryptical wrote: »

I have doubts that pay-by-crown will work for a length of time.

Say you sub. You pay your 15 and get all the benefits of it. Zeni received one subscription payment and handed one set of sub benefits.

But the pay-by-crown has Zeni handing out 2 craft bags, 2 sets of xp bonuses, 2 sets of research reduction bonuses, 2 sets of gold drop increases, etc. for only one subscription payment.

Might work for a month to give a friend a taste, but from a business standpoint that’s unsustainable.

I already have a sub that is reoccurring for almost 3 years now. ZOS would still get their money from me either way.

Kuramas9tails

dennissomb16_ESO wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

It's probably because the subscription system isn't actually set up for one-off payments. If you want to buy just 30 days of ESO+ you have to set up a reoccurring subscription and then cancel it.

@Danikat I have mine reoccurring but my boyfriend pays monthly and repays for it every month (not reoccurring but purchase it every time if you get what I mean). He's just short this month so I wanted to gift it to him instead so we can go in the Imperial Sewers together.

Is it possible to buy Imperial City DLC for your boyfriend?

I don't think I can gift DLC's either. It's just easier to have Plus for the whole month so we can access any DLC together if we want to do something.

Ectheliontnacil

Mureel wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

Post this is the Crown Store & ESO Plus section of the forums.

But to be honest, I am surprised that you can't gift ESO+ to players. Though that might be because of current technical limitations for accounts. ZoS might not have appending ESO+ months to a current subscription ready at the moment, or even the permissions setup for that specific kind of public account manipulation. (Though I am pulling this out of my ass)

@ZOS_GinaBruno Any insight on this?

Well, one way to look at it, maybe if someone gets a taste of the membership someone else bought them, maybe it would incline them to purchase it themselves? Get them to start a DLC quest they want to finish or a skill line or something. Maybe that thought will fish ZOS to do it.

YOU CAN gift a month.

It will take a day or 2. YOu need 1500 crowns in your account, then write customer service with their @ name.

ZOS will deduct the crowns from your account and give them the ESO+

If you have the crowns already in your acct, it is faster than if they have to tell you that, then you have to wait again after they have bought.

I've gifted a month this way.

Then ZOS is ***. If you can gift eso plus for 1,5k crowns, nobody ever has to pay for eso plus again.

The guy you're giving eso plus to will receive the plus benefits and 1,5k crowns. These crowns he can use in turn to pay your own subscription and giving you back your original 1,5k crowns. Thus closing the perpetual cycle of eso plus gifting.

Even if they did not include the complementary 1,5k crowns in a gifted plus subscription, you'd still get 2 months of eso plus out of every monthly payment.

Here's how I would do it: Get a six month (or whatever) membership and use all the crowns to pay a six month membership for your friend. Then get them to do the same for you. You're getting 1 year of eso plus even though you payed for half of it. True you'll miss out on the crowns but so what? If you're really only looking for eso plus and don't care about outfits etc. it's all the same to you.

karekiz

I would think this would be something nice. I even think it would help people like me who might use it even non gift.

Essentially set up like this:
X many crowns = y time subbed.
15.00 worth of crowns would be equal to a month. You could go higher/lower up to a year, by paying via crowns. No having to go into a sub, then make sure to cancel, make sure it canceled etc. I have gotten ripped off by companies before with subscription systems so I am weary of using them.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

lel if that's an option il have enough gold to pay for life...so the way I see it il get free eso+ for nothing...crowns and all for just nothing...#feelsgoodtobeatrader

Takes-No-Prisoner

A method I used was buying PS store cards off of Amazon. I did this for my SO when they wanted to make purchases. Bought a card, and let them apply the code to their account.

Mureel

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Mureel wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

Post this is the Crown Store & ESO Plus section of the forums.

But to be honest, I am surprised that you can't gift ESO+ to players. Though that might be because of current technical limitations for accounts. ZoS might not have appending ESO+ months to a current subscription ready at the moment, or even the permissions setup for that specific kind of public account manipulation. (Though I am pulling this out of my ass)

@ZOS_GinaBruno Any insight on this?

Well, one way to look at it, maybe if someone gets a taste of the membership someone else bought them, maybe it would incline them to purchase it themselves? Get them to start a DLC quest they want to finish or a skill line or something. Maybe that thought will fish ZOS to do it.

YOU CAN gift a month.

It will take a day or 2. YOu need 1500 crowns in your account, then write customer service with their @ name.

ZOS will deduct the crowns from your account and give them the ESO+

If you have the crowns already in your acct, it is faster than if they have to tell you that, then you have to wait again after they have bought.

I've gifted a month this way.

Awesome! I will see what ZOS and customer service can do for me! Thank you!

Sure!

Mureel

Ectheliontnacil wrote: »

Mureel wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

Post this is the Crown Store & ESO Plus section of the forums.

But to be honest, I am surprised that you can't gift ESO+ to players. Though that might be because of current technical limitations for accounts. ZoS might not have appending ESO+ months to a current subscription ready at the moment, or even the permissions setup for that specific kind of public account manipulation. (Though I am pulling this out of my ass)

@ZOS_GinaBruno Any insight on this?

Well, one way to look at it, maybe if someone gets a taste of the membership someone else bought them, maybe it would incline them to purchase it themselves? Get them to start a DLC quest they want to finish or a skill line or something. Maybe that thought will fish ZOS to do it.

YOU CAN gift a month.

It will take a day or 2. YOu need 1500 crowns in your account, then write customer service with their @ name.

ZOS will deduct the crowns from your account and give them the ESO+

If you have the crowns already in your acct, it is faster than if they have to tell you that, then you have to wait again after they have bought.

I've gifted a month this way.

Then ZOS is ***. If you can gift eso plus for 1,5k crowns, nobody ever has to pay for eso plus again.

The guy you're giving eso plus to will receive the plus benefits and 1,5k crowns. These crowns he can use in turn to pay your own subscription and giving you back your original 1,5k crowns. Thus closing the perpetual cycle of eso plus gifting.

Even if they did not include the complementary 1,5k crowns in a gifted plus subscription, you'd still get 2 months of eso plus out of every monthly payment.

Here's how I would do it: Get a six month (or whatever) membership and use all the crowns to pay a six month membership for your friend. Then get them to do the same for you. You're getting 1 year of eso plus even though you payed for half of it. True you'll miss out on the crowns but so what? If you're really only looking for eso plus and don't care about outfits etc. it's all the same to you.

Well idk what to tell ya, this is how they do it.

Cryptical

Mureel wrote: »

Ectheliontnacil wrote: »

Mureel wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

Post this is the Crown Store & ESO Plus section of the forums.

But to be honest, I am surprised that you can't gift ESO+ to players. Though that might be because of current technical limitations for accounts. ZoS might not have appending ESO+ months to a current subscription ready at the moment, or even the permissions setup for that specific kind of public account manipulation. (Though I am pulling this out of my ass)

@ZOS_GinaBruno Any insight on this?

Well, one way to look at it, maybe if someone gets a taste of the membership someone else bought them, maybe it would incline them to purchase it themselves? Get them to start a DLC quest they want to finish or a skill line or something. Maybe that thought will fish ZOS to do it.

YOU CAN gift a month.

It will take a day or 2. YOu need 1500 crowns in your account, then write customer service with their @ name.

ZOS will deduct the crowns from your account and give them the ESO+

If you have the crowns already in your acct, it is faster than if they have to tell you that, then you have to wait again after they have bought.

I've gifted a month this way.

Then ZOS is ***. If you can gift eso plus for 1,5k crowns, nobody ever has to pay for eso plus again.

The guy you're giving eso plus to will receive the plus benefits and 1,5k crowns. These crowns he can use in turn to pay your own subscription and giving you back your original 1,5k crowns. Thus closing the perpetual cycle of eso plus gifting.

Even if they did not include the complementary 1,5k crowns in a gifted plus subscription, you'd still get 2 months of eso plus out of every monthly payment.

Here's how I would do it: Get a six month (or whatever) membership and use all the crowns to pay a six month membership for your friend. Then get them to do the same for you. You're getting 1 year of eso plus even though you payed for half of it. True you'll miss out on the crowns but so what? If you're really only looking for eso plus and don't care about outfits etc. it's all the same to you.

Well idk what to tell ya, this is how they do it.

Important question @Mureel , did you do this once, twice, or was this something you did to buy someone a subscription for 6 months?

Just because it was done once or twice does not mean it can be done to get someone a subscription for the next full year.

Kuramas9tails

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

lel if that's an option il have enough gold to pay for life...so the way I see it il get free eso+ for nothing...crowns and all for just nothing...#feelsgoodtobeatrader

As long as someone is paying actual money for the subscription, even if you were buying from someone who is selling crowns, it's still a profit for ZOS. Maybe even limit the subscription gift idea to only allow current ESO plus members to gift it or it will not include crowns, just the perks? I don't know. An option for ZOS to think about if they ever read this.

Runs

Edit - nm missread

BozzyTheDrummer

I mean if it's one month, non-reoccurring, I could understand gifting it, I guess. But how could you gift a reoccurring subscription to someone?

Kuramas9tails

BozzyTheDrummer wrote: »

I mean if it's one month, non-reoccurring, I could understand gifting it, I guess. But how could you gift a reoccurring subscription to someone?

@BozzyTheDrummer It's not automatically reoccurring. My bf pays by a month to month basis on PS4 using PSN cards.