Why can't we gift ESOPlus?

Kuramas9tails

Is there a reason, ZOS?

Ashtaris

You are willing to gift someone a monthly subscription? Pretty nice if you ask me Seriously though, if it is a relative, just set up their account for them and pay for it yourself, or send them the funds every month. I don’t think you will see ZOS setting up ESO+ gifting anytime soon.

Kuramas9tails

Ashtaris wrote: »

You are willing to gift someone a monthly subscription? Pretty nice if you ask me Seriously though, if it is a relative, just set up their account for them and pay for it yourself, or send them the funds every month. I don’t think you will see ZOS setting up ESO+ gifting anytime soon.

@Ashtaris I wish. It's for my boyfriend but he's in Canada and I am in America so I can't use my card number because the Playstation Store wont allow you to use a US address on a Canadian Playstation and vise versa. Even Playstation gift cards can't be used between the two.

Lord_Eomer

I think on PC steam you can gift.

Chicharron

I have enough gold to pay 1 or 2 years of Plus with gold at this time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one ...

I do not think ZoS likes it.

Danikat

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.

EvilAutoTech

I think they should sell 1, 3, 6 and 12 month subscriptions that could be gifted. I just don't think it will ever happen because not all subscriptions are sold directly. I buy mine from Microsoft.

Kuramas9tails

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.

Kuramas9tails

EvilAutoTech wrote: »

I think they should sell 1, 3, 6 and 12 month subscriptions that could be gifted. I just don't think it will ever happen because not all subscriptions are sold directly. I buy mine from Microsoft.

I honestly don't remember how it is done on PS4. Over 2 years ago I put ESO Plus on reoccurring and haven't paused it since. lol. I think it's just the monthly subscription paid through PSN.

Minyassa

My first ever MMO subscription was a gift to me, in LOTRO, from a friend who wanted me to get a taste of subscribed life. I would like to be able to do this for a friend during a lean month, or to lure another in to play with me.

MaleAmazon

As much as I appreciate gift certificates more than many christmas gifts, cold hard cash is a most appreciated gift and I guess you could give that along with a personal card saying it´s for ESO? I´m not all joking btw, gift cards you craft yourself are pretty romantic imo.

Kuramas9tails

MaleAmazon wrote: »

As much as I appreciate gift certificates more than many christmas gifts, cold hard cash is a most appreciated gift and I guess you could give that along with a personal card saying it´s for ESO? I´m not all joking btw, gift cards you craft yourself are pretty romantic imo.

@MaleAmazon The only way to do a gift card in my situation is actually going online to buy a Canadian PSN gift card with my American money and sending him the code. I would much rather ESO look into possibly gifting ESO plus and take out that exact amount for ESO Plus rather than a $10 $15 or $20 gift card I have to buy online and get a code for.

MaleAmazon

No, I mean as in give him actual money, and make your own gift card specifying what it´s for. But yeah, I guess it would be nice to be able to gift it.

Danikat

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.

Oh, it must be different on consoles to PC then. On PC you don't get a single payment option, you just pick how often you want to pay, put in your card details and it will automatically renew at the end of the subscription period. If you don't want to do that you have to manually disable it.

(Which is not a big deal since you have at least 30 days to stop it, but it would be nice if we had a single payment option too.)

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

MaleAmazon wrote: »

As much as I appreciate gift certificates more than many christmas gifts, cold hard cash is a most appreciated gift and I guess you could give that along with a personal card saying it´s for ESO? I´m not all joking btw, gift cards you craft yourself are pretty romantic imo.

@MaleAmazon The only way to do a gift card in my situation is actually going online to buy a Canadian PSN gift card with my American money and sending him the code. I would much rather ESO look into possibly gifting ESO plus and take out that exact amount for ESO Plus rather than a $10 $15 or $20 gift card I have to buy online and get a code for.

Read the post again. He's suggesting a 'DIY' gift card. In other words you give him the money and a card/note saying it's for ESO plus.

I understand you're in different countries, but you could send it by bank transfer or Paypal or something. (It's been a while but when I was working in the USA I used to regularly send money to myself via Paypal because it was the easiest and cheapest way to get it into my UK bank account.)

I agree that it would be nice to be able to gift ESO+, but if you want to do it this month you're going to need to look for an alternative because even if ZOS saw this today and agreed it should happen it's highly unlikely they'd be able to get the system in place in under a month. And it's more likely whoever saw the post would have to convince several other people first, then they'd have to work out how exactly they want to do it, test whatever system they put in place, make arrangements with Sony and Microsoft to get it working on consoles...and all of that would be happening in between other work. It'd be months before it's even announced publicly.

DMuehlhausen

Just send him money via Paypal or something. There are tons of mobile apps you can use too.

Venmo
Cash.App
Paypal

etc

Avran_Sylt

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?

Kuramas9tails

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.

Runs

I swear I saw a thread about it or maybe it was a post in a support appreciation thread within the past year. Customer service allowed them to buy it for a friends birthday using 1500 crowns to purchase 1 month time(minus the crowns that normally come with). I can't seem to find it with my google-fu though

Vrany69

This should be an crown store option! @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Ectheliontnacil

Chicharron wrote: »

I have enough gold to pay 1 or 2 years of Plus with gold at this time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one ...

I do not think ZoS likes it.

This is stupid. Someone would still have to pay for the subscription in the end, wouldn't they?

It makes no difference to ZoS if it's you paying your eso plus or some gullible noob you managed to scam out of his pocket money. As long as someone pays, they're making cash.

LadyNalcarya

I agree, I dont understand why we cant gift certain items, such as ESO+, race change tokens and houses.
After all, someone would still have to buy them for real money so ZOS wont lose any profits on this.

ankeor

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

I agree, I dont understand why we cant gift certain items, such as ESO+, race change tokens and houses.
After all, someone would still have to buy them for real money so ZOS wont lose any profits on this.

You can just gift crowns. And for ESO+ since it can't be purchased in crown store you can't gift it.

LadyNalcarya

ankeor wrote: »

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

I agree, I dont understand why we cant gift certain items, such as ESO+, race change tokens and houses.
After all, someone would still have to buy them for real money so ZOS wont lose any profits on this.

You can just gift crowns. And for ESO+ since it can't be purchased in crown store you can't gift it.

I can't unless I'm on steam (eh, probably... not even sure if that works)... And I don't use steam to play eso.
It's possible to gift most of crown items, crates and house furnishings, but you can't gift houses and account tokens despite them being sold for crowns.

Androconium

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

GIVE is the verb.

Kaartinen

Can you gift some kind of PS4 currency? On Xbox I pay for my subscription with Microsoft currency that can be gifted.

Androconium

Or given as a gift.

Cpt_Teemo

What Zo$ should have done with to begin with was make ESO Tokens instead of this gifting bs, to many scam tickets they just waste time answering than the tickets that really matter.

ESO token = 20$ purchase for seller

then for buyer its whatever they price it as in game on vendors, and it either adds 1500 crowns (15$) or ESO Plus without the crowns.

Cryptical

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Ashtaris wrote: »

You are willing to gift someone a monthly subscription? Pretty nice if you ask me Seriously though, if it is a relative, just set up their account for them and pay for it yourself, or send them the funds every month. I don’t think you will see ZOS setting up ESO+ gifting anytime soon.

@Ashtaris I wish. It's for my boyfriend but he's in Canada and I am in America so I can't use my card number because the Playstation Store wont allow you to use a US address on a Canadian Playstation and vise versa. Even Playstation gift cards can't be used between the two.

Is it possible to have some sort of reloadable canadian card and use that on his console?
And, then, many banks have a way to have an automatic transfer. Could you set up an automatic monthly transfer that puts money onto that reloadable canadian card?

So, each month, your bank would send money ---> canadian reloadable.
Then, playstation.ca would charge the reloadable card.

Feasible?

Double check on transaction fees, conversion fees. Flat fee or percentage? It might be cheaper to refill the canadian reloadable card with one transaction for 6 months rather than monthly for 6 transactions for 6 months.

Ohtimbar

It's a stupid oversight that should be fixed. One of many.

Mureel

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.

Kuramas9tails

Cryptical wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

Ashtaris wrote: »

You are willing to gift someone a monthly subscription? Pretty nice if you ask me Seriously though, if it is a relative, just set up their account for them and pay for it yourself, or send them the funds every month. I don’t think you will see ZOS setting up ESO+ gifting anytime soon.

@Ashtaris I wish. It's for my boyfriend but he's in Canada and I am in America so I can't use my card number because the Playstation Store wont allow you to use a US address on a Canadian Playstation and vise versa. Even Playstation gift cards can't be used between the two.

Is it possible to have some sort of reloadable canadian card and use that on his console?
And, then, many banks have a way to have an automatic transfer. Could you set up an automatic monthly transfer that puts money onto that reloadable canadian card?

So, each month, your bank would send money ---> canadian reloadable.
Then, playstation.ca would charge the reloadable card.

Feasible?

Double check on transaction fees, conversion fees. Flat fee or percentage? It might be cheaper to refill the canadian reloadable card with one transaction for 6 months rather than monthly for 6 transactions for 6 months.

American money goes a longer way in Canada than Canadian money in America so a reloadable card sounds like a great option! I will keep that in mind!