Buying cool mounts with crowns

Somber97866

Since we aren't getting anymore crates with our daily rewards! Don't want to spend$500 just for a chance at a cool mount. Or 150$ just to get the gems for the ok ones

Taunky

Then don't get a cool mount. Welcome to the world of gambling.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

Somber97866 wrote: »

Since we aren't getting anymore crates with our daily rewards! Don't want to spend$500 just for a chance at a cool mount. Or 150$ just to get the gems for the ok ones

Taunky wrote: »

Then don't get a cool mount. Welcome to the world of gambling.

The only way to force their hand to put stuff in crown store for fix price its for people to stop gambling...the moment they realize it...its the moment stuff will change but I doubt it will...

barney2525

Mentioned this before. People would be more inclined to purchase crates if Every item simply went into your inventory instead of automatically dropping "new" collectibles into your collections.

It should be up to the player to decide if they want the collectible or if they want to get the gems from turning it in. Players could then have a reasonable opportunity to get some of the cool rare mounts - like the Ice Senche that had a 600 gem cost.

Vwienne

I spent only $40 on the crates and won over 200 gems, 3 costumes, 5 pets, and bought 2 cool mounts with those gems. Worth it.

Kiralyn2000

Taunky wrote: »

Then don't get a cool mount.

Or redefine what you think is "cool".



(personally, I think the 'fancy' Apex mounts are ugly as sin. I much prefer my "cool" 700-crown Plain Black Horse. /shrug)

freespirit

Oh god...….. what is this pre-occupation with cool mounts??

I have more mounts than I could possibly choose from and tbh the Apex reward mounts always look garish to me

Gilvoth

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Michae

There are cool mounts for purchase from time to time. I use Dwarven spider for example.

Lifemocker

If you don’t want to use $, use gold.

zaria

freespirit wrote: »

Oh god...….. what is this pre-occupation with cool mounts??

I have more mounts than I could possibly choose from and tbh the Apex reward mounts always look garish to me

Its important that Khajiit has an senche mount who match their fur.
Altmer ride Indrik as its kind of racial mount.

Don't find many of the apex mounts very nice eiter, would probably use it if it dropped like I do with the robot spider mount but nothing I would buy lots of crates for.

As for Apex mounts chance of getting them is so low the grind of buying all the crates and opening them would be to much if money was not an issue.

Vildebill

Good you don't have to buy gamble crates then. If you look at the statistics you clearly see that the odds is not in your favor. Pure scam playing on people's addiction...

https://www.crowncrates.com/

MartiniDaniels

OP, you don't understand one thing, you play this HUGE detailed game almost for free because some % of players buys those shiny mounts with crowns which in turn were bought with dollars. As soon as those paying customers stop spending money, game will be frozen in development as first stage, and then when income will be lower then maintenance cost and salaries, game will be closed. So be happy that those horses and ESO+ allows you to access 1000+ hours of content for cost of indi game in steam.

Mr_Walker

Eh, you only ever look at its arse anyway....

MornaBaine

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

Taunky wrote: »

Then don't get a cool mount.

Or redefine what you think is "cool".



(personally, I think the 'fancy' Apex mounts are ugly as sin. I much prefer my "cool" 700-crown Plain Black Horse. /shrug)

THIS! Personally, I pretty much loathe ALL the "special" mounts. Any of the things I actually WANT in the gamble boxes are invariably the lower tier items, pets or cosmetic items, that can be acquired for a relatively low amount of gems. Therefore I'd be DELIGHTED if I could "turn in" the fabulously expensive and fabulously silly mounts currently cluttering my collection in exchange for gems for the things I ACTUALLY want. Since I can't, I almost never buy crates.

I'd be EVEN HAPPIER if they'd make HORSES with cultural tack for all the races!

WeerW3ir

most of the new mounts are overpriced.

Haenk

Always going back to my good old Senche - looks nice, doesn't look silly, doesn't make silly noises and won't let me get seasick from riding.

Grianasteri

Somber97866 wrote: »

Since we aren't getting anymore crates with our daily rewards! Don't want to spend$500 just for a chance at a cool mount. Or 150$ just to get the gems for the ok ones

I want more Psijic style mounts. I only have the Guar.

I dont like the system of locking away mounts and making them only available via gambling, some of the time.

Defilted

Cool mounts like a Nightmare Bear.

Shalktonin

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

Taunky wrote: »

Then don't get a cool mount.

Or redefine what you think is "cool".



(personally, I think the 'fancy' Apex mounts are ugly as sin. I much prefer my "cool" 700-crown Plain Black Horse. /shrug)

Indeed i love my camel...well not his smell....or his attitude...but he's a good beast...

EphemeraCrawford

How can they know theyll make more money on gambling crates than straight sales if they never give us the chance to buy items outright? They only have a partial data set to compare.

They should experiment for a few months with a full open shopping experience, including all mounts, all pets, all furnishings etc available in the crown store. Or a few months with "flash sales" on limited availability items. Then they can compare revenue from the different methods. Right now theyre stuck on the Asian Gachapon gambling only model and people really resent it.