U22 Crown Store - the good, the bad and the (not so) ugly...

marius_buys

THE CROWN STORE STORY

The Good - Summerset as DLC (3500 Crowns)
The Bad - Overpriced Skyshards (22,000 Crowns for all)
The (not so) Ugly - A small icrease to the Any Race Any Alliance Token (2000 Crowns but with a much better bundle)

** Clarified, the 11700 with a line through it shows what it would have cost which is a vast improvement over the previous bundle. Faith in ZOS restored.

Your thoughts? And go.

agegarton

Do we know the price of skyshards then ?

BomblePants

I don’t understand that price increase to the any race any alliance..... it is indeed brutal.....

Gnozo

I dont think skyshards are overpriced tho

marius_buys

Skyshard prices:
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/category/7#skill-lines&h=AT3kmhVOWXJhIu9kIS_TT_RlQGFmNdSuaU7wt-4EuFUKdrTolk8ACIfnp60KnGe2wZECXj8uyDYnU8l363AlM0OdxxQ4mbkloAVtRoyNQTK7i5koUYShe3N0nozDY8y68uhzGbs

Turelus

agegarton wrote: »

Do we know the price of skyshards then ?

Yeah prices are listed here: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/category/7#skill-lines

Website seems to have all new crown items listed.

The Race/Alliance pack does look very high, but from the thread about that specifically someone mentioned maybe it's the total value of items you get for 2,000 and it's showing how much you save? I'm holding a little bit of hope this is the case but... if not ZOS really just gave people the middle finger in regards to buying race/alliance.

darthgummibear_ESO

BomblePants wrote: »

I don’t understand that price increase to the any race any alliance..... it is indeed brutal.....

It's not just that one perk, they lumped in the mount, pet, and costume, too. Personally I won't be buying it because I don't have any interest in the contents of the bundle. There doesn't seem to be much point in picking one alliance over another anymore.

Elsonso

I don't know if it possible for them to make Skyshards too expensive.

Have we heard how, or if, Summerset will be parted out and tossed into the Crown Store yet? I mean, everyone expects it, but they have only done this sort of thing the one time, so maybe they will do something different this time?

marius_buys

darthgummibear_ESO wrote: »

BomblePants wrote: »

I don’t understand that price increase to the any race any alliance..... it is indeed brutal.....

It's not just that one perk, they lumped in the mount, pet, and costume, too. Personally I won't be buying it because I don't have any interest in the contents of the bundle. There doesn't seem to be much point in picking one alliance over another anymore.

You mean the lumped cosmetics in to justify an unreasonable price increase?

marius_buys

Summerset is 3500 crowns

zaria

darthgummibear_ESO wrote: »

BomblePants wrote: »

I don’t understand that price increase to the any race any alliance..... it is indeed brutal.....

It's not just that one perk, they lumped in the mount, pet, and costume, too. Personally I won't be buying it because I don't have any interest in the contents of the bundle. There doesn't seem to be much point in picking one alliance over another anymore.

With the new campaign lock its an benefit that all your characters are in the same alliance. Guilds also tend to be one alliance.

mairwen85

I can't see ARAA priced anywhere -- the adventure pack is still under 2K (for the next few hours)

No matter, found it:
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/item/7919?any-race-any-alliance-bundle

Unlocks the ability to create characters of any Alliance regardless of race. Represent your Alliance with a Mount, Pet, Costume, and Hat!

Also contains a Race & Name Change Token, 3 Experience Scrolls, and a collection of Treasure Maps.

So, it is just the bundle at that price -- if you just want basic ARAA, go for adventure pack on its own (included in bundle).

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/item/39?adventurer-pack

But I bet they pull that from the store.

Gatviper

Hmm, got Summerset together with pre-ordered bonus Morrowind already. Got all skyshards in the game by now through purely playing. Got Any Race Any Alliance for my account years ago when I bought the game about a week after it came out, with that little bonus added to it back then in form of a code to type in for unlocking.

Can't say I agree with the two latter prices, but I guess there will be always people willing to pay those prices.

NeroBad

lordrichter wrote: »

I don't know if it possible for them to make Skyshards too expensive.

Have we heard how, or if, Summerset will be parted out and tossed into the Crown Store yet? I mean, everyone expects it, but they have only done this sort of thing the one time, so maybe they will do something different this time?

@lordrichter I think it will only be listed after "True release" (June 4) maybe even a little after that.

darthgummibear_ESO

marius_buys wrote: »

darthgummibear_ESO wrote: »

BomblePants wrote: »

I don’t understand that price increase to the any race any alliance..... it is indeed brutal.....

It's not just that one perk, they lumped in the mount, pet, and costume, too. Personally I won't be buying it because I don't have any interest in the contents of the bundle. There doesn't seem to be much point in picking one alliance over another anymore.

You mean the lumped cosmetics in to justify an unreasonable price increase?

I never said it was reasonable I was simply clarifying.

Turelus

marius_buys wrote: »

darthgummibear_ESO wrote: »

BomblePants wrote: »

I don’t understand that price increase to the any race any alliance..... it is indeed brutal.....

It's not just that one perk, they lumped in the mount, pet, and costume, too. Personally I won't be buying it because I don't have any interest in the contents of the bundle. There doesn't seem to be much point in picking one alliance over another anymore.

You mean the lumped cosmetics in to justify an unreasonable price increase?

Indeed. If ZOS pulled it as a stand alone option just to bundle it and up the price that's in very poor taste.

redlink1979

marius_buys wrote: »

Good - Summerset as DLC
Bad - Overpriced Skyshards
Ugly - A Brutal Increase to the Any Race Any Alliance Token
Your thoughts? And go.

Summerset, I agree.
Skyshards? I don't care how much do they cost, any price it's always will be expensive to me because I have time to pick them all up. Easily.
Any race any alliance, I don't know about that. Came as a bonus when I bought the game in Dec 2015 (long time ago, before One Tamriel went live...)

IwakuraLain42

And then there is this little gem: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/item/79?vampirewerewolf-cure

800 Crowns for a feature that's been in the game since launch (talk to a priest of Akatosh to get rid of Vampire/Werewolf). Or did they removed that one when I wasn't looking ?

Itzmichi

marius_buys wrote: »

Good - Summerset as DLC
Bad - Overpriced Skyshards
Ugly - A Brutal Increase to the Any Race Any Alliance Token
Your thoughts? And go.

Wll the ARAA Bundle contains: "Unlocks the ability to create characters of any Alliance regardless of race. Represent your Alliance with a Mount, Pet, Costume, and Hat!

Also contains a Race & Name Change Token, 3 Experience Scrolls, and a collection of Treasure Maps."

While the Adventurer Pack will be the new ARAA Standalone Token - So we overreacted i guess.

marius_buys

Itzmichi wrote: »

marius_buys wrote: »

Good - Summerset as DLC
Bad - Overpriced Skyshards
Ugly - A Brutal Increase to the Any Race Any Alliance Token
Your thoughts? And go.

Wll the ARAA Bundle contains: "Unlocks the ability to create characters of any Alliance regardless of race. Represent your Alliance with a Mount, Pet, Costume, and Hat!

Also contains a Race & Name Change Token, 3 Experience Scrolls, and a collection of Treasure Maps."

While the Adventurer Pack will be the new ARAA Standalone Token - So we overreacted i guess.

As far as I am aware the Adventurer Pack has only hours left before its pulled permanently.

Itzmichi

marius_buys wrote: »

Itzmichi wrote: »

marius_buys wrote: »

Good - Summerset as DLC
Bad - Overpriced Skyshards
Ugly - A Brutal Increase to the Any Race Any Alliance Token
Your thoughts? And go.

Wll the ARAA Bundle contains: "Unlocks the ability to create characters of any Alliance regardless of race. Represent your Alliance with a Mount, Pet, Costume, and Hat!

Also contains a Race & Name Change Token, 3 Experience Scrolls, and a collection of Treasure Maps."

While the Adventurer Pack will be the new ARAA Standalone Token - So we overreacted i guess.

As far as I am aware the Adventurer Pack has only hours left before its pulled permanently.

Good point, then i obviously agree that would be totally cheap.

Alcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEo9sqzX1lQ

To be fair though
Race change
Name Change
Any Race Any Alliance

not bad for 2000. But why make it look like it is worth 11.7k lmao.

SaintSubwayy

The Skyshard price comes down to 50crowns / shard....which is a fair price IMO.

Any race any alliance, seems to be a typo, and they quickfixed it by throwing a discount on it....cant imagine that ZOS would make this the regular price....noone will buy it anymore then....frkin more expensive than a house

MikaHR

Ya, i guess it was supposed to be 1700, somehow turned out 11700 in the shop, then "discounted" to 2000

ZOS_SarahHecker

Hey all, just to clear up some confusion here. The price you see on the Any Race, Any Alliance bundle is its permanent price. It's meant to display the total value of the bundle, rather than a sale (which is why there's no timer.)

cbuk

IwakuraLain42 wrote: »

And then there is this little gem: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/item/79?vampirewerewolf-cure

800 Crowns for a feature that's been in the game since launch (talk to a priest of Akatosh to get rid of Vampire/Werewolf). Or did they removed that one when I wasn't looking ?

I cleansed myself of Vampirism yesterday in Rawlk'ha for 649 gold, so unless they change it today it's a swizz

Thevampirenight

ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »

Hey all, just to clear up some confusion here. The price you see on the Any Race, Any Alliance bundle is its permanent price. It's meant to display the total value of the bundle, rather than a sale (which is why there's no timer.)

Oh Thank goodness.

agegarton

Turelus wrote: »

agegarton wrote: »

Do we know the price of skyshards then ?

Yeah prices are listed here: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/category/7#skill-lines

Website seems to have all new crown items listed.

The Race/Alliance pack does look very high, but from the thread about that specifically someone mentioned maybe it's the total value of items you get for 2,000 and it's showing how much you save? I'm holding a little bit of hope this is the case but... if not ZOS really just gave people the middle finger in regards to buying race/alliance.

Skyshards are pretty much the price I thought they would be, but I have asked on another thread whether the Any Race Any Alliance price is actually a typo - it is so much more than it used to be that I can't believe it's right. It doesn't seem aligned to any other pricing, and I cannot think of any justification beyond taking that option out of reach for most players - which I don't really understand either.

Auros

So it is 2k crowns - permanent, which is ok.

Solid_Metal

agreed, skyshard is somewhat...ok, i guess ?
but man, the all race upgrade is brutal, WTF zenimax is thinking really ?
to force new player to chose race and alliance accordingly to make it more authentic and immersive TES experience or i just simply overthinking it and its just because some greedy corporate d*ck head thought that a great move to gain more money ?

agegarton

ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »

Hey all, just to clear up some confusion here. The price you see on the Any Race, Any Alliance bundle is its permanent price. It's meant to display the total value of the bundle, rather than a sale (which is why there's no timer.)

Hi Sarah. You seem to be confirming that this isn't a typo or error - can you confirm? Could you also confirm why the incredibly high price? As I said in a comment above, this level of pricing for an account upgrade seem new to the store and I am sure many of us are keen to know if this is where Crown Store pricing is going. Ultimately almost £12k Crowns will put this out of reach for most players - is that the strategy here ??

Many thanks