Despite the post on the Elder Scrolls news site still being "live" (
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/58303), the Stadia Pro "free" ESO offer is now over, much to my dismay. I had subbed to Stadia Pro exclusively to access ESO using their "free" base game offer (which via a linked account would have provided me to all my purchased stuff and subscription), but I discovered today that this offer ended
[snip] yesterday. No mention of that anywhere on the ESO news site. But news is buried on this Stadia "blog" site! (
https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-Community-Blog/This-Week-on-Stadia-Just-Shapes-amp-Beats-free-games-and-more/ba-p/25771) As you can see, the offer ended on July 16.
Worse, the ESO "Support" page offers this now-false note when you query "Stadia":
Updated 06/16/2020 10:49 AM With a Stadia Pro membership, you can get access to The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition completely free, allowing you to experience the base game’s 23 zones, four classes, AND the Morrowind Chapter (with an additional zone and the Warden class) at no extra cost. You can try Stadia Pro free right now.
Thanks to Stadia’s PC crossplay and cross-progression support, you can pick up and continue your adventures if you previously played ESO on PC/Mac or Steam, meaning you won’t lose any progression and be able to access all your characters and continue playing with your friends and guildmates as normal on the PC NA or EU megaservers. You can even switch playing between all PC platforms (PC/Mac, Stadia, Steam) at will.
If you were NOT a Stadia member before visiting, how would you have known this offer was limited? Either Stadia
[snip] the bed or ZOS did in not posting the limitation on the offer.
Either way: I'm not buying a game I already own, even in base game. I am a happy subscriber already to ESO, and I was prepared to sub to Stadia Pro just for access to the game, but I am not going to endorse clownshoes like this. Bad business.
[Edited for Censor Bypass]
Edited by Psiion on July 17, 2020 8:48PM