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800 gems for the mount
PizzaCat82
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Yall remember when mounts were 400 gems? Then 500? then 600 and everyone was like wow thats a lot?
800 gems, for a non-raidant non-apex one off.
I really hope this isn't a trend.
800 gems, for a non-raidant non-apex one off.
I really hope this isn't a trend.
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Canperial35✭✭✭lol I can't believe I waited for weeks for this mount. It doesn't even look good, its stamina attachment covers its face (looks awful) and most importantly it is 800 GEMS11 -
allhailskippy✭✭✭✭✭Wow. Just wow.
Glad I've pulled my funding from this nonsense. Clearly they're just trying to squeeze us dry. They're not getting another dime until something changes.Hireling Wanted! - An Elder Scrolls Tale https://hirelingwanted.com24 -
ApoAlaia✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭800 gems is a little bit... steep.
Fortunately I don't like the mount however that is kind of besides the point.Edited by ApoAlaia on May 13, 2021 2:30PM10 -
allhailskippy✭✭✭✭✭800 gems is a little bit... steep.
Fortunately I don't like the mount that is kind of besides the point.Oh its their trend and they're sticking to it, sadly.
They're sticking it to someone, that's for sure. The player base.Hireling Wanted! - An Elder Scrolls Tale https://hirelingwanted.com10 -
Odovacar✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭allhailskippy wrote: »
They really know what they're doing with these Limited Time Offers and selling radiant apex mounts for high gem amounts. From the buyers perspective It puts it within realistic grasp (where it never used to be because of the poor RNG) that you can obtain them guaranteed...all you need to do is spend more and more on crates and eventually you'll have enough.
I'm sure their sales numbers are showing favorable results in return keeping this trend alive. I wish they'd take some of our popular CS suggestions instead of the gaudy mounts, etc.3 -
Ley✭✭✭✭✭
✭I've long given up on reasonable pricing in the crown store.Leylith - MagSorc | Leyloth - StamPlar | Leynerd - MagPlar | Leylit - StamBlade | Ley Eviticus - StamDK | Leydor - MagDen | Leylum - StamSorc | Leylux - MagBlade7 -
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✭✭✭If they are able to ask 500 gems for a polymorph am not surprised they did increase the price for those exclusive gem mounts.
Am so glad the only mount I ever got for gems was the Auroran Penumbra Wolf and that was better looking and cheaper than this one.
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ESO plus status: Cancelled
ESO currently uninstalled.2 -
Welven✭✭✭The worst part is that its just a reskin of the senche from the gloomspore crates at double the price. Easily not worth 800 gems.
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allhailskippy✭✭✭✭✭allhailskippy wrote: »
They really know what they're doing with these Limited Time Offers and selling radiant apex mounts for high gem amounts. From the buyers perspective It puts it within realistic grasp (where it never used to be because of the poor RNG) that you can obtain them guaranteed...all you need to do is spend more and more on crates and eventually you'll have enough.
I'm sure their sales numbers are showing favorable results in return keeping this trend alive. I wish they'd take some of our popular CS suggestions instead of the gaudy mounts, etc.
It feels like they see the death of loot crates coming and are trying to get every drop of coin they can out of us before they're not allowed to anymore.
I was honestly excited about the endeavours feature that was coming. Now. I'm not. It's been a real eye opener to see how they've changed over the last few months.
It used to be that there was the odd thing available for a few hundred gems. And it was neat. Not always affordable, but neat. Now, it's constant. And the numbers just keep going up and up and up and up.
Mounts for 400 gems, 600. 800 now. And anywhere from 1200 to 2500 for radiants.
No more.
The line is here.
No. More.
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ajkb78✭✭✭✭✭Wow, that's an astonishingly ugly mount. Not even worth as many gems as the wild hunt mounts, let alone more than twice as many.21
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✭800 💎 for yet another reskinned and rehashed model.
"Quick, Buy NOW!! LIMITED TIME OFFER!! 7 days remaining!"
*Sigh* this is not the way. There is far too much skooma and moon sugar use going on somewhere...
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✭Thankfully I like basic looking mounts....Main: (PvP & PvE)PS5/NA - Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar - Daggerfall Covenant • 1550+ Champion
Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar, the Vestige
PvP:
Aurik Siet'ka a Redguard Necromancer
Cacique the Sage of Ius a Redguard Warden
Jux Blackheart a Redguard Nightblade
Goliath of Hammerfell a Redguard Dragonknight
Kaotik Von Dae'mon a Redguard* Sorcerer
PvP: (Specialty)
Tyrus Septim an Imperial Lycan Sorcerer
Tsar af-Bomba a Redguard Vampiric Nightblade
Movárth Piquine a Nord Vampiric Necromancer
Uri Ice-Heart the Twin a Nord Vampiric Warden
PvE:
Cinan Tharn an Imperial Dragonknight
Bates Vesuius of Dawnstar an Imperial Dragonknight
Herzog Zwei the Genesis an Akavari* Templar
Tav'i at-Shinji a Redguard** Warden
Lucky Hunch the Gambler - a Redguard Nightblade
Leveling...
Zenovia at-Tura a Redguard** Sorcerer
Yesi af-Kalik a Redguard Templar
Voa a Priest of Sep a Redguard* Necromancer
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*Breton
**Imperial
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Ras Kalik the Vestige, a renown Redguard warrior; He has been blessed to save Tamriel from Molag Bal’s destructive Planemeld while reuniting the Five Companions. His further accomplishments after defeating Molag Bal, has been to stop the destruction of Morrowind, the Clockwork City, return order to the isle of Summerset and create a new king in Wrothgar and a queen in Elsywer. These events have made him a living legend and continue to lead him into new adventures throughout Tamriel, as well as into the hearts of many ladies including the Elf Queen, Aryenn. Over many years of adventurous travels, Ras Kalik had become a loner, until he re-visited his homeland of Alik'r.
Alik'r and it's cities were overrun by the undead Ra-Netu and therefore he made an allegiance with Alik'r's own Ash'abah tribe. These Ash'abah with his help, cleansed the city of Sentinel in Alik'r desert and it's surrounding areas of the undead brought to life by the Withered Hand. After rescuing Sentinel from the undead zombies, King Fahara’jad’s personal bodyguard the Goliath of Hammerfell, who was given this name by Imperials in the region; was asked to assist the tribe after learning of the defeat of the Withered Hand to the Ash'abah. Kalik promised Goliath he would task him with fighting living enemies on the battlefield if he so desired. Goliath being a Yokudan warrior wields a massive sword in respect to the Ansei, a gift given by the Imperial, Cinan Tharn. Not many soldiers are able to wield double two handed weapons, but Goliath loves to get up and personal in a fight, so he also carries a giant maul, both weapons laced with magical flames.
Jux Blackheart is a master thief that masquerades as a Bard at the Sisters of the Sands inn, with his younger sidekick Lucky Hunch for pilfering and gambling during this time. Jux was known to infiltrate any towns bank vault he came across and even delved into Ayelid ruins without detection. Kalik can vividly recall the night he met the famed thief. Jux found himself rummaging thru a slightly inebriated Kalik’s pocket for too long, on a full-mooned night and because of his greed and the glimmer of his golden armor in the moonlight. He lost his left pinky fingertip as a lesson! But in return, he gained a new friend, as it was his first time since a child being caught red-handed...
Upon arrival back in the Alik'r after many moons of adventuring, Ras Kalik ventures to Bergama. Visiting The Winking Jackal, he runs into Jux Blackheart, who introduces him to the coin game Crowns vs Forebearers (Heads vs Tails) and Golden Dwemer (RBG).... Jux constantly takes gold from the unfortunate thru theft or gambling, his biggest gambling victim is actually his partner in crime known as Lucky Hunch the Gambler. Lucky doesn't mind losing any gold coins to Jux... as Jux saved him from Altmer slavers in Summerset, by stealing a key and sending him on a boat to the mainland years prior. Lucky spent years in slavery with Khajiits in Summerset and picked up the art of subterfuge, using illusion magic disguises and stealing there.
Kaotik Von’Daemon an outcast, and a half-caste between a Breton mother and a Redguard father. Kaotik become a pariah due to his conjuration of Daedra pets. He was taught healing magic during his childhood years by his Breton mother. His father due to Redguard customs exiled him from the desert, sending him by wagon caravan to be a soldier in the war in Cyrodiil. He happened to meet Kalik while traveling from Alik'r, during this long caravan ride the caravan he was in was ambushed in Bangkorai by a group of bandits. Kalik by chance was also traveling thru this area on his Auridon Warhorse (which was bestowed to him by his friend, Darien Gautier). During this ambush, Kalik was able to rescue five hostages from the bandits. Kaotik was the first rescued, and Ras Kalik also recruited him to be in the Ash'abah tribe. These core Ash'abah tribesmen may never be seen together in travel as they partake in their own adventures but they always know what each other is doing; as they frequent a hideout in northern Bankorai. Their hideout an old Orc castle ruin, is kept watch by Nuzhimeh and she passes messages written between them, and frequently they also enjoy her company and her bed.
The other men rescued were a Dunmer banker, an Imperial mercenary and two other soldiers, an Imperial and a Breton Knight, stating proudly he was an Akavir descendent. One of the Imperials, Cinan, claimed to be related to Abnur Tharn the Battlemage of the Imperial Elder Council (One of Ras Kalik's mentors in the Five Companions). Cinan Tharn was really Abnur's drunkard treasure hunting illegitimate son. He was caught smuggling artifacts out of the Ayleid ruins in Cyrodiil and the elder of the two Imperials was Tyrus Septim a retired Imperial navy battle-mage (now a Lycan mercenary living in the city of Rimmen) and guard to the Tharn family. As much as Abnur Tharn hated his half-sister Euraxia, he dislikes his bas†ard son Cinan more. Tyrus now a ruffian and privateer had been paid by Abnur Tharn to watch over Cinan as much as possible. Cinan Tharn a drunkard, loves to drink at least a quarter barrel of Nord mead before he raids various delves and dungeons for relics to sell on the black market. Cinan also plans to one day, run an illegal gambling ring... which he thinks will net him more gold for his wares.
The Dunmer captive shackled to the Imperials looked familiar to Kalik from his time in Morrowind.... and he recognized him as Tythis Andromo a House Telvanni slave-owner and banker from Vvardenfell. During a rough interrogation to Tythis, Ras Kalik learnt why the bandits accosted him. The racist Dunmer was providing slaves as soldiers for the Three Banner War. The bandits were trying to negotiate a lucrative ransom for Andromo and the Imperials.... Kalik did not need any of this gold and he could never set Tythis free as he did with the two Imperial soldiers. His past involvement with slavery and war crimes, made Kalik's blood boil. He chose not to execute Tythis, as he figured the worse punishment for this former rich and opulent slave owner, is to now be an imprisoned servant for Ras Kalik and the tribe.
Herzog Zwei the Genesis a reknown Imperial/Akavirri battle-mage. His roots going back to Akavir through his mother’s bloodline. (His mother is descended from the Akaviri, through Versidue-Shae, and his Imperial father met her in Hakoshae, while traveling) Herzog earned the nickname "the Genesis" from his father as a child, as he was his mother's first born child, and last, as she tragically died in child-birth.
Herzog was seeking to purchase an artifact from Cinan Tharn, before their capture and was meeting Tyrus while in Rimmen, who introduced him to Cinan. This artifact being the Ayelid artifact; the sword Sinweaver. After their rescue and the exchange of gold to Cinan for the sword he decided to slip away before Ras Kalik could question who he was, and why the Akavir descendant really wanted that sword. Herzog was headed to Nagastani — An Ayleid ruin in eastern Cyrodiil. He had read in scrolls that the Sword would give him magical powers to meet his mothers spirit, if he performed an Ayleid ritual at an old shrine hidden there. Equipped with the artifact sword, he was off to start his own adventure but Ras Kalik, did indeed notice the sword however and instead sent a letter to Jux Blackheart (whom also was interested in Ayleid treasures), to attempt to find Herzog and acquire the sword. (*Azani Blackheart in Elder Scroll's Oblivion is Jux's descendant some 747 years later)
And so the Redguard, Imperial and Akaviri men parted ways ... While Ras Kalik went off to Elsweyr to encounter the latest threat to Tamriel, with Abnur Tharn and Sai Sahan - - DRAGONS!! Little did Ras Kalik know a few people were awaiting him in Senchal besides Sai. A necromancer survived his attack on the Withered Hand, while in Alik'r. The necromancer known as Auriek Siet'ka is also following him to the land of the Khajiits and Cacique the Sage of Ius a Shaman mystic who has become attuned spiritually with Tu'whacca (a Redguard God) and Ius (the Animal God), after being burned severely by the escaped dragons in Elsywer, is awaiting his arrival also. Aurik is a soldier of the Daggerfall Covenant that was introduced to necromancy while in the military, even though this magicka art is not spoken of openly by most of the Military leaders. He came to Alik'r and worked with the Withered Hand before Ras Kalik intervened on their plans. After the defeat of the Withered Hand, he aligned with the Worm Cult, and is constantly adapting and perfecting his necromantic arts.
After his journey to Rimmen, Kalik heads south to Senchal, in the southern regions of Elyswer. This new adventure will also put him on a path to meet a strange Redguard man. The stranger which was infected with an untreated Peyrite disease and also was the exiled from the Order of the New Moon cult, due to his sickness. He originally joined the cult to worship Laatvulon, the green dragon, mistakenly thinking it was the Daedric prince Peyrite. This confused and suffering cultist is known as Tsar al-Bomba and he is on a path to spread the disease. He was originally infected in Orccrest while recruiting members there. Can Ras Kalik and the shaman Cacique cure this poor soul, only time will tell. Little does Tsar al-Bomba know, that his infection is tied to Vampirism, and eventually the desire for blood will take over his mind. Senchal also offers Kalik his latest love interest... Aeliah. Whom he fondly led thru battles with the Dragonguard.
After the trek thru the heat, tropical and desert climate of Northern and Southern Elyswer, Ras Kalik heads north to the cold mountain range of Skyrim. His companion friend Lyris beckons for him with a letter sent by crow...
Movárth Piquine - a former vampire hunter (now infected), within the Fighter's Guild (and a secretive necromancer) was in Skyrim working with the Morthaal Guard. On a patrol mission he was caught in Frewien's ice curse outside of Morthaal with the frozen undead. Movárth's vampiric infection kept him from becoming an undead minion to the curse. He was able to use necromantic ice-magic to encase himself safely until he was freed with Freiwen, when the Vestige Ras Kalik broke the curse.
Uri Ice-Heart - brother of Urfon Ice-Heart. The twin sons of Atli and Oljourn Ice-Heart. The Ice-Heart family are originally from Markarth but now reside on the Jerall Mountain range near Cyrodiil, with their younger sister Araki. The twins had joined the Winterborn Reachmen while living in Markarth. Urfon pushed west to Orsinium with the Winterborn Clan, leaving his family behind. Uri stayed behind with his parents and sister to live in the family cabin for safety, avoiding the Vampire plague infiltrating the Reach. After news reaches him and he hears of Urfon's death... Uri leaves and heads home and is seeking vengeance. Meanwhile, his sister has also moved on to Windhelm to join the Fighter's guild. He will visit his sister, once before going to seek vengeance and she will craft him armor mixed with ice, called Stalhrim armor. Uri fearing death, after his brother's passing, falls victim to the convincing talk of Movárth at a Nordic tavern, and will also becomes a vampire.
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✭✭✭About 1000 gems more than I'd pay for 'that' !“Be as a tower, that, firmly set,
Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”
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Riptide✭✭✭✭✭
✭It is sad to watch. It isn’t admiration I feel for those that get these expensive items, but pity.Esse quam videri.9 -
Ley✭✭✭✭✭
✭I'm going to cringe whenever I inevitably see someone riding that ugly moneybag around.Leylith - MagSorc | Leyloth - StamPlar | Leynerd - MagPlar | Leylit - StamBlade | Ley Eviticus - StamDK | Leydor - MagDen | Leylum - StamSorc | Leylux - MagBlade9 -
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✭✭I think this mount is aimed at the demographic that think 800 gems isn't really a lot. I'd personally pay 800 gems if it's a mount I really wanted.6 -
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✭✭✭This is so unjustified, it takes 5 minutes to color an existing model differently.6 -
Moonsprite✭✭✭It’s way too much. This is exactly why I said 500 gems was too much for a polymorph, but people paid it, said it was worth the money. 800 gems is about $500 or more for a different version of a 400 gem apex. That’s ridiculous. It’s going to keep happening now. This isn’t normal inflation, it’s greed.
I can see now that the endeavors are going to cause the gem costs to go way up. It’s going to make sure people still have to use gems to buy exclusive things, especially because you can’t combine gems and endeavors to purchase something. Really disappointing.13 -
Mariusghost84✭✭✭✭✭These prices are an insult. I swear to not ever buy any mounts in crow store again. This was the nail in the coffin.6 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Have to get all the excess gems out of the game before the next release. Otherwise people won't be bothered with the daily/weekly choirs that reward gems.0 -
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✭✭It is sad to watch. It isn’t admiration I feel for those that get these expensive items, but pity.It is sad to watch. It isn’t admiration I feel for those that get these expensive items, but pity.
You're allowed to feel however you want about it. The truth is, not every item offered in the crown store is going to be targeted at the demographic that you fall under. I think that's the root cause of why people get upset about pricing, they think that every item a store sells should be priced just for them, but that's not how all stores work. Much like how not every car at a dealership is going to be priced to target the demo you fall under, the crown store is the same.
These items are for people willing to fork over the dough to get them. You think it costs too much because it's beyond your budget to spend. But even if it takes $400 or $500 to get 800 gems, all of the guitars I own cost way more than that. Point being, not everyone thinks this is a a lot, and not everyone thinks this is out of their price range...these items are for their demo.7 -
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✭✭✭Goregrinder wrote: »You're allowed to feel however you want about it. The truth is, not every item offered in the crown store is going to be targeted at the demographic that you fall under. I think that's the root cause of why people get upset about pricing, they think that every item a store sells should be priced just for them, but that's not how all stores work. Much like how not every car at a dealership is going to be priced to target the demo you fall under, the crown store is the same.
These items are for people willing to fork over the dough to get them. You think it costs too much because it's beyond your budget to spend. But even if it takes $400 or $500 to get 800 gems, all of the guitars I own cost way more than that. Point being, not everyone thinks this is a a lot, and not everyone thinks this is out of their price range...these items are for their demo.
Certainly people have different perceptions of "expensive", which is related to their own wallet. But especially in the case of that particular mount, such a price, even if I could afford it, I would never pay because it is completely unjustified. There is almost no development effort behind it (as I said, I can re-color a model in e.g. Zbrush in 5 minutes) and one can only wonder how it comes to that price.
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