It's Been Years, and Outfit Updating Still Costs a Lot, Huh?

NolansGoons

As a serial alt-aholic who's primary engagement with this game is playing dress-up with all my characters, I find it awfully hard to keep a hold of my gold unless I really strike (figurative) gold selling things in my guild store. I get that there needs to be money-sinks in the game to keep the player economy in check, but surely some of that burden could be pulled away from the outfit station seeing as it's perhaps the most casual possible place to spend gold and allocate it towards somewhere else?

LadyLavina

No? Not really. I mean if you try to fund that sort of thing exclusively through pve gold , yeah absolutely it is, but if you do even a marginal amount of selling it's not.

Aektann

An "alt-aholic" without gold?
Sorry but you doing something wrong. Very, very wrong.

Tallon_IV

The most I think I've paid to update an outfit was 15k gold, and that was updating every piece and dye. I have 20 characters and don't have issues with gold so it's definitely an issue on your end.

NolansGoons

Aektann wrote: »

An "alt-aholic" without gold?
Sorry but you doing something wrong. Very, very wrong.

I realize, now that that I think about it, that "alt-aholic" means something very different to... most players than it does to me. I mean I have a lot of characters I play scarcely just because I get an idea for a character, and often delete them to make room for another new idea I get. I have like 4 characters that are actually above lvl 50 that I use for endgame content, the rest of my slots are for my random dress-up dolls. So in short, I spend a disproportionate amount on the outfit station...

... You know, typing this out now is starting to make me wonder if I'M the problem

LadyLavina wrote: »

No? Not really. I mean if you try to fund that sort of thing exclusively through pve gold , yeah absolutely it is, but if you do even a marginal amount of selling it's not.

Also worth noting that my trade guild doesn't exactly hold a high-traffic trader (if we hold one regularly at all) and that I don't go too out of my way to sell stuff cause grinding this game can get dull QUICK. (so PvE gold is kinda 50-60% of my wallet)

bmnoble

You can play dress up as much as you like at the outfit station, previewing the different styles you have with the dyes you have, you only have to pay when you have settled on a specific look even then that amount of gold is still pocket change compared to collecting the motifs/style books.

valenwood_vegan

I mean it's worth noting here that we don't know what server OP is on (unless I missed it).

But yeah on PC/NA at least, the amount of gold required by the outfit station really is pocket change for anyone even remotely involved in trading.

But regardless of the server, do your daily writs... sell some gold mats... pick and sell some columbine... you should be covered for quite a few outfit changes.

SeaGtGruff

I have studiously avoided the Outfit system, partly because back when I first started playing it was (I thought) restricted to ESO Plus subscribers, and I wasn't one. (I think maybe it was dyes that were restricted to ESO Plus?)

Later it became about the cost in gold to apply a style to a given part of your outfit.

The other day I finally broke down and spent 3000 gold to apply an outfit style to my weapon-- the Cadwell's two-handed shovel style, to go with my jester's Daedra costume. So now I've started down that slippery slope.

LokiPagan

...huh? At first I thought you meant the crown store price for outfit slots, but...the gold cost? It's literal pennies. A few thousand gold is next to nothing if you actually take the time to sell things and play the game. I don't even try, and I make a few million a week.

If you aren't selling stuff for what it's worth, the fault is on the player - gotta check prices for stuff. Plenty of ways to make easy money.

OsUfi

Changing outfits is one day of writs worth of gold, and you're struggling as an alt-aholic? What are you doing wrong?

colossalvoids

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I have studiously avoided the Outfit system, partly because back when I first started playing it was (I thought) restricted to ESO Plus subscribers, and I wasn't one. (I think maybe it was dyes that were restricted to ESO Plus?)

It's a thing with costumes, not outfits. It was the same at feature's launch as is now, no changes.

Ilumia

I think it's a great gold sink that there's a small cost to the outfitting system. This game needs more gold sinks, not less or the economy will just get worse.

That said I can understand your position, because your economy sounds like the same as mine was before I got sucked in to playing and grinding an unhealthy amount for gold.

And when I say that there's a "small" cost to the outfitting system, that's relative to me, but you raise this issue because the cost is not small to you, and I sympathize, but don't see a good solution that won't make the economy worse.