Eso+ free trial

r34lian

Any idea when they are giving free trial week ? I got couple if costumes and survey maps to do

EF321

No one knows really, we used to get three of these a year, then two a year, and now this year we only had one in January...


Edit: We apparently had two this year, I was wrong

Elsonso

EF321 wrote: »

No one knows really, we used to get three of these a year, then two a year, and now this year we only had one in January...

Yes, we might need more people to unsubscribe so they are incentivized to have free trials.

Saul_Tigh

There was a free trial in june as well, so that counts as two this year so far.
https://elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/66079

Danikat

EF321 wrote: »

No one knows really, we used to get three of these a year, then two a year, and now this year we only had one in January...

We had one in June as well. But it looks like we only had 1 in 2023: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/category/esoplus

I think they might have made them less frequent and less predictable because ZOS don't want long-term players relying on them to get the ESO+ benefits for free, they'd prefer us to pay for it. The point of free trials is to let new and returning players see what it's like playing with ESO+ to try and convince them to buy it, or buy DLC they got to try out during the trial.

A lot of people claim we've had less new players joining recently. There's no way for players to know for sure of course, but if that's true there's less incentive for ZOS to run free trials.

Having said that my guess is the next time we're likely to get one is January. It will be 6 months since the last trial, but also the game is currently discounted for Black Friday which is likely to attract new players, and other people might get it for Christmas. By January they'll have had some time to get used to the game, so it would be a good opportunity to introduce them to what else they could be doing.

Saul_Tigh

Danikat wrote: »

EF321 wrote: »

No one knows really, we used to get three of these a year, then two a year, and now this year we only had one in January...

We had one in June as well. But it looks like we only had 1 in 2023: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/category/esoplus

I think they might have made them less frequent and less predictable because ZOS don't want long-term players relying on them to get the ESO+ benefits for free, they'd prefer us to pay for it. The point of free trials is to let new and returning players see what it's like playing with ESO+ to try and convince them to buy it, or buy DLC they got to try out during the trial.

A lot of people claim we've had less new players joining recently. There's no way for players to know for sure of course, but if that's true there's less incentive for ZOS to run free trials.

Having said that my guess is the next time we're likely to get one is January. It will be 6 months since the last trial, but also the game is currently discounted for Black Friday which is likely to attract new players, and other people might get it for Christmas. By January they'll have had some time to get used to the game, so it would be a good opportunity to introduce them to what else they could be doing.

There actually was two last year. January and July.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/64459

Danikat

Saul_Tigh wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

EF321 wrote: »

No one knows really, we used to get three of these a year, then two a year, and now this year we only had one in January...

We had one in June as well. But it looks like we only had 1 in 2023: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/category/esoplus

I think they might have made them less frequent and less predictable because ZOS don't want long-term players relying on them to get the ESO+ benefits for free, they'd prefer us to pay for it. The point of free trials is to let new and returning players see what it's like playing with ESO+ to try and convince them to buy it, or buy DLC they got to try out during the trial.

A lot of people claim we've had less new players joining recently. There's no way for players to know for sure of course, but if that's true there's less incentive for ZOS to run free trials.

Having said that my guess is the next time we're likely to get one is January. It will be 6 months since the last trial, but also the game is currently discounted for Black Friday which is likely to attract new players, and other people might get it for Christmas. By January they'll have had some time to get used to the game, so it would be a good opportunity to introduce them to what else they could be doing.

There actually was two last year. January and July.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/64459

I'm not sure why that doesn't show up in the list of ESO+ announcements I linked to then.

EF321

Danikat wrote: »

EF321 wrote: »

No one knows really, we used to get three of these a year, then two a year, and now this year we only had one in January...

We had one in June as well. But it looks like we only had 1 in 2023: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/category/esoplus

I think they might have made them less frequent and less predictable because ZOS don't want long-term players relying on them to get the ESO+ benefits for free, they'd prefer us to pay for it. The point of free trials is to let new and returning players see what it's like playing with ESO+ to try and convince them to buy it, or buy DLC they got to try out during the trial.

A lot of people claim we've had less new players joining recently. There's no way for players to know for sure of course, but if that's true there's less incentive for ZOS to run free trials.

Having said that my guess is the next time we're likely to get one is January. It will be 6 months since the last trial, but also the game is currently discounted for Black Friday which is likely to attract new players, and other people might get it for Christmas. By January they'll have had some time to get used to the game, so it would be a good opportunity to introduce them to what else they could be doing.

Oh, my bad, I somehow have no memories of this second one in 2024, probably because it was right after chapter release, so I ignored it (I only need free trial on second account, subbed on main), and it is not mentioned on UESP, which further convinced me that it never happened.


There was second free trial mid 2023, shortly after free eso on Epic store. This one I remember myself and it is mentioned on UESP

WhiteCoatSyndrome

I suspect the last double XP event (not Witches Festival, the one right after that) took up the time slot where the free ESO+ trial ‘should’ have been.

I’d be happy to be proven wrong, but I’m not expecting another one until January at the earliest.

reazea

I thought they usually dropped a free eso+ "event" sometime around new life festival. I could be remembering wrong though.