I would pay $5.00 for a Vanity pet under the condition I could just get the in-game pet. I would not be willing to buy some stuffed animal or other piece of swag to "get the code as a benefit."

No.

How about we encourage the developers to place pets and other cosmetic bonuses at the end of engaging, challenging content that's fun to play?

There should be ways to earn a pet ingame. Why not add one as a reward for collectible achievements for example? They are hard enough to complete. Or another one for completing 40 group dungeons (would add an incentive for people to do them)?

Pets that just say "look, I paid 10$ to get this" or "look I was at that or that convention" introduce out of game elements into a virtual online world and really are immersion -breaking. Cosmetic updates for real money are a free to play thing that are needed there to make money. There's no reason to have them in a subscription-based game (the Palomino horse already was a step in the wrong direction, but I can accept that because it was also a measure to fight RMT even though some *not very intelligent people* still bought gold for real money risking to lose their account only so they can buy a single horse in game while they could have bought a legit horse on all of their characters for the same price directly from ZOS).

Would pay money for one, only so long as it was useful in the game.

In Skyrim, a purchased war dog was useful.

<stomps foot>

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

NO!!! We pay a sub every thing should be available in game. That's why I'm against the imperial edition or buying anything associated with a code. I was going to buy a Guar plush until I found out it had a vanity pet with it. To me that's crap. Save that **** for the F2P crowd. They are used to spending extra money on crap.

Usually i would agree with you , but that is not how zen runs this show.

The steam dog , the pig , the guar and the other one i forgot what is it are all here to show that they keep adding multiple pets that all/a great majority of player here since day 1 wont ever get anyway.

And they are also already selling a horse , which means they do plan to sell stuff that looks different on the store.

Braidas wrote: »

For a pet Sweetroll, yes.

But everyone would try to steal it, and I have a feeling the guards wont be any help at all in getting it back. They'd like, just throw around some sort of sarcastic comment or something.

I paid for the pig (ebay) and love it. It fits with my Khajiit's personality.

i voted "no"
but i changed my mind and is no option to change my vote, so i will write here what i would pay for.

i would pay $50.00 US dollars for the red "ancestor wraith" that comes out of the morph from the "fear trap" skill in the nighblade skill as a perminant pet as long as he is able to help me and fight with me in both pve and especially in pvp.

i even made a thread about it long before we got our ice wraith pet
right heres the link

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/134031/can-we-nightblades-please-have-the-fear-wraith-instead-of-the-ice-wraith-pet#latest

Hlaren_shortsheath wrote: »

i voted "no"
but i changed my mind and is no option to change my vote, so i will write here what i would pay for.

i would pay $50.00 US dollars for the red "ancestor wraith" that comes out of the morph from the "fear trap" skill in the nighblade skill as a perminant pet as long as he is able to help me and fight with me in both pve and especially in pvp.

i even made a thread about it long before we got our ice wraith pet
right heres the link

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/134031/can-we-nightblades-please-have-the-fear-wraith-instead-of-the-ice-wraith-pet#latest

I hope vanity pets never hold a function besides being purely for looks. Hence "vanity", as opposed to "utility".

GreySix wrote: »

BBSooner wrote: »

Hlaren_shortsheath wrote: »

i voted "no"
but i changed my mind and is no option to change my vote, so i will write here what i would pay for.

i would pay $50.00 US dollars for the red "ancestor wraith" that comes out of the morph from the "fear trap" skill in the nighblade skill as a perminant pet as long as he is able to help me and fight with me in both pve and especially in pvp.

i even made a thread about it long before we got our ice wraith pet
right heres the link

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/134031/can-we-nightblades-please-have-the-fear-wraith-instead-of-the-ice-wraith-pet#latest

I hope vanity pets never hold a function besides being purely for looks. Hence "vanity", as opposed to "utility".

... hence their utter uselessness.

Never saw the value of "Look at me!" items in a game, but then again that's why I ride a Honda Gold Wing, instead of a Harley-Davidson.

Shrug, it's along the same lines as cosmetic clothing, dye, or even armor sets. If vanity wasn't important we could just all share the same character model that have different stats based on our graphically identical armor.

Would I pay for a vanity pet? No! I have more sense than money, not necessarily much more, though

Zorgon_The_Revenged wrote: »

Wouldn't want one even if you paid me.

Really, if they were paying me I would use one.
Otherwise it goes into storage, like my Ice Wraith pet, My Scuttler Pet, and my Monkey Pet.

I already have, so...

My limit is the same as Soloeus's, $5 just for the pet. I might buy a pet attached to a plushie/figurine/whatever if I actually like said plushie, but I believe all pets should be available as standalone as well. And we definitely need more pets we can acquire simply by playing the game.