Aye I do, great gifting idea.

I and I dare say many of us would not mind gifting Crowns to family/friends.

And would still generate revenue for Zeni, win win situation.

fromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »

I tend to find polls that only provide options at the extreme end of possibilities tend to be of little value in determining people's views.

I fit in neither category this poll allows for.

Well tbh there are only 2 answers to give, yes or no, so there is your extremes there:P

And people saying yes or no with a wee explanation is of value, as it is giving the person`s view. (more so if they actually give an explanation why yes or no)

And if you fit in neither category, then why bother posting in the first place?

Absolutely terrible idea for exactly the reasons @Revenant_Spartan says. I guarantee you that's exactly why ZOS set it up so that Crowns were non-transferrable, and so that anything bought from the Crown Store either gets put in your collection rather than being an actual item, or is bound on pickup.

No, if I want to gift friends and family crowns I will PayPal them.
An in game system will simply mean selling currency for gold. The whole reason I don't care motifs are on crown store is because it isn't a way of buying gold.

Revenant_Spartan wrote: »

My answer is also NO when it comes to "gifting" items... because it will be 10% people gifting stuff to friends and 90% will be people making ingame gold for real world money.

The moment you bring a system in that allows it, it will effect the ingame market as people will start selling items at stupid prices to make enough money to buy crowns that are being sold for stupid amounts. What ends up happening is the quest rewards and item value sold to vendors become completely useless and the only means of making money is the AH. Then you have to compete with people who has more time on there hands and like to play the AH. And you can't even buy simple gear for less than an arm and a leg, even if the intention was to deconstruct or wear.

Whenever real world financial strength starts influencing the financial means your character has, it will screw the game's economy. Because it essentially becomes gold-buying (with 1 step added). No one would approve of buying gold directly from the crownstore - allowing a system like this is no different.

QFT.... it allows external control of the internal market.

no, and the reason for that is. You can then get crown spammers in the game, just like we had with gold in the start.
People will be hoarding crowns for services or for real money.
I prefer to keep it bound.

The idea of giving some as a gift could be nice, but it will go trough the store not ingame. Kind of like Steam does it.

Let's be carefull not to break the game's economics by inviting people to abuse a well intended option.

Tabbycat wrote: »

The only way it would work without destroying the economy would be if ZOS controlled the market the same way that ANet does in GW2.

Except that starts the horrible spinning wheel of ZOS making the crowns worth way more than gold so that those buying crowns for selling has an incentive (because who is going to buy say 1000 crowns if it only gets you 10000 gold?) and the cycle will continue to the point where the crowns prices need to be high enough for people to sell yet low enough for people to want to buy with gold.

What ends up happening? Bots and grinders...tons and tons of farming bots and grinders. The only way to make enough gold to buy them crowns. And what happens, honest Joe becomes Joe dirt because he refuses to use bots and simply can't keep up with 24/7 grinders and bots. AH prices inflate as a result to try and keep up with the fluctuating crown prices... and back to gold buying we go.

I've even seen like in Archeage how it goes. In a span of 4 weeks after release the prices of the game-tokens went up 300% or something stupid like that. And what happens, hoarders. Hoarders will hoard cheap crowns. Wait for the market prices to go up and then make an insane profit.

Sadly would just be degenerative to the game. It's Elder Scrolls Online not Elder Stockmarket Online. I say keep capitalism with real money out of the game. Period.

Would you be ready to see this?

WTS 2500 crowns 300k gold. pst!

Terrible idea.

Danikat wrote: »

I'm confused: are we talking about buying crowns with real money and then sending them to another person, or buying crowns with in-game gold? A lot of people seem to be talking about the effect this will have on the economy within the game, but as long as crowns can only be bought with real money (or via a subscription bought with real money) and the items are all bound I can't see how it would have any impact.

Sure people might offer to transfer crowns to someone in return for them sending in-game gold. But surely that would be handled the same way as existing gold seller tactics are.

If you use Steam for gifting to friends/family or your pet budgie, sorta like that.

We don't need a system for in-game gold buying

Revenant_Spartan wrote: »

My answer is also NO when it comes to "gifting" items... because it will be 10% people gifting stuff to friends and 90% will be people making ingame gold for real world money.

The moment you bring a system in that allows it, it will effect the ingame market as people will start selling items at stupid prices to make enough money to buy crowns that are being sold for stupid amounts. What ends up happening is the quest rewards and item value sold to vendors become completely useless and the only means of making money is the AH. Then you have to compete with people who has more time on there hands and like to play the AH. And you can't even buy simple gear for less than an arm and a leg, even if the intention was to deconstruct or wear.

Whenever real world financial strength starts influencing the financial means your character has, it will screw the game's economy. Because it essentially becomes gold-buying (with 1 step added). No one would approve of buying gold directly from the crownstore - allowing a system like this is no different.

+1

No, because it would just create a much easier avenue for gold sellers.

Would I like to be able to transfer crowns to my hubby or a friend? Yes. Would I like them to open up that possibility? No, because as others have mentioned this would open up the "Crowns for Gold" problem and we really, really don't need (and I don't want) that. Being able to buy "premium cash" for in-game cash always has terrible effects on the in-game economy.