Remag_Div wrote: »

No, and anyone who does should feel bad.

Lol doubt some of them that say yes will matey:P

Already bought the dwemer motif to save me the hassle in-game x_x

Nope. No way. I'm not going to buy anything that can be obtained from random loot, at that price. Real money... Is hard to get XD. Harder than ESO gold at least. Also, I need to pay more important things with it XD.

If the dwemer motif was at 5€, you know, because it's a virtual item, and not a real one, (so I don't see the need to put it at 30€) then maybe... I fall to temptation. But for 30€... I'm going to say no.

Ley wrote: »

I think it's note worthy that my wife would kill me if I told her I spent a bunch of money so that I could look cooler in my game.

Lol, aye very good point, and respects to ya if you actually did tell her, be an interesting but short lived convo:}

Need to know basis, she does not need to know hehe

Does anyone know if it's going to be account wide or per character? e.g. will I have to pay 10,000 crowns to have it on my heavy/woodworker crafter and my light/medium crafter

dap_robertb16_ESO wrote: »

Does anyone know if it's going to be account wide or per character? e.g. will I have to pay 10,000 crowns to have it on my heavy/woodworker crafter and my light/medium crafter

Yes you will and that'd be about ~$75
Please don't do it.

5000 crowns? hell no. 34 euros, way too expensive.

newtinmpls wrote: »

Well ... it occurs to me that if they put Ashlander motifs in the store I would buy them.

It didn't really occur to me, at the time when I made the poll, the possibility of them adding motifs that were exclusive to the crown store. I suppose if I liked the motif enough and it was only available via crown store, I'd consider buying it but not for 5,000 crowns.

I might buy rare ones because I'm not in a zone where they might drop and I have crowns to spend before the console transfer. But, then again, I might not. I have been getting more drops of the common ones just recently but I have no moral standard for buying things I use only for appearance. Armor is armor and weapons are weapons no matter what they look like so if I think my character looks better in something rare then so be it. I did buy one common motif from a guild kiosk so i could complete the achievement and get the dye. it kind of bugged me since I had found all of them I just hadn't put them all on the same character.

I voted no, for a few reasons. Firstly, it is something that we earned in game. I always find it offensive when they sell these types of items in the game stores of an MMO. It is at conflict with the very theme and style of a game, and takes us off on a track where everything becomes about what we buy with cash, and not what we develop with our characters. I also find it kills the in game economy. It is true, that potentially items bought in game stores could be sold to another player, but I still find that sort of behavior suspect.

Horses, pets, costumes and the like are likewise problematic to me, though more understandable. How much more compelling a game would it be if those costumes were obtained by a thief robbing them, or a player actually having unlocked the crafting skills to create them? That's how SWG worked, and it was a game that worked quite well until they ruined it. This is why the f2p model has never greatly appealed to me, because ultimately I think it is as direct odds with good gameplay. F2P essentially means that crafting in a game becomes pointless, because all too often the game developers find that is one of the easiest ways for them to get their coin. The other means of gaining cash is even more diabolical, involving actual game imbalancing bonuses for paying extra cash. I'm very hopeful ESO never goes that route, because that will be the day that my subscription/interest wanes. Its already happened for me in STO, a game which I heavily supported in the past. I think one of the big problems with MMO companies is the approach is becoming wrong. They release a game people grow attached to, and then at a certain point they get this 'milk it' attitude. Game balance goes into the toilet because everything (and I do mean everything) becomes about what you've bought with real life cash. On STO I know people who have spent 10's of 1000's of dollars on the game. That's as bad as a gambling addiction, but in the industry they are known as 'whales' (much like the term used for stock purchasers).

The main reason I choose not to purchase the motifs though is that they are a game element already part of the game, and it feels patently wrong to spend money on them. I have no problem with the purchase of DLC as that is reasonable, particularly now that the game has gone semi-f2p. If they're going to sell motifs though, what is next? Valkyn Skoria set? Ophidia? Cyrodiil's Light? Where does it end? Gear is not what a game is really about, and if game developers cease to realize this, they're going to kill the whole MMO industry some day.

Never, not at the prices for the rare ones, 5000 crowns for the pack of 4 (or 1500 individually) and then 5000 crowns just for Dwemer and 5000 for Imperial is ridiculously high and BS! As for the common, the prices are far more reasonable but since I don't really craft enough yet or really care if I have them all or not. If they go and nerf drop rates that will just push me away from the game if they push us into buying the crown version motifs by force.

I understand the high price tag, it's to keep the in-game versions selling for gold without making them worthless but it's too much for me as I'm not a crafter. Even if I was a crafter, $50 for one, or the 4 pack is way too much on something like this. My money can be much better spent on real life stuff than that. Even if buying these made it account-wide and all characters could craft it I wouldn't buy it at these prices.

No, and they should never have been put in the store in the first place.