You are actually asking them to take your money? Awww man, I have the wrong job.

But I think a transfer to consoles has been confirmed with the last live show, so good news for you right there.

Oh dude...I guess this will be the new standard of TU players.

technohic wrote: »

Not confirmed for all players that I am aware. Just the ones who bought it by that date.

Ah, I didn't know that. Sorry then!

I was talking to a few friends today who are currently playing/paying Pc and they would love the option for PC to console transfers for X$. I wouldn't mind paying 40$ for a character.

LootHorder wrote: »

Wait, has it been confirmed our characters can come over 2 consoles? cause I want to know if I have 2 buy the console version if I alrdy have the one of PC

You can only transfer characters if you bought the game before June 30th last year. You also get the console version for only 20$. This isn't that helpful as most people who do want to play on console, didn't bother paying for a broken game at the time and missed the date. I really,really wish ZOS allows us to pay for a character transfer.

I think that they currently want to avoid players who buy the PC version for 20$ and then ask for a switch to console costing only 20$. That makes @ZOS lose money compared to the 60$ of a console box.

Of course this shouldn't apply to players who have paid the sub over several months and those should also have access to the 20$ transfer.

Once again it was answered many many times. It was advertised every where including the launcher which if you played the game must have read it a number of times.

Even made one of these. https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21326/

It's over and also I believe bumping old posts is against the rules.

BigM wrote: »

Once again it was answered many many times. It was advertised every where including the launcher which if you played the game must have read it a number of times.

Even made one of these. https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21326/

It's over and also I believe bumping old posts is against the rules.

1.) If you bought the game after the deadline (even one day), then you were essentially SoL. End of story. I understand the concept of deadlines; I also understand the concept of lucrative business practice. Turning away people willing to pay you for an easy process does not make sense.

2.) Then I'll make a new post if trying to spark intelligent conversation in and positive change in an old thread is some sort of critical faux pas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Zenimax has never even begun to respond as to their reasoning behind not allowing a paid transfer option. Out of curiosity, did you receive a transfer? Because if you were forced to redo 400+ hrs of game play (and pay to do so) then I think you might be singing a different song but again correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not trying to be an ***, just trying to be objective.

Perhaps this message I sent to Zenimax will shed some insight onto the logical inadequacies that I see in their decision:

Zenimax development team,

this is a public appeal by me on behalf of all ESO players; change your criteria for account "transfers" to console! I for one, have been playing and paying since 9/2014, three months past the cutoff for transfer eligibility. I plan on continuing my ESO+ subscription; I love supporting Zenimax and ESO and the benefits are great. Adding a (possibly one-time) account transfer for current paying ESO members seems it would make the most sense for both Zenimax as a company and ESO as a thriving game.

As a fellow game developer, I understand the countless hours, blood, sweat, and tears that go into making a game, especially one as well made as ESO, so I'm not by any means suggesting just hand out account transfers or free pre-orders. I also understand that transferring over the data for possibly hundreds of thousands of players is no small task, but assuming everything is contained in a single MySQL database, it's very doable with little overhead. These account transfers would allow ESO players to not lose the time, blood, sweat, tears, or money they put into the game.

My whole experience on ESO has been with very low graphics due to a subpar gaming laptop. Ever since Morrowwind I have longed for the day I could play an MMO Elder Scrolls. Low graphics has been no kind of deterrent to keep me from mounting up and trudging across Tamriel just to find out what happened next to our beloved Lusty Argonian maid or to take on the Undaunted trials with my friends or explore Cyrodiil with my guild. There is a present aversive force though, keeping me from playing much anymore; losing progress and half of my social circle on ESO. Most of my friends and guild will be moving over to console in June. Without them, the game just lost a good portion of it's MMO appeal to me. Not to mention the 420 hours of work that I put into my sorc now down the drain. Oh, did I mention I would also have to pay $60 (for a game I have already bought and have been continually paying for)? It's a bit of a conundrum: stay on PC with terrible graphics, find new friends+guild, but save $60 or move to console, pay $60, and get to play with my friends but lose all my progress (both options inherently involve dropping my ESO+ subscription out of principle - essentially, no longer casting my vote in Zenimax's ballot box). What would you choose in my situation?

How many other people are in my situation? Let's pretend only 1000 are and each decides to drop their ESO+ subscription for the same reasons as I am planning to if I can't transfer my account. That's roughly $15,000 of lost revenue a month. What if 10,000 people feel the same way I do? 1,000,000 people? Let's assume, they all stay on PC so as not to lose their hard earned champion points, sky shards, lorebooks, and levels. That's now an additional $60 of potential revenue not gained per person distraught over this issue. I for one, would be more than willing to pay $20 for the game and account transfer, as my luckier ESO friends have been able to do.

Essentially, it seems to me that with the current criteria for account eligibility for console transfers; it's a lose-lose situation for the customer and Zenimax. If the criteria for eligibility were more lax (or just did away with eligibility in general and added it as a feature to the crown store), there would be far more people willing to make the switch, especially if they continue to allow people to pre-order for $20. Even paying $60 for the game would probably fly by most people if there's no threat of losing game progress. If nothing is done to the current state of eligibility, I foresee many disgruntled players forced to pick one of three options: stay on PC and lose the ability to play with their friends, move to console and lose progress, or find a new game.

Would it not have been more efficient to just offer the transfer to everyone willing to pay at the time they were doing the transfers? Considering it is a programmatic process of uploading data to a (MySQL or otherwise) DB, a process of transferring "one offs" would have just never come up in the first place and they could have handled all transfers at once.

Better yet, it is the same game; even if the programming languages are different odds are both Xbox's native language and ESO (PC)'s native language (I think Lua?) have a concept of arrays, in which case, the actual character data would likely behave the same in both code environments.

If I had to guess, all the transfers happened at once in a batch process, slightly mitigating the extra hours that would have to be paid to Zenimax's engineers. Also, I'd like to clarify, I don't believe the deadline of the transfers to be the problem here; it is the exclusivity of the offer to a subsection of players who may have heard about the game and had more time to purchase it before the rest of us. Essentially, they offered a reward/perk based on statistics as opposed an actual metric of loyalty. What if those people paid the least amount of money to Zenimax? How would they then be in any better of a situation whilst still paying said engineers?

How is that fair? If someone was off the grid for a year, only to find out that their long time dream of an Elder Scolls MMO is finally a reality, put hundreds of wonderful, enjoyable, but tedious hours into the game, and then can't transfer their progress. What if that person has a potato for a computer? What if that person's friends and guild all moved to Xbox? I am not trying to be abrasive, aggressive, or combative - I love logical and thoughtful discussion; I am just trying to express the opinion of a loyal Elder Scolls fan and long time gamer and logically prove the utter ridiculousness of this business decision. Both from a fiscal and ethical perspective.

Well, maybe not ethical but I'm not sure of the adjectival form of Customer Appreciation.

I missed the transfer just like most of the PC players on here posting these topics, but I understand why the transfer program was implemented so covertly.

Console sales would have been abysmal if it was WIDLEY known that ALL PC players were allowed to bring their VR14 CP grinders over to console.

I also have no problem with them NOT allowing more PC transfers "yes it does suck for those of us that did miss the offer, but lets be honest it is not like getting to 50 is all that hard.