Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
Not really. Large crown packages are cheaper than sub, especially for console players who have only 1 month sub option.Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
You can buy the DLC using crowns, so if you sub for a month and like it you can top up your crowns and buy it outright and it actually works out cheaper than buying it outright with just a crown store purchase if you offset the XP and gold and other add-ons from ESO plus you enjoyed for a month
Not really. Large crown packages are cheaper than sub, especially for console players who have only 1 month sub option.Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
You can buy the DLC using crowns, so if you sub for a month and like it you can top up your crowns and buy it outright and it actually works out cheaper than buying it outright with just a crown store purchase if you offset the XP and gold and other add-ons from ESO plus you enjoyed for a month
Not really. Large crown packages are cheaper than sub, especially for console players who have only 1 month sub option.Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
You can buy the DLC using crowns, so if you sub for a month and like it you can top up your crowns and buy it outright and it actually works out cheaper than buying it outright with just a crown store purchase if you offset the XP and gold and other add-ons from ESO plus you enjoyed for a month
you forget the added bonus of the ESO plus, also 1500 crowns costs me €14,99 1 month ESO Plus costs me €13,99 so its cheaper to go 1 month for the same amount of crowns, and not thinking of the actuall added ESO plus bonus,
I did specifically mention large crown packages. Averages are nicely explained above. I don't remember crown prices in USD, but in my currency it comes out to 34.9 for 1500 crowns if I buy the 5500 package and 40 for 1500 if I buy a 6 month sub. The choice is clear. ESO Plus bonuses are worthless to me, but of course others may feel differently.Not really. Large crown packages are cheaper than sub, especially for console players who have only 1 month sub option.Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
You can buy the DLC using crowns, so if you sub for a month and like it you can top up your crowns and buy it outright and it actually works out cheaper than buying it outright with just a crown store purchase if you offset the XP and gold and other add-ons from ESO plus you enjoyed for a month
you forget the added bonus of the ESO plus, also 1500 crowns costs me €14,99 1 month ESO Plus costs me €13,99 so its cheaper to go 1 month for the same amount of crowns, and not thinking of the actuall added ESO plus bonus,
Not really. Large crown packages are cheaper than sub, especially for console players who have only 1 month sub option.Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
You can buy the DLC using crowns, so if you sub for a month and like it you can top up your crowns and buy it outright and it actually works out cheaper than buying it outright with just a crown store purchase if you offset the XP and gold and other add-ons from ESO plus you enjoyed for a month
you forget the added bonus of the ESO plus, also 1500 crowns costs me €14,99 1 month ESO Plus costs me €13,99 so its cheaper to go 1 month for the same amount of crowns, and not thinking of the actuall added ESO plus bonus,
The xp bonus of eso plus membership is utterly useless unless you powerlevel (which will deminish your character cause you miss out a lot of skillpoints. Honestly it is a shame that they offer it in the first place. It seems another sign that the marketing debt has no clue how the game actually works.
As for your pricing. the current prices for eso+membership is 11.99 euro per month (average price depending on the lenght of the sub). So it is 11.99 euro for 1500 gems.
Depending on the size of the crownpack, they cost an average of 11,75 euro per month for 1500 gems. So ESO+ is 0,25 euro more expensive when it comes to gems. As the rest is utterly worthless, you make a loss and are cheaper off buying dlc's (and other gemstore content) directly with crowns you buy, specially when you buy in bulk.
And yes, you can discuss bout the size of the package and how to compare it to the length of the sub. Both give a discount if bought in bulk. That is why I took the averages of both. It is the most fair way to compare the two.
Not really. Large crown packages are cheaper than sub, especially for console players who have only 1 month sub option.Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
You can buy the DLC using crowns, so if you sub for a month and like it you can top up your crowns and buy it outright and it actually works out cheaper than buying it outright with just a crown store purchase if you offset the XP and gold and other add-ons from ESO plus you enjoyed for a month
you forget the added bonus of the ESO plus, also 1500 crowns costs me €14,99 1 month ESO Plus costs me €13,99 so its cheaper to go 1 month for the same amount of crowns, and not thinking of the actuall added ESO plus bonus,
The xp bonus of eso plus membership is utterly useless unless you powerlevel (which will deminish your character cause you miss out a lot of skillpoints. Honestly it is a shame that they offer it in the first place. It seems another sign that the marketing debt has no clue how the game actually works.
As for your pricing. the current prices for eso+membership is 11.99 euro per month (average price depending on the lenght of the sub). So it is 11.99 euro for 1500 gems.
Depending on the size of the crownpack, they cost an average of 11,75 euro per month for 1500 gems. So ESO+ is 0,25 euro more expensive when it comes to gems. As the rest is utterly worthless, you make a loss and are cheaper off buying dlc's (and other gemstore content) directly with crowns you buy, specially when you buy in bulk.
And yes, you can discuss bout the size of the package and how to compare it to the length of the sub. Both give a discount if bought in bulk. That is why I took the averages of both. It is the most fair way to compare the two.
Whats worthless for you might not be so worthless for someone else, its a matter of opinion, if you rather buy big bulks of Crowns, then by all means go spend money on it. besides the DLC and maybe Motifs there is not really much interesting in the Crown store to begin with. so most people will end up wasting the rest of the crowns on useless items.
again matter of opinion, some might argue that a Crown store mount is quite epic etc. etc.
Not really. Large crown packages are cheaper than sub, especially for console players who have only 1 month sub option.Ourorboros wrote: »If your ESO+ lapses, you loose access to any DLC. This has been a point of contention since the system was announced. Lots of pro/con threads, if you care to search.
You can buy the DLC using crowns, so if you sub for a month and like it you can top up your crowns and buy it outright and it actually works out cheaper than buying it outright with just a crown store purchase if you offset the XP and gold and other add-ons from ESO plus you enjoyed for a month
you forget the added bonus of the ESO plus, also 1500 crowns costs me €14,99 1 month ESO Plus costs me €13,99 so its cheaper to go 1 month for the same amount of crowns, and not thinking of the actuall added ESO plus bonus,
The xp bonus of eso plus membership is utterly useless unless you powerlevel (which will deminish your character cause you miss out a lot of skillpoints. Honestly it is a shame that they offer it in the first place. It seems another sign that the marketing debt has no clue how the game actually works.
As for your pricing. the current prices for eso+membership is 11.99 euro per month (average price depending on the lenght of the sub). So it is 11.99 euro for 1500 gems.
Depending on the size of the crownpack, they cost an average of 11,75 euro per month for 1500 gems. So ESO+ is 0,25 euro more expensive when it comes to gems. As the rest is utterly worthless, you make a loss and are cheaper off buying dlc's (and other gemstore content) directly with crowns you buy, specially when you buy in bulk.
And yes, you can discuss bout the size of the package and how to compare it to the length of the sub. Both give a discount if bought in bulk. That is why I took the averages of both. It is the most fair way to compare the two.
Whats worthless for you might not be so worthless for someone else, its a matter of opinion, if you rather buy big bulks of Crowns, then by all means go spend money on it. besides the DLC and maybe Motifs there is not really much interesting in the Crown store to begin with. so most people will end up wasting the rest of the crowns on useless items.
again matter of opinion, some might argue that a Crown store mount is quite epic etc. etc.
In this case it isn't an opinion. It is hard numbers. And yes. I took average numbers. But also if you take a 1 month sub (12,99 euro) and compare it to the 1500 crowns pack (12,99 euro), it is exactly the same.
Keep in mind that this comparing the reward for a sub with a one time purchase. So the only real conclusion is that the sub has no advantage at all and is more money for the same thing. It is ok for supporting ESO, but not for having the most use for your money.
As said, I don't think ZoS marketing ever played the game, let alone know what is important for the players.