ZOS, please do add bites to the store.

I am shocked that people would spend money on a bite with guilds full of people giving out free bites and mobs also giving bites. If this leads to more revenue, awesome.

Are you actually f'ing kidding? This can't be for real. That is just stupid, why would they even think that was a good idea? -.-"

OMG they are going to make so much money with this!

There is really no need for it, since its so easy to get anyway. But people are always begging for a bite and willing to pay big for it. Maybe this will slow down the scammers.

The morphs look pretty cool and the skeletal mounts. Just can not bring myself to pay real money for superficial things.

Take it easy, it's most likely only around for a limited time and that'll be around Halloween. At least that's how I see it.

I'm surprised no one has put 2 and 2 together yet for this one, lol. Seems so obvious to me that it'd be a limited time Halloween purchase.

Out of all things added to the store already, this ranks among the more insignificant.

I'm for anything that keeps the bites free or as cheap as possible between players.

@UntameableAngel , I disagree with a month long cool down. That would only drive the price of the bites up and encourage more scamming with players losing even larger amounts of gold to the scammers.

While this may impact you and others directly, its a convenience thing.

-I buy EXP scrolls vs. buying EXP pots....cause its more convenient for me and use gold for other things.
Not sure I follow why this is bad for players or ZOS considering the IC impacts and use of in game gold for mats, etc.

This is actually perhaps a good thing.

I don't use it, or want to be vamp/WW, but this just means the chats won't be filled with selling or buying this anymore, and it gets rid of scammers.

This has benefits for everyone.

Eh this doesn't really bother me. It would actually be silly to purchase a bite in the crown store. I know a ton of people who would do it for free, or at a cost so low the shop option is most likely less that ideal. What I wanna know is when are you pasty bloodsuckers gonna be kos in towns at later stages. My flaming greatsword of doom eagerly waits to dawnbreak yo face.

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Also, while you are working on (or thinking about) adding in a way to change your race through the Crown Store - can you make a way in game to turn your character into an Imperial?

You're really riding the line of pay to win, by allowing it to exist by buying it - but not a way to obtain it ingame..

The racial passives Imperials have, make it this way for many playstyles.

Yeah, no thanks. I bought Imperial Edition for a reason, to play Imperial. If you want to play one so badly too, buy it aswell. One time purchase, forever, to play the race you want. It would be idiotic to make it free, and quite unfair to the players who had already bought it.

I think this is more so to go with the theme of Halloween then to literally let people get it...

It will probably be removed after Halloween

Seasonal item only

Bites are very easy to get. Once a week I will just go to the vampire shrine and bite a random person standing there. I don't say or ask anything. I just bite and leave. It feels more like the vampire way.

I am not going to quote anyone, since I'm pretty busy nowadays and don't have time to forum warrior against trolls, "i want everything handed to me" gamers, and others that just have a different opinion then me on any specific issue (which is absolutely fine)..

I will say this (try to be open minded and look at it from a different perspective if you disagree with my original stance).


Player A through Z are playing the game.

Throughout their experience, 3 of those players (Players A, G, and X) get bitten from Vampires. Player A and G went out of their way to get a bite, and Player X just got lucky and happened across it. Player X did not do the follow up quest, since he did not realize what was going on. Therefore 2/26 players turned into Vampires.

Throughout the same experience, 5 others received a Werewolf bite. Players D, K, and P went out of their way to get a bite, and Players O and S just happened to come across it. Player O did not do the follow up quest, since she did not want to become a Werewolf. Player S tried to do the follow up quest but failed and ran out of time (the disease wore off). Therefore, 3/26 players turned into Werewolves.

So now, 5/26 players are either a Vampire or Werewolf. They level it, and in turn receive the Passive to bite other players. The problem with this, is the relatively short cooldown. Over time, anyone who wants to become a Vampire or Werewolf can do so pretty easily, even without doing the content in game. And yes, this is what content is.

Eventually 20/26 players are now either a Vampire or Werewolf, most obtaining it without doing much to receive it. Everyone now has to either be one (to compete in PvP), or run fire / poison while spamming Fighter's Guild Abilities.

This becomes a problem for those who actually did the content the hard way and got the rare bite (since now lots of players are running counter builds to deal with the fact that most players are Vampires or Werewolves from obtaining it so easily).

This also becomes a problem for most PvPers to now base their template on most players being one of the two (since it's so easy to obtain).


Adding bites to the Crown Store, makes the issue even worse.

It should not happen, and if anything, players being able to bite other players should have a longer cooldown.

A trade window could be implemented specifically for bites, which would be a proper fix to the scams that come with the current mechanics.

Is getting bites really that hard? On both of my toons I just stood at the shrine for like 5mins and got my bite. Ez Pz