Question about crown store bank/bag upgrades

ColoursYouHave · September 2015

To my understanding, these new crown store upgrades give you 10 bag/bank slots for one flat price, no matter how many slots you currently have. However, as we all know, the gold cost of upgrades increases each time you increase you bank/bag slots (not including horse carrying space upgrades). So I would like to know if purchasing these crown upgrades also increases the gold cost of an upgrade, or if the gold cost will remain the same even after increasing bank/bag space via the crown store.

In case my question is unclear, let me provide an example. For the sake of simplicity, let's just say the first bank upgrade costs 1000 gold, and the second costs 5000 gold. Obviously after purchasing the first upgrade with gold, the price for the second upgrade will be 5000 gold. However, if I purchase the first upgrade in the crown store, would the next upgrade still cost 5000 gold, or will it only cost 1000 gold since the first upgrade was purchased in the crown store and NOT with gold?

This is an important distinction, because if the former is the case, these crown store purchases become much less valuable the fewer slots you already have purchased with gold.

(Also, I apologize if this is worded poorly, I just got home from a music festival 6+ hours away so I am extremely exhausted and my cognitive functioning is pretty poor at the moment.)

Paazhahdrimaak · September 2015

Hmmm. I'm gonna buy some when it's out for Xbox. If no one has an answer by then I'll let you know!

Enodoc · September 2015

That would be good to find out. I would imagine the gold cost would increase regardless, but confirmation would be great.

BigSwole703 · September 2015

This is a good question because knowing the answer would determine when to use the crown store upgrade. If the in game gold amount still increases it would be better to wait to use the crown upgrade.

ColoursYouHave · September 2015

So I finally decided to just eat the 1000 crowns and test this myself. As it turns out, the gold cost does increase after using a crown store purchase. Personally, I think that was a poor design decision, as it essentially changes the value of those crowns depending on how many slots you already have, but its not of enough significance for me to really mention it outside of this post.

So I will simply advise anybody planning on using crowns to increase bag/bank space to use it only on the later upgrades when the gold cost is substantially higher than the earlier upgrades.

Enodoc · September 2015

Thanks for checking!

Shadowshire · November 2015

BigSwole703 wrote: »

This is a good question because knowing the answer would determine when to use the crown store upgrade. If the in game gold amount still increases it would be better to wait to use the crown upgrade.

The advantage of the Company Store storage space packs is that you can buy and use as many of each of those packs as often as you want -- if you have the Crowns in your account for the purchase(s). Each pack adds ten spaces, either to the bag of the character that you choose, or to your bank.

In some ways, it is arguably better to just buy the Crowns and spend them for the upgrades, so that your avatars will have the Gold Pieces that they would otherwise spend on storage space to spend on other things instead.

That is, if you can afford to spend the $$$.

Volkodav · November 2015

It 's cheaper to use the crowns you get for subbing to buy the bag space,or bank space.Because every time you buy the slots with crowns,you can just wait till next month and buy them again for the same price.It only goes up ingame,not in the crown store.

Jayne_Doe · November 2015

I'd recommend saving a few of your Crowns by purchasing at least the first couple of upgrades with in-game gold. The first bag upgrade is only 400 gold, second is 2K. The first couple of bank upgrades can also be done rather easily with in-game gold. But, I guess if you're just using your ESO+ crowns, it doesn't make that much difference, except that if you want to upgrade more than one character, plus your bank, it will take a really long time to build up those crowns for all the upgrades (8 bag upgrades per character and 18 bank upgrades).

Volkodav · November 2015

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

I'd recommend saving a few of your Crowns by purchasing at least the first couple of upgrades with in-game gold. The first bag upgrade is only 400 gold is 2K. The first couple of bank upgrades can also be done rather easily with in-game gold. But, I guess if you're just using your ESO+ crowns, it doesn't make that much difference, except that if you want to upgrade more than one character, plus your bank, it will take a really long time to build up those crowns for all the upgrades (8 bag upgrades per character and 18 bank upgrades).

I use both crowns in the crown store,and using gold for buying the spaces.Plus.I do put the training into the horses capacity.

WhatDoesItMatter · January 2016

Wow - this is a terrible decision by the developer. It basically encourages you to wait until you've invested a lot of time in the game and already bought many of the bank/pack upgrades before paying out for upgrades via the Crown Store. So what they're effectively saying here is that they only want more of our money if we have stuck around and played this game for months, rather than if we've not been playing long and want to upgrade quickly.

It makes way more sense to grind gold for the lower upgrades and then only purchase upgrades via the crown store once the in-game gold requirement has become astronomical. By which time many players will have grown bored with the game and just left.

Bad marketing strategy. If crown store capacity upgrades took it off the top (ie didn't move you on to the next tier of gold required) then it would encourage both long-term and short-term players to purchase via the crown store.