ESO is dying, garbage like this would assure it never comes back.

Those specific items you mention, I'm not interested in being in crown store i feel that its fundamental to your character and should not be short cut as a P2W option.

What i would like is an additional way to earn mages skill line experience, unlocked after finishing the MG questline.
I'm not an ideas man, but id suggest something like

• daily quests given out from an NPC at Eeyevea. Having to kill a delve/dungeon/world boss and take a book or artifact of power back to Eyevea.Especially now where future content will level to your level.
• or maybe i have to do further quests to improve Eyevea, and help it recover from what occured in the MG quest.
• or simply killing magicka weilding spell casting bad guys has a chance to drop a consumable book, (increased if its a boss) which will tick off a missing MG lore book from my library.

Maybe lack of time is why people ask those. Times are grim and gotta keep every player possible playing.

The idea of convenient items goes years back, it was solution to HC and Casual debate, devs just couldnt give OP stuff to HC players, so instead of convenient items were better solution.

No thank you - P2W is just sad. If you like/love the game then play it!

I can just about live with some of the convenience items that are already sold through Crown Store (motifs, backpack and mount upgrades, etc), because they are mostly cosmetic or only benefit the user, without having any overpowered "win" aspect. However, they also have potions, foods, and soul gems, which are kinda P2W in regards to it actually helps you in game.

Some may argue that we are already at the point of no return. But I beg to differ. The most important thing they keep away from the Crown Store IMO is anything to do with leveling up (like CP, skill points, auto to a specific level, etc). I don't mind people forking over cash to Zeni for wanting exp potions and such, because they are also craftable in-game, but adding "winning" features that you can only acquire through Crown Store would surely be the coming of the end.....

This is the problem with the word "convenience". Anything can be considered a "convenience" if looked at from a certain angle. For me, it's all about reward vs effort. You shouldn't be able to pay for something to get the reward and skip all the effort. That's why I never want to see Gold, Insta-Leveling, or CP in the Crown Store.

Then you have things which are on the line; Getting WW/Vamp bites in-game requires minimal effort, and you have to miss out on the quest rewards if you buy in the store. XP scrolls reduce the time taken to get XP, but you still have to put in the effort to get that XP, as a multiplier of nothing is still nothing.

Anything that costs gold in-game (from potions and food, through to motifs and bag space) will be affected in some way if it ends up in the Crown Store, usually by impacting the economy. So what if the things aren't tradeable themselves? They have an impact on their in-game equivalents which are tradeable, as less people will buy them.

Dubhliam wrote: »

This poll is biased.

MMO industry is a heavy money-reliant one.

If you think convenience items are P2W, my only thought is this is your first MMO.

Instead of simply giving negative feedback, why don't you give us an example of how should ZOS make money?

If you ran a MMO, and had to earn money to keep it alive and growing, what would you sell?
Subscription is not an option, TESO has been down that road.

Alot of us are Ex-wow players and are playing this game because of nostalgia of the TES way back in the day. Simply put we Want Quality, we want the vanilla wow experience of epic battles, organization, and earning every scrap of gear we can put together. I realize alot of people don't remember the days before p2w and the whole free to play model and shamlessly shoving holiday themed gear and sales coupons everywhere in game. But some of us have witnessed the fall... Once a game goes free to play... the game becomes money hungry, bug fixes are ignored...because u can't package and sell bug fixes, and the share holders and board members start demanding more content for sale...and slowly but surly the quality goes low..the prices go high, and bugs are just paved on top of and become "features"

First of all... Some things that are mentioned in the OP are just plain ridiculous, even if someone is shameless enough to ask for those things, ZOS certainly won't put those things in the CS.
So far they have shown to be careful (with certain exceptions) with what they put in CS and I like to trust them to continue that way.

Now that we have that covered: there is absolutely no way for a MMORPG model that does not rely on subscriptions to make money without affecting the game economy.
NO WAY.

All the complains here are basically reduced to exactly that: "Economy".
Or in other words, players feel like they are cheated for a big chunk of gold they would have made if the game didn't have certain items in CS.

Well guess what? I for one know that a big part of the player base are casual working class men.
They don't have time to grind for exp or gold so they in turn take their wallet out to achieve something that could be probably achieved in time or bought by gold.

There are plenty of ways for a TESO player to earn gold.
IMHO, motif farming is the most tedious of them all.

As long as the items in the CS affect economy only, I can live with that. I have played a MMORPG with a P2W cash shop.
Let me tell you, it's not pretty.

I love them. I have money + good job, not a college kid with endless time. Love being able to P2W.

Why should I have to waste my time playing a game? I work dammit, I should be able to just buy levels and other stuff that normally takes time, skill, or a small amount of effort to get.

IF ESO just becomes another wow store mmo then im done, I think most people would just leave.

Hortator Indoril Nerevar wrote: »

It will be in the game eventually.

Sadly, I believe you're right. Blizzard said they would never add things like this to their "store"......

"Never say Never"