Why the hell don't mmos make you work for your items to achieve something in the game rather than just slapping a price tag on things? sigh...

No need to get assistants at all in ESO.

Go to town and decon, refine, bank, launder etc yourself anyways.

Arthmoor wrote: »

Someone please tell me this is an elaborate early April Fools joke?

5000 crowns for an NPC assistant is way too excessive a price. Even 2500 would be way too much.

This is completely irrelevant to this thread, but I just wanted say that you, Arthmoor, are one of my favorite modders of the TES series, going back Alternative Beginnings and Cyrodiil Travel Service for Oblivion.

I still play those mods.

You can actually get them for free if you finish the thieves guild quests ... lol

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

flguy147ub17_ESO wrote: »

That is almost $40 for a freaking assistant? WTF, i preorder new releases from Best Buy and it cost me 38 bucks plus tax. This might be the biggest ripoff i have ever seen in a video game. One assistant cost as much as i pay for entire games. Crap i bought this game on sale for $40 in December plus it gave may something like 8000-9000 crowns with it. But one assistant is 5000 crowns which is equivalent to almost $40?

More like $22. Just make sure you only buy crowns when they are on sale 5500 for $24.

No they aren't, I pulled up the PS4 store right when I posted this. It was 40 bucks for 5500 crowns

I have an idea how it should be implemented: when you summon this creature new shining gold plated elite vip store appears with large banner I'M RICH STORE, and bodyguards should beat anyone who dare enter the store (except you of course).

I have 3000 crowns saved from the sale no way did i expect them to be 5000 though, really not worth it! I could get a full new game for that

darkstar2084 wrote: »

I have 3000 crowns saved from the sale no way did i expect them to be 5000 though, really not worth it! I could get a full new game for that

As a comparison, I bought Terraria for $2 on a Steam sale and got about 200 hours enjoyment out of it. $50 for an in-game item shows actual contempt for their customers. Focus on the 1% of obsessives who would buy a dog dropping if you slapped an ESO sticker on it, who cares about the rest. This is what I was afraid of with the move to B2P. Gordon Gekko's taking the helm and steering the good ship ESO to Cashshopville. Worst part is, there are suckers who will willingly encourage this kind of thing, which is bad for the game and a blight on the gaming industry in general.

Thornen wrote: »

Kalebron wrote: »

I think it is worth it for sure. I hate traveling to go back to town. I will not need to step foot in town if I don't want to other than for repairs.

Lol if you think its worth the $40 you would need to spend to get 5k crowns then your out of your friggin mind. But I guess your the market they're aiming for good for you...

I guess I'll be getting two for one(ish) since I took advantage of the sale.

frateanu.luiseb17_ESO wrote: »

We should have the possibility to buy crowns with in game gold.

Look at GW2 gold to gems conversion.

You can also turn gems into gold. But it doesn't really effect the economy because so many people transfer gold to gems as gems to gold so it kinda evens out. What are you going to do with that small amount of gems that can't buy much of anything? Well... you can turn it into gold.

No one is going to buy gems to get gold to buy some of the legendary weapons... cause you'd need hundreds of real dollars to do that. They aren't that much better than the ascended (the one below legendary) tier... (I'm at like 3 out of 5 ascended armor on my main as I craft it). It goes [trash]<white>[fine]<green>[masterwork]<blue>[rare]<purple>[exotic]<gold>[ascended]<gold+>[legendary]<gold++>
[GW2 tier] <comparison to ESO tier> *note that fine tier is actually blue in GW2 and masterwork is green. Rare is gold and exotic is orange. Ascended is magenta and legendary is purple.

Now that post might have been completely unnecessary but I thought the comparison of the two games' tiers to be interesting.

This one is not so good at the maths but she thinks you would need quite a few months worth of ESO plus to get enough crowns to buy these - assuming you bought nothing else for many months also.

This is how Santie balances things - is it more crowns than this one would get in a month from ESO plus? If the answer is yes then it is too much.

I think the price is right, you gotta remember you only need to buy it one time.

Molag_Crow wrote: »

Why the hell don't mmos make you work for your items to achieve something in the game rather than just slapping a price tag on things? sigh...

Because theres always going to be casuals and lazy people who buy stuff like this.

In the real world, it costs money to keep a game like this going. So they offer things for you to buy to pay for this and for them to be profitable.

If your broke: you really want it?, get a job to pay for it. You could also ask your parents for a loan.

If you can afford it: If I see something at a store that I want, and the price is to high. I leave it there. I don't go complain to the manager.

ZoS is so damn over-confident. Since Beta.