Personally, so many of us that used Tythis on the PTS have been waiting for him to be released. It is all about time value of money and for some of us we feel he's worth the 5K crowns.

I'm also a raid lead and if someone in my team forgot something in their bank, well let me pull out Tythis for you to get what you need so we can get back to raiding.

In saying that, my group planned ahead. We bought crowns when they were half off so for us it is like we are getting him for 2500.

*shrugs ..... again my personal opinion

I think the price is stupid especially for what merchant offers. You can not buy and you cant not repair you can not do anything you would WANT a merchant but its almost $50? assistants would cost almost $100 and are virtually worthless. Banker no guild bank, no guilder store and you wont really be depositing anything since most everything you deposit you need to run to town for ex. decon and refine raw mats.Are people going to call the banker to deposit 1 flower? and knowing the developers there will probably be a cool down/wait time before you can summon it again or only call one or the other in a time frame. So WHY would anyone want to pay that much for what offers little to no convenience. and why would it cost MORE then the game and its expansions? I could buy BOTH "collectors edition" expansions for less . The price just makes no sense even if the assistants worked like an actual bank and merchant. I would only pay 1000-2000 if they offered actual convenience, any more then that and i will trust go to town once an hr or 2 when im full for FREE.

The utility of these assistants go beyond the Crown Store. They should have been part of the game, like with the fence.

1k to 2k, with the caveat that they are changed to allow guild access and repairs.

Instead of offering these assistants, just give us more bag space or find a better way for us to store the seemingly limitless number of different crafting materials.

$5.99 with a sales tax of 8.7%... If their perm. Then 1000 - 1500. If their not perm. Then only in game coin...

I would be OK with a bundle with both for 5k but unless that was the only way to buy them I would still only get the banker.

If not 2.5 at most.

Not really sure how I feel... considering they don't repair (clearly ZOS doesn't want to take anything away from their Repair Kit sales) and you can't access Guild Trader, these will be fairly useless for me. Sure having a Merchant would be handy to sell those worthless loot drops, but many times I have a lot of things I need to sell which add up quickly. I guess I could add them to my bank, fill that up along with personal inventory, before having to go to town to unload... I don't know, just seems like a lot of money for a product that only has half the functionality.

mertusta wrote: »

I usually play pvp. So, I do not need them.

In a similar way, this. ^

I really looked forward to these until I found out the excessive, greedy price tag and the limitations. I spend more time in Cyrodiil these days than I used to, and while doing delves and exploring with guildies, my inventory quickly fills up. PvP not so much.

The nerfed assistant does not justify its price tag.

They're not that convenient, they don't even repair gear. It's easy enough to go to town. They're not worth more than 1k crowns to me.

Nothing... I can just take 60 seconds to travel to a city for my banking and merchant needs. Just another example of dumbing down of MMO's.

The way things currently sit, I cannot think of a single solitary use for the Banker NPC the way that it's set up.

As it is, my bank is totally full at 240 items, all of them being crafting mats. There is ZERO room to deposit items in my bank, with the exception of topping off alchemy mats, etc. I could only see a use for the thing if, and when I get the proposed Crafting Bag, which will mean I could store gear for sale in my bank, instead of in my very full backpack, or in my short term RTS mailbox bank.

And that's the thing. RTS mail with trusted friends is a much better, and eminently cheaper solution to the NPC Banker since we can't use it to repair or access our guild banks. I'll reconsider the Banker NPC once I've got my Crafting Bag, and not a moment sooner.

The fence is another matter entirely. I don't care about the bounty issue, as the are numerous ways around that which are always safe and reliable, unless you're careless, and you deal with your own stupidity when you come to it, as I have on numerous occasions.

Now, being able to clear my backpack of 10-60+ items when I cannot RTS mail is another matter entirely, and that's the rule, rather than the exception with me, because I'll steal most anything that's not nailed down in this game. Theft has always been a major source of income for me in this game on e I learned how it worked. Quite frankly, it paid for all of my bag and bank upgrades.

I'm going to be tempted by the Fence NPC, but I doubt I'll drop 5,000 Crowns on it. I'll just wait for it to go on sale for half price or lower. I would however drop 1,500-2,500 Crowns on the Fence NPC.

Always remember, it's just items you ever have to worry about carting around in this game, because ESO doesn't penalize you for currency weight, like EverQuest did. I can, and always do, regularly carry 200K to 1M gold on me at all times for making large Dreugh Wax purchases. I'm ALWAYS buying it.

The Wax must flow...

While I disagree with the current 5k asking price. I do feel they shouldnt be dirt cheap either. Im choosing what I consider the more high end price tag that Id feel comfortable paying for them because I feel like its best to come to a compromise. And no one should be entirely too happy with a compromise. These items are convenience and they are "luxury" so it makes no sense for them to be as cheap as a pet when they actually do serve a function. On the flip side, I do feel as if they arent luxury enough to warrant being more expensive than the Limited Time Only Mounts or a DLC (I feel similarly about the Motifs). The most expensive items in the store should not be these one off luxury items but the DLCs. Followed by Luxury Items/Mounts and then Costumes/Pets with a range of convenience items like XP Scrolls falling in between them.

UrQuan wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

kevlarto_ESO wrote: »

I know they are a for profit company, but I would bet a weeks pay if I had a weeks pay lol, that they would have sold more at 2k than they will at 5k, and made a lot more money.

You can actually, kinda, see that in the survey responses. (Both mine and the one @UrQuan posted.)

Yeah, I'd say the 2 surveys show that pretty well. For anyone who hasn't voted in the other one, here's the link (you won't see it on the front page ever because the thread got closed by a mod):
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/256386/at-5000-crowns-each-will-you-buy-the-new-assistants/p1

To be honest I'm baffled that this thread is still going given the reasoning they gave for why they closed the other survey. Hopefully they won't close and sink this survey too.

Keep linking it and dont give up on driving it home that they are failing their customerbase by doing this. They tried to ignore Console players when they demanded Text Chat.....And even when forum goers went out of their way to hijack those threads the pro-text players won out and got what they demanded.

DonoVDV wrote: »

They fail so hard at this:

Sell 50 @ 5000 crowns, or sell 1 000 @ 1500 crowns....

This overpriced crown store crap is getting to me. Just waiting to see the price of the Dro M'Athra Senche.

Assuming the numbers are correct. You could just as easily say sell 50 at 5000 or 100 at 1500. Time will tell. If the price plummets, early adopters will be upset.

Where is my option for 10k crowns?