psygnosi wrote: »

I think ZOS must have hit gold because I see these mounts everywhere now!!!!! A sea of Thundercats.... Giddyap Vicious Death cat! Sonic Boom!!!!

One of my pet cats is called Sonic Boom - he doesn't do that coming out of the ground thing when I summon him though, he just jumps onto my lap and purrs

nimander99 wrote: »

psygnosi wrote: »

I think ZOS must have hit gold because I see these mounts everywhere now!!!!! A sea of Thundercats.... Giddyap Vicious Death cat! Sonic Boom!!!!

Agreed, I was hoping it was so overpriced I'd be the only one riding it but out of the 20 or so people I saw in Wrothgar 18 of em were riding it and the other two weren't mounted, so... meh.

So what you are saying , from actual evidence , is the answer to the OP's question is ,

No.

I've learned my lesson...spent close to $500 in neverwinter on in-game stuff. Never playing that again....great investment. I'll probably get the wolf bundle with DB but that's where it ends for me.

I was pretty stoked about finally being able to buy a Dro'mothra mount. I thought they were incredibly cool looking NPC's when I was questing in Reaper's March.

And then I went into the Crown Store and test drive one...

While attractive, that's NOT a Dro'mothra! It's a Soul Shriven cat. I'm ambivalent about the Soul Shriven lighting cat. I'm exceedingly disappointed that we couldn't be given a mount that looks like a mob already in the game. I mean the danged artwork is already done! All you had to do was re-skin the new Lion mount, or a standard Senche mount and you'd be done, other than the armor and bag bits.

Consider me unimpressed and underwhelmed.

@ZOS_GinaBruno

greylox wrote: »

khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »

greylox wrote: »

Just under 20 quid, I bought one but I hope this isn't going to be an ongoing trend with raising prices.

Well, your purchase didnt help with that.

What I mean't was I didn't mind the price but any more would be a bit much. It supports the game but I don't want them taking the pee, which IMO this is on the border of.

You certainly have the right to spend your money as you wish but if you want someone not to do something you dont give them money for doing it. Every purchase of the mount is a clear message to ZoS: hell yea we'll buy mount reskins for 4k crowns, and you know what, maybe next time you can try 6k... we'll *** and moan but we'll buy them anyway. Especially if they come with over the top glowy effects - perhaps floating ghostly skulls would do the trick... mmm, ghostly skulls *insert Homer Simpson thinking of donuts noises* :P

wolfninja101b14_ESO wrote: »

I still bought the mount. I've been waiting for the beautiful blue Senche, and it just goes with my personal motif so perfectly I had to have it.

Because of people like this ZOS will do it again, next maybe even more expensive.

At the end of the day, it's just a mount, a mount that you may not spend much time on at all if you actually plan on playing the game, unless you're in Cyrodiil all day or unless you like to sit in a town on your mount, just to try and impress people you don't know, then sure, go for it!

Even if ZOS make the prices higher and higher for the next mounts, great! I just know that I won't be participating in any of this because having ESO plus active for almost a year now, is enough for me. Eventually, the prices will be so high that there will only be a minority of players who'll purchase the expensive things, so maybe then they'll have to lower the prices in eventually... who knows.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

ZoS are starting to show signs of not being intelligent, don't they realize they would of made more money if it were cheaper as more people would of brought it.

What would ZOS rather have? 1 person buys it for 4k or 2 people buy it for 2.5k?, you would make more money if both of those people brought it, less people are going to buy it because it's is out of many player's price range.

See this is what happens when a game goes P2W, if ESO was still sub-based we wouldn't have this stupid crown store and none of these unlorefriendly things.

Their accountants probably have access to more data regarding who's buying vanity items, so you really have no basis for saying what would be a profitable pricebreak for them.

Also, in what way does the sale of vanity items create a P2W game? The items you're buying from the crown store don't give you an unfair advantage over items you can obtain in game (and the combat-effective items, such as potions, are less effective).

Also, there's nothing wrong with the effect on the lore, which changes with each game. As long as the lore is internally consistent within each game, it's fine, since the lore changes as the series develops anyway. (I haven't seen any medusas running around since Arena, or met anyone "possessed by the Devil" either, have you?) I'm glad they instituted the crown store, which has removed the need for me to buy little figurines I never wanted from outside companies in order to get the vanity pets I actually did want.

Having said all that, I do miss the days of sub-only, just because of the change of population that it has brought with it.

But this mount is the coolest one released yet, even though the cost surprised me too.

Honestly, I make my decisions about what I think it is OK to spend on in-game items, same as everyone else. I'm not going to get upset because someone has a 4k mount when I consider it too much for me to spend on one item, I have my priorities, they have theirs.

I do think ZOS is missing a trick though, because I am not sure they realise that for a lot of people who like to collect, if they miss one of the collection because it is priced very high, the joy of collecting is effectively killed at that point and they may not bother with future parts of what they see as the "collection", even if they are cheaper. It may make more sense to have anyone with a collector spirit happy to spend 1-2k per month on a mount and have them hooked into collecting all of them, rather than have some priced a great deal higher than that.

But at the end of the day, it's only a mount. If people want to spend cash on that, fine, I'd rather spend my cash on other things.

RIP AAA sub-bases MMOs.

Oh well, not like anything great has been produced in the last 10 years anyway.

Long live the DLC and cash shop era

£20 for a mount to ride around on a game. I'm all for supporting ZOS, but this is just stupid.

This is one of the best looking mounts in eso, definitely an unique stuff. I saw a few already running in game so there are people with money willing to buy. And isn't that what matters here the most? Worth or not it's a relative value...

Khajiit would not pay this price in a thousand moons. No not even in a hundred thousand moons!

King Emeric simply does not have enough bronze nose plugs, false teeth and silk handkerchiefs in the whole of his palace for this one to be able to gather so many crowns.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit would not pay this price in a thousand moons. No not even in a hundred thousand moons!

King Emeric simply does not have enough bronze nose plugs, false teeth and silk handkerchiefs in the whole of his palace for this one to be able to gather so many crowns.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

@SantieClaws
Try queen Ayrenn's bed chamber. Might have better luck there

Personally I find it grotesquely overpriced.

But I think the price is most shocking because it is almost double the price of previous limited edition items. We're used to limited mounts costing around 2500 Crowns, so of course a mount costing 4000 Crowns will be a shock.

But then comes the question of "what do I actual get for my Crowns?"... Well, all you get is a mount with a fancy animation. Compared to the fact that you can get a whole DLC plus extras for less than the price of this new mount is the true shocker in my opinion! (DLCs go for 2000-3000 Crowns, two of which give a free pet as well...)

As an ESO+ member, I had been saving up my Crowns for this mount, but was expecting it to cost much less. I have the Crowns for it, but now I have to have a long hard debate with myself whether or not this mount is really worth it.

It is truly a shame they decided to overprice this item, as I could imagine they would sell way waaay more at a lower price, which would equal a much higher revenue. (Example: 100 people buy it for 4000 Crowns = 400.000 Crowns spent. 1000 people buy it for 2500 Crowns = 2.500.000 Crowns.... simple math and a better sales strategy really...)