But everyone will stop procrastinating and buy them now.

That is zos's logic.

It's called creating scarcity. It's a tried and true model for creating demand in a marketplace. If you want people to buy something, make it limited time. The fact that this stresses you out means that it actually works. You may not have the money to buy something now, but you will feel the pressure to buy it now. That's why it upsets you. If you had the means, the pressure would get to you and you would buy, immediately.

They are stupid items in a video game. Can we stop pretending like these are real problems? ZOS isn't preying on people. These things are about as luxury/non essential as anything can possibly be. It isn't like they are controlling the distribution of food/water/medicine etc...

They are removing the items that have been out a while and/or haven't been selling well to highlight new product. They will probably bring the other stuff back at a later date. It is just business. Product changes. Even on online stores.

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Conquistador wrote: »

Actually, you are wrong. It is not stressing me out and I will not go out and buy it because I understand the value of real money, not crowns.

If you're not bothered by it ... and aren't buying crown clearance items ... why start a thread about it in the forums then??

Don't you feel as though it should be addressed and talked about? If not, well then I guess you are just a little too passive for me. Unfortunately, I am not.

KaiVox22 wrote: »

Conquistador wrote: »

CJohnson81 wrote: »

It's called creating scarcity. It's a tried and true model for creating demand in a marketplace. If you want people to buy something, make it limited time. The fact that this stresses you out means that it actually works. You may not have the money to buy something now, but you will feel the pressure to buy it now. That's why it upsets you. If you had the means, the pressure would get to you and you would buy, immediately.

Actually, you are wrong. It is not stressing me out and I will not go out and buy it because I understand the value of real money, not crowns. I have the resources to buy everything I want in this game. Stop being a fanboy. ESO players are being pathetically baited to make bad economic decisions.

Lol, it never surprises me some random computer jockey flexing his community college credits at someone online.

Nah mate, you're wrong. You're definitely stressed.

@KaiVox22 It defys logic of digital space it isn't physical what does their crown store have like a GB and it gets full so they say "We need to dump the old items to make room for the new." I wonder? All this would make me do is buy the things I really might want which is probably nothing.

CJohnson81 wrote: »

Conquistador wrote: »

CJohnson81 wrote: »

It's called creating scarcity. It's a tried and true model for creating demand in a marketplace. If you want people to buy something, make it limited time. The fact that this stresses you out means that it actually works. You may not have the money to buy something now, but you will feel the pressure to buy it now. That's why it upsets you. If you had the means, the pressure would get to you and you would buy, immediately.

Actually, you are wrong. It is not stressing me out and I will not go out and buy it because I understand the value of real money, not crowns. I have the resources to buy everything I want in this game. Stop being a fanboy. ESO players are being pathetically baited to make bad economic decisions.

Lol, it never surprises me some random computer jockey flexing his community college credits at someone online.

Please tell me the value of money. I'm dumb and I only have a community college degree.

You can't really prove that can you?

Typhoios wrote: »

They are stupid items in a video game. Can we stop pretending like these are real problems? ZOS isn't preying on people. These things are about as luxury/non essential as anything can possibly be. It isn't like they are controlling the distribution of food/water/medicine etc...

They are removing the items that have been out a while and/or haven't been selling well to highlight new product. They will probably bring the other stuff back at a later date. It is just business. Product changes. Even on online stores.

Actually they announced to remove products that have yet to come to the shop so bad sales cannot be the real reason.

As has been noted, it's manufactured scarcity to spur buying. It's one of my least favorite psychologically manipulative tricks used by businesses. Is it really hurting anyone? Of course not. But in my opinion it's still a bad business practice that shows little regard for the customer base. Also, the offerings on the Crown Store have been really thin all along as they continue to hold back dozens of costumes and pets that are already finished becuase they know people will buy a gray cat just to have a cat when they really want a black cat but that hasn't been released yet. I'm not remotely interested in the peasant-like Imperial costumes currently on the showcase and am highly irritated that it'll be MONTHS before they get around to releasing the ones I actually want. I don't understand why they keep the store so poorly stocked. Surely they'd make as much if they offered some real selection?

Kaspy wrote: »

Typhoios wrote: »

They are stupid items in a video game. Can we stop pretending like these are real problems? ZOS isn't preying on people. These things are about as luxury/non essential as anything can possibly be. It isn't like they are controlling the distribution of food/water/medicine etc...

They are removing the items that have been out a while and/or haven't been selling well to highlight new product. They will probably bring the other stuff back at a later date. It is just business. Product changes. Even on online stores.

Actually they announced to remove products that have yet to come to the shop so bad sales cannot be the real reason.

Removing products that haven't been in the store is just placing a limited time offer on them. It tends to get people to spend the money. A lot of companies do this. They bring out limited editions of normal products and sell them high and fast. It is like that "limited edition" Fallout Nuka Cola or whatever. It was just soda in a different bottle, but oh it is a special edition for a limited time and it was selling like crazy everywhere.

ZOS is trying to sell you products and what the are doing is an established business practice.

And even if it wasn't, these are digital clothes and animals people. Gain some perspective.

Of course Amazon doesn't retire or discontinue stock. Manufacturers do.

But Amazon does reduce inventory lead time, which often leads to less inventory overall. That's a whole other kettle of fish, though.

Long story short, ZOS can do whatever it wants with the product it sells. That's their right and liability as manufacturer.

I get why they are rotating stock out. Impulse buyers and completionists will have to buy it now increasing sales. The part about them needing room for new stock is complete BS though. They are virtual items in a virtual store. Add a page if necessary. Don't pretend your customers have no clue what how digital items work.

I never took the "make room for stock" note as literal. I figure it's an rpg... it's just fun language.

I do wish that there were more evergreen costumes available. Everyday clothing and maybe some basic armors should be there all the time. Then you can pepper in special and limited time offers.

Scarcity is good though. It helps maintain individually in the population and excitement when things come back.

Conquistador wrote: »

In order to make room for new stock, the following items will be retired from the ESO Crown Store on all platforms on August 1st.

Come on now. Amazon does not retire stock to make room for items. They have pages. Stop preying on people that like collecting things. Pathetic!

Don't use crowns. Problem solved.

I was a subscriber (have since cancelled my automatic renewal and am playing out the rest of my subscription time) and I'm sitting on 31,700 crowns. I never spent a single one.

Ever since they announced the change to in-game purchases as a model I knew this would happen. They're relying on these tricks and people with too much money or too little control to spend far more than they would in a subscription model. The advantage (if you can call it that) is that some people get to play for free. The disadvantages are many, however, and we've only seen relatively benign ones such as the time-limited offers. It can still get worse, e.g. the day they think of putting lottery items in the store (undaunted keys or PvP/Tel-Var boxes, anyone?) or stuff that actually impacts game mechanics (crown gear, etc.).