Will we ever be able to buy crowns for friends?

Pupsy · November 2016

Will we be able to purchase crowns and gift them to friends? I can understand how being able to trade crowns directly in game would cause some issues but I simply mean logging onto the ESO website, purchasing crowns, and checking a box at the end of the transaction that says "gift". Then being able to send the crowns to their account or through email.

Branching off of that idea, I feel like it would also be nice to be able to purchase items from the crown store and gift them to people. With Christmas around the corner (the excitement) I would love to be able to buy my friends all the cool mounts they want.

nine9six · November 2016

I would love to. For now we use PayPal to get around it. Damn exchange rates...

andreasranasen · November 2016

Ur such a sweet friend. Let's be besties!

TheShadowScout · November 2016

It would not be too difficult to implement I am guessing... all they had to do is make a purchasable "Crown Bag" that appeared as in-game item and could be transferred between characters... much like a motiv book I guess. Maybe with some small surcharge... pay 1100 crowns for a 1000 crown bag to give to your friends... something like that.

BlanketFort · November 2016

Love it. Would love the feature. But I wonder if players who sell crowns for gold will have a negative impact. I'm genuinely curious.

nine9six · November 2016

Loose lips sink ships.

*whistles to self*

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Recremen · November 2016

At this point, I sure hope not. Imagine the scenario: you own everything you could ever want in the Crown Store, even have stuff saved up, when suddenly people start giving you Crowns for your birthday/Crimmus/Adoring Fan status, etc. You have nothing to spend it on, except maybe those gambling boxes, but you don't actually want to support those in any way because they're a terrible idea. So you just sit on it, hoping normal Crown Store items come back on the menu.

They don't. But the Crowns keep coming in. "Oh, you'd look so great on that gambling box mount", they say in their gift card. You should try for it with these! At long last, and because you don't want to let them down, you throw your crowns at the heinous gambling scheme.

You don't get the mount. I mean they're super rare so it stands to reason you wouldn't actually get them. Everyone notices you're not riding around on Super Cool Mount, asks why. "Oh, I didn't get it, them's the breaks I guess!" "Oh no no, we have to try again!" And again. And again. And suddenly you're pouring loads and loads of other people's money into a system you never wanted in the first place, don't want to support, but now feel an overwhelming burden of social obligation to play into.

That's when it happens!! You get a rare mount! (unlikely, but let's just ignore that for the sake of the story). Oh, but wait, everyone wanted you to ride around on the Storm Wolf, but you only got the Storm Camel.

Your peers are not dismayed by this, because obviously you just hit a lucky streak, they reason! This is of course not a real thing, but many people don't know that. So now, emboldened by failure, they pour even MORE money into this ridiculous mount quest. Soon there's a gofundme page, and you've raked in what at this point is thousands of dollars worth of crowns, until...

It stops. People lose interest. Gambling stops being fun, the money runs out, and enormous chunks of the community move on to the next big MMO, which promises super hard that they have no plans of implementing those awful gambling boxes that everybody hates. For honest this time. And then the game we love dies.

I mean, it there weren't gambling boxes it would be fine, because the most someone could do is fund you for whatever is actually in the Crown Store, and not some vague, feckless promise of the potential for something cool through gambling. But that doesn't seem to be the way they want to go anymore.

bottleofsyrup · November 2016

I could've sworn some people were selected by email to test just that. I remember seeing the thread(s) during the One Tamriel PTS cycle.

Yuls · November 2016

bottleofsyrup wrote: »

I could've sworn some people were selected by email to test just that. I remember seeing the thread(s) during the One Tamriel PTS cycle.

If you were selected, you could make a wishlist of things you wanted to gift to your friends/guildmates, mail them the list, and then they offered you a special bundle price for all of it. So you couldn't actually gift crowns, but shiny fluffy things.

Pupsy · November 2016

Recremen wrote: »

At this point, I sure hope not. Imagine the scenario: you own everything you could ever want in the Crown Store, even have stuff saved up, when suddenly people start giving you Crowns for your birthday/Crimmus/Adoring Fan status, etc. You have nothing to spend it on, except maybe those gambling boxes, but you don't actually want to support those in any way because they're a terrible idea. So you just sit on it, hoping normal Crown Store items come back on the menu.

They don't. But the Crowns keep coming in. "Oh, you'd look so great on that gambling box mount", they say in their gift card. You should try for it with these! At long last, and because you don't want to let them down, you throw your crowns at the heinous gambling scheme.

You don't get the mount. I mean they're super rare so it stands to reason you wouldn't actually get them. Everyone notices you're not riding around on Super Cool Mount, asks why. "Oh, I didn't get it, them's the breaks I guess!" "Oh no no, we have to try again!" And again. And again. And suddenly you're pouring loads and loads of other people's money into a system you never wanted in the first place, don't want to support, but now feel an overwhelming burden of social obligation to play into.

That's when it happens!! You get a rare mount! (unlikely, but let's just ignore that for the sake of the story). Oh, but wait, everyone wanted you to ride around on the Storm Wolf, but you only got the Storm Camel.

Your peers are not dismayed by this, because obviously you just hit a lucky streak, they reason! This is of course not a real thing, but many people don't know that. So now, emboldened by failure, they pour even MORE money into this ridiculous mount quest. Soon there's a gofundme page, and you've raked in what at this point is thousands of dollars worth of crowns, until...

It stops. People lose interest. Gambling stops being fun, the money runs out, and enormous chunks of the community move on to the next big MMO, which promises super hard that they have no plans of implementing those awful gambling boxes that everybody hates. For honest this time. And then the game we love dies.

I mean, it there weren't gambling boxes it would be fine, because the most someone could do is fund you for whatever is actually in the Crown Store, and not some vague, feckless promise of the potential for something cool through gambling. But that doesn't seem to be the way they want to go anymore.

I actually have to congratulate you to relate this back to those crown store box things, however I feel like you're expecting your friends to give you a lot more money and crowns than reality. I doubt people are going to flood anyone with their own hard earned money until they get a mount out of the box, much less start a gofundme page. I think the majority of people haven't bought everything out of the crown store (there is a lot of stuff in there and it can be expensive) so getting crowns is probably a cool thing. There is all the DLC to buy, all the mounts, and the two assistants (merchant and banker).

I think being able to buy a crown pack gift for your friends wouldn't make the game die as you said, but simply offer another way for players to show their appreciation to their friends and give them gifts.

lillybit · November 2016

You can already buy crowns for others on the PS4, in the UK at least, if you use a third party site/shop. My hubby recently bought me a load (have the best husband in the world who supports my addiction to ESO at the expense of me ever doing anything useful!). Think he went to game and bought them and passed the code on to me. Pretty sure I've seen them on Amazon too

nine9six · November 2016

bottleofsyrup wrote: »

I could've sworn some people were selected by email to test just that. I remember seeing the thread(s) during the One Tamriel PTS cycle.

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Yuls wrote: »

bottleofsyrup wrote: »

I could've sworn some people were selected by email to test just that. I remember seeing the thread(s) during the One Tamriel PTS cycle.

If you were selected, you could make a wishlist of things you wanted to gift to your friends/guildmates, mail them the list, and then they offered you a special bundle price for all of it. So you couldn't actually gift crowns, but shiny fluffy things.

Dymence · November 2016

Recremen wrote: »

At this point, I sure hope not. Imagine the scenario: you own everything you could ever want in the Crown Store, even have stuff saved up, when suddenly people start giving you Crowns for your birthday/Crimmus/Adoring Fan status, etc. You have nothing to spend it on, except maybe those gambling boxes, but you don't actually want to support those in any way because they're a terrible idea. So you just sit on it, hoping normal Crown Store items come back on the menu.

They don't. But the Crowns keep coming in. "Oh, you'd look so great on that gambling box mount", they say in their gift card. You should try for it with these! At long last, and because you don't want to let them down, you throw your crowns at the heinous gambling scheme.

You don't get the mount. I mean they're super rare so it stands to reason you wouldn't actually get them. Everyone notices you're not riding around on Super Cool Mount, asks why. "Oh, I didn't get it, them's the breaks I guess!" "Oh no no, we have to try again!" And again. And again. And suddenly you're pouring loads and loads of other people's money into a system you never wanted in the first place, don't want to support, but now feel an overwhelming burden of social obligation to play into.

That's when it happens!! You get a rare mount! (unlikely, but let's just ignore that for the sake of the story). Oh, but wait, everyone wanted you to ride around on the Storm Wolf, but you only got the Storm Camel.

Your peers are not dismayed by this, because obviously you just hit a lucky streak, they reason! This is of course not a real thing, but many people don't know that. So now, emboldened by failure, they pour even MORE money into this ridiculous mount quest. Soon there's a gofundme page, and you've raked in what at this point is thousands of dollars worth of crowns, until...

It stops. People lose interest. Gambling stops being fun, the money runs out, and enormous chunks of the community move on to the next big MMO, which promises super hard that they have no plans of implementing those awful gambling boxes that everybody hates. For honest this time. And then the game we love dies.

I mean, it there weren't gambling boxes it would be fine, because the most someone could do is fund you for whatever is actually in the Crown Store, and not some vague, feckless promise of the potential for something cool through gambling. But that doesn't seem to be the way they want to go anymore.

You should become a fiction novelist.