How much will houses cost?

NewBlacksmurf · December 2016

Guessing and careful not to make crazy suggestions as I've seen here. These work in tiers:

Crowns:
-150-250
-1000
-2500
-3500 Lake Manor fully furnished...many 5000

Gold:
-free
-10,000
-67,000
-150,000
-300,000
-500,000
-1,000,000

yodased · December 2016

notimetocare · December 2016

I hope its juat expensive enough that my old guild cant pool money together for a rp mansion

Soulshine · December 2016

xXSilverDragonXx wrote: »

Multiple millions seems a bit hefty but then again they might want to make is so you have to have played long enough, been active long enough to have to earn it rather than any new player being able to have one right off the bat.

Ah... except you and others here seem to be forgetting that they said quite clearly they will be selling them for crowns in the store as well - so length of time in the game, achievements, etc. actually mean (as usual) relatively little in the face of yet another system being monetized for the store, unfortunately.

What I foresee is a high in-game cost relative to the crown price, meaning the gold cost will actually drive the crown "convenience sales" higher, I have no doubt. Considering they made us have to re-visit every single place we went to in Craglorn, for example, I am frankly surprised they stated unique housing rewards from achievement vendors will be "retroactive," since I would not have put it past them to insist these be for newly achieved titles/events only --- but I am sure they will find an angle to work that in too.... in time. Sad.

Housing was something I was really looking forward to. On this basis however, not really interested as I used to be.

Skinzz · December 2016

Im willing to spend 1-2.5 million on a house.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · December 2016

They should make the prices of houses consistent with Skyrim and Oblivion, in otherwords make them only cost 5k to 25k, there is absolutely no reason why they should cost so much ingame gold when ingame gold does not help anyone make any real money now does, if people want to use up their ingame gold they can use it on the furniture.

Leandor · December 2016

For god's sake, I hope no one at Zenimax listens to the elitist prices flying around in this thread...

What percentage of players has a million gold to dump into a vanity item? You guys completely lost it.

If they ask more than 250k for the largest available houses, they will be ghost areas like the housing zones in LOTRO were.

Abeille · December 2016

I honestly have no idea. I remember when they announced the Monster Set vendor and everybody thought they would be super expensive, and turned out they were pocket-change levels of cheap. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened to the houses.

But they might look at this and say "Hey, but gear changes someone's effectiveness in combat while owning a big house does nothing like that" and then make big houses a huge gold sink.

At this point, I have no idea. They could go either way.

Korah_Eaglecry · December 2016

andreasranasen wrote: »

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

andreasranasen wrote: »

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

I think the gold vendor costs are illustrative. Gold jewelry and monster sets are intended for end game players. If they want a progression in housing where manors are intended to be purchased by end game players, I think we'll see something along the lines of 100k-250k for a manor.

250k is something end game players can make in a couple of hours. That's nothing. Manors should be around 1 Million gold.

Thats likely what we're looking at. About 20-60k for Small Houses, 100-500k for Medium Houses and 1-3 million for Manors.

I expect the Crown Store to be a little more lenient on housing costs. Probably 1000 -1500 for Small, 2000-3000 for Medium and 4000-11000 for Manors

No i don't think so. ZOS would want to make it cheaper to buy them directly from the Crown Store rather than using your in-game gold. If houses are cheaper using in-game gold, 99% of players will buy them using in-game gold = no profit for ZOS.

10 dollars is less than a monthly sub. Thats pretty cheap. And maybe you havent been paying attention to the Crown Store but theyve put some costly items in the store before. And people buy them. Assistants? Drom'athra mount? Motifs? The logic behind the cost will be that the smaller the house the cheaper it is, the bigger it is, the more it is. Because its a luxury and unnecessary. Especially since youve been given an apartment from the jump off.

They arent going to make things cheap in the Crown Store when they have historically made them expensive.

ZakuBeta · December 2016

Where is the information on how housing will work?

Abeille · December 2016

andreasranasen wrote: »

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

andreasranasen wrote: »

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

I think the gold vendor costs are illustrative. Gold jewelry and monster sets are intended for end game players. If they want a progression in housing where manors are intended to be purchased by end game players, I think we'll see something along the lines of 100k-250k for a manor.

250k is something end game players can make in a couple of hours. That's nothing. Manors should be around 1 Million gold.

Thats likely what we're looking at. About 20-60k for Small Houses, 100-500k for Medium Houses and 1-3 million for Manors.

I expect the Crown Store to be a little more lenient on housing costs. Probably 1000 -1500 for Small, 2000-3000 for Medium and 4000-11000 for Manors

No i don't think so. ZOS would want to make it cheaper to buy them directly from the Crown Store rather than using your in-game gold. If houses are cheaper using in-game gold, 99% of players will buy them using in-game gold = no profit for ZOS.

I thought about that too, but then I remembered the terribly overpriced motifs in the Crown Store.
And the vampire/werewolf bites.
And the potions and food.

For some reason, there is stuff in the Crown Store that is pretty cheap to get with gold (the crafted potions and food being also better). It isn't impossible that they will do the same with the houses.

FloppyTouch · December 2016

Myself I won't spend more then 1 mil for a house I'd like to spend 500k for a large home but eh we will have to see

SantieClaws · December 2016

Khajiit she can see herself setting up a exclusive club room and centre of business operations in The Rosy Lion and perhaps having a redguard style rural retreat somewhere nice and warm yes.

It is possible we will not know prices until the houses are built in Tamriel. Never before have we had prices for anything on Test Tamriel.

The idea of storing the horses and pets is good. Would it not also be so good if we could have our apprentices (you call them alts yes) hanging about our houses too?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

RebornV3x · December 2016

House prices in this game could be anywhere from real cheap to very expensive depending on what ZOS what's to do.
1. Seeing that ZOS will be selling houses for crowns buying a house with in game gold could be very expensive forcing people to buy crown houses
2. On the other hand there giving away a free apartment so the other houses could be fairly cheap if ZOS wanted to truly milk this they wouldn't be giving away a free pad.
The most expensive house shouldn't cost more than a million.
Just wish we knew how much so I could get my gold grind on.

DaveMc · December 2016

Considering you'll be able to buy all 40 houses if you want, it cant be too outrageous

Vrienda · December 2016

Hoping for something like 3k for small
13k for medium
30k for big

Then the common player can afford it. It's the decoration costs I'm worried about.

Betheny · December 2016

They'll want us to be able to buy loads of houses so our decoration needs are massive, then they'll make the real money off decorations and furniture.

I don't think houses will cost stupid amounts of gold (or even stupid amounts of crowns). The money will be made by selling the small things in great numbers.

The_Protagonist · December 2016

Guess its time to don on some pre-prosperous

gear and crash a public dungeon with humanoid NPCs,

, on a serious note sales are going to drop

for a while as people try saving up for buying homes (in my humble opinion).

The_Protagonist · December 2016

I want The Lusty Argonian Maid in my house

Otherwise I wont buy it.

FloppyTouch · December 2016

Edited double post

P3ZZL3 · December 2016

$10M for Guild Mansion
$5m for large mansion
$1m for mid sized
$250,000 for small house

I don't know many people on the EU server that are not running with less than 500k - or there abouts.

The housing needs to be a gold sink.

Jim_Pipp · December 2016

P3ZZL3 wrote: »

$10M for Guild Mansion
$5m for large mansion
$1m for mid sized
$250,000 for small house

I don't know many people on the EU server that are not running with less than 500k - or there abouts.

The housing needs to be a gold sink.

I hope you are wrong but I expect you are right. These prices will definitely force some people into purchasing through the crown store.

Fyi, I've been part of a small guild active since the pc eu launch early access, and no-one runs with 500k for any length of time. I honestly never ever had that much at any one time.

Enslaved · December 2016

Prices as I expect them to be.

Small house - 100k
Medium house - 1M
Large house - 10M
Crown store giga sized house - 5000 crowns
con crate Jupiter sized house - 1000 gems

P3ZZL3 · December 2016

@Jim_Pipp I'm in a couple of the larger Guilds in PC EU. People are genuinely rolling in cash. It's really not hard to make 20-30k a day without even really trying. But then, it does depend how much you play.

Glurin · December 2016

Sure it needs to be a gold sink. But you don't want to price it so only people with max level, all BiS characters and piles of gold just sitting around collecting dust ever get to enjoy it.

Suter1972 · December 2016

Leandor wrote: »

For god's sake, I hope no one at Zenimax listens to the elitist prices flying around in this thread...

What percentage of players has a million gold to dump into a vanity item? You guys completely lost it.

If they ask more than 250k for the largest available houses, they will be ghost areas like the housing zones in LOTRO were.

im not endgame but a long way (only been playing 4 months and cp235) but im nearly at my first million. (after getting to 500K then blowing it all on mats for set gear)

Then again I graft every day for that, do 4 writs, sell mats and tempers etc. So much like its now a second job and not a game at all.

Biro123 · December 2016

Suter1972 wrote: »

im not endgame but a long way (only been playing 4 months and cp235) but im nearly at my first million. (after getting to 500K then blowing it all on mats for set gear)

Then again I graft every day for that, do 4 writs, sell mats and tempers etc. So much like its now a second job and not a game at all.

Its all down to how you play and what your goals are. If you want the grind.. if you want it to be a second job - then you can earn a lot of gold.

Me? I just PVP - and grind PVE for mats, and sets to try out new builds - Never had more than the 50-60k you buld up while levelling a toon to 50.. Then I always spend it on gear. Currently have around 30k across all characters.

I suspect housing won't be for me

kojou · December 2016

I'm sure ZOS has statistics on the amount of gold in the economy right now, and how much they want us to sink into housing...

Small house - Will be affordable if to most (if not all) players.
Medium house - Will be affordable to players in the 50th Percentile
Large house - Will be affordable to the top 2%

The interesting thing here is that the more people save the more the houses will probably cost, so maybe we should stop saving?

Leandor · December 2016

Suter1972 wrote: »

Leandor wrote: »

For god's sake, I hope no one at Zenimax listens to the elitist prices flying around in this thread...

What percentage of players has a million gold to dump into a vanity item? You guys completely lost it.

If they ask more than 250k for the largest available houses, they will be ghost areas like the housing zones in LOTRO were.

im not endgame but a long way (only been playing 4 months and cp235) but im nearly at my first million. (after getting to 500K then blowing it all on mats for set gear)

Then again I graft every day for that, do 4 writs, sell mats and tempers etc. So much like its now a second job and not a game at all.

Which has little to do with what I have written. The question was about spending a million on something that does not improve your character (hence vanity item).

Once you are at endgame, get used to upgrade your stuff every 3 months upon major updates. That means 500k in tempers alone.

Your one million does not take you very far there. Would you spend all of that on a house, knowing full well that you will barely manage to acquire the gold necessary for the next FotM change?

Soella · December 2016

I think prices on small and average houses will be pretty affordable.

Leveling 1-50 through quests on a fresh toon gave me recently about 50K, so I think reasonable price for small house should be within this range, 30-40K.

I believe that furniture/decorations will be the main gold and crown sink.