Is there a way to gift crowns?

Karius_Imalthar · December 2016

I know this was a let down last year but with the holidays here again is there still not a way to gift crowns?

Glurin · December 2016

No way that I know of outside of gift cards, but I think those are all for ESO plus subscriptions. I doubt they would want you to be able to gift crowns anyway. Crown store items like the crates, maybe, at some point in the future, but not crowns.

Tasear · December 2016

Dear Zos,

You lost money ever time Christmas comes and birthday passes. REally though... I had to say will there is this thing... but will you can't gift it me, so a coffee mug will do.

Jim_Pipp · December 2016

There has been some stuff about this in the last few days - check the dev tracker.

Basically, you can send in a support ticket and ask them to use your crowns to buy a current crown store item and send it to another player. So you cannot send crowns to someone, but you can buy crowns and give crown store gifts to people.

Jim_Pipp · December 2016

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Well, the program we're working on is intended to allow our players to gift items that are currently available in the Crown Store to a friend. This is something the community has been requesting for some time now. It could be used to send a friend a gift on their birthday, to award prizes for guild events, etc. The system isn't fully set up yet, so we're testing it out by manually processing the requests. It was never intended to allow for obtaining of items that were no longer in the Crown Store, and it will not allow for that when the program is live.

nexxus_ESO · December 2016

You can buy crown pack codes for console on Amazon, and probably other retailers with digital distribution rights, and then send the code to the person you want to gift crowns to. It works for other digital items too (as long as you're getting an unlock code) But that's the only way I've been able to do it.

I don't know if this will work outside the US however, as there is a possibility the codes are region specific. You'd do best asking Xbox support about it, or PSN support to make sure before trying it outside the US, just in case.

Karius_Imalthar · December 2016

Thank you all for the information. I missed that post from the dev tracker and I didn't know about being able to buy crown pack codes. Now that I read the dev post I realized gifting the items is even better for what I would like to do.