Homes prices, what do you think?

Jeremy · January 2017

CarbonX wrote: »

Now that we know the prices of houses in Homestead, what do you think of them? Do you find them cheap, OK or expensive? Or maybe "way too..."?

If you haven't seen them yet, apartments costs between 11k and 13k, small homes between 40k and 74k, medium homes between 190k and 335k, large homes between 760k and 1.3 million and manors around 3.7 million.

I think the large homes and manors are too expensive.

I would have preferred large homes top off around 500k, manors at 1 mill tops.

For people who do not belong to high end trading guilds - making this kind of gold isn't going to be easy. It's doable, but it's going to take a long time.

TheRealPotoroo · January 2017

VDoom1 wrote: »

The price for mansions is insane. The most gold Ive ever had is 200k. And thats from just normal questing, I havnt gone gold farming. I dont get how people walk around with millions of gold. I can sure kiss manor goodbye. But who knows maybe I will be happy with a medium house.

This. I've only once topped 100k in the bank. Fair enough, it could have been a bit more if I hadn't needed to buy things like nirnstoned items to research and what have you, but either way I honestly doubt that all the gold I've ever handled would even add up to 3.7 million (yes, I have Hero). It looks like the only way for me to ever afford the house I've earned is to stop playing the way I like and Google gold farming instead.

Rad · January 2017

I find Grymharth's Woe overpriced compared to the other mediums, since it lacks any outdoor area. No garden, no proper balcony. Some of the smaller houses have just as much usable space when including the garden as Grymharth's Woe seem to have.

ElliottXO · January 2017

I like them. A very good gold sink.

For people whining about how they never even had more than 200k: you never had more because there was pretty much no reason to have more than that.

Now you have a reason and you will realize how easy it is to stack gold in this game.

Robbmrp · January 2017

Considering that everyone gets a free apartment those prices seem very reasonable. They should be huge gold sinks for sure. Anyone that doesn't actually want to work for the gold to spend on one, can easily get by with the free apartment.

erliesc · January 2017

disintegr8 wrote: »

VDoom1 wrote: »

The price for mansions is insane. The most gold Ive ever had is 200k. And thats from just normal questing, I havnt gone gold farming. I dont get how people walk around with millions of gold. I can sure kiss manor goodbye. But who knows maybe I will be happy with a medium house.

I am nearing 6 mil in gold but do not envisage blowing it on the larger houses, just like I still ride around on my original 10k brown horse - you do not get rich by spending your gold

I've got maybe a quarter of that...but I often ask myself..."what am I going to do with all my imaginary gold?"

Now...if we could just get it out of the game someway......

I'd like to have a caravan wagon...so I could stay on the move.

Robbmrp · January 2017

erliesc wrote: »

disintegr8 wrote: »

VDoom1 wrote: »

The price for mansions is insane. The most gold Ive ever had is 200k. And thats from just normal questing, I havnt gone gold farming. I dont get how people walk around with millions of gold. I can sure kiss manor goodbye. But who knows maybe I will be happy with a medium house.

I am nearing 6 mil in gold but do not envisage blowing it on the larger houses, just like I still ride around on my original 10k brown horse - you do not get rich by spending your gold

I've got maybe a quarter of that...but I often ask myself..."what am I going to do with all my imaginary gold?"

Now...if we could just get it out of the game someway......

I'd like to have a caravan wagon...so I could stay on the move.

@erliesc

Coming soon to ESO for 2 Million Gold! [img][/img]

The Trailer Hitch to connect to your horse will only be available in the Crown Store though for 10,000 Crowns.....

driosketch · January 2017

Robbmrp wrote: »

Considering that everyone gets a free apartment those prices seem very reasonable. They should be huge gold sinks for sure. Anyone that doesn't actually want to work for the gold to spend on one, can easily get by with the free apartment.

I think the pricing is reasonable. It'll cost you thousands, one way or another, to furnish the larger homes. If you can't afford the base cost of the home, you probably can't afford to fill it.

But let's not oversell the free room. You had more space in the Wailing prison cell than you'll have in the Rosey Lion. At the very least, if you are away from a wayshrine, you have a free port to Daggerfall. Drop a banker in, load screen, inn merchants, load screen, wayshrine out back. Makes for quickish pit stops. You have modest room for decor, table, chair, and lamp, but that's about it.

Agobi · January 2017

nodulo wrote: »

This all strikes me just like real life.
Most people do not live in multi-million dollar mansions very, very few do. The "rich".
Then the proverbial white collar classes living in the large homes and blue collars in the medium and small homes.
And finally the down-trodden, unemployed or finacially challenged residing at the inn on a week to week paycheck.

Yea,then I go out and pull a horse out of my a**, and throw fireballs from my hands ...just like real life o.O

Gedalya · January 2017

My only thought is that for 3.7 million I expect more bang for my hard earned buck than what I've seen in some of the manors; they are nice, but not outstanding. The DC Manor for example, it is the same keep model used in other areas of the DC; I'd like more room to include a proper area for kitchen and a dungeon with cells (the one there I'm likely to make into a library as is done in Alcaire Castle version so I'd like additional dungeon space).

starlizard70ub17_ESO · January 2017

The way I see it, the mansions are really for guildhalls. They do need an increase in population cap. A large or even a medium house will work fine for most people. The housing prices are about what I expected.

SolarCat02 · January 2017

The gold prices are more reasonable than I expected, to be honest, especially for the small homes. I am really liking that.

I had planned to have about 1m by release, thinking that would be enough for a large home... But now I need to save like crazy to at least get closer to affording a Manor.

I don't care for myself, the Inn room should be more than fine for me. But we are hoping to set up a guild hall, and I want to be able to offer all the options I can when we pick.

Elloa · January 2017

I honnestly find the prices relatively fair. Quite happy about it.

Masions NEED to be expensive. It's meant to be purchased by either a group of players OR by rich individual. It must be a amazing goal to achieve for players.

Miaura · January 2017

Running around PTS looking at the houses

; I`m quite happy about the pricing, especially of the small and medium ones- cant really say about the large ones cause they so "way out there" for my current budget... But I really wanted a meaningfull gold sink (besides motifs) for my type of pve play, questing, light roleplay and exploring and I think the prices fit that quite well.

Will be able to afford the Rawl medium house when this goes live, plus maybe one or two smaller ones, and I only belong to one nice, steady and good but maybe not "top of the pops" trade guild - also I do steal a lot

. I`d like my chars to have their "own" homes even though the homes are rly acount bound, and I think accomplishing the gold and achievements for that will be a fun ongoing quest for me for quite some time.
And I hope I´ll be playing ESO for a very long time to come, so those large houses are really a different kind of endgame for a rp- housing enthusiast

rakrynaz · January 2017

Hopefully they'll introduce burglaries (a bit like GTA 5 heists), security that costs on a weekly basis, etc

Then I can rob all of the rich sods in their lovely mansions. More fun than gold farming!

xKRAIZEEMANx · January 2017

The prices aren't bad...Imho. Been playing less than a month and I can already afford a few of the lower end houses. Doubt I'll ever get a manor, but I do want something with an outside area.

starlizard70ub17_ESO wrote: »

The way I see it, the mansions are really for guildhalls.

This is my thinking as well. Watching a few streamers and they were mentioning stuff along those lines.

cpuScientist · January 2017

I love the prices sorry. They seem fine to me honestly. Something to save for. And since we can use the mannequins as storage I am fine with it. Craglorn house to be mine. Screw manors.

BlackSparrow · January 2017

I'm a bit sad that I won't be able to afford a larger home with in-game gold... but I nonetheless think it was handled excellently, because that's the point. No matter what your income is, you now have a sink to throw gold into. Not everyone should be able to afford the big houses... that's what makes them so prestigious!

SickDuck · January 2017

Publius_Scipio wrote: »

Very surprised actually. A decent home is actually (at least in my opinion) rather cheap.

Even the medium ones are very nice and usable... and very affordable.

Gorgoneus · January 2017

Pretty expensive for me. Playing since release (preordered emperial edition) and have only 400 000 gold. I understand they want us to buy it for crowns, but I'm not so reach to pay so many money for everithing in b2p game. And I'm not the member of top trading guild who not playing game but trading 24/7.
Yes-yes this is 1 time purchase with all houses shared for account, but there is alot of other ways to spent my gold as well I cant play for homes only too.
I'm pretty shure thats manor's prises (3,5 millions) is fine, because this is a really unique houses, but also I belive what regular (small, medium, large) houses should be cheaper just for a regular players who just want to play the game.

Eradrann · January 2017

I managed to save up 1 mil thinking that'd cover the "biggest"... looks like I'm wrong...

Time to start taking crafting orders again!

JWKe · January 2017

Not bad. I'd like to see more utility in the houses though. Currently, it just feels like everything is a facade. Even the mansion windows look really blend. I've seen the graphical prowess the devs are able to achieve and I think they can do alot better with the housing windows than what we currently have on the PTS.

Cendrillion21 · January 2017

Great job on the housing prices. I expected the high end ones to cost quite a bit more.

Ourorboros · January 2017

Overall, prices seem ok, but the 3 alliance manors are out-of-line. I've only seen Daggerfall's so far, and it's disappointing for the price. As far as space, it seems not much bigger than some of the nicer houses like Earthtear in Craglorn and Forbidden Fortress in Bangorai. Worse, Daggerfall Manor is just the same as existing castles already in the game. For the price, I would expect some more original design work. It seems to me the price is just to pay for a title. And don't forget, after you drop all that gold, you still have to furnish the manor. From PTS, crafting furniture looks like a HUGE time sink.

Gorgoneus · January 2017

Ourorboros wrote: »

Overall, prices seem ok, but the 3 alliance manors are out-of-line. I've only seen Daggerfall's so far, and it's disappointing for the price. As far as space, it seems not much bigger than some of the nicer houses like Earthtear in Craglorn and Forbidden Fortress in Bangorai. Worse, Daggerfall Manor is just the same as existing castles already in the game. For the price, I would expect some more original design work. It seems to me the price is just to pay for a title. And don't forget, after you drop all that gold, you still have to furnish the manor. From PTS, crafting furniture looks like a HUGE time sink.

Original design work you want? Original houses will be crown store exclusive=) Its already annonsed in past housing introduction. They are planning a few exclusive crown store houses with unique design.

dem0n1k · January 2017

I guess for players that have amassed a lot of gold these are decent prices... but for me with a grand total around 600k gold in all 12 of my characters... I'll be saving my gold for the golden Cyrodiil vendor where a similar amount of gold for a tiny shoebox house will buy me a useful monster piece. Or for half the price of a nice sized house I could buy gold set jewelry.

I really like the layout of some of the larger houses & the artists at ZOS have done a great job creating them .. but I can only afford the shoeboxes

Artis · January 2017

I think it's too expensive. I've been playing since pre-release with no breaks and am nowhere close to getting manors. Which means that if I want those achievements/titles, I will need to stop playing the game and spend all my time making gold. That would suck and could lead to me just burning out, because making gold in such amounts is kinda boring for me.

On the other hand, if houses had no titles/achievements tied to them, I'd have no issue.

mvffins · January 2017

After seeing Deltia do some previews I personally think some houses are too cheap and others are too expensive. IMO the Orc medium home for example for 325,000 is better than most of the large homes for 700,000-1,200,000. That's my personal opinion though, I'm sure hundreds of other players will prefer the Argonian houses.

TheRealPotoroo · January 2017

ElliottXO wrote: »

I like them. A very good gold sink.

For people whining about how they never even had more than 200k: you never had more because there was pretty much no reason to have more than that.

Now you have a reason and you will realize how easy it is to stack gold in this game.

I'm here to play a game, not run a business.

Mwnci · January 2017

TheRealPotoroo wrote: »

ElliottXO wrote: »

I like them. A very good gold sink.

For people whining about how they never even had more than 200k: you never had more because there was pretty much no reason to have more than that.

Now you have a reason and you will realize how easy it is to stack gold in this game.

I'm here to play a game, not run a business.

Then play the game meanwhile others will happily "run a business", make the money and buy the big expensive toys they want because they're willing and able to put in the time and effort required.

Side note, I'm neither willing nor able to put in the time and effort. So I'll probably just Crown it.