Crown Prices Of Houses Speculation

Prof_Bawbag · January 2017

What's the most expensive piece (not plural) of content to have appeared in any MMO? I suspect ZoS would be garnering a few negative headlines if they had the audacity to price something at +25k crowns. Even at 20k. The advantage those people have spending 3.whatever million on the houses is they'll have not needed to use real money.

djyrb · January 2017

rotaugen454 wrote: »

If these prices were real, they'd have to sell crowns in much larger packs.Who would make 10 of the 5500 Crown pack purchases just for one item?

No kidding. I think most people, after the 3rd or 4th repeat of buying the 5500 Crown packs towards the total amount, would have a "wake up and smell the coffee" moment and stop immediately. It needs to be priced well enough to be an impulse buy for most players, or maybe slightly above that threshold.

idk · January 2017

Cyrediath wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Obviously it's speculation, but I have a feeling that anybody thinking a manor will be in the 5k crown range is going to have kittens when the prices are released. There has to be some correlation between gold and crowns. 3.8 million gold is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else in this game (other than guild trader spots). I expect the crown price to be equally out of line with what we have seen so far.

My guess is 25k for a manor.

I think you will be able to get a house for 5k crowns, but I don't think it will be a big one.

5.500 crown 35 euros right? its around 450 euros for 3 manors. Its insanely overpriced because also there will be furnishing. Nothings was more expensive than biggest crown pack in game which is 5.500. i think they can make it max 16.500 for furnished crown exclusive that will be the highes price because higher than that would be so greedy imo. People will want to buy other houses and want to buy some furnitures and 105 euros for crown exclusive with all furnitures would be maximum price.

i think crown exclusives will be 5.500 and manors will be 6-7k because of title.

Real Money always will be more important because people are actually paying to game and zos should appriciate that. In most countries 300 dollars minimum salary and making crown exclusive with furnitures 100 dollars will make it impossible for people lives in this countries. World is not all about usa/england/germany. I see people "ahh i can give 25k anything lower that would be a joke because its expensive with gold bla bla" yea maybe you can even pay 50k there are people can pay 100k crowns. But most of the players in eso wont pay more than 5k crowns.

Zos made elk mount 5k crowns and only few people bought it because they wanted to seem exclusive. I dont see many people riding that mount. for an example instead of selling x100 mounts from 5k =500k crowns, eso can make it 2.500 crowns and 1.000 people would buy it 2.500.000 crowns.

If zos make anything furnished more than 15k crowns they will be on gaming websites headline like "greedy zos"

@Cyrediath

People with a $300 monthly salary aren't playing this game. They would not have a PC to run it fr starters.

Zos created housing for everyone and doesn't expect everyone to buy a manor and the pricing will reflect that.

Along with housing sizes to fit any budget Zos also intends many will get their furnishings in game hence the crafting that will be available in game to meet these needs and desires.

Cyrediath · January 2017

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Cyrediath wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Obviously it's speculation, but I have a feeling that anybody thinking a manor will be in the 5k crown range is going to have kittens when the prices are released. There has to be some correlation between gold and crowns. 3.8 million gold is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else in this game (other than guild trader spots). I expect the crown price to be equally out of line with what we have seen so far.

My guess is 25k for a manor.

I think you will be able to get a house for 5k crowns, but I don't think it will be a big one.

5.500 crown 35 euros right? its around 450 euros for 3 manors. Its insanely overpriced because also there will be furnishing. Nothings was more expensive than biggest crown pack in game which is 5.500. i think they can make it max 16.500 for furnished crown exclusive that will be the highes price because higher than that would be so greedy imo. People will want to buy other houses and want to buy some furnitures and 105 euros for crown exclusive with all furnitures would be maximum price.

i think crown exclusives will be 5.500 and manors will be 6-7k because of title.

Real Money always will be more important because people are actually paying to game and zos should appriciate that. In most countries 300 dollars minimum salary and making crown exclusive with furnitures 100 dollars will make it impossible for people lives in this countries. World is not all about usa/england/germany. I see people "ahh i can give 25k anything lower that would be a joke because its expensive with gold bla bla" yea maybe you can even pay 50k there are people can pay 100k crowns. But most of the players in eso wont pay more than 5k crowns.

Zos made elk mount 5k crowns and only few people bought it because they wanted to seem exclusive. I dont see many people riding that mount. for an example instead of selling x100 mounts from 5k =500k crowns, eso can make it 2.500 crowns and 1.000 people would buy it 2.500.000 crowns.

If zos make anything furnished more than 15k crowns they will be on gaming websites headline like "greedy zos"

@Cyrediath

People with a $300 monthly salary aren't playing this game. They would not have a PC to run it fr starters.

Zos created housing for everyone and doesn't expect everyone to buy a manor and the pricing will reflect that.

Along with housing sizes to fit any budget Zos also intends many will get their furnishings in game hence the crafting that will be available in game to meet these needs and desires.

There are lots of people i know with 500$ salary playing this game and they like this game and would make sacrifice from their spendings to buy and i think all people should be able to buy any content in game. This is just a game. for 50 dollars you can buy battlefield 1 Premium edition also includes all dlc 's will be available in the future so no more paying! Im not comparing games just giving examples from market. If you put 100 dollars price tag on a virtual item, even if its name is exclusive or gives title or comes with furniture or with golden toilet whatever, that is greedy and not a good marketing because only few players will buy it.

I dont know if you are familiar with other games but for an example dota, lol, csgo etc they have weapon/hero skins which can be earned rarely from chests or whatever and some of them can be sold for hundred dollars because they are rare and few in the market. But zos can sell this houses to everyone in game with crowns literally to everyone and also if someone buys the unfurnished house with crowns, they are in the hook, they will spend more for furnishing! if you make 15k or 25k as "giles" said very few people will buy it. but make it 10k, maybe the person WHO willing to buy the house with 20k will buy 2 manors and say ahh i bought 2 i will buy the third one too for title and will pay 30k total. but if you make it 20k for manor it will be 60k for title and very very few people will buy it im sure of it. Make it 10k (even overpriced imo it should be 5k unfurnished) , good amount of people will buy it and both players and zos will be happy about it!

Prof_Bawbag · January 2017

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Cyrediath wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Obviously it's speculation, but I have a feeling that anybody thinking a manor will be in the 5k crown range is going to have kittens when the prices are released. There has to be some correlation between gold and crowns. 3.8 million gold is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else in this game (other than guild trader spots). I expect the crown price to be equally out of line with what we have seen so far.

My guess is 25k for a manor.

I think you will be able to get a house for 5k crowns, but I don't think it will be a big one.

5.500 crown 35 euros right? its around 450 euros for 3 manors. Its insanely overpriced because also there will be furnishing. Nothings was more expensive than biggest crown pack in game which is 5.500. i think they can make it max 16.500 for furnished crown exclusive that will be the highes price because higher than that would be so greedy imo. People will want to buy other houses and want to buy some furnitures and 105 euros for crown exclusive with all furnitures would be maximum price.

i think crown exclusives will be 5.500 and manors will be 6-7k because of title.

Real Money always will be more important because people are actually paying to game and zos should appriciate that. In most countries 300 dollars minimum salary and making crown exclusive with furnitures 100 dollars will make it impossible for people lives in this countries. World is not all about usa/england/germany. I see people "ahh i can give 25k anything lower that would be a joke because its expensive with gold bla bla" yea maybe you can even pay 50k there are people can pay 100k crowns. But most of the players in eso wont pay more than 5k crowns.

Zos made elk mount 5k crowns and only few people bought it because they wanted to seem exclusive. I dont see many people riding that mount. for an example instead of selling x100 mounts from 5k =500k crowns, eso can make it 2.500 crowns and 1.000 people would buy it 2.500.000 crowns.

If zos make anything furnished more than 15k crowns they will be on gaming websites headline like "greedy zos"

@Cyrediath

People with a $300 monthly salary aren't playing this game. They would not have a PC to run it fr starters.

Zos created housing for everyone and doesn't expect everyone to buy a manor and the pricing will reflect that.

Along with housing sizes to fit any budget Zos also intends many will get their furnishings in game hence the crafting that will be available in game to meet these needs and desires.

Not sure what alternative reality you're living in, but there will be lots of people playing the game that don't even earn $300. Time you stepped out your bubble and realised, like the person you quoted stated, not everyone lives in the USA, UK and most other well to do countries. Add to that, not everyone even plays it on a PC. SHOCKER, HUH? Then there will be those kids that earn next to nothing that may have got a console for Christmas, birthday etc.

I'm half suspecting you're taking the ***, but in case you're not.

Cpt_Teemo · January 2017

No way in heck would someone spend 500$ irl for a mansion, just not going to happen ha. My guess around 50-60 for a manor at the most, 40$ at the least.

Sigtric · January 2017

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

What's the most expensive piece (not plural) of content to have appeared in any MMO? I suspect ZoS would be garnering a few negative headlines if they had the audacity to price something at +25k crowns. Even at 20k. The advantage those people have spending 3.whatever million on the houses is they'll have not needed to use real money.

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

No way in heck would someone spend 500$ irl for a mansion, just not going to happen ha. My guess around 50-60 for a manor at the most, 40$ at the least.

Star Citizen has several ships priced at $400 each or above, into the THOUSANDS that all sell out (Limited digital content) for a game that's not even released yet.

Glurin · January 2017

Yeah, I will not be paying anything even remotely close to 65,000 crowns for any house and I doubt that there are very many other people that would. Pretty sure ZoS is well aware of that fact and is planning on pricing the houses at a far more reasonable number.

Oreyn_Bearclaw · January 2017

Cyrediath wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Obviously it's speculation, but I have a feeling that anybody thinking a manor will be in the 5k crown range is going to have kittens when the prices are released. There has to be some correlation between gold and crowns. 3.8 million gold is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else in this game (other than guild trader spots). I expect the crown price to be equally out of line with what we have seen so far.

My guess is 25k for a manor.

I think you will be able to get a house for 5k crowns, but I don't think it will be a big one.

5.500 crown 35 euros right? its around 450 euros for 3 manors. Its insanely overpriced because also there will be furnishing. Nothings was more expensive than biggest crown pack in game which is 5.500. i think they can make it max 16.500 for furnished crown exclusive that will be the highes price because higher than that would be so greedy imo. People will want to buy other houses and want to buy some furnitures and 105 euros for crown exclusive with all furnitures would be maximum price.

i think crown exclusives will be 5.500 and manors will be 6-7k because of title.

Real Money always will be more important because people are actually paying to game and zos should appriciate that. In most countries 300 dollars minimum salary and making crown exclusive with furnitures 100 dollars will make it impossible for people lives in this countries. World is not all about usa/england/germany. I see people "ahh i can give 25k anything lower that would be a joke because its expensive with gold bla bla" yea maybe you can even pay 50k there are people can pay 100k crowns. But most of the players in eso wont pay more than 5k crowns.

Zos made elk mount 5k crowns and only few people bought it because they wanted to seem exclusive. I dont see many people riding that mount. for an example instead of selling x100 mounts from 5k =500k crowns, eso can make it 2.500 crowns and 1.000 people would buy it 2.500.000 crowns.

If zos make anything furnished more than 15k crowns they will be on gaming websites headline like "greedy zos"

Guess we will have to wait and see. No real sense arguing, because again, its all speculation. Something to think about, we are really seeing an entire product line from ZOS for the first time. As others have suggested, there will be housing for any budget. I am sure you will be able to get a small or medium house for 5k crowns. That said, there are plenty of people that will happily spend a couple hundred dollars on house, and I am guessing ZOS will give them that opportunity.

It would be the height of stupidity on ZOSs part to make Manors easily affordable by everyone. They want different homes for different budget, just like any other product you can think of. They also want people to buy one house, out grow it and buy another. If Manors are 5k, the sales of the other homes would be non-existent.

As for people saying that people wont buy multiple crown packs, well two things. What is to stop them from increasing the size of the packs. Also, LOTS of people buy multiple packs of crowns when they go on sale. I have seen many posts of people complaining that their credit cards will start to decline the repeat purchases at like 10 packs or something ridiculous. Furthermore, there are stories and youtube videos of people dropping 50k+ crowns on crown crates. This will be no different.

FloppyTouch · January 2017

I think 100k crowns to 300k crowns is a very fair price for a housing

Sigtric · January 2017

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Cyrediath wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Obviously it's speculation, but I have a feeling that anybody thinking a manor will be in the 5k crown range is going to have kittens when the prices are released. There has to be some correlation between gold and crowns. 3.8 million gold is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else in this game (other than guild trader spots). I expect the crown price to be equally out of line with what we have seen so far.

My guess is 25k for a manor.

I think you will be able to get a house for 5k crowns, but I don't think it will be a big one.

5.500 crown 35 euros right? its around 450 euros for 3 manors. Its insanely overpriced because also there will be furnishing. Nothings was more expensive than biggest crown pack in game which is 5.500. i think they can make it max 16.500 for furnished crown exclusive that will be the highes price because higher than that would be so greedy imo. People will want to buy other houses and want to buy some furnitures and 105 euros for crown exclusive with all furnitures would be maximum price.

i think crown exclusives will be 5.500 and manors will be 6-7k because of title.

Real Money always will be more important because people are actually paying to game and zos should appriciate that. In most countries 300 dollars minimum salary and making crown exclusive with furnitures 100 dollars will make it impossible for people lives in this countries. World is not all about usa/england/germany. I see people "ahh i can give 25k anything lower that would be a joke because its expensive with gold bla bla" yea maybe you can even pay 50k there are people can pay 100k crowns. But most of the players in eso wont pay more than 5k crowns.

Zos made elk mount 5k crowns and only few people bought it because they wanted to seem exclusive. I dont see many people riding that mount. for an example instead of selling x100 mounts from 5k =500k crowns, eso can make it 2.500 crowns and 1.000 people would buy it 2.500.000 crowns.

If zos make anything furnished more than 15k crowns they will be on gaming websites headline like "greedy zos"

Guess we will have to wait and see. No real sense arguing, because again, its all speculation. Something to think about, we are really seeing an entire product line from ZOS for the first time. As others have suggested, there will be housing for any budget. I am sure you will be able to get a small or medium house for 5k crowns. That said, there are plenty of people that will happily spend a couple hundred dollars on house, and I am guessing ZOS will give them that opportunity.

It would be the height of stupidity on ZOSs part to make Manors easily affordable by everyone. They want different homes for different budget, just like any other product you can think of. They also want people to buy one house, out grow it and buy another. If Manors are 5k, the sales of the other homes would be non-existent.

As for people saying that people wont buy multiple crown packs, well two things. What is to stop them from increasing the size of the packs. Also, LOTS of people buy multiple packs of crowns when they go on sale. I have seen many posts of people complaining that their credit cards will start to decline the repeat purchases at like 10 packs or something ridiculous. Furthermore, there are stories and youtube videos of people dropping 50k+ crowns on crown crates. This will be no different.

The bolded bit, and especially the italicized part, I don't agree with. Many people will want everything. I know a few people personally who don't want the manors at all, and even seen some on the forums and elsewhere state as much, and would rather spend the gold or crowns on multiple properties.

What would be stupidity is to price things in such a manor people wont want to buy them on the crown store. Crown sales figures would be amazing following the tried and true method of taking little to no profit on the main item and then making your money on the mark up on accessories.

That said, I feel 5k sounds too low for the manors, but I'd be put off at over 10.

But who knows, with the absurdly priced elk mount, I guess anything goes.

Iselin · January 2017

Whatever you think of the crown cost of unfurnished or furnished housing will be know this: the prices are already set in stone and they don't really want your feedback on that detail.

They set the price for all of them on the PTS to 1 crown not because they want you to see and own all of them there but rather because they do not want any feedback whatsoever on what they have decided the cost will be.

rotaugen454 · January 2017

If the cost in crowns approaches the mortgage on my actual real life house, there's a problem.

duncan_cougarpreeb18_ESO · January 2017

Well it looks like the classic: give them free oil lamps, but charge a premium for the oil you need to use them (half charge included with free lamp, so you get them hooked)
As in ok prices for the empty houses, but raking in dollars for the furnishing / fully furnished ones

Tavore1138 · January 2017

Houses are not needed in game and ZoS have spent too much time creating this system to keep us busy saving, crafting and furnishing to let us shortcut it cheaply so for those thinking you will get a fully furnished manor for just over the price of a motif I suspect you are kidding yourself. They will not want people to bypass this system for the cost of a month of subs...

Personally I think small houses will start around 7-12k and manors in the 30-40k mark with the 'special' crown only ones even more - plus whatever they mark up for fully furnished versions. Judging by all the people with assistants, custom and atronach mounts there are plenty of us dropping quite a lot of money and they will be pitching these at higher spenders because they can make money off this without impacting on any gameplay mevhanics at all.

And if people want to drop £200 on a manor then ZoS will be happy to let them.

Cyrediath · January 2017

Tavore1138 wrote: »

Houses are not needed in game and ZoS have spent too much time creating this system to keep us busy saving, crafting and furnishing to let us shortcut it cheaply so for those thinking you will get a fully furnished manor for just over the price of a motif I suspect you are kidding yourself. They will not want people to bypass this system for the cost of a month of subs...

Personally I think small houses will start around 7-12k and manors in the 30-40k mark with the 'special' crown only ones even more - plus whatever they mark up for fully furnished versions. Judging by all the people with assistants, custom and atronach mounts there are plenty of us dropping quite a lot of money and they will be pitching these at higher spenders because they can make money off this without impacting on any gameplay mevhanics at all.

And if people want to drop £200 on a manor then ZoS will be happy to let them.

Okay lets think about that. Zos made manors 200 euros. Only few people will buy im sure and that people will not buy the second manor even months later. But make it 50 euros lots of people will buy it and also people who were willing to pay 200 euros will also buy other manors a d large houses and put furnitures in it.

Reasonable price will always bring more income to zos. Do you know anyone who buys crown store potion/poisons/foods/drinks or pther things like horse speed upgrade or motifs? Because they are overpriced. Deadric motif is like 2k on guild trader and lots of crowns at store so no one buys it.

They are smart enough to make crown exclusives/manors reasonable price so they hook people in it and make them spend more with decoration and buying other houses. Thats why i said 10k unfurnished and 15 furnished max. Even this is high. 105 euros. Just something that is not limited whatsoever everyone can have it and zos can sell which amount of they want and that house costs 105 euros. Just think about that.

Also i want to point out something. I see that zos is changing. They really listen people and the last patch notes *with explanations*, it was really cool. Like we did this and this is why. I dont think they will do such a bad move and make pricing like some people said like manors only for rich people. Crown exclusives are only for our premium members. Pay 100 euros and get one.

House is just a thing inside a really nice game. The game itself shouldnt be cheaper than houses. Only thing irritates me is that 2 crown houses called "exclusive" i would be really disappointed if zos thinking like ah this houses are "exclusive" and they are only for our "exclusive" members. Give us 100 euros and we will give something to you to bragging about. (Which is in-game again not even a real :P )

But anyways i really apriciate what zos is doing and imo i would buy island or cave with crowns and decorate them every month from crown store by time if their prices are reasonable or else i probably disapointed with zos and wouldnt buy a house at all. I can always visit my friends houses anyway.

ADarklore · January 2017

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

No way in heck would someone spend 500$ irl for a mansion, just not going to happen ha. My guess around 50-60 for a manor at the most, 40$ at the least.

You're talking about a company who charges 4,500 Crown for a mount... is 10,000 or 15,000 Crown for the largest available house really that far out of the spectrum for the prices we've seen, especially since it's account wide? I don't think so. Remember the cost of 'assistants' that aren't even 'full service'... people went bonkers because of the pricing on those... and then came the 4,500 mount. No, I expect pretty high pricing for the larger homes.

Dawnblade · January 2017

ADarklore wrote: »

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

No way in heck would someone spend 500$ irl for a mansion, just not going to happen ha. My guess around 50-60 for a manor at the most, 40$ at the least.

You're talking about a company who charges 4,500 Crown for a mount... is 10,000 or 15,000 Crown for the largest available house really that far out of the spectrum for the prices we've seen, especially since it's account wide? I don't think so. Remember the cost of 'assistants' that aren't even 'full service'... people went bonkers because of the pricing on those... and then came the 4,500 mount. No, I expect pretty high pricing for the larger homes.

Sadly I agree - much of the items on the store feel over-priced and would leave me feeling like I had been fleeced if I purchased them, so I don't spend a dime on crowns.

Now if they had more reasonable prices on most things all the time (I'm actually ok with things like the elk mount), I'd drop extra money in the store each month and buy lots of little things here and there.

But the silly prices for the assistants, potions, horse training, bag slots and such just turn me off, so I've bought a few costumes that I can unlock account wide with my subscription crowns and that's about it.

I even bought a second account (for less than $10) to use with an add-on that auto returns mail as a ghetto storage / assistant, which comes with 8 more character slots - and all for less than ten horse training or ten bag slots.

Cyrediath · January 2017

ADarklore wrote: »

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

No way in heck would someone spend 500$ irl for a mansion, just not going to happen ha. My guess around 50-60 for a manor at the most, 40$ at the least.

You're talking about a company who charges 4,500 Crown for a mount... is 10,000 or 15,000 Crown for the largest available house really that far out of the spectrum for the prices we've seen, especially since it's account wide? I don't think so. Remember the cost of 'assistants' that aren't even 'full service'... people went bonkers because of the pricing on those... and then came the 4,500 mount. No, I expect pretty high pricing for the larger homes.

That is correct but how many bankers did you see in game so far? Really amount of elk mounts and bankers are so feeeww and its one time purchase. Zos doesnt care about you after you bought it. But with housing, buying a house ita just a start.

You know big houses have big space to put more furnitures right? So the person who bought biggest house will spend more to fill it up compered to medium house. So ofc zos will want lots of people to buy big houses i especially expect crown exclusives to be cheap. Manors comes with title. But crown exclusives exactly look lile bait. Like here exclusive island for 5k crowns. But if you want to fill it with furnitures it will cost maybe 10k crowns who knows.

Betheny · January 2017

Sigtric wrote: »

Star Citizen has several ships priced at $400 each or above, into the THOUSANDS that all sell out (Limited digital content) for a game that's not even released yet.

But those ships are tradeable, which means people are investing money now to resell to players who come later, for big dollars, especially the harder to get ships.

That's how those games work, people trade the high ticket "rares" then resell them later for a profit.

In ESO the houses/mounts/everything from Crown store are not tradeable. People will not be able to profit from reselling them later, so pricing high will not get the same response as in a game like Star Citizen (which is basically just an RMT selling game for a lot of people).

mb10 · January 2017

lmaooooo 65k crowns for the speculated craglorn house that has the be BS.

5.5k crowns costs almost £25

Will amount to almost £300 in British Pounds and around $370

LOL

Prof_Bawbag · January 2017

Betheny wrote: »

Sigtric wrote: »

Star Citizen has several ships priced at $400 each or above, into the THOUSANDS that all sell out (Limited digital content) for a game that's not even released yet.

But those ships are tradeable, which means people are investing money now to resell to players who come later, for big dollars, especially the harder to get ships.

That's how those games work, people trade the high ticket "rares" then resell them later for a profit.

In ESO the houses/mounts/everything from Crown store are not tradeable. People will not be able to profit from reselling them later, so pricing high will not get the same response as in a game like Star Citizen (which is basically just an RMT selling game for a lot of people).

Yup, that's what i thought too. I went looking and everything that was insanely priced was set by the players and were tradable for real cash, not because the devs priced them so. The most obvious example being the original auction house in Diablo 3, where one weapon went for a crazy amount of real money, and we all know how that nearly ended for Blizzard.

Cyrediath · January 2017

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

Sigtric wrote: »

Star Citizen has several ships priced at $400 each or above, into the THOUSANDS that all sell out (Limited digital content) for a game that's not even released yet.

But those ships are tradeable, which means people are investing money now to resell to players who come later, for big dollars, especially the harder to get ships.

That's how those games work, people trade the high ticket "rares" then resell them later for a profit.

In ESO the houses/mounts/everything from Crown store are not tradeable. People will not be able to profit from reselling them later, so pricing high will not get the same response as in a game like Star Citizen (which is basically just an RMT selling game for a lot of people).

Yup, that's what i thought too. I went looking and everything that was insanely priced was set by the players and were tradable for real cash, not because the devs priced them so. The most obvious example being the original auction house in Diablo 3, where one weapon went for a crazy amount of real money, and we all know how that nearly ended for Blizzard.

Think this way, there will be many houses and zos knows that there are whales that wants to buy all houses. Also there will be people want to buy 3 manors for title, a lot people if the pricing made properly imo. So instead of making manors overpriced imo like 15k crowns and sell one to few players, zos can make them reasonable price like 5.500k or 11k max and make people think that crown prices are more reasonable and make them buy manors with crowns. 33k for 3 manors. Around 210 euros i guess. Only 3 houses from a dlc costs 210 euros. Its quite expensive if you look from this side.

I think manors will be 11k and crown exclusives 10k because no title and other people cannot see it from outside etc.

ADarklore · January 2017

Cyrediath wrote: »

ADarklore wrote: »

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

No way in heck would someone spend 500$ irl for a mansion, just not going to happen ha. My guess around 50-60 for a manor at the most, 40$ at the least.

You're talking about a company who charges 4,500 Crown for a mount... is 10,000 or 15,000 Crown for the largest available house really that far out of the spectrum for the prices we've seen, especially since it's account wide? I don't think so. Remember the cost of 'assistants' that aren't even 'full service'... people went bonkers because of the pricing on those... and then came the 4,500 mount. No, I expect pretty high pricing for the larger homes.

That is correct but how many bankers did you see in game so far? Really amount of elk mounts and bankers are so feeeww and its one time purchase. Zos doesnt care about you after you bought it. But with housing, buying a house ita just a start.

You know big houses have big space to put more furnitures right? So the person who bought biggest house will spend more to fill it up compered to medium house. So ofc zos will want lots of people to buy big houses i especially expect crown exclusives to be cheap. Manors comes with title. But crown exclusives exactly look lile bait. Like here exclusive island for 5k crowns. But if you want to fill it with furnitures it will cost maybe 10k crowns who knows.

In all honesty, I've seen banker assistants all over the place, I bought both assistants as did many others. The same arguments were had when people talked about the pricing before assistant pricing was announced... that they'd price them lower to sell more... instead, they priced them higher and many people bought them anyway. Then came many other high priced items, and people grumbled, but many still bought them. ZOS doesn't care about selling 'many' lower priced items, they think about selling fewer higher priced items. As others have noted, players will buy housing for achievements. Also, since ZOS obviously also wants to make the entire 'player housing' a gold sink, it would be silly of them to make houses more cost effective to buy with Crowns vs in-game gold. I think history has shown that ZOS doesn't price items to sell high quantities, they price them to make larger amounts of money per transaction.

Betheny · January 2017

ADarklore wrote: »

since ZOS obviously also wants to make the entire 'player housing' a gold sink

Is it a gold sink though...or is it an incentive for people who might not have bought things before to start using the Crown store, because they don't have lots of gold either.

acw37162 · January 2017

You can bet a manor is going to cost a 100 plus at least.

I would say more around 200.

johu31 · January 2017

The thing is though, people will pay for it. Not everyone but some will. ZOS will continue to raise the bar higher and higher because a certain percentage of the player base has the money and doesn't care.

I remember my first P2W game by machine zone. Most of the people I played with paid anywhere from $100-$300 a week on ingame purchases to compete. The top player at the time paid 500k USD total. Even if .5% of the boasted 7 million accounts buys a $400 house... they've done their job.

Lukums1 · January 2017

Manors will be 10k + crowns no way will they be lower.

The sticky fingers are out and on the prowl.

snakester320 · January 2017

acw37162 wrote: »

You can bet a manor is going to cost a 100 plus at least.

I would say more around 200.

No way they can't there going to price them selves out of sales .. while I honestly can't see how they can charge more than 5k crowns same as a dlc BUT it is ZOS .. they have to be careful though price it to high and there going to lose money otherwise why even offer it as a payed option rather than work for it then charge ridiculous crowns for it.. double edged sword ...then again if a company is going to fall on that so called sword it WILL be ZOS!

ADarklore · January 2017

snakester320 wrote: »

acw37162 wrote: »

You can bet a manor is going to cost a 100 plus at least.

I would say more around 200.

No way they can't there going to price them selves out of sales .. while I honestly can't see how they can charge more than 5k crowns same as a dlc BUT it is ZOS .. they have to be careful though price it to high and there going to lose money otherwise why even offer it as a payed option rather than work for it then charge ridiculous crowns for it.. double edged sword ...then again if a company is going to fall on that so called sword it WILL be ZOS!

As I mentioned before, history has shown that ZOS will price things extremely high and people will still buy them. I heard the same exact arguments before about other things, assistants, mounts, etc... how ZOS would never charge as much as a DLC, etc... and sure enough, ZOS charges extremely high and people buy them; ZOS is charging 400 Crown for a CUP, how can you expect an entire house selling for less than 5000 Crown?!?