holy cow if manor really can hold 24 people in the house then i will seriously reconsider about buying them..

I'm surprised they don't have a gifting system already and I agree it would be a great addition.

There's lots of situations I can think of where it would be useful. The obvious ones like a friends birthday, but also less obvious things like helping out someone who wants a limited time item but doesn't have the money right now.

Ackwalan wrote: »

The problem with crown store gifting, is that it turns into a crown to gold trade system.

aye but those people who do this kind of trade will do this regardless...and most of the crown store thing aren't really worth that much (1500 crown for a bite? 5000 a motif? the motif costs like 200k in game and that's not the right amount of money you want to exchange with real money)

Ackwalan wrote: »

The problem with crown store gifting, is that it turns into a crown to gold trade system.

I saw that happen in other MMOs. Wasn't very good for the games. Some of them even made stuff the players could buy/do with ingame gold very expensive, so the players HAD to sell items bought from real money... or spend a ridiciously huge amount of time to farm the needed ingame gold in a "normal" way.

Turelus wrote: »

Lyserus wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

The problem with crown store gifting, is that it turns into a crown to gold trade system.

aye but those people who do this kind of trade will do this regardless...and most of the crown store thing aren't really worth that much (1500 crown for a bite? 5000 a motif? the motif costs like 200k in game and that's not the right amount of money you want to exchange with real money)

The mounts however would be worth a lot, especially limited time ones.

You just need to take a look at SWTOR to see how much some items can sell for if the demand is right. Although this system wouldn't allow players to hang onto retired items for long durations in order to gain higher value, I can imagine people being willing to pay hundreds to millions of gold for some mounts if they don't have the RL funds.

That said an ability to make gold by legally spending money on ZOS items would help curb some of the RMT much like EVE Online and PLEX.

are crown exclusive things (non-combat pet, mount, assistant, manor and two motifs) really aren't game-changing. So I'd say let rich people play their game, and hey didn't we want crown exclusive thing with in-game money ? This way those exclusive things will flow to the in-game gold market (and not game breaking because they aren't something change your build, skill or something) and though expensive it offers u a way to not spending crown

If all liability is on the gift-giver, and there's a one or two gift per three month limit, then it probably wouldn't be so bad.

But most MMO communities are so large that there's inherent abuse with any system introduced. You give somebody the ability to give something away, and pretty soon people are selling lottery slots for $15 apiece on Instagram for a chance to win whatever mount is available that weekend. They'd call that enterprising. A lawyer would call it illegal.

So gifting is not a system to be entered into lightly. And if this person is really that special to you that you must give them something, there are pre-paid debit cards. There are ESO+ and crown packages on Best Buy and Gamestop and other official retailers. You can have them log onto the official site and then give them your card details to buy whatever crown amount they want.

But I have a theory that the gift-giving movement would cool off considerably if you could use excess subscription crowns in your account to purchase additional months of ESO+ services. The membership number is just as valuable as sales to ZOS, so it's kind of a win-win.

I think people have some good points that I didn't think about before.

1. People selling crown items.
2. People making new accounts to get the free crowns.

What are some solutions to this?

I've wanted to be able to gift a mount to my friends for the holidays, etc. Maybe a feature only for subscribers and only to subscribers?

Turelus wrote: »

It would be nice to have.

I believe you can sometimes ask customer support to give items to people and remove crowns from your account but I am not sure how often they're willing to do this, generally the cases I have heard are special circumstances, or special requests.

They'll do it whenever. However often you'd like.

Gifting can lead to amounts of trouble imo, especially for those that basically have more gold than the entire game as it is.