You could just get them from MoL or from a guild trader for 0 Crowns.

TheValkyn wrote: »

6k crowns for a motif (!) is a terrible precursor to housing. SWTOR (Published by EA) has less of a cash grab than ESO.

Ridiculous.

Google searching things indicates it was the same person managing SWTOR cash store as is managing crown store now.

OK, now that's just greedy.



And I'm usually the last person to say a company is "greedy," because companies have to make money or else they'd go out of business. But that's ridiculous. (Edit: I think 5,000 for some of the other special motifs is insane, too, so it's just the way I see it.)

hahaha. just don't buy it maybe? every [snip] time they place a *** item with a [snip] price there are load of players buying it, and after 3 years they cannot afford a decent server or even give us a decent endgame.

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Here's a far out idea, try playing the game and getting the motif. Jesus help me, 6000 crowns for a motif that can be free just by playing.

Gotta love eso playerbase, put this in the store put that in the store, why are this and that so expensive? Gimme gimme gimmie, I need more.

News flash nothing in the crown store is needed to play the game.

Usually I complain about greedy marketing, but this seems like it was priced so that it doesn't stop endgame trials players from selling motifs. No complaints from me this time.

I think they are starting to price items based on the crown sale price point. Like the costume at the start of the month, they are raising prices by 20%. Sucks a little if you stocked up during last sale, sucks a lot if you get your crowns from your sub.

static_recharge wrote: »

Absurd. If you want people to buy it, make it affordable.

To this point they've been selling a variety of motifs in the crown store for different costs, so you can bet they've been keeping track in how many they sell at different price points and how significantly that affects their revenue. This is a bit higher yes, but likely it's also a test of how high folks will go.

Shad0wfire99 wrote: »

Makes post about being angry over vMoL exploit being fixed. Makes new post wanting to buy skin with crowns. Interesting.

Try UNDERSTANDING WHY OP is angry.

PTS going live drives up motif prices to appox. 30k each. 20k is a bargain! vMoL if I understand it allowed people to farm the motifs like other motifs are farmed. I don't know because I did the trials and purchased them. But there are many people who don't have 30k gold x 14 to buy motifs and have zero interest in doing trials. Frankly, this whole thing is rotten to the core. Lots of the crafters I have known never went anywhere near a trial. They crafted. They did SP stuff. They farmed. But they love their motifs and were willing to by them. This price uptick from jerks buying them then selling them 50-300% of market rate is obscene. And ZOS knows it is happening because they MADE it happen.

Their actions are shameful at best and appalling at worst. Right now they are on the precipice. They are not smart enough to know it because they are too greedy. But this game is NOT the best MMO ever despite a few people labeling it that way and these kind of actions will kill it. I for one will laugh when that happens. They are ruining the game for people who were supportive of it, who got plus and even purchased crowns beyond that. Housing is shaping up to be the biggest, greediest cash grab ever. They pitched it as 'we know you really want this so we are sooooo going to do this for you.' And then it comes to PTS and we see how it is. It's money. It looks like you won't have to buy from the crown store until you start digging into it and then you realize the whole thing is ultimately going to push you to the cash store if you are foolish enough to do that.

As far as whether or not it is affordable.... 5500 crowns is $40. Yes? So you are paying $40 for a clothing style in a game when the game itself costs $60. Just to give a little perspective. Sure the $40 is affordable to many. But it's a cash grab. A greedy cash grab. Why? Most people who want to do master writs to get housing items will probably need to get the motif because motifs are necessary for the master writs. The prices of them are now 30k each and not a ton of players will have money for that, plus writs (some of them cost a chunk of gold to make) and the house itself. So if they want to do the writs, they indirectly are forced to the store. It's like some kind of twisted update to the bait and switch.

That's just greedy, plain and simple. I thought 4500 crowns for the elk was pretty bad but I swallowed that toad... but 6000 crowns for a motif? Seriously?

am i the only one that misread it a mount not motif and was confused as to why they released the mount at a higher price?