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Not kidding, easy to get in-game without spending a single dollar/euro/pound. If you want to skip the in-game money/motif farm sure pay 40 bucks, how is that you're problem? I really don't understand why people are so upset. You DON'T NEED TO BUY it with crowns.

I'd rather go without than spend that much on a motif. And I love motifs. But that price is utterly ludicrous.
I think people are right to be upset. It's a ridiculously over-inflated, astronomical price, for something that did not need to cost that much money.
The Grim Harlequin motif, if I recall, was about 2300 crowns in the store for the Witches Festival. A much much more reasonably priced item.
No wonder people don't want to buy from the store. Not only is there a limited selection with everything that keeps being whisked away to stuff into the con crates, but some of the prices are insane.

Ok seriously, tldr

I don't give a damn what ZOS prices their wares, with one exception. Anything that can not be obtained in game. The 2 exclusive motifs, from a crafters point of view, are the only things needed not available in game. There isn't anything else I need from the crown store to be competitive, or complete any content. You don't need fancy mounts, xp potions, exp scrolls, costumes, meals, potions or hair styles.

The other motif offered in the cs that were also available in game were 5000 crowns, did not come with mimic stones and where was all the outrage? Again it's a business, they will price as they see fit, they have the numbers we do not. Consider it a lazy tax. Spectulation about housing is irrelevant.

Conversation about STOWR also irrelevant at this point. No offense to either party but it has gone off course for this topic.

To the other crowd, everything does not have to equal, you dont not have any rights to anything in the cs, you dont have a right to be be given anything. If you can't afford cs pricing, don't buy from there. 6000 crowns for a motif that you can in fact aquire through a bit of playing the game says enough. The fact you are complaining about a 6000 crown motif that you could aquire with a little effort also speaks volumes.

If you can't be bothered to earn the motif in game, then you buy it. Life goes on, if you can't afford it, not anyone else's problem. You do not need it to be competitive in the game. Also if you can't be bothered to run Maw then you will either have to pay gold for whiskers or spend crowns to buy mimic stones to craft it. I'm at the point where I have to be pretty blunt with some of these hand me everything types.

If you have to get this upset over a motif that does absolutely nothing for you in game, maybe you should take a friggin break. As for the OP you should really consider taking a break, your last few threads are nothing but whinny crap. Everything you have posted is absolutely garbage, you have proven you do not want to play the game but you want all the benefits of doings so. If you aren't good enough to do the content, too bad, get better. Stop blaming everyone and everything for your shortcomings. Pretty simple boss, either get better, pay the stupid tax or quit playing. ZOS has no obligation to just hand you whatever you want just because you cry loud enough.

As for the rest, value is subjective. If you don't find value in the motif don't buy it, speak with your wallet. Some people have money and can buy things for convenience, stop blaming them for ZOS'S pricing. If I could afford a Ferrari, I would have one, but blaming me for the price because I bought one is stupid. And why would Ferrari lower their price because you can't afford one? Point is no one owes any of you anything, you are supposed to earn what you have. I would guess in the time alot of you came here complaing about the price, you could have run nmol twice.

I think over half the people in this thread are completely missing the point. It's not about whether i want this item or whether i can get it in game for free.

It's about the absurd price that ZOS is putting on these items. This basically comes out to around $45.00, which is insane. That is almost the cost of a new AAA title.

I guess people are paying it though so to each their own.

I'm a whale that buys most things but I believe they should fire this new person in charge of crown store that came from other games.

Opted out of this one. Not buying at 6k for a motif.

-Checks steam page for crown prices-

...Are you KIDDING me?! That costs more than you can even buy in one purchase. Don't get me wrong I was leaning toward the OPs side to begin with, this is an hilarious ripoff compared to other free mmos, but I had no idea just how much money they were expecting until just now.

So, if you didn't have any crowns and you wanted to buy this motif, you would have to spend $47.98. That's almost the full price of many video games. That's more than the price of this game! (Tamriel Unlimited).

Let that sink in.

This is not normal. Maybe I'm spoiled from WoW, where the vast, vast, vast majority (in the thousands) of unique gear and mounts are all covered in your monthly fee (and you actually earn them) but this is unheard of even for other free to play mmos. Is this a joke? Am I having a stroke? Seriously, am I the only one who didn't realize the cost of this or is it just me?

Flameheart wrote: »

The price is not just laughable, it's already ridiculous, if you believe that adding more and more motifs just does not make sense, when you actually can't use them in crafting, because you will lose a former gear set with loads of yellow alloys and waxes or you can't use them on drop sets at all, because their is no "restyle option" in the current game.

The departments of ZOS do not talk to each other. There are a dozen reasons a limited 6000 crown offer for this motif does not make sense. The glut of motifs already, prominence of drop sets, and the ease this particular one can be bought for in guild stores being chief among the reasons.

I'm curious who actually would buy this?

You can easily get it in game for gold. I really don't have a problem with this.

KerinKor wrote: »

Sigtric wrote: »

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.

Why on earth has this received 16 Insightfuls, this comment is utterly irrelevant!

Clearly the MANAGER of a thing isn't necessarily, and in this is NOT, responsible for the policy which sets the prices.

I gave you an insightful because the LOL button is no longer around.

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

Never really understood why people buy motifs in the crown store.

It made a little sense in the beginning, when people's accounts where young. Imperial motifs were selling for hundreds of thousands and Glass seemed like an insurmountable grind. Still people complained about the price then, as well as the artwork, "it doesn't look like proper glass from the other games." I guess that didn't work out properly because they went back to full pages with the next motif. Still, that was back when there were only 16 motifs in the game. There are nearly 50 now, most of which will never be crafted by the players who learned them.

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

ZiRM wrote: »

Nothing surprises me OP. Great Elk mounts were CHEAP in comparison.

Maybe that's the entire point. They probably don't care how well this motif sells, perhaps the purpose is to make everything else look cheap.

Yup and to prepare us for the inevitable extortion of housing

raidentenshu_ESO wrote: »

Can someone please tell me that I need glasses... come on tell me. Do I need glasses? ZOS is giving us 4 days to decide whether or not we pay 6000 crowns for a Motif?

Hey @ZOS_GinaBruno I tell you what. You include the mount and the skin with that Motif and we got deal.

I agree the price is ridiculous but come on, you can buy each piece of the motif for like 8-10k on PC EU. That's nothing lol

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

Woeler wrote: »

Who buys these motifs in the crown store anyways? Like, seriously?

Probably the ones that were crown store only, and I bet they'll be apart of the master writs as well so whoever didn't buy them are screwed.

IE: The Frozen set + Harlequin set

Nope, they won't do that. CS exclusive styles won't be included in the master writs. I can't document that with patch notes or anything but I'm ready to bet on this (and I extremely rarely take bets, believe me).