ZOS stop using inventory as a weapon

JD2013 · April 2017

lordrichter wrote: »

WalksonGraves wrote: »

If you bought the game at launch with a sub you've almost paid a grand by now.

May 9, 2014, was the first full subscription day for this game, it being the 35th day following launch. This month, we will have the 1080th consecutive subscription day since then. That means that, on April 22, anyone who has subscribed to ESO since launch will have paid for 36 consecutive ESO/ESO Plus subscription months.

$540 Subscription for 1080 days @ $15 per 30 days
$60 Base game

Adds up to $600, which my accountant says is not "almost a grand".

Yeah I was doing the maths here too ...

£40 game at release, subbed since release, 30 days free = 34 months of subscribing so far (I think?) at £8.99 a month = £345.66 for 3 years of entertainment, and not even half of £1,000 yet for me.

not bad at all!

alexkdd99 · April 2017

ADarklore wrote: »

WalksonGraves wrote: »

So the only real benefit of subscription is storage space, crowns become meaninglessness since the new dlcs don't take them and I doubt most people want all the trash cosmetics available. All the crown consumables you pack in to crown crates are worthless, I hope no poor sap actually spent money on crown food equivalent of a cheap ingame craftable.

I'd say the money goes to servers but 3 years of lag and crashes from a company that made more money than the gdp of a small country indicate otherwise.

So ZOS tactics for retaining subs: be stingy with space, annoy your playerbase with micromanaging, constantly give them garbage event disposable items to fill their inventory, maps to find garbage, etc.

To top it all off, housing adds no storage and extra furniture ends up in the bank.

If you're going to suck people's wallets dry at least offer something better not just making the game purposely unpleasant for non subs.

The bolded point you are VERY wrong. ONLY the 'chapters' will require additional purchase, all other DLCs will be included in the Crown Store and included with ESO+.

Furthermore, ZOS wants to encourage more players to subscribe, so they're going to go after the most complained about features and add them as an ESO+ incentive. I don't have a problem with this. If you're a hoarder and you can't figure out how to manage your inventory as it is, then subscribe... otherwise, don't be a hoarder.

Sorry But we won't be receiving the same number of DLCs each year as we did in the past because they will be turning 2 of them into chapters.

Combining 2 dlc and calling it a chapter is just calling dlc another name. Chopping off half the content that subs would of received before and changing the name of it is actually worse than anything else in this thread.
But that is a conversation for another thread.

In the end if people want more space then sub, it's simple as that. Zos reduced the value of the sub when they took half the additional content subs used to get and made them pay more for it. So now they are trying to add something to make up for that lost value.

ZOS_Bill · April 2017

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