They keep it in the game because 1) it's a gold sink that 2) encourages you to log in every single day. It has very little to do with the Crown store, especially given that the mount training system has been there since launch, while the Crown Store was implemented much later.

It was designed to keep you logging in over a long period of time. The purchasable mount training from the Crown Store was literally an afterthought.

Once, when I started playing and had some crowns to spare, but never again.
It has no use for me. I don't use the mount all that much, and traininh once a day from the stablemaster might be slower, but it's just as good for my playstyle.

Never purchased any out right, but if I get them crates I use them as they're actually useful vs the other consumable rubbish.

Turelus wrote: »

Never purchased any out right, but if I get them crates I use them as they're actually useful vs the other consumable rubbish.

Honestly, I tend to convert mount training to gems with the other consumables. I find the bump it gives one's mount pretty negligible, when I could use those gems to buy something I actually want. To each their own, though.

It's too much for the convenience, I can just wait.

I noticed when I made my magward - the base speed of horses seems to be faster. I remember you had to get them to 5 or so before they could "sprint" faster than your PC could jog, and that's not true now. That's a good change, now if they could do something about the daily feeding limit...

Time-gated mount training actually pre-dates the crown store - it's been in the game since launch. (It may also have been in the betas but I don't remember.)

I think the original idea was that it'd be an incentive to keep your sub even if you weren't actively playing (back when you had to subscribe to even log into the game). Along with crafting research, hireling mail, daily quests and other time-gated things it was something you'd 'fall behind' on if you couldn't log in - something that would give certain people an incentive to keep paying, and keep logging in at least a few minutes a day.

Since they dropped the mandatory subscription it is kind of obsolete. But at that point I suspect it was more trouble to pay a developer (or a small team) for the time it'd take to remove the time-gate, especially since they could be working on other things. I'm not suggesting it'd be a big job, but it's not a big issue either so if someone's looking at the choice between removing the time gate from mount training or fixing a bug or adding a bit to the next DLC I think you can guess which they're going to choose.

So they added lessons to the crown store instead as a way of bringing back some of the original purpose.

Got emp on a toon in bwb, needed to get to keeps faster, bought a couple upgrades. Wouldn't do it any other time.

I just spent sub crowns, didnt spend money for them.

I don't PVP, and I'm guessing the majority of mount purchases are PVP'ers.

Also, when I log out an alt character, especially one I prob won't play for a couple weeks, I park next to stable master. Login train - then logout and play my current flavor of the month

Nope, never.

It's a daily chore thing. Sign on and right away to the stablemaster first thing, I always park characters by a stablemaster. Main character has full stamina & speed, other alts are close to max speed and halfway there on stamina.

I know it's kind of a gold sink, 250 everyday for 60 days and even more if you have multiple characters. But in the end I think it's worth it. Just means that when questing you will get to quests and quest objectives faster. In Cyrodiil you have got to be fast or your gonna miss half the fight or half a siege.

I would never spend crowns on it just because it's faster, I would rather be patient.

I usually buy the speed ones for new characters with my ESO plus Crowns.

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I recently purchased 40 of them. It was for my new warden that I'm PvP'ing with and just had to be able to relatively keep up with our guild group. I was consistently missing 50% of the fighting. :-/ Rather not have had to do that but what am I supposed to do? Be frustrated for 2 months?

They need to just implement Mount Training in the same way we have inventory and bank space upgrades. Let us just pay gold. **** I'd even pay an increased price for more than one a day or something. Mount speeds are flipping one of the worst aspects of this game.

I bought them for both my wardens for the exact same reason and I felt ripped off. If you want to get skyshards all over the place or go to Cyrodiil you are kinda forced to buy them.

This has to change: Either +10 per day option or similar or just buying scrolls (without a stupid cooldown) for vouchers.