I just need to express my very real and recent disgust with how things are being handled within the game. Yes there have always been things that aren't perfect and I don't care for but when one's upset continues to grow, there's a problem. A lot of it related to housing but that's only the symptom and not the root cause. I believe the root cause is Zenimax's greed. The latest straw is the Vivec furniture pack for 4k crowns and 4 days to purchase. The high pressure sales tactics are a sign of that greed. I was waiting for it to come out but when I saw that it was 4k and 4 days, I decided I won't be purchasing it both due to the cost (not enough value in my eyes for that price) and I refuse to give in to high pressure sales tactics. I don't do it in my real life either and I wont do it in my fantasy life.

To broaden the spectrum though, I see this greed in many things related to housing. The unbalanced mat cost for furniture - it takes more upgrade mats to make a green wood item than it does to make a green piece of armor. Why? So that in the end, you'll just spend the crowns to buy the furniture rather than get what you need to craft it. When you harvest nodes, you have the chance to get a related housing material. If you have the champ points for harvesting, you might get extra but typically you get 1 piece of said housing mat. For a green item, it'll take 4-6 pieces for the recipe. When you decon or refine, you *might* get one upgrade item, even if you have full points in getting extra but to craft one green housing item? In addition to the housing material, it takes 9 upgrade items. The amount of mats needed to make one single common quality housing item is far more than to craft anything else of common quality in the game.

Then there's the issue of the lies that were told to us, the players, when housing was first talked about and told it was coming. We were told that there would only be a FEW crown only items, that almost everything was going to be for in game gold. Surprise! Lets look at one simple section of a category - flowers. Now, this was before the Vvardenfell expac but when I last looked and counted, there were 12 flowers. Of those twelve, 5 were crown only and 5 were gold only and 2 were achievement items for gold. Those two achievement items were related to DLC, which is only available if you have spent real life cash on crowns to buy or to sub. So, its behind a pay wall. Of course, achievement items are bound, so can't buy them for anyone else. So those two might as well be for 'crowns only' because they are behind a cash paywall. So 7 of the 12 cost you cash in some shape or fashion. Of the other 5 for in game gold? 3 of them are the same damn flower! They just come in different sizes. And this is just one section of a category but its repeated over and over throughout the whole of it. So, really? Just a FEW crown only items?

In the end, when my disgust grows too much, I'll simply have to make the choice to leave because the how little I've grown to enjoy it. I really don't expect anything to come of what I said here but I felt I needed to express my upset and thoughts about what I'm feeling regarding what I'm seeing.