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Crown Store Idea: Lady Clarisse Laurent quest pack
ShedsHisTail
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One of the things I've always wanted to see up on the Crown Store is quest packs. [SNIP, to keep y'all from getting distracted]
And what better way to introduce such a feature than with a Lady Clarrise Laurent quest pack. Just a pack of like five solo-only delves, ramped up to like old VR-Zone difficulty (or scalable difficulty), with a connected story told through the lens of Lady Clarrise Laurent and her loyal servant Stibbons. Pack them with challenging bosses, complex puzzles and traps; make them like the Maelstrom Arena of delves with unique drops (nothing OP, I'm thinking like motifs or furniture or something) with a unique reward for completing all five... Perhaps a summonable Stibbons assistant that does... something. Or maybe just one big delve, just a big interior zone like a dwemer ruin or something; the hunt for the MacGuffin.
Make it repeatable, so you can try to beat your own time (or grind mats for the unique motif or whatever), or test your build in a combat setting as opposed to against the target dummy. Sort of like the Thief's Guild or Dark Brotherhood dailies, but with less restriction on how you complete it.
I'd just really like to see a little more content tied to some of these items we can just purchase from the Crown store. I know that I, personally, would be more inclined to buy a unique mount or costume or whatever if it came with some actual game-play involved as opposed to just showing up in my Collections menu. I would absolutely -love- to have quest packs available.
Edited by ShedsHisTail on June 15, 2017 6:16PM And what better way to introduce such a feature than with a Lady Clarrise Laurent quest pack. Just a pack of like five solo-only delves, ramped up to like old VR-Zone difficulty (or scalable difficulty), with a connected story told through the lens of Lady Clarrise Laurent and her loyal servant Stibbons. Pack them with challenging bosses, complex puzzles and traps; make them like the Maelstrom Arena of delves with unique drops (nothing OP, I'm thinking like motifs or furniture or something) with a unique reward for completing all five... Perhaps a summonable Stibbons assistant that does... something. Or maybe just one big delve, just a big interior zone like a dwemer ruin or something; the hunt for the MacGuffin.
Make it repeatable, so you can try to beat your own time (or grind mats for the unique motif or whatever), or test your build in a combat setting as opposed to against the target dummy. Sort of like the Thief's Guild or Dark Brotherhood dailies, but with less restriction on how you complete it.
I'd just really like to see a little more content tied to some of these items we can just purchase from the Crown store. I know that I, personally, would be more inclined to buy a unique mount or costume or whatever if it came with some actual game-play involved as opposed to just showing up in my Collections menu. I would absolutely -love- to have quest packs available.
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leepalmer95✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭New content should only really be in dlc's
Crown store is mainly cosmetic with a few consumables.PS4 EU DC
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✭✭✭✭which you can only get via Crown purchase (not free to subs)
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✭which you can only get via Crown purchase (not free to subs)
Whoops, you lost me.
The reason I wrote that is just because, comparatively speaking, it'd be a very small add on to the game (just a few quests) with significant purpose aside from being something to do. Even the rewards are simply cosmetic. For all intents and purposes, it's a cosmetic addition; just the aesthetic you're purchasing is literary (the story) as opposed to visual (mounts, costumes, etc.).
It would have no bearing on the larger story of ESO, and no real impact on game play. I see no reason anyone should get it for free when we all have to pay for cosmetics, subscription or no. Whatever the case, that's really ZOS's call, not mine.
Edited by ShedsHisTail on June 15, 2017 6:09PM"As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
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✭ShedsHisTail wrote: »which you can only get via Crown purchase (not free to subs)
Whoops, you lost me.
The reason I wrote that is just because, comparatively speaking, it'd be a very small add on to the game (just a few quests) with significant purpose aside from being something to do. Even the rewards are simply cosmetic. For all intents and purposes, it's a cosmetic addition; just the aesthetic you're purchasing is literary (the story) as opposed to visual (mounts, costumes, etc.).
It would have no bearing on the larger story of ESO, and no real impact on game play. I see no reason anyone should get it for free when we all have to pay for cosmetics, subscription or no. Whatever the case, that's really ZOS's call, not mine.
If it's a story, then it's content (not just cosmetics). I still don't see any benefit in excluding subs, unless you enjoy it when the forums implode.PC-EU2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Awesome idea! I love Lady Clarisse Laurent and Stibbons. They're so much fun and I was really happy to see them in Morrowind again. *lol*PS5EUAldmeri Dominion- Khajiit Arcanist -0 -
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✭ShedsHisTail wrote: »which you can only get via Crown purchase (not free to subs)
Whoops, you lost me.
The reason I wrote that is just because, comparatively speaking, it'd be a very small add on to the game (just a few quests) with significant purpose aside from being something to do. Even the rewards are simply cosmetic. For all intents and purposes, it's a cosmetic addition; just the aesthetic you're purchasing is literary (the story) as opposed to visual (mounts, costumes, etc.).
It would have no bearing on the larger story of ESO, and no real impact on game play. I see no reason anyone should get it for free when we all have to pay for cosmetics, subscription or no. Whatever the case, that's really ZOS's call, not mine.
If it's a story, then it's content (not just cosmetics). I still don't see any benefit in excluding subs, unless you enjoy it when the forums implode.
Know what... I'm just gonna edit all that out. Maybe folks will actually talk about the idea rather than their wallets.
Also, the story -is- cosmetic. It's artistic effort with no impact on gameplay. It has no mechanical function.Edited by ShedsHisTail on June 15, 2017 6:17PM"As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
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✭✭✭✭✭I love the idea of Story Related Quest Packs. I hate the idea of the Crown Store being the source.
However, lets have these story related quest packs. Heck we don't even need new dungeons, we can use all the existing ones in the game, just spawn the mobs and bosses while the quests are active. Sure, I would like new dungeons, who wouldn't? But, I also love excuses to go visit old delves and dungeons again that I have not been too in months or years.
You have a great idea OP, just stumbled and stubbed your toe on the delivery mechanism for players. Just offer them up once a month for free and gives players the small excuse or nudge they need to fire up the game and do something new.Edited by Nestor on June 15, 2017 9:42PMEnjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
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✭✭✭✭✭Hasn't Stibbons suffered enough?
Surprised I didn't find that duo in the new update.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »Hasn't Stibbons suffered enough?
Surprised I didn't find that duo in the new update.
@Giles.floydub17_ESO
You just have not looked hard enough.....Enjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
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Sakiri✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭ShedsHisTail wrote: »which you can only get via Crown purchase (not free to subs)
Whoops, you lost me.
The reason I wrote that is just because, comparatively speaking, it'd be a very small add on to the game (just a few quests) with significant purpose aside from being something to do. Even the rewards are simply cosmetic. For all intents and purposes, it's a cosmetic addition; just the aesthetic you're purchasing is literary (the story) as opposed to visual (mounts, costumes, etc.).
It would have no bearing on the larger story of ESO, and no real impact on game play. I see no reason anyone should get it for free when we all have to pay for cosmetics, subscription or no. Whatever the case, that's really ZOS's call, not mine.
You mean like a DLC.
Which are available to subs.
The ONLY real thing outside that craft bag that subs get that's worth it, is access to the DLCs. After the Morrowind fiasco that's been peeving people off, you want to create MORE content in the DLC type that's not available to ESO+?2 -
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✭✭✭I want a Dark Brotherhood quest pack that allows me to kill Lady Laurent and Stibbons.
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The_Undefined✭✭✭✭So.. you want to take even more content that should be available within the game upon purchase as a separate extra charge? Seriously, what is up with this idea of taking content out of the game and selling it separately? There should be quests released with content updates, not charged separately...0 -
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✭I always like new questlines and I like the idea about them being themed toward certain npcs, but solo isn't appealing to me. If they added some duo content I would love it. The idea has a lot of potential.DAGGERFALL COVENANTNA PCFormer Vehemence MemberOnistka Valerius <> Artemis Renault <> Gonk gra-Ugrash <> Karietta <> Zercon at-Rusa <> Genevieve Renault <> Ktaka <> Brenlyn Renault0 -
ShedsHisTail✭✭✭✭✭
✭The_Undefined wrote: »So.. you want to take even more content that should be available within the game upon purchase as a separate extra charge? Seriously, what is up with this idea of taking content out of the game and selling it separately? There should be quests released with content updates, not charged separately...
It cannot be "available within the game upon purchase" if it's not -in the game at the time of purchase-.
But how this theoretical, doesn't-actually-even-exist-yet-so-why-are-we-discussing-payment content gets delivered isn't my call one way or the other. That's not what I wanted to talk about.
I wanted to talk about how it would be cool to get little infusions of extra quests and lore which we can choose whether or not to download just like we can costumes and mounts and furniture an crap. Why not make it a full DLC? Because I don't think little ones and twosie quests here and there are big enough for ZOS to be releasing them and going, "There you go, guys. These five single-player delves are your DLC for the next six months"
But, you know, having a new set of little quests dropped into the game, or rotated through the Crown Store or whatever every few weeks seems fine to me. All I want is additional, more novel, content which might not be large enough or thematically appropriate to be included in a standard DLC. I mean, you know ZOS has a whole stack of quest scripts sitting on the cutting room floor that got cut for some reason or another.
How it gets delivered to us doesn't matter to me. Clearly this is a hot button issue for people, but I seriously could not care less.Edited by ShedsHisTail on June 15, 2017 8:41PM"As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
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✭✭✭✭✭Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »Hasn't Stibbons suffered enough?
Surprised I didn't find that duo in the new update.
@Giles.floydub17_ESO
You just have not looked hard enough.....
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ShedsHisTail wrote: »One of the things I've always wanted to see up on the Crown Store is quest packs. [SNIP, to keep y'all from getting distracted]
And what better way to introduce such a feature than with a Lady Clarrise Laurent quest pack. Just a pack of like five solo-only delves, ramped up to like old VR-Zone difficulty (or scalable difficulty), with a connected story told through the lens of Lady Clarrise Laurent and her loyal servant Stibbons. Pack them with challenging bosses, complex puzzles and traps; make them like the Maelstrom Arena of delves with unique drops (nothing OP, I'm thinking like motifs or furniture or something) with a unique reward for completing all five... Perhaps a summonable Stibbons assistant that does... something. Or maybe just one big delve, just a big interior zone like a dwemer ruin or something; the hunt for the MacGuffin.
Make it repeatable, so you can try to beat your own time (or grind mats for the unique motif or whatever), or test your build in a combat setting as opposed to against the target dummy. Sort of like the Thief's Guild or Dark Brotherhood dailies, but with less restriction on how you complete it.
I'd just really like to see a little more content tied to some of these items we can just purchase from the Crown store. I know that I, personally, would be more inclined to buy a unique mount or costume or whatever if it came with some actual game-play involved as opposed to just showing up in my Collections menu. I would absolutely -love- to have quest packs available.
I just stopped buying crowns! I wanted to spend crowns. On maybe dummies that could display armor and work like storage in my house but no. How about a safe, a chest or even a freaking bucket that works like storage nope not that eather.
Because of group finder not working and give you a fifteen minutes timer to encourage you to finish the dungeon (my a__). I decided I was encouraged to stop buying crowns in rebellion. Now that Morrowind dropped and I did my two days of stuff I have dropped ESO plus.
Give me something give my anything that a gamer such as myself actually wants. I miss my friend I miss meeting total strangers and hearing about there love for Skyrim. I don't miss group gripping about your game not working. Thank you for Morrowind and its patch diving me away.
Now it's time to face it you nerfed us and made us all weaker so the warden looks stronger.
Stam warden vs pre nerfed (stamblad, stamsorc or samplar)
We would have all had to have this warden with out the nerf. Something new to our game ya we wanted it but you tried to make us buy Morrowind I would have bought the "largest DLC" no questions but you ended up lossing my money because of non player friendly nerfs.
This guy has good ideas you should add stuff we want make a vote survey to mail ask us and listen to us I'll buy crowns I'll restart my ESO plus but not till you give me a reason to like you again.0 -
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✭Then Zeni's Crown Store items would almost be on-par with random weapon/armor mods on the NexusThe_Undefined wrote: »So.. you want to take even more content that should be available within the game upon purchase as a separate extra charge? Seriously, what is up with this idea of taking content out of the game and selling it separately? There should be quests released with content updates, not charged separately...
@The_Undefined Sorry, you seem to be taking the argument against Day1/cut-content DLCs and applying it to additional content produced 3 years after release. The content that is in the game (and arguably things that were cut early due to time or something) "should" be in the game. The content that is planned and produced after the game's release as extra content is totally free game to be charged for. This game could work like that, if there were a required subscription fee that would fund such simpler content patches.
Just because you(we all) download the content in the patch it is released in, does not mean it was "removed from the game". Many games, I'd even say most, with online play work like this. You download the content so that you can still play on the same verison of the game as people who purchased (and have not purchased) the DLC. You can still see (and potentially acquire for yourself) various pieces of equipment FROM the DLCs, interact with these other players, in some games you can even go to the locations included (generally as a guest to a friend who owns it). It used to be, years ago, that if an after-release DLC was produced with a game, you just could not play with people who have(or not) purchased it because the content just wasn't on your machine.Edited by KochDerDamonen on June 15, 2017 9:30PMIf you quote someone, and intend for them to see what you have said, be sure to Mention them with @[insert name].0 -
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✭✭LOTRO does quest packs... Its not a bad idea but for someone just starting out the cost is insane.
If I wanted all expacs and quest packs for LOTRO (They don't do bundle's or deal's) id be spending hundreds of dollars... I think with a sub you have access to the quest packs but not the expacs, so one way or another you are spending a lot of cash to access old content.
I'm not against the idea of Quest Packs, the PVE'er in me loves the idea of buying a bunch of quests that take me back to old zones and run old delves or public dungeons with a new set of quests.. And even make then repeatable to a degree.
I just don't see that fitting in with the current model.
3 DLC's and 1 Chapter per year, basically rebuying the game every year not to mention those like myself who sub and purchase DLC outright.Edited by nimander99 on June 15, 2017 9:37PMI AM UPDATING MY PRIVACY POLICY
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"Give us money" = Box sales & monthly sub fees,
"moar!" = £10 palomino horse,
"MOAR!" = Switch to B2P, launch cash shop,
"MOAR!!" = Charge for DLC that subs had already paid for,
"MOAR!!!" = Experience scrolls and riding lessons,
"MOARR!!!" = Vampire/werewolf bites,
"MOAARRR!!!" = CS exclusive motifs,
"MOOAARRR!!!" = Crown crates,
"MOOOAAARRR!!!" = 'Chapter's' bought separately from ESO+,
"MOOOOAAAARRRR!!!!" = ???
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Robby94✭✭✭i really like this idea as a way to extend guild storylines without having to wait for dlcs or chapters, they could implement them like they did the pre-morrowind quest. as for pricing i reckon 750-1000 crowns for a quest pack would be fair enough. as a plus member i would use my saved up crowns to buy them.0 -
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✭ShedsHisTail wrote: »which you can only get via Crown purchase (not free to subs)
Whoops, you lost me.
The reason I wrote that is just because, comparatively speaking, it'd be a very small add on to the game (just a few quests) with significant purpose aside from being something to do. Even the rewards are simply cosmetic. For all intents and purposes, it's a cosmetic addition; just the aesthetic you're purchasing is literary (the story) as opposed to visual (mounts, costumes, etc.).
It would have no bearing on the larger story of ESO, and no real impact on game play. I see no reason anyone should get it for free when we all have to pay for cosmetics, subscription or no. Whatever the case, that's really ZOS's call, not mine.
If it's a story, then it's content (not just cosmetics). I still don't see any benefit in excluding subs, unless you enjoy it when the forums implode.
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✭leepalmer95 wrote: »New content should only really be in dlc's
Crown store is mainly cosmetic with a few consumables.
Don't know how I missed this earlier but... This doesn't actually make any sense, since all the DLC packs are available on the Crown Store.
You're saying new content shouldn't be available in the Crown Store, but rather in DLC packs... Which are in the Crown Store...?"As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
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Resfeber✭✭✭I like the idea of NPC-driven content. There are a lot of neat characters I'd like to see more of. So I wouldn't be against seeing this happen.
Sadly for me Clarisse and Stibbons were both extremely annoying though so I'd take a personal pass on this one
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✭ShedsHisTail wrote: »The_Undefined wrote: »So.. you want to take even more content that should be available within the game upon purchase as a separate extra charge? Seriously, what is up with this idea of taking content out of the game and selling it separately? There should be quests released with content updates, not charged separately...
It cannot be "available within the game upon purchase" if it's not -in the game at the time of purchase-.
But how this theoretical, doesn't-actually-even-exist-yet-so-why-are-we-discussing-payment content gets delivered isn't my call one way or the other. That's not what I wanted to talk about.
I wanted to talk about how it would be cool to get little infusions of extra quests and lore which we can choose whether or not to download just like we can costumes and mounts and furniture an crap. Why not make it a full DLC? Because I don't think little ones and twosie quests here and there are big enough for ZOS to be releasing them and going, "There you go, guys. These five single-player delves are your DLC for the next six months"
But, you know, having a new set of little quests dropped into the game, or rotated through the Crown Store or whatever every few weeks seems fine to me. All I want is additional, more novel, content which might not be large enough or thematically appropriate to be included in a standard DLC. I mean, you know ZOS has a whole stack of quest scripts sitting on the cutting room floor that got cut for some reason or another.
How it gets delivered to us doesn't matter to me. Clearly this is a hot button issue for people, but I seriously could not care less.
I bought Morrowind because I wanted it. Was I happy about the price; Hell NO. But I purchased it because it is a business, and that's how it was marketed.
At the same time, I am a subscriber. Part of that entails access to all new content with the cost of my subscription. I'm not going to quibble over the difference between a DLC, an Expansion, and a Chapter; it's already been beat to death on these forums.
But for F'ing love of the Divines and the Daedra OP, stop encouraging them to lock more stuff in the cash shop/Gambling crates!
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✭I like the idea of NPC-driven content. There are a lot of neat characters I'd like to see more of. So I wouldn't be against seeing this happen.
Sadly for me Clarisse and Stibbons were both extremely annoying though so I'd take a personal pass on this one
What're the names of those two Dunmer you always run into digging around in Dwemer ruins?
They're like a brother/sister duo or something."As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
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✭Nyghthowler wrote: »ShedsHisTail wrote: »The_Undefined wrote: »So.. you want to take even more content that should be available within the game upon purchase as a separate extra charge? Seriously, what is up with this idea of taking content out of the game and selling it separately? There should be quests released with content updates, not charged separately...
It cannot be "available within the game upon purchase" if it's not -in the game at the time of purchase-.
But how this theoretical, doesn't-actually-even-exist-yet-so-why-are-we-discussing-payment content gets delivered isn't my call one way or the other. That's not what I wanted to talk about.
I wanted to talk about how it would be cool to get little infusions of extra quests and lore which we can choose whether or not to download just like we can costumes and mounts and furniture an crap. Why not make it a full DLC? Because I don't think little ones and twosie quests here and there are big enough for ZOS to be releasing them and going, "There you go, guys. These five single-player delves are your DLC for the next six months"
But, you know, having a new set of little quests dropped into the game, or rotated through the Crown Store or whatever every few weeks seems fine to me. All I want is additional, more novel, content which might not be large enough or thematically appropriate to be included in a standard DLC. I mean, you know ZOS has a whole stack of quest scripts sitting on the cutting room floor that got cut for some reason or another.
How it gets delivered to us doesn't matter to me. Clearly this is a hot button issue for people, but I seriously could not care less.
I bought Morrowind because I wanted it. Was I happy about the price; Hell NO. But I purchased it because it is a business, and that's how it was marketed.
At the same time, I am a subscriber. Part of that entails access to all new content with the cost of my subscription. I'm not going to quibble over the difference between a DLC, an Expansion, and a Chapter; it's already been beat to death on these forums.
But for F'ing love of the Divines and the Daedra OP, stop encouraging them to lock more stuff in the cash shop/Gambling crates!
I don't recall saying anything about gambling crates.
And, again, I don't care how it's distributed, so long as it's distributed. (as long as it's not in gambling crates.
) "As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
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