All this bitching about Crown Crates

Hallothiel · June 2017

Jamascus wrote: »

Do you want to try & be more patronisingly dismissive? Quite dislike how people seem to think its fine to disregard an entire generation. Nice.

I do not like the fecking crates for a multitude of reasons others have explained in their excellent posts (@SantieClaws) - probably old enough to be your mother but at least old enough to know better than to think these crates are a good thing.

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Voxicity · June 2017

Tavore1138 wrote: »

Voxicity wrote: »

Tavore1138 wrote: »

Reverb wrote: »

Voxicity wrote: »

Millennials

I'm a gen X'er. Does that mean I'm not allowed to complain about the crates? I haven't yet, and have no immediate plans to, just wondering if there's an age restriction on the outrage in case I'm ever afflicted by it.

My understanding is that this current generation seem to think that one should never ever complain or protest or even disagree with anything a big company does.

They also seem to hold the conflicting views that it is foolish to expect a company to play fair but that it is also foolish to in any way try to band together as consumers and try to change that.

It's like they have become the perfect little brainwashed anti-activist automatons. Perfect consumers.

I agree with what ZOS are doing though. Am I not allowed to agree with it, and does that make me a little brainwashed anti-activist automaton?

Is it bad that I simply just don't give a damn? I mean I've put thousands of hours into the game and I'm still enjoying it completely. In my eyes spending £40 for some crown crates doesn't even come close to spending how much I think my time spent in the game could be valued at.

Like I'd go to the cinema and spend £10 for an hour of entertainment there. So spending a little bit of money on crates considering the amount of entertainment I've got from ESO doesn't bother me at all.

Hell no you are welcome to agree with them - I don't mind differing views, I mind people telling me I am not allowed to have views.

Personally I have dropped over £2k since launch and while I am not a huge fan of the crate idea was willing to spend enough to get either the drops or the gems to get the 6 apex mounts for each 'season' - happy to spend money on something I spend time playing. At the same time I didn't go dissing the people who felt crates were a rip off because I sort of see their point too...

My issue with the current ones is that the drop rates have gone right down from what I see but if they'd dropped in Apex+ at 1,000 gems then at least there is a goal to shoot for - with what they have done this time is put something with no finish line... to me that crosses the line and I will say so, if it doesn't for you then you are welcome to think that.

Yeah I get your points and agree with most of them. What I don't agree with (not you specifically) is people thinking that either you have to be completely 100% against them and anyone who buys into them are idiots, or you have to be completely for them and you have no brain and are just being sucked dry as a consumer. I sit in the middle ground, I don't love them and I don't hate them. I just dislike the people sitting at the complete ends of the spectrum who won't accept that some people just simply don't really care that much.

But I do agree that the mounts which you can't buy with gems was a shady move by ZOS

MadLarkin · June 2017

As I've said many times before, I think people should spend their money in whatever way they wish. Its THEIR money. However, I choose not to give any more of mine to a company that implements something that is designed around causing people (fringe cases excluded) to spend more money for something than if that item had just been put directly into the store. It does not exist in gaming for any reason other than squeezing money out of people, and I want no part of it.

ZOS_CoriJ · June 2017

While the majority of discussion is sound there are many other discussions on Crown Crates that are being conducted more constructively. Considering the massive amount of comments we've had to remove, we've decided this topic will remain closed.