Name Change Token price - a tad much?

HJSmith24 · December 2017

Unsure if this has been posted before, I haven't seen it if it has.
Do other people agree that the price to change the name of one of their characters is extortionate? 2500 crowns?!?
For a lot of things I understand the price charged, but for a one-time use token to only change the name of your character, not its appearance, its ability to perform in-game activities or affect other characters in any way? - 2500 is a huge middle finger to those who care about role playing at all.
I've 90% completed a trial-ready magsorc, gone off the name and have thought of something that would work better with the build, backstory etc. and my options are:
1. Spend 2500 crowns when i only get 1500/month for spending approx. £10/month on ESO plus
2. Start a new character and level all skill lines again, including mages guild
3. Get over it - which for something that would require such little effort from ZOS's side I don't think anyone that has paid for the game at all should have to.

I'm not sure what I hope to achieve from this post, but it's nice to vent.

Sigtric · December 2017

Save crowns and wait for the next month's stipend?

HJSmith24 · December 2017

Sigtric wrote: »

Save crowns and wait for the next month's stipend?

While that would work in terms of getting the name changed, it would equate to spending approx. £16.67 in terms of ESO+ crowns just to change a single character's name once?

Sigtric · December 2017

HJSmith24 wrote: »

Sigtric wrote: »

Save crowns and wait for the next month's stipend?

While that would work in terms of getting the name changed, it would equate to spending approx. £16.67 in terms of ESO+ crowns just to change a single character's name once?

It's no different than spending that stipend on almost anything else in the crown store. The only difference than say a mount or a costume is it's not equipable pixels you see. It's a permanent change unless you do it again. Don't really see the big deal here tbh.

HJSmith24 · December 2017

Sigtric wrote: »

HJSmith24 wrote: »

Sigtric wrote: »

Save crowns and wait for the next month's stipend?

While that would work in terms of getting the name changed, it would equate to spending approx. £16.67 in terms of ESO+ crowns just to change a single character's name once?

It's no different than spending that stipend on almost anything else in the crown store. The only difference than say a mount or a costume is it's not equipable pixels you see. It's a permanent change unless you do it again. Don't really see the big deal here tbh.

But the other things you mentioned aren't permanent and are account wide
If you buy a costume, you don't have to pay again to wear something else, or wear it on another character.
Whereas with name change tokens, it's single use, making the price relative to other things pretty steep.

ZioGio · December 2017

I agree that the price is pretty steep. We're just asking for a change to the text string value in a key/value pair. I find it odd that it's so expensive when a race change is only 500 crowns more and an appearance change is 1500 crowns less.

RANKK7 · December 2017

Yes, it's a tad much indeed!

Some time ago I wanted to change the name of one of my characters, I've seen the price and laughed.

Well ZOS totally lost, I preferred to throw away the ingame horse training and some bag space than pay that absurd (real money) price just for a name.

So I've deleted the character and remade it, very happy with my choice.

They should price that half at least, I would have bought it in that case, their loss.

Gothren · December 2017

take a gander at that race change cost.

SydneyGrey · December 2017

The price is ridiculous. Not sure why they don't lower the price so that it's the same as an appearance change. They'd sell a ton more name changes if they did that. I guarantee there are thousands of people who want to change their character names, who refuse to pay insanity prices for it, but would be willing to buy it for less. They never even put them on sale.

Glurin · December 2017

Just about all their prices are a "tad" much. It's one of the reasons I never buy crowns unless they're on sale.

Eatmyface · December 2017

I appearance changed without a name change token.... Now my male is stuck with a blatant female name

EDIT: Because I refuse to pay 2500 crowns for a name change lol

Ajaxandriel · December 2017

HJSmith24 wrote: »

for a one-time use token to only change the name of your character, not its appearance, its ability to perform in-game activities or affect other characters in any way? - 2500 is a huge middle finger to those who care about role playing at all.

QFT

A - huge - middle - finger.

I haven't this concern for myself since I always choose my roleplay names carefully ... but a great empathy for all those who discover the lore, and feel bad about their irrelevant character names in the end.

500 crowns for a rename would be fair, 1000 crowns being the top limit, and 2000+ crowns is the field of pure usurer absurdity

HJSmith24 · December 2017

Ajaxandriel wrote: »

HJSmith24 wrote: »

for a one-time use token to only change the name of your character, not its appearance, its ability to perform in-game activities or affect other characters in any way? - 2500 is a huge middle finger to those who care about role playing at all.

QFT

A - huge - middle - finger.

I haven't this concern for myself since I always choose my roleplay names carefully ... but a great empathy for all those who discover the lore, and feel bad about their irrelevant character names in the end.

500 crowns for a rename would be fair, 1000 crowns being the top limit, and 2000+ crowns is the field of pure usurer absurdity

Completely agree, 500 would be nice, but 1000 crowns wouldn't be unreasonable.

BloodWolfe · December 2017

The name change is absurdly overpriced! But they do it deliberately hoping to get people to spend on that 3500 crown bundle that is the name and race change tokens. In almost every other MMO (especially the major ones) a name change is usually in the $10 range but ZOS went 2.5x that because they are greedy. I get companies need to make profit, but a name change at 2500 crowns is insane and overpriced. 1000 crowns MAX would be more acceptable and because it's so expensive I will NEVER buy one and just have to deal with the names I originally chose. ZOS is very much out of touch with pricing and it's why the last 2 months I've lost a lot of interest in the game again.

I want to change my templar and warden names around because my templars name was made at launch and now would suit my warden better but I would have to use 3 name changes to interchange the names with them (1-change templar to temp name, 2-change warden name to old templars name, 3-change templars temp name to wardens old name) so no way I'm giving ZOS $75 for that.

Azurya · December 2017

HJSmith24 wrote: »

Unsure if this has been posted before, I haven't seen it if it has.
Do other people agree that the price to change the name of one of their characters is extortionate? 2500 crowns?!?
For a lot of things I understand the price charged, but for a one-time use token to only change the name of your character, not its appearance, its ability to perform in-game activities or affect other characters in any way? - 2500 is a huge middle finger to those who care about role playing at all.
I've 90% completed a trial-ready magsorc, gone off the name and have thought of something that would work better with the build, backstory etc. and my options are:
1. Spend 2500 crowns when i only get 1500/month for spending approx. £10/month on ESO plus
2. Start a new character and level all skill lines again, including mages guild
3. Get over it - which for something that would require such little effort from ZOS's side I don't think anyone that has paid for the game at all should have to.

I'm not sure what I hope to achieve from this post, but it's nice to vent.

well if you don´t have money, then everything will be a pain
so you better think twice before naming your chars

Azurya · December 2017

BloodWolfe wrote: »

The name change is absurdly overpriced! But they do it deliberately hoping to get people to spend on that 3500 crown bundle that is the name and race change tokens. In almost every other MMO (especially the major ones) a name change is usually in the $10 range but ZOS went 2.5x that because they are greedy. I get companies need to make profit, but a name change at 2500 crowns is insane and overpriced. 1000 crowns MAX would be more acceptable and because it's so expensive I will NEVER buy one and just have to deal with the names I originally chose. ZOS is very much out of touch with pricing and it's why the last 2 months I've lost a lot of interest in the game again.

I want to change my templar and warden names around because my templars name was made at launch and now would suit my warden better but I would have to use 3 name changes to interchange the names with them (1-change templar to temp name, 2-change warden name to old templars name, 3-change templars temp name to wardens old name) so no way I'm giving ZOS $75 for that.

they are not greedy, you are greedy
after all it is just cosmetics, so if you really want it, it is possible
you think it is too expensive, let it be
no point to call ZOS greedy for selling something, you don´t have to buy it

HJSmith24 · December 2017

Azurya wrote: »

HJSmith24 wrote: »

Unsure if this has been posted before, I haven't seen it if it has.
Do other people agree that the price to change the name of one of their characters is extortionate? 2500 crowns?!?
For a lot of things I understand the price charged, but for a one-time use token to only change the name of your character, not its appearance, its ability to perform in-game activities or affect other characters in any way? - 2500 is a huge middle finger to those who care about role playing at all.
I've 90% completed a trial-ready magsorc, gone off the name and have thought of something that would work better with the build, backstory etc. and my options are:
1. Spend 2500 crowns when i only get 1500/month for spending approx. £10/month on ESO plus
2. Start a new character and level all skill lines again, including mages guild
3. Get over it - which for something that would require such little effort from ZOS's side I don't think anyone that has paid for the game at all should have to.

I'm not sure what I hope to achieve from this post, but it's nice to vent.

well if you don´t have money, then everything will be a pain
so you better think twice before naming your chars

The issue is that something is overpriced for what it is here, not the capability to buy it.

Even if you are a billionaire, if someone tried to charge £1000 for an apple ,you could easily afford it but it is still expensive for an apple.
For how quick and simple a name change is, 2500 crowns / almost £17 is seriously overpriced