I would never buy crowns at full price if the day I got paid was a factor in my ESO purchases.

Mureel wrote: »

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @srfrogg23

I completely understand your frustration with this offer ending right before you get paid. Unfortunately, this is a situation where it's difficult, if not impossible, to make everyone happy for the reasons many have stated in this discussion already.
Specifically, people have wildly different pay schedules depending on who their employer is and how that employer chooses to set their pay schedules.

Personally, I've worked jobs that pay weekly, bi-weekly, 1st/15th, once a month, and only upon contract completion and there's probably still a few variants I've never had to deal with. The point being, we'd love to make everyone happy all the time, but we accept that is not always possible and don't hold back offers because of it.

Dude. Put them 1st weekend of the month- problem solved for all markets.

How can you legit say all that you just said and not see a simple conclusion?

Dude. Its not up to him when they release this stuff.

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @srfrogg23

I completely understand your frustration with this offer ending right before you get paid. Unfortunately, this is a situation where it's difficult, if not impossible, to make everyone happy for the reasons many have stated in this discussion already.
Specifically, people have wildly different pay schedules depending on who their employer is and how that employer chooses to set their pay schedules.

Personally, I've worked jobs that pay weekly, bi-weekly, 1st/15th, once a month, and only upon contract completion and there's probably still a few variants I've never had to deal with. The point being, we'd love to make everyone happy all the time, but we accept that is not always possible and don't hold back offers because of it.

Lets be honest for a moment Edward , the limited time offers in games is purely for hype . It is not like other buisness where inventory must be cleared quickly for next season shelfing space in a physical location . That is where these promotions began . As a buisness man Ive used these promotions to help raise awareness and clear as much inventory as possible for making room necessary to stock next round product . Digitaly this form of promotion never needs to exist because there is no deprciation of consumables or lack of storage present on comsoles and pc . ZoS chooses to force sale very rare crown store items to fuel max revenue in shortest time possible and that is the only reason . An fine , buisnesses ahould always push hard for profits and success . My concern with this tactic is not what you would imagine probably . I believe ZoS makes less money doing this then actually giving customers a fair amount of time to plan and purchase . There are ways to create hype and generate more revenue then this out dated technique .

srfrogg23 wrote: »

This isn’t the first time they’ve put something cool out when I just didn’t have the money at the moment either. It’s frustrating because it’s just so arbitrary.

If you knew they will do it again why didn't you adapt and saved some money in pocket for next such situation. ZOS won't change for us, we have to adapt to their rules.
Seems that living without savings is frustrating. For people with savings pay day is irrelevant .

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ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @srfrogg23

I completely understand your frustration with this offer ending right before you get paid. Unfortunately, this is a situation where it's difficult, if not impossible, to make everyone happy for the reasons many have stated in this discussion already.
Specifically, people have wildly different pay schedules depending on who their employer is and how that employer chooses to set their pay schedules.

Personally, I've worked jobs that pay weekly, bi-weekly, 1st/15th, once a month, and only upon contract completion and there's probably still a few variants I've never had to deal with. The point being, we'd love to make everyone happy all the time, but we accept that is not always possible and don't hold back offers because of it.

If the folks in the sales department insist on sticking with the limited time thing, it should last at least 30 days. Like you said, pay schedules vary widely from job to job. The only way to be sure that everyone can get paid within the promotion period is to ensure the promotion lasts long enough to cover all pay periods.

I had an unexpected expense come up this pay period, but the next will be fine. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who would love to make the purchase, but won’t be able to because of the short timeframe and, well, “life happens”.

monktoasty wrote: »

They should make a list of upcoming items so you can plan accordingly instead of pop up out of nowhere and say surprise you havev2vdays to buy this. At least a list will let you know on what date an item will be up and for how long. Or do they do.this already

On the off chance you were being serious....

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26277

The showcase is released at the start of every month

Maybe make limited offers more than 3 days? That's such a small window.

phermitgb wrote: »

to be perfectly fair, the above statement isn't *entirely* true - there IS, at least, ONE way to make everyone happy...

STOP WITH THE LIMITED TIME SALE ***!!...

There is no lawful method to make 100% of a population happy.

People are going to hate limited items if they can't get them. People are going to hate evergreen items if everybody else has them. People are going to hate the cost of both limited and evergreen items. Et cetera, et cetera.

So the statement was correct. And as we are dealing with what amounts to novelty and DLC-flavored cosmetic items, it's no use worrying about them. There was something interesting in the past, there's something interesting in the present, and there will be something interesting in the future.

But if it really means that much, spend your time on a few beer money sites rather than complaining. Because one will accomplish a short-term money goal and the other definitely won't.

I'm on disability, so I get paid once a month, every 2nd Wednesday.
I could complain, which would do nothing or figure out a budget.

ZOS has made a business decision to make some crown items "Limited"

1 I saved up for whenever crowns would go on sale.
2 I check in on the web site for updates - Around end/beginning of month ZOS announces the upcoming crown storre month.
3 Pop on Twitter now and then.

If you can't afford it this week, but you could last week, you should probably stop spending money on games until you aren't living paycheck to paycheck. It doesn't matter when something comes out, I can buy it if I want it, and I am far from rich.

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srfrogg23 wrote: »

DoctorESO wrote: »

srfrogg23 wrote: »

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @srfrogg23

I completely understand your frustration with this offer ending right before you get paid. Unfortunately, this is a situation where it's difficult, if not impossible, to make everyone happy for the reasons many have stated in this discussion already.
Specifically, people have wildly different pay schedules depending on who their employer is and how that employer chooses to set their pay schedules.

Personally, I've worked jobs that pay weekly, bi-weekly, 1st/15th, once a month, and only upon contract completion and there's probably still a few variants I've never had to deal with. The point being, we'd love to make everyone happy all the time, but we accept that is not always possible and don't hold back offers because of it.

If the folks in the sales department insist on sticking with the limited time thing, it should last at least 30 days. Like you said, pay schedules vary widely from job to job. The only way to be sure that everyone can get paid within the promotion period is to ensure the promotion lasts long enough to cover all pay periods.

I had an unexpected expense come up this pay period, but the next will be fine. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who would love to make the purchase, but won’t be able to because of the short timeframe and, well, “life happens”.

30 days might be too long to create a sense of urgency. They might not get the impulse purchases they want/need.

Might want to try putting aside a few dollars so you have them on hand for these 3-day sales.

I had to pay the down payment on my kid’s braces. That wasn’t a monthly expenditure or even an expected expense.

I know how to manage my finances, thanks.

A part of me wants to say, "you got your kid braces #$&+ the video game"

Like you know, praise for doing the right thing?

Crazy concept I know...

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