If they wanted to make them purchasable to create another voucher/telvar sink (or crown purchase), I''d have been really, really pleased if it had been some kind of upgrade that could be applied to existing models. There could be different varieties of upgrades, like the coffers: some would have 15 slots, or 20, or 60, or whatever.

Buy the upgrade, apply to dresser, get x number of slots in that item.

In this way, the storage would be more immersive and allow for more customization. Not sure how it would work regarding being able to pull from coffer in house a when you're in house b. However, the upgrade way would have allowed slots to be set by house size (as their own) rather than the coffers counting as a collectible and taking up one of the already too-few slots currently given.

DoctorESO wrote: »

The storage chests function differently than all the existing furniture. Why change the functionality of items people already have and have used as such when you can just create new items?

what functionality? el oh el

1) This drastically limits how much we can store. Under the current system the maximum anyone can store in their home is 360 items (and because the chests are duplicated that limit is the same regardless of whether you have 1 free inn room or every house in the game). If they turned existing furniture into containers we could (and some people would) fill every available house with the largest containers and fill all of those with items.

There are 4 free inn rooms (counting the one in Morrowind), 3 apartments, 10 small, 10 medium and 10 large houses and 3 manors available permanently. There's also several crown-store exclusive, limited-time houses but for simplicity I'm not counting those. With ESO+ those hold:
Inn: 30 items
Apartment: 100 items
Small: 200 items
Medium: 400
Large: 600
Manor: 700
For a total of 14,520 containers. If each of those could hold just 10 items you'd be able to store 145,200 items. (And remember this is with ESO+ so you've got the craft bag in addition to this.)

I'm not going to get into the pros and cons of limiting how much players can store in a multi-player game, but the end result is ZOS has chosen to limit what we can hold onto and this is the only way they can do that whilst allowing us home storage.

2) It's crown-store exclusive, apart from the one freebie box you get as a level-up reward. Whereas using existing items would be free (or only cost gold). So that means more profits for ZOS. Again there's pros and cons to this (con: we have to pay, pro: hopefully that money goes towards further game development) and different people will have different views on whether it's a good idea or not, but it's the decision ZOS made.

3) In a way this system will be more convenient. Because the chests work like the bank - they have the same contents no matter which house you're in when you view them - it's a lot harder to lose items. As someone who has to make (and update) lists of what I'm keeping in each house (and where in the house it is) for Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim I consider this a definite plus point, even though it limits the total storage. They couldn't do that with normal furnishings unless you were forced to duplicate them in every house you own before you could put items inside.

Danikat wrote: »

but the end result is ZOS has chosen to limit what we can hold onto and this is the only way they can do that whilst allowing us home storage.

Wholley unacceptable. Guess ill have to speak with my wallet, drop my sub and go find a new game to play. Oh well, the more I play the game the more irritated I get by the short-sightedness of the team.

It's not crown store exclusive, you can use TVs or Vouchers

Twenty0zTsunami wrote: »

Was this really necessry? I mean there are already droves of furnishing items that should be able to be used as storage. Desks, chests, dressers, cupboards, bureaus buffets etcetc. Why not just allot each of those a small amount of storage space?

Don't get me wrong, I understand that maybe it's just a "dry run" and hopefully more will come in the future.. but frankly someone on the dev team really, truly dropped the ball when they got around to finally implementing what should have been a basic feature to any home.

If they did this they would need to implement a way so that everything you put in your desk took up one of your furniture spots so people don't just have a mansion filled with desks for storage. That means they would have to change how the game sees both furniture and non furniture items. Even if they didn't count the stored items as furniture they would still have to change how a lot of furniture in the game works.

I'm still hoping for a mannequin that can hold one armor set and weapon racks for displaying weapons. Would like to see mannequins that can hold armor we can wear and mannequins that would hold armor that was display only.

Twenty0zTsunami wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

It's not crown store exclusive, you can use TVs or Vouchers

right so they implemented into into a system that guarantees it's going to cost dozens if not hundreds of thousands per item. and distinctly on purpose to drive up $$ sales from casual players : ]

I dunno, took me about 4-8 (something like that) hours to make 200k TVs and about a week ish to get that many vouchers (nothing purchased just doing dailies)

I mean, it's not like you can just up and get all of them in a day, but isn't it suppose to be a goal thing? Sure you can get all em now if you spend cash, but someone like me likes the idea of taking a while and earning them.

It's a starting point where ZOS can analyze how many of the eight were obtained, by which means, and by how many accounts.

Doesn't guarantee the system will continue past those eight, but at least with the controlled methods of obtaining them (leveling, crowns, vouchers, or tel var; all bound) those eight stay consistent whether you start collecting them in a few weeks or a few years.

kargen27 wrote: »

Twenty0zTsunami wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

It's not crown store exclusive, you can use TVs or Vouchers

right so they implemented into into a system that guarantees it's going to cost dozens if not hundreds of thousands per item. and distinctly on purpose to drive up $$ sales from casual players : ]

Casual players probably do not need the extra storage?

Wrong-o!

I'm about as casual as it can get and I do a ton of crafting for my chars and my guild. Also, I'm, by nature, a packrat.

Because they want to sell you more storage for 2500 Crowns in the cash shop (or make it possible, but extremely difficult to procure in-game, because cash shop). No surprises here at all.

Well, a lot of people were calling for additional storage to be sold for crowns. Many of them wanted a limited item craft bag. They get chests instead.

At least you can also buy them with other types of in-game currency.