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Gold-Crown conversion rates [PC EU] ?

Deep_01
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Is buying crown store gifts for in-game gold legal?
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  • Peekachu99
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    It’s not explicitly bannable or even flagged as bannable. ZOS really needs to make a statement on the issue.
  • Deep_01
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    Just occured to me that ZoS can be compared to a trade guild in game.

    Making deals in guild chat and trading that out of guild store is not welcome.
    If you do close a deal via guild chat, you are expected to sell that via guild store.

    Maybe ZOS is fine since now the money goes to the company now instead of a player (the gold seller)

    Edit: still, does 100 gold per crown sound reasonable? :trollface:
    Edited by Deep_01 on May 28, 2018 10:37AM
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  • JasonSilverSpring
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    I would not do it mainly because it would be very easy to be scammed. There is no way to tie the gifting of a crown store item with the sending of gold. It is not like the implemented a COD option and it is called "gifting". If you got scammed I am not sure ZOS would do much to help you.
  • Deep_01
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    @JasonSilverSpring Would trade with trusted friends. Trading (gifting*) with randoms would be awesome, but risky.

    Just need to know the reasonable conversion rate and if I/we can get a permanent ban for the trade.
    Edited by Deep_01 on May 28, 2018 10:42AM
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  • Pixel_Zealot
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    I don't think you can get banned. But people will be scammed, they'll complain to Zeni and Zeni won't care.
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  • Deep_01
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    @Pixel_Zealot how much gold is one crown worth?
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  • Sevalaricgirl
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    Deep_01 wrote: »
    Just occured to me that ZoS can be compared to a trade guild in game.

    Making deals in guild chat and trading that out of guild store is not welcome.
    If you do close a deal via guild chat, you are expected to sell that via guild store.

    Maybe ZOS is fine since now the money goes to the company now instead of a player (the gold seller)

    Edit: still, does 100 gold per crown sound reasonable? :trollface:

    Now wait a minute. Guild stores don't own the trade business. Sorry to tell you that.

    Next, if ZOS wanted people to trade crowns for gold, they would do a system like guild wars 2 where they can control it.
  • Pixel_Zealot
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    Deep_01 wrote: »
    @Pixel_Zealot how much gold is one crown worth?

    @Deep_01 That's a tough question... But I think there's a simple way to work it out. Look at Housing. Go into a house, press F5 for purchase options and look at the difference in price between crowns and gold, right?

    So if a specific house is 100 000 Gold, but 14 000 Crowns. Then it's about 7 gold = 1 crown.
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  • Ratzkifal
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    I think their silence on the topic is easily understood. The people running the game are against it as they woul speak up otherwise. They see how this is pushing the game closer to a P2W label. However the monetization management gets the last say in these matters (or so I think) since they are the mouth that feeds the rest of the company and they smell the extra revenue from gifting.
    ZOS essentially became goldsellers and their "bots" are all the players that grind gold for crowns. I am just happy that they don't sell gold directly as that would just mess with the value of our ingame currency.
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  • Wolfkeks
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    Well, terms of service kinda says that you can't give someone gold and get real money in exchange. So I'm a bit unsure if you can do this without getting a ban (in worst case), since it kinda goes down that road. If you wanna be safe, don't do it. :)
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  • eso_nya
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    Thats hard to say.
    If u look at Riding Lessons 100 crowns r worth 250 gold. (1 crown = 2,5 gold)
    If u look at Buy-An-Armchair Motif, 5000 crowns r worth 1.750.000 gold (1crown = 350 gold)
    But than, crown pricing itself doesnt look very reasonable in the first place.


    Different approach would be money u earn thru rl-work/hour and how much crowns u can buy for that vs ingame gold u can create/hour. But those values vary heavily between different ppl.
  • jaschacasadiob16_ESO
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    Deep_01 wrote: »
    @Pixel_Zealot how much gold is one crown worth?

    @Deep_01 That's a tough question... But I think there's a simple way to work it out. Look at Housing. Go into a house, press F5 for purchase options and look at the difference in price between crowns and gold, right?

    So if a specific house is 100 000 Gold, but 14 000 Crowns. Then it's about 7 gold = 1 crown.

    That's a very questionable way to make a ratio, since there is only one supplier.

    I would like to highlight two different cases:
    • The Crown price to get turned into a Vampire or Wolf. And the price it sells for in /zone.
    • The Crown price for a book of motifs. And the price in /zone.
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  • Pixel_Zealot
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    Deep_01 wrote: »
    @Pixel_Zealot how much gold is one crown worth?

    @Deep_01 That's a tough question... But I think there's a simple way to work it out. Look at Housing. Go into a house, press F5 for purchase options and look at the difference in price between crowns and gold, right?

    So if a specific house is 100 000 Gold, but 14 000 Crowns. Then it's about 7 gold = 1 crown.

    That's a very questionable way to make a ratio, since there is only one supplier.

    I would like to highlight two different cases:
    • The Crown price to get turned into a Vampire or Wolf. And the price it sells for in /zone.
    • The Crown price for a book of motifs. And the price in /zone.

    I'm not saying it should be the only factor, I'm just saying it should be worked out like that.
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  • Ratzkifal
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    Wolfkeks wrote: »
    Well, terms of service kinda says that you can't give someone gold and get real money in exchange. So I'm a bit unsure if you can do this without getting a ban (in worst case), since it kinda goes down that road. If you wanna be safe, don't do it. :)
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    @Wolfkeks That's the thing. ZOS is getting the money now. As I understand it, players are exchanging virtual goods for other virtual goods and ZOS profits.
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  • zaria
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    Deep_01 wrote: »
    Just occured to me that ZoS can be compared to a trade guild in game.

    Making deals in guild chat and trading that out of guild store is not welcome.
    If you do close a deal via guild chat, you are expected to sell that via guild store.

    Maybe ZOS is fine since now the money goes to the company now instead of a player (the gold seller)

    Edit: still, does 100 gold per crown sound reasonable? :trollface:

    Now wait a minute. Guild stores don't own the trade business. Sorry to tell you that.

    Next, if ZOS wanted people to trade crowns for gold, they would do a system like guild wars 2 where they can control it.
    This no rules against trading outside of store in any of my guilds, WTS / WTB spamming however is not legal simply as it will generate spam, asking for price or request crafting is ok.

    And ZOS probably has no issue with gold traded for gifted items as it increase crown store sales.
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  • Deep_01
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    zaria wrote: »
    Deep_01 wrote: »
    Just occured to me that ZoS can be compared to a trade guild in game.

    Making deals in guild chat and trading that out of guild store is not welcome.
    If you do close a deal via guild chat, you are expected to sell that via guild store.

    Maybe ZOS is fine since now the money goes to the company now instead of a player (the gold seller)

    Edit: still, does 100 gold per crown sound reasonable? :trollface:

    Now wait a minute. Guild stores don't own the trade business. Sorry to tell you that.

    Next, if ZOS wanted people to trade crowns for gold, they would do a system like guild wars 2 where they can control it.
    This no rules against trading outside of store in any of my guilds, WTS / WTB spamming however is not legal simply as it will generate spam, asking for price or request crafting is ok.

    And ZOS probably has no issue with gold traded for gifted items as it increase crown store sales.

    Thanks for the info :)

    What do you think is a appropriate price in gold for crowns, personally?
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    Based on the ToS seems like as long as you're not exchanging anything for actual real money, then it's fair game.
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    I don't think I'd risk until we get an official policy from ZOS on it.
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