Xanmeer Lakehouse price proves ESO is Healthy.

Kuwhar · January 2019

Davor wrote: »

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You are reading way too much into this.

The game is priced at a point that will appeal to the biggest number of people and still turn a solid profit.

The luxury houses are priced at a point where they appeal to a small number of people and turn a mega profit.

Silver_Strider · January 2019

Vaerth wrote: »

generalmyrick wrote: »

Doesn't the price of the xanmeer lakehouse prove that eso is healthy? I mean 150 dollars worth the crowns? WOW!

For that price it better be a guild house, accessible by all and permissions granted by guild owner / manor owner.

Why would anyone pay that much to have a huge place all to themselves? Seems... silly...

It has a really nice aquarium XD.

yodased · January 2019

Well obviously you are stuck on wanting to be mad about it, so good luck with that. None of those analogies even make sense

zaria · January 2019

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Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Are people really going to want to buy this house after they race change all their argonians to other races?

Only reason to race change from Argonians is that its now more options and you was just Argonian because meta.
In that case you would not buy an Argonian house.

Flooding is more of an concern in that house. Seriously, some bug and its filled with water. Your necromancer reach lvl 50 and need the gold necropotente set in chest but its underwater, bug is not fixed until the Q3 dungeon dlc

AhPook_Is_Here · January 2019

yeap

I always reason correctly; and I reason this to be true. :.

El_Borracho · January 2019

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Suckers are born every minute. If ESO was suffering, there wouldn't have had all of these DLCs/story updates in the last few years. Stop trying to predict the fall of ZOS.

Chaos2088 · January 2019

nope

Yeah house pricing needs to go down......Zos you would get more people buying them! aka more money!!

Zathras · January 2019

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Kuwhar wrote: »

If i was ZoS I would put a single sweetroll that does nothing on the crownstore for $20,000 just to watch the outrage.

They can price things however they want, they are trying to sell a product; if you think it's too high? Ok that's fine, share your view and move on.

It doesn't make them immoral or evil to "overprice" luxuries.

Guaranteed if you all owned a business or sold a product, you'd sell it for the highest amount you can.

AND keep in mind, ZOS has the numbers on what sells and what doesn't; they don't pull these prices out of a hat.

Uh, no. But, do go out there and try that as a marketing and economic objective. I'd definitely be interested in hearing your feedback afterwards.

Davor · January 2019

Chaos2088 wrote: »

Yeah house pricing needs to go down......Zos you would get more people buying them! aka more money!!

You do know that those ones and zeros cost so much money? There must be a shortage of them for the high cost.

zaria · January 2019

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Marketing is still screaming because of WGT became an dungeon before homestead.
The emperor palace, the seat of power. This it the place the war is fought about.
Only 100.000 crowns for an limited time.
Offer priority access to any campaign (tank queue)
Come with it own stable master and crafting writ board.

Claudman · January 2019

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I don't even want a giant mansion man...

I wanted a small humble Murkmire House which looks like it can actually be owned by one of my lizards, not a whole one million costing drakes worth of a Xanmeer structure. Where are the SMALL HOUSES, Zenimax? Not all of us want huge colossal homes, some of us want small or medium houses in these neat new zones. It doesn't help that this Xanmeer like other notable homes looks like they could fit an entire Argonian tribe. They make good guild houses, but they're definitely not good "one character homes".

Akrasjel · January 2019

nope

For the whales anyway

Tigerseye · January 2019

nope

It's a lot of money.

It's not like it's even a particularly complex house.

I quite like it, but I can't see the value in it, at this price.

myskyrim26 wrote: »

Look, notable homes are luxury things.

Luxury is always expensive. Is anyone complaining about a price of a Lexus car or a Patek Philippe watch? Or Mauboussin icecream that costs $1000?

Some things are expensive. They are for rich people. This is life.

How is it notable, though?

What about it says luxury to you?

Zypheran wrote: »

ZOS logic:
Why sell 15 houses at $10 when you can sell 1 at $150 dollars and reduce server load!
I did a poll on this some time ago and you would be surprised by the percentage of people willing to spend $100 or even more on a house.
For some, the high price is an incentive as it offers exclusivity.
Personally though, I just think that the game would be all the richer (figuratively and literally) if they made housing more accessible to the masses by not charging monstrous prices.

That's why it should be somewhere in between.

Should be about $40 (or $25, assumuing someone bought their Crowns on sale).

Then they would probably sell about 10 (going by your example) and make $400, rather than $150.

pshift · January 2019

These whiny threads every time there's a new notable home are obnoxious. It's a meaningless luxury item. If you think it's too expensive, don't buy it.

Personally I think it's pretty awesome, I really freaking love the underground aquarium. This is actually the first house I've ever been interested in. I don't mind spending $150 on something frivolous that makes me happy. I'll spend more than that going out with friends tonight and that will only be for a few hours of entertainment. I will enjoy this house for much longer; plus I'm supporting continued development of my favorite game. Stop shaming people for how they spend their paper.

Ananoriel · January 2019

nope

Nah it is just overpriced, it has nothing to do with the scale of the playerbase.

proteinexe · January 2019

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I think $150 is what they want to charge, and personally having 3 mansions.

What i DO have a problem with, is the amount of Furnishings.

If you'r going to charge the amount of a pair of shoes. Let us design our houses without restrictions.

Make it 1000 please (at least)

wolf486 · January 2019

nope

Very overpriced, more so since I find most of the crown store items over the past two years are very below average in appearance. Especially the costumes. Still can't figure out why so many newer ones have that ugly plastic shine to them

Red_Feather · January 2019

This all reminds me of The Sims.

Sheezabeast · January 2019

nope

If ZOS released a rock and said it was limited time, some collector out there would still buy the damned rock. No indication of health beyond committed collectors maintaining their wallet strings and impulsivity. Do I care if they do this? Nope. Does it effect me? Nope. If I’m not going to buy something I’m just not. Doesn’t discourage others from collecting every pokeymans in the game

Donari · January 2019

nope

The price might prove many things, but is hardly dispositive proof that the game is healthy (or unhealthy, for that matter). It's one small factor in a slew of them for the game.

Personally I feel they'd make up in volume anything they lost by lowering the price, money wise. If I was a multi millionaire who thought of hundreds of dollars as pocket change, and if this were my primary game, then sure I'd splurge on houses. As it is I'm financially comfortable but my whim level is rather lower than that and so they get no extra money from me. Add enough me's up and they've lost sales.

idk · January 2019

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I do not think the price of the home is relevant to the health of Zos.

Certainly the poll is irrelevant, but entertaining that someone would think there is a correlation.

All that price means is Zos feels enough will pay it. LOL at the poll

EmEm_Oh · January 2019

15K for a home. Ok. All this means is the home will probably be unique due to few people buying it. That's ok, too. If you have the money, you'll want to know few people are going to own this home.

I wouldn't want ZOS to make every home inexpensive. That would make no sense.

Amphithoe · January 2019

nope

For those prices, we should at least be able to earn crowns in-game, like in (dare I say) Fallout 76.

Casdha · January 2019

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I guess it depends on how you get your crowns. I pay for ESO+ to get the crafting bag and access to DLCs I choose not to purchase in case I ever do get a chance to run them with friends. I don't pay a dime extra for crowns yet I get 19,800 of them a year. I have to spend them on something. I look at the things I buy with the crowns as if ZOS just used these to replace the old loyalty rewards, but now I get to choose what I get with them.

Aedrion · January 2019

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myskyrim26 wrote: »

Look, notable homes are luxury things.

Luxury is always expensive. Is anyone complaining about a price of a Lexus car or a Patek Philippe watch? Or Mauboussin icecream that costs $1000?

Some things are expensive. They are for rich people. This is life.

This has to be one of the dumbest comments I've ever read on any forum, anywhere.

How does a digital house in a digital game that doesn't cost the developer anything substantial to make compare even remotely to items you buy in real life, made with real materials, made by people in real factories and sold in real shops?

ZoS could sell this for €15 or €150 and it wouldn't matter. You can't sell a car for €150 or €15000, you wouldn't even earn back the materials! And don't tell me they have to earn back the manpower that went into this thing. It's an 80% copy of any other Xanmeer.

An ingame item for the rich people? This is life?!

Bouldercleave · January 2019

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Just like a movie theater.

You buy the ticket cheap.

You pay $159,295,421.35 for popcorn.

You may or may not like the movie you picked.

SirAndy · January 2019

Sheezabeast wrote: »

If ZOS released a rock and said it was limited time, some collector out there would still buy the damned rock

A rock you say, eh?

MasterSpatula · January 2019

There's more gross classism in the pricing of prestige items in the Crown Store than there is in the airplane boarding process.

But when, in the last few years, has anything happened that would give anyone the impression that the people setting the CS prices care what any of us plebs think? They're despicably greedy and have never been subtle about it. Nothing at all will change until the people who don't have to work hard for their money also decide that the prices are too steep.

Davor · January 2019

MasterSpatula wrote: »

prices are too steep.

No, not at all. I said it before and I will gladly say it again. This is just Zenimax telling us their game is worthless. Doesn't matter how much money you invest in the game, doesn't matter how much blood, sweat and tears went into making this game and expansions, it's still worthless when they put out a $150 house.

Non of this "market will bear what it will" or "Zenimax will see how much they can get away with". When you are selling something that costs you millions to make and sell it for 12 bucks, you are saying your product is worthless because you are selling it so cheap. So since the house takes less money to make, less people and time do make as well, it's worth more because you need to pay more.

So yeah, Zenimax is pricing it properly. They are just saying their game is worthless, and in it doesn't mean very much at all since they can rely on the big purchases. Just surprised they just don't go full out free to play.

So sad how Zenimax and Bethesda publishing really thinks of their games. All that hard work for nothing really.

mxxo · January 2019

nope

What is healthy about this price?