Most people say it's necessary for the craft bag. But I'm not paying 15 dollars a month for how little I play this game now

worth it to have dlc access/craft bag/exp etc and the crown allotment

I still think the game should have stayed sub-only. (Though I blame the players for the change more than ZOS.)

Depends. If you need 1500 crowns, then yes, definitely worth it. If you want to try a DLC without buying it, then yes it is worth it.
If you have all DLCs and plenty of inventory room, all costumes dyed, all your houses furnished the way you want, then probably not.

You can certainly do without, but crafters will get withdrawal symptoms soon without their craft bag and so do decorators. Pro tip: if your inventory is full and you have at least one trustworthy friend who logs in regularly, send him/her a mail with things that clog your inventory so they can return the mail to you. Your mail box will become a temporary item storage able to hold 6 stacks of items for 30days per mail.

It's a decision you have to make yourself based on how often you play & how much of that game time you are willing to dedicate to organisation & inventory control.

I cancelled my sub a few months back because I wasn't playing much ESO & was putting more of my game-time in another game.. but when I started to play more ESO again.. I just didn't want all my game time to be consumed with tedious inventory control & so I re-subbed. So I don't think it's 'required" but for me it is currently worth it.

Hard to say, if u like hoarding and crafting its secretly mandatory. or a very expensive qol improvement that saves u from relogging to storage alts.

If u want to do (enjoybale) vet random dungeons, u r better of without it.

My vote goes to "not at all", cause im still salty for last year:
Main "feature" of sub is free dlc access, there was 2 real dlcs: summerset, i had to buy it extra cause we call them chapter and murkmire, which was a "free" login reward in november. thus the sub gave me free access to nothing. tyvm!

In some situations where you don't own any of the content? Absolutely. If you bought the ESO Collection and you're only missing the dungeon DLCs plus Murkmire and Clockwork City? Nah. If you're like me and you prefer to buy the DLCs outright? Absolutely not.

There's a large segment of the playerbase that falls into these gaps where it's not worth it and I'm not going to start subscribing after spending hundreds of dollars on the chapters and DLCs.

Enemoriana wrote: »

Ratzkifal wrote: »

Depends. If you need 1500 crowns, then yes, definitely worth it. If you want to try a DLC without buying it, then yes it is worth it.
If you have all DLCs and plenty of inventory room, all costumes dyed, all your houses furnished the way you want, then probably not.

You can certainly do without, but crafters will get withdrawal symptoms soon without their craft bag and so do decorators. Pro tip: if your inventory is full and you have at least one trustworthy friend who logs in regularly, send him/her a mail with things that clog your inventory so they can return the mail to you. Your mail box will become a temporary item storage able to hold 6 stacks of items for 30days per mail.

1650 crowns.

And craft bag is worse then skooma! All this inventory management and sending letters are so terrible, boring and takes so much time...

@Enemoriana You are right, they added 150 crowns on that. However my point there was that 1500 crowns cost the same as one month of ESO+. So if you want to buy 1500 crowns, buy ESO+ instead and get both crowns and benefits.

Never thought I would buy it (I was pissed at this game in 2016) but I bought it this month and it's well worth it. The crafting bag alone is worth it., then add the double bank space, extra crowns, extra XP etc and I'm sold.

I'm a pack rat, so the extra storage space and craft bag is really worthwhile to me. I also have a big house so the more item slots provided from ESO+ is also appealing.
I also don't feel like it's something you HAVE to have tho, just to play. I've gone some time before without a sub and not felt like I was really missing out.
The crowns every month are nice too because while I'm not a big crown store shopper, getting them monthly lets me save up and usually be able to buy whatever I want if something does show up in the store that catches my fancy without having to buy crowns.

Pretty good to acces all content imo.
And since you got crown each time you sub, at the end you can buy the DLC you really need and later stop eso+ if you want.
The crafting bag is also very help full, but I don't think it's mandatory if you just sell stuff at regular time and extend your bag to max.
My friend don't have eso+ and buy few DLC, but now he regret a bit, should have just do like me to acces to all, it's cheaper to start with eso+ than buy all dlc in a row if you can afford it.

So, yes, it's definitively worth it but it's not mandatory at all.

Matchimus wrote: »

No idea what SWTOR means but it is mandatory if you don't want to feel constrained at every corner. Without it is a nightmare to manage your inventory...forget crafting...you will be forever be vending or destroying items, and of course...you will be leaving items in chests annoying other players.

SWTOR is : Stars Wars The Old Republic (an other MMORPG, but never playing it so can't explain more)

SoLooney wrote: »

Most people say it's necessary for the craft bag. But I'm not paying 15 dollars a month for how little I play this game now

Thanks for the reminder. I ment to cancel my membership and just did. Thing is, I was supporting Zenimax with two memberships, one on PC, the other on Xbox One. Since I don't play much on PC lately, I canceled it. After all, I am not seeing the "great rewards" where I need to spend more money to claim them.

That said, I find it worth it IF I am playing. Since I am playing 2 or 3 times a week on Xbox, it's still worth it for me. As soon as I play less, I will cancel it. After all it's only worth it if I am playing.

The "new perks" for ESO+ is a slap in the face. What is so great about being have to spend more money to get benefits for a membership where people who don't have a membership can't buy it? Talk about "you can only buy stuff from us if you pay us with a membership". Who's stupid idea is that? "Exclusive"? What is so exclusive if I have to pay to be able to buy from you? How stupid is that.

So yeah, because of this, I dropped a subscription since I wasn't gaining anything new with the slap to the face. Other than that, it's worth when playing.

Think of it this way - would you rather spend $20 to see a terrible Avengers movie (and come out disgusted 2 hours later) or would you take that money and actually get some use from it with an ESO sub?

Obviously your options to spend $20 are virtually unlimited. But, given those two choices....