They did make some of the other previously limited time only houses available again at one point. So it's possible.

I'm not sure about Tel Galen though.

Like a great many others, I felt it was hideously ugly and Telvanni only in name. I did have enough crowns at the time to afford it but missed the limited time only sale by a month. And wasn't disappointed that I'd missed it.

The Morrowind (single player) Telvanni tower home remains a personal fave. So I toured Tel Galen and tried really hard to even tolerate it's grossly misshapen form and flesh atronach skin. But I couldn't.

It's easily the biggest artistic blunder in a game that I've seen. Surely literally dozens of ZO staff had the same aghast reaction as nearly everyone else. How did this abomination make it to release?

My hope was that they'd admit their blunder and try again. It'd be bloody hard to do worse. I'm sure most people who bought it would be happier with a proper Telvanni tower. And they could offer a crown refund to anyone who bought the original Tel Galen and didn't like it's more authentic replacement.

Well, you got your wish.

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/55689

Derunik wrote: »

It's just that it'll be the closest thing to a Telvanni home in this game, and that's why I want it.

Totally understand the feeling. I miss my shroom tower.

If I'd won it in like those end of year giveaway boxes, I'd probably have used it. Possibly teleporting in and out so I NEVER had to see the hideous exterior.

But paying real money and so much for it?

I don't know what I'm going to do. Probably just add to this to huge pile of ways-ESO-disappoints-compared-to-the-single-player-games, like having classes etc. etc.

Derunik wrote: »

I'd argue that it was a bad idea to remove it in the first place because it's such an iconic place (as in it's a Telvanni mushroom house) and is really great for role players. It doesn't need a timer on it to drive sales.

It was a massive blunder. Morrowind single-player is still a fan favourite and it's really the game which made the company.

ESO's DLC version had the potential to tap into that and they screwed themselves not only by doing the towers so badly, but also by making them crown store only. For anyone who loved that home, it effectively more than doubled the cost of the DLC. Which would have lost them DLC / box sales.

And being limited time only, yeah even worse.

From memory it was also the first (or nearly) playable race style manor to be crown store only. It set a bad precedent. After that I now assume that the remaining playable races which don't have manors won't ever get them, except in the crown store. Which is what happened with Murkmire. Making those races much less appealing.

Flipside - the game already sucks balls for magic users.

With all magic locked in classes and only a single magic weapon skill line, and spellcrafting having been teased but now almost certainly never going to happen, a lot of fans of the single-player Telvanni towers probably wouldn't play ESO anyway.

Derunik wrote: »

I don't think we can do anything about it though.

As consumers we become more poach-able. Ripe for the pickings by some other hungry little game developer. That's who'll do something about it.

TES single player games made the company fabulously rich by allowing players delicious freedom of character customization and within the world.

ESO crammed us into classes, teased spellcrafting and then didn't deliver, etc. etc.

TES single player games offered even more freedom to players courtesy of modding.

ESO gave us *** systems and UI's which practically force the use of addons. But nobody is fooled. Addons ain't mods. And of course things like houses and mounts which are free as addons have been very pricey from the crown store.

Over at Skyrim, several attempts have also been made to monetize modding which haven't been warmly received.

The company is abandoning it's heartland.

Derunik wrote: »

This game is going to run out of content soon anyway, as in most of Tamriel is already in the game, so it won't be online for more than a decade longer.

I reckon it potentially has a lot more life in it than that.

And they haven't covered everything.

https://imgur.com/a/Unbghia

Derunik wrote: »

Don't think they're even allowed to touch all regions of Tamriel, let stand regions outside of it.

Have you ever looked closely at the map UI? It goes all the way up past Tamriel to The Aurbis (aka everything).

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Aurbis

I don't think anything is off limits.

Though their having done a DLC for both Morrowind and dealing with dragons, and having covered all of the familiar playable race's homelands I am curious to know what next year could bring. Arguably Murkmire was a bit meagre and Argonians could do with more coverage but unfortunately I don't think they're that popular.

Seems like geographically they've covered Valenwood, but where's the Falinesti (their walking tree capital)? If it's not in Valenwood it must be elsewhere.

Like one the many and varied planes of Oblivion. Which Falinesti or not could serve as DLC zones.

Here's some pictures of what I have done with my Tel Galen over the years.







Maybe someone can share what they have done with their's if they choose to buy it.
--Also buying it furnished gives you a lot of Telvanni Furnishings, just saying.

Someday, the Telvanni coast and Port Telvannis will be a chapter. A whole Telvanni chapter.
I hope that then, we will get more mature mushroom towers that use a less... unfortunate color for the mushroom portions.

Until then however, Tel Galen presents an opportunity for some creative decorating and lighting to minimize the slick, raw flesh pink interior.

I previewed Tel Galen today. It looks like a tumor. I have fond memories of the original Morrowind mushroom towers and Tel Uvirith (which I heavily modded to make it even better) and Tel Galen doesn't resemble them. It looks more like something you'd study in oncology school.

This is what we needed:



Mushroom stems don't usually look like lumpy flesh with exposed blood vessels.

it looks like corprus disease turned into a tower and sold for insane amount of real life money.

Derunik wrote: »

Looks pretty good, not very morrowind-like tho xD

I think that comes from attempts to mask its hideousness.

I toured it again yesterday and thought I could try covering the ugly with x, y, z but in the end the picture of the house I had in my mind was less hideous but still not a Telvanni mushroom tower.

And certainly not worth $80.

Holycannoli wrote: »

I previewed Tel Galen today. It looks like a tumor.

Telvanni Tumor Towers. That's what I called them when giving feedback in the open beta.

Granted, the Telvanni are giant cancerous *** but it wasn't necessary to make their houses look like them.

The bad guys having great architectural style is a fine Elder Scrolls tradition, eg. the Ayleids.

Holycannoli wrote: »

Mushroom stems don't usually look like lumpy flesh with exposed blood vessels.

I have wondered if someone in ZO's housing department has a meat fetish.

I might have been happy with Bosmer pods except they're crammed to the gills with dead animal parts. While I know that in the case of Bosmer that fits their culture, the concept art for their pods doesn't have tusks framing most doors. And they could have given us dirt floors.