Currency exchange system

hagk · August 2018

Hey everyone.
Now that it's been confirmed that it's legal to exchange crown store items for in-game gold, wouldn't the players benefit from an official currency exchange system offered by the game itself? (like it happens in some other MMOs)
I think it would be important to standardize gold/crown ratios and to prevent potential scammers, even though I understand that it could ruin the "free market" experience for some players.
What do you think?

rafaelcsmaia · August 2018

If by currency exchange system you mean be able to put crowns into trade windows, then yes.

hagk · August 2018

That's a possibility, yes.

TheStealthDude · August 2018

No, we don't need a fixed ratio of crowns-to-gold. If you don't want to be scammed, do your own homework and figure out the going rate. The game doesn't need to be that dumbed down.

Kiralyn2000 · August 2018

Currency-exchange systems only really work well in MMOs when the "earned-in-game currency" is a limited one. Like Refined Dilithium in Star Trek Online - you can only refine 8k-9k a day, per character. And even then, they have plenty of other things that Dil can be used for]and have to do periodic "Dilithium sink" events to keep inflation and exchange rates under control.
(they tried to set up a similar system in Neverwinter, but then sabotaged it by giving Founder Pack purchasers large piles of refined currency and making it the auction currency. This let the ca$h players and Big Market Moguls buy up all the Crowns (well, Zen) and nuked the economy, at least while I was playing)

If you do an exchange where the in-game currency can be farmed/obtained in infinite quantities? It gets nuts. So if ESO did this, it couldn't be for gold.

BruceAndre · February 2019

10 Crown Store Soul Gems = 400 Crowns
10 Filled Soul Gems from a Vendor = 5000 Gold

40 Crowns = 500 Gold
4 Crowns = 50 Gold

Best Value - 21,000 Crowns for $150.00 (yes I rounded up a penny)
Same Value - 14,000 Crowns for $100.00

You could buy 350 Crown Store Soul Gems for 14,000 Crowns
You could buy 350 Filled Soul Gems from a Vendor for 175,000 Gold

14,000 Crowns = 175,000 Gold
14,000 Crowns = $100.00
175,000 Gold = $100.00

$1 = 140 Crowns
$1 = 1750 Gold

AlnilamE · February 2019

Only if the House takes a cut of at least 30%.

These games that have money to in-game currency exchanges have very unaffordable prices for sought after items.

redspecter23 · February 2019

If they want to add an automated player to player exchange, I think that's fine. The market would regulate itself. If you're suggesting a way to let players just cash in gold for crowns directly without another player, I can't see ZOS going for that. In the first example, they still get a sale for the crowns from someone.

BattleAxe · February 2019

No simply put this would diminish the value of gold

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