I feel the real reason behind these events are for marketing purposes. I never wanted to believe that before.
I believe this now since you can now BUY event tickets from the crown store. I've worked hard to get my event tickets and so far have done all event daily quests so selling the tickets in the store is insulting to me. I had to grind the daily quests to earn my tickets wich I was very proud off since I stopped doing what I was working on at the time to participate in the events.

I think zos should have sold different type event tickets that went towards rare pets yea but not the indrik mounts. Then it wouldnt be so insulting....its nice to be proud of earning something or achieving something in eso that cant be bought.

If you cant do db and tg event dailies we have the jester life festival...maybe you can earn even tickets for that. Good luck.😊

InvictusApollo wrote: »

wishlist14 wrote: »

I feel the real reason behind these events are for marketing purposes. I never wanted to believe that before.
I believe this now since you can now BUY event tickets from the crown store. I've worked hard to get my event tickets and so far have done all event daily quests so selling the tickets in the store is insulting to me. I had to grind the daily quests to earn my tickets wich I was very proud off since I stopped doing what I was working on at the time to participate in the events.

I think zos should have sold different type event tickets that went towards rare pets yea but not the indrik mounts. Then it wouldnt be so insulting....its nice to be proud of earning something or achieving something in eso that cant be bought.

If you cant do db and tg event dailies we have the jester life festival...maybe you can earn even tickets for that. Good luck.😊

Look at it differently: ZOS has put a price on your grind. A price in real money. Your grind saved you that exact amount of money. Your grind suddenly gained real value in real world.
I hope I helped

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What if ZoS looks at the number of people who have actually done these quests/advanced through the guild ranks and thinks 'not enough people have played this content, must find a way to force players to play through it. Who knows, maybe they'll even enjoy it after they try.'

Perhaps next year, the CWC event's tickets will be gated behind a daily completion of vAS HM

I mean, tickets aside, these ARE thief's guild and dark brotherhood anniversary events, right?

What do you expect from anniversary event aside from rewarding you for participate in the content?

The whole event ticket thing is getting a bit grindy isn't it. I'm a little surprised haven't thought to reward ticket fragments for every daily in the zone and make you collect all of them to get just one ticket. Seems to be the direction. One daily ought to be enough, especially when the "event" isn't so much an event as a reminder that the 3 year old content that few really liked that much anyway still exists.

As for the locked behind DLC and quest. All I'm saying is there are going to be a lot of people who end up with 3/4 berries at the end of this cycle and are pissed. Maybe they spend the $ to buy the berry in the crown store or maybe they just feel pissed and extorted. I don't think that would be the strategy I would be using to drive crown purchases. More flies with honey and all that. Having awesome items like this months stick mount, infernal spider, and cadwell costume seems the better way to go. What an awesome crown store month by the way. Totally makes up for last months dud. Hope the new crates are as cool.

What I wanted to say in the 1st place is that I do not really mind doing certain faction quests, but I would like to have at least the freedom to pick the type of daily quest I want, to get those tickets. 1 ticket for the easy ones, 2 tickets for the group quests, like world bosses. A year ago we had a similar DB/TG event when each daily quest rewarded double loot, and I did those a lot (Kvatch arena/Minotaur, Hew's Bane world bosses, etc), so the difference was that I could do whatever I wanted, thieving or just fetch quests like get back the lost ring, baubles, whatever. This year the devs try to force us doing heists and sacraments.

I started playing Elder Scrolls with Arena (to many years ago ) and I have played almost all the sequels, but I was never a big fan of the dark/evil guilds, except in some versions I joined the thieves because the story was good or it was fun. I really like the concept of the Elder Scrolls hero, the prisoner that starts from nothing and can redeem himself by his/her actions.

In ESO I am sort of forced to do these guilds, so I have this "evil" alt who joined DB and does their dirty work. Sometimes it is fun, the DB story line is interesting, but randomly killing NPCs get's boring quickly, reminding me of my archer sniper from Skyrim that one-shoted almost every mob.

kind_hero wrote: »

I don't like how the tickets are earned in this event.

Why can't I earn two tickets/day doing TG or DB daily quests? Why I must do both, and why the event tries to force me do a certain type of daily quest?

I started to lose interest in this more and more grindy elusive indrik mount because of the way devs are trying to make you play the content they want, instead of leting you play how you like.

Sure, you will say that none forces me to do these events or quests, which is true; I decided to skip it.

Another issue is that these quests are locked behind some story quests and you need a certain guild level to do them. Who thought this is a good idea? So if I do not have the prerequisites I need to rush the quests just to get to the specific daily the devs want me to do. Same could be said about the Morrowind event. This is a big change compared to .. let's say Clockwork event, which was maybe to easy or linear to get, but still... because it is an event, everyone should be able to do it fairly quickly.

Fortunately there are plenty of events, and I am not in a hurry to get that mount, but I am dissapointed on how this event works compared to the previous ones.

You said it yourself, "earn"

You must earn the tickets.

There is always the upcoming jester festival also which I believe will last for 5 whole weeks, that is plenty of time to get back any tickets you didn't get by not choosing to do DB quests and more.

Remember this event is to celebrate both dlc's, it makes sense they would offer an event ticket each for both factions.

i enjoyed the extra nudge to finish the content i shelved over the years. :-)

but i understand! :-)

kind_hero wrote: »

I don't like how the tickets are earned in this event.
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I decided to skip it.

Ditto. I haven't run any of my chars through theses areas, as the quests are just tedious.

Fortunately, the last Event allowed me to get the berry I needed, plus 10 tickets. I knew I wasn't going to want to do this Event at all, so I just insta-purchased when it went Live, then ignored it.

Jester's Festival is just around the corner. Wait for that one if this one doesn't do it for you. There is ample time to get what you need, with extras.

I have to ask, why exactly did you buy the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLCs if you aren't interested in the content those DLCs offer? Why do these events have to have arbitrary rules for people that want to avoid doing the content within the scope of that event? An event designed for content based around stealing and killing is going to entail those characteristics into its criteria, much like the Undaunted event required doing dungeons and Midyear required PvP. As for the pre-requisite requirement for these events, both the Undaunted and PvP require you to be level 10 to even attend so how is it really any different from being level 3 for those Skill lines; it would realistically require the same amount of time to reach that bar as it would hitting level 10 so why all this complaining?

In the amount of time it took you to create this thread, you could've already reached level 3 in both skill lines and started earning your tickets.

Silver_Strider wrote: »

I have to ask, why exactly did you buy the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLCs if you aren't interested in the content those DLCs offer? Why do these events have to have arbitrary rules for people that want to avoid doing the content within the scope of that event? An event designed for content based around stealing and killing is going to entail those characteristics into its criteria, much like the Undaunted event required doing dungeons and Midyear required PvP. As for the pre-requisite requirement for these events, both the Undaunted and PvP require you to be level 10 to even attend so how is it really any different from being level 3 for those Skill lines; it would realistically require the same amount of time to reach that bar as it would hitting level 10 so why all this complaining?

In the amount of time it took you to create this thread, you could've already reached level 3 in both skill lines and started earning your tickets.

To answer your 1st question, I pay a sub, so I can access all DLCs, and use the crafting bag which I use quite a lot.

In regards to your last statement, I am level 10 in Thieves Guild, I did their story quest to the end, and with my "evil" alt I could do the sacraments, if I wanted to. The problem, as I see it, is not so much the gating of these quests, but limiting quite a lot the freedom of the player in choosing the repeatable quest for getting the tickets.

The fact that I did the Thieves Guild quests does not necessarily mean that I enjoyed all their daily quests or everything related to them. But Hew's Bane is one of my favourite zones in all Tamriel, and Abah's Landing one of the cities I like most, even though I am not a big fan of the Thieves Guild.
The heist or sacraments mini-games are not something that I really enjoy, because of the limited mechanics - even though my main thief is a nightblade who has a set that allows her to run while sneaking. So doing these is a chore for me. And I am a guy that enjoyed stealth a lot in Deus Ex or Dishonored (where you could climb walls, use secret passages or distractions, whatever, instead of avoiding NPCs with lamps).

So TL;DR version is, I would have liked more options, that's all.
ESO starts to feel grindy