What do you think about Artifacts only being obtainable from the crown store?

Hamish999 · June 2019

I like it

I don't want them locked behind some vet DLC dungeon hard mode no death speed run achievement.
They are fine where they are on the crown store.

Jhalin · June 2019

I don't like it

Jeirno wrote: »

Jhalin wrote: »

More cosmetics should be awarded through play

umm theres like 60 different motif styles you can obtain through play, Outfit styles from BGs. Outfits from one of the Morrowind public dungeons and Elsweyr public dungeons. Cyrodiil Arena Gladiator stuff and so on. Theres like what 5 artifacts so far that are crown store only?? and then the arms pack things in crown store that you can buy with even tickets later this year. I think its very reasonable.

It’s taken over 4 full years before another earnable Mount was added to the game

And you compare a small handful of cosmetics to the literal thousands that have gone into the crown, you’ll have to forgive me if the 1:500 game-to-store ratio doesn’t impress

ZOS is designing things that encourage pay over play and it doesn’t make for a very rewarding gameplay experience.

luen79rwb17_ESO · June 2019

It's cosmetics and to be honest they're quite ugly so far. ESO has introduced much more appealing weapons IMO.

I hope some of ESO's weapon designs are introduced as artifacts on future ES games.

Soleya · June 2019

I don't like it

A few of my friends quit playing the game because items that should have been earn-able (Undaunted Weapons for example) were crown store only. They got frustrated and quit.

So I don't think making certain things crown store only is actually good for the game in the long run.

Saturn · June 2019

I don't like it

Hamish999 wrote: »

I don't want them locked behind some vet DLC dungeon hard mode no death speed run achievement.
They are fine where they are on the crown store.

That's not the only alternative tbf. They could do more of what they did with Elsweyr, where they are awarded through doing long quest-chains, which before Elsweyr rarely gave you cool cosmetics, but just titles (Wrothgar being the exception, as it made clearing the zone and doing the collectible stuff worth it).

Saturn · June 2019

I don't like it

Jhalin wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

Jhalin wrote: »

More cosmetics should be awarded through play

umm theres like 60 different motif styles you can obtain through play, Outfit styles from BGs. Outfits from one of the Morrowind public dungeons and Elsweyr public dungeons. Cyrodiil Arena Gladiator stuff and so on. Theres like what 5 artifacts so far that are crown store only?? and then the arms pack things in crown store that you can buy with even tickets later this year. I think its very reasonable.

It’s taken over 4 full years before another earnable Mount was added to the game

And you compare a small handful of cosmetics to the literal thousands that have gone into the crown, you’ll have to forgive me if the 1:500 game-to-store ratio doesn’t impress

ZOS is designing things that encourage pay over play and it doesn’t make for a very rewarding gameplay experience.

I agree. I think it's pretty disappointing, because a large portion of the audience is fine with just buying their rewards for real money. I'm not saying stuff should be only obtainable through hard challenges in dungeons, but by just putting more rewards in the game, people would be far more incentivised to actually 100% a zone (like how GW2 rewarded completionists for example) or something along those lines.

Saturn · June 2019

I don't like it

luen79rwb17_ESO wrote: »

It's cosmetics and to be honest they're quite ugly so far. ESO has introduced much more appealing weapons IMO.

I hope some of ESO's weapon designs are introduced as artifacts on future ES games.

I don't disagree with you, but when its the Wabbajack in the store, or a replica Volendrung, or Dawnfang/Duskfang, then I think more people will care that it's a store exclusive cosmetic.