Adding those "Grand Research Scrolls" they are pushing right now in the log-in announcements would work really well as a daily reward. Place it within the last 3 days of the month and that'll get people logging on for sure.

They are useful for new players

I used crown fortifying meals when I was not able to cook my own food

When the rewards were better players complained because they missed out on end of month rewards. Not everybody can play every day. There were also people that complained giving away crates was a predatory practice targeting players that have addiction problems possibly influencing them to buy crates they would normally not buy. I think ZoS listened to the first complaint and that is why the one decent (by many players definitions) reward happens mid month. The crate thing I'm guessing is based on how it affected revenue. Who knows though? With countries suggesting or passing legislation dealing with things like crown crates maybe that influenced the change?

The rewards can't be all that great or players with limited time will complain even louder.

Honestly, I much prefer GW2's model of daily rewards. They're always the same, but as a result, the final reward is guaranteed to be desirable. You get to choose between a number of useful things, like valuable mats or currencies. Also, it doesn't matter if you miss a day or ten, because there's no monthly reset; you get to continue looting where you left off. It's a system that requires less effort from the devs and is, at the same time, much more forgiving toward players.

I'd already be happy if they ditched the confirmation dialogue for deleting the trash items.

I want to preface my statement with the fact that I understand these are free items that we just get for showing up, so at that level whatever they choose to give us is just fine. BUT there is one simple change that I feel would assuage a lot of the pain points people have.

The idea would be to carry on doing the daily login rewards much as they have been ( a few noteworthy gets and the rest are filler consumables) but add the ability for players to decon these items at the same rate they could if the item had been received from a crown crate.

My reasoning is that one of the many arguments I've seen mentioned and personally share is the fact that crown crates don't feel good as a microtransaction. I think it's pretty plain that microtransactions are here to stay, but I prefer to buy what i want rather than waste money trying for what I want (and likely not getting it). The crown gems are a nice touch to get the items you specifically want and looping daily login rewards into that gives greater level of control to players. They are still "paying" for the crates because they have to login in, and time spent in the game by players is good for the game. For those who enjoy buying crown crates, the option still exists and the people who don't buy crown crates likely still wouldn't buy them but they might engage with the system and actually get hyped. at the rate these items are given for daily rewards they wouldn't allow players to simply buy everything in the crates just for logging in, but they would get some stuff. These consumables would also remain in daily login rewards so that for the players who make use of them the option to do so still exists.

Another option would be to add an additional daily drop for players who are currently subscribed to eso plus, but I imagine that getting added would ruffle a few feathers despite the fact it would add more value to the subscription service which further guarantees revenue for the company.

This is all with the huge caveat that I fully understand I'm being picky about what is otherwise a completely free system, but it's a change I feel like would benefit everyone,including zos.

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

The best QoL change to daily rewards would be for ESO+ subs to automatically have it dumped in their Crafting Bag.
That way if you go on vacation you won't miss out on all those buried-late-in-the-month goodies.

That would be contrary to the very purpose of "daily login rewards," which is to reward players for logging in every day, and thereby encourage players to log in every day.