This one finally let the orc girl run a business of her own.

"Rosie Make Orc Cakes Good" will be opening for business shortly after these final cakes become available.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I switched to PC in the fall after performance frustrations on PS4 finally became unbearable. This is a really sad reason to be locked out of cakes from previous years. Like many others here, I have also long wished to have these as furnishings, but now the only option I'll have is the first cake I'd have no use for aesthetically. And what are the chances in the future that they'll ever "downgrade" to simpler, lower tier cakes like the early ones? Since they've decided to go the route of making them single furnishings rather than collectibles, can we at least make them tradeable so all players have access to them? I'd prefer they just make them available to everyone from the start, but at least that would be some middle ground.

Hey,

I understand your point of view and I can agreed. However it's kind of an achievement furniture for those who have done the quest back then. If we don't have done the quest we shouldn't have access to those x)

But I will have 3 cake on 5 so I'm happy with that

Most of my gold goes into housing and tbh I would've been seriously cut if the first two cakes were significantly different than the third cake, since I missed out on grabbing those two.

However, for those who want to collect them all including the newer ones it really sucks to feel like you're late to the party and there is quite literally no more cake for ya. Especially if you like creating food/bakery themed houses.

I like both suggestions put forth by @Delphinia and @Kittytravel in the spirit of the Anniversary event it'd be cool if ZOS allowed peeps to either buy the cake furnishings without having the memento or offer the memento for a significant amount of tickets (I think this is a reasonable option, since as mentioned above peeps with the memento can save more tickets).

Delphinia wrote: »

I've been supporting this game since beta and I feel a little slapped in the face to miss out on a cake because I didn't do a pve quest.

Afterall, I thought the point of the anniversary was a celebration of the game for ALL players..

to celebrate both the game and those players supporting the game.. no matter whether they pvp or pve or just subscribe, log in and explore the world....

I think it would be in their best interest to offer the cake furnishings to all players. Fine if they don't want to allow those players who didn't do the little pve quest (even if they were here and subscribers*cough*) to have the memento, but I think the furnishings themselves should at least be available to all players. If not all, then at least the ones who were actually here and playing the game on some level, whether in pve or pvp...

So, I just thought of something else..
those of us who were actually here, but may not have done the specific pve quest, should still be able to get the mementos and furnishings. Reason being is, we were still a part of the game in some capacity for that year... Isn't it an Anniversary? An "Annual" celebration?

There are those players, like myself who were participating in pvp.
There were players who were on a vacation, or had to spend a bit of time away for other rl reasons, but were still actively participating in the game on some level.. during that year either by just exploring, participating in pvp, or subscribing since launch.. as I have.

Why limit the mementos and furnishings at all actually? It seems to almost be an exclusive club and contradict the spirit of the event which is to celebrate the game and all players, regardless if they did one pve quest.

Furthermore, let's just say someone did do the quest and that's it. Let's say a majority of that year, that person never played, never subbed, never purchased anything in the crown store, but logged in and completed that one pve quest. That hardly seems fair to those players who have supported and continue to support this game. Also, sorry to bother you @ZOS_GinaBruno , I know you have a lot on your plate right now, but what message does this convey to your players? It almost seems to devalue their time and money they've spent on your game.

As was mentioned in an above post, if there are concerns over a little way to "show off" that you were here.. we do have pets that were given as rewards for certain months played and of course, the notorious Beta Monkey which yes, I had as well but don't use today.

I looked back at our household expenses and in just subbing alone, it's been well in the thousands. Not to mention all of the literally thousands in crown purchases on top of that.

@ZOS_GinaBruno , please consider how this excludes so many of your loyal supporters.

Tigerseye wrote: »

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

I have all mementos dating back to 2016 so I'll be able to get them all. But, I really wouldn't care if players who weren't playing back then were able to get them.

Frankly, I think that the cakes should just be available to everyone to purchase, regardless of whether they have the memento or not. I suppose ZOS thought it would be a nice gesture to long-time players to put a restriction on obtaining these, but I just don't see a reason to do so. These are furnishings that most players won't see. It's not like you can carry it around with you as a sign that you were here for so long. EDIT - and if you want to show off that you were here for the first anniversary event, you can just use the memento.

I would also rather have these as collectible furnishings, so I can place them in more than one home, but having them as individual furnishings is nice for those who want to fill their house with cake.

I'd go for the compromise of having them be tradable, but I don't think I'd spend my precious event tickets on purchasing extras to sell to other players. I suppose some would, considering they could probably charge a small fortune for them.

Yeah, I think some would, as they would prefer the gold, aren't that interesting in housing and are getting sick of Indriks, at this point.

Ha! Yes, fair point! But really, all they need to do is just have them available for anyone to purchase. I just don't see a reason to restrict them to having the memento. After all, you can't carry that furnishing around with you, so the only way to "show off" that you participated in the first anniversary event is to use the memento, which you would already have.

Does anyone remember how much they cost? I looked at them on PTS, but I can't recall the price. If they're 5 tickets each, then I'll have to be sure I have 12 tickets going into the event, but I seem to recall they were 2 tickets each?

It would be pretty cool if someone could confirm this, but the early celebrations had a unbound letter you received and using it began the quest. I thought I remember reading somewhere that if you could get ahold of one of these letters, you could start the quest and complete it when the cake guy returnd and unlock the momento for the year the letter was from. If this were true, then maybe it could unlock the cake furnishing too?

Tigerseye wrote: »

Darkhorse1975 wrote: »

It would be pretty cool if someone could confirm this, but the early celebrations had a unbound letter you received and using it began the quest. I thought I remember reading somewhere that if you could get ahold of one of these letters, you could start the quest and complete it when the cake guy returnd and unlock the momento for the year the letter was from. If this were true, then maybe it could unlock the cake furnishing too?

Oh, that only works while the cake guy is around?

Interesting...

I bought one, for a small fortune, will have to see if it works.

Think it will be the first year one, as the rest of the letters were bound?

I hope it does for you! I'd enjoy hearing if it works on not

Aisleyne wrote: »

@Jayne_Doe I believe the patch notes said 3 tickets.

Ah, thanks! That's fairly reasonable, then. But, I still want to make sure I end the Jesters Festival with 12 tickets, if I can. It all depends on if the RNG for the sow parts is as bad for me as it was for the voriplasm pet. Had to spend 15 tickets (and farm for several hours) to get it. Only have 6 tickets on me going into the Jesters Festival.

peacenote wrote: »

I went from interested to excited to extremely disappointed all in one thread.

I really want these to be anything but event tickets. I like the Indriks, I barely ever get enough tickets to cover the new berry per event. What if they add more than cakes? It is such a cool idea. But too many things are being added through event tickets.

I don't like it.

Initially, I also wondered why they would be tickets since so many other event related items are available for gold. I think people are just so happy they'll be available that the method seemed less important. But your post has made me rethink. What if they made the cakes from all years available to everyone for event tickets and then people with the momentos could buy the corresponding cakes for gold from the Impresario's assistant?

There are a lot of good ideas here.

The one thing I will continue to push for and stand behind is the request for all players to have access to all the cakes.

The anniversary is not an exclusive club.

The spirit of this is to celebrate the game as well as the players who have helped, help or will help make this game what it is..

There is more to this game than PVE questing.

To exclude those who played, play or will play the game in any capacity, whether it be through pve or pvp, subscribing, or just exploring the world on mount or by foot, is to ignore and neglect all of the players that have supported, support, or will support the game. It should not come down to, nor depend upon one pve quest.

Again, I will agree with everyone who would like the cakes to be available to everyone. I have all the mementos, so I can get all of them, and I really don't care if Susie Jones starts the game during the anniversary event and gets enough tickets to buy all of them. I really see no reason for these to be exclusive to having the memento. After all, the memento is the only thing you can really use to show off that you were here back then. Well, I guess you could decorate a home with them and invite everyone over to see the cakes so they can say "Wow, man, you were here back then? So cool!!! LOL.

I like the idea that those who have the memento can just buy them for gold from the Impresario's assistant. Or, at the very least, allow us to purchase additional cakes from him after we've purchased our first with tickets.

Also, from my PTS testing, the only other items at the Impresario besides the ice heart indrik berry and feathers, were pages of a new outfit style. These also drop in the anniversary boxes and are not bound, so they can be sold, so players can trade them. I got one of the new outfit pages to drop in one of the 7 boxes I earned for doing my crafting writ dailies during my brief testing, so they aren't going to be ultra rare and totally reliant on RNG like the collectible rewards during the Slogmire event.

I don't have any objection to a player having to participate in at least one anniversary event quest but once completed it would have to unlock all of the cake furnishings past, present and future.