I like mine, and am glad it's not yet another single shade faux metallic finish like most figurines these days that are trying to make you believe they're not resin. Most of the difference between the photos that are posted is down to differences in the lighting.

The coins are excellent, really heavyweight with a good image and fitting neatly into the metal display case that comes with them, although as someone has said you could easily break a few fingers prising them out of the packaging!

Zuboko wrote: »

They made a statement in the last ESO live event. The design of the statue was intended to look like something you might dig up in the new archeaology system.

I listened to that live and that honestly sounded like code for

"well Covid occurred and we could not get these things painted like they were supposed to be so we decided to pretend it is an antique look and see if we could pass that off..."

Well yours looks incredibly better "textured" than mine at least.

Summerset Mephala was top notch. Proudly displayed in my ES(O) corner.



Never liked the current one because of the glossy finish and kind of slimy appeal of the Vampire lord. It does look excavated, I'll give them that... but again, too glossy.

Lord-Otto wrote: »

Looks cool! Is that plastic, too? Looks more like metal.

It's not metal, but it's a great effect, as it does look totally metallic. It's a tiny bit more matte in real life.
That's some rubbery plastics actually, probably a resin of some kind. It's not brittle, every part can withstand some bending without breaking, which is cool, as there are lots of spiders with tiny legs! It's built to last.

RefLiberty wrote: »

Oh my what a difference in quality.

Is the current statue true representation of where the ESO is heading?

Well, I'm more than happy with Graymoor chapter, as for the game itself. The real problem are the companies that make the merch for the games. Not everything comes from the same source, nor is the same quality, even though you buy from the same brand.
Here I actually think that ZOS and devs clearly wanted to make it, despite of the last year's absence of CE physical releases. We did get a dragon tablet last year, but while it was great, it was sold separately.
I'm not into numbers, but it could be that more people were buying physical CE releases years ago than they are now and that their expenses are much heavier now.

I cannot tell what material they used for the Vampire lord statue, but it looks too shiny for my taste. That being said, it could be a a great base for some nice paint job. A skilled painter could make it from good to awesome!

It does look cheap af. If it were me, i'd just repaint it myself. I feel bad for the people that were looking forward to getting the CE and were disappointed.