BigM wrote: »

Always thought they were for outside of house.

Tandor wrote: »

Surely the answer is to spread things around, statues in one house, other collectibles in other houses if you want all the statues together or else spread those around. I can certainly see a problem if you want to display everything in every house.

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

I appreciate them but I feel like we should be able to use them like regular furnishings.

virtus753 wrote: »

Lord-Otto wrote: »

I am GLAD they go into the collectibles slots!
(o_0)
My house is stuffed to the brim with traditional furnishings, how would I possibly fit figurines in there? Collectibles are taken up by, what? 60 busts? Leaving 50 slots or so for figurines. Maybe a couple selected trophies, but almost all are ugly, anyway.

There should be 51 busts and 51 trophies at the moment, if I’ve counted right. And we should have a way to display them all on top of all the statuettes and other collectible furnishings, according to ZOS’ own past actions.

With Murkmire ZOS raised the maximum housing limits to 110 in order to accommodate all collectible furnishings at once, indicating that they’re aware some players want to display them all and are (or were) willing to make a huge exception to accommodate that desire. For all that they talk about how increasing slots threatens performance, they were willing to do it so players could display all the collectible furnishings at once, provided they had invested in both a manor and a subscription.

The problem is that they haven’t stuck with that. Instead, they’ve substantially increased the number of collectible furnishings over the maximum limit. When they increased that cap number to 110 with Murkmire, that covered all the collectible furnishings at the time (which included the 8 storage containers). It allowed for greater justification for owning a manor and subscribing to ESO+, both substantial and optional investments in the game, since those are both required to have a cap of 110. To have made those investments and still not be able to display all of these collectibles in a single house undermined some of the value of those houses and housing perks. ZOS responded to that by raising the cap.

Since then, we have had a slew of statuettes introduced, along with a variety of quest-themed items. In other words, they’ve completely defeated the point of raising the limit back in 2018 because even subscribers with manors are now having to make big decisions about which collectibles to display. If that choice had always been there, it would have been easy to say “ZOS intended us to have to make a choice,” and that would be something we’d have to accept, even if we kept requesting higher limits. (That’s the case with people who don’t own manors and/or don’t subscribe.) But ZOS deliberately made an exception to their policy of not raising housing limits precisely so players wouldn’t have to make a choice, if we were willing to invest — and since then they seem to have abandoned that decision and the expectations they created in making it.

If they’re going to keep statuettes in collectibles, which is where I think they ultimately belong, the cap needs to be raised to accommodate them.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Some people do not seem to understand that just because you have it does not mean you have to put it in your house, does your character worship the deities that these small statues represent? no? then why would they have a statue of someone who is their enemy?

Are you living in a house or a museum?

Lord-Otto wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

The purpose of restricting Housing slots has never had anything to do with game performance..... you can put 700 pebbles in a home and won’t have any issues, or you can put 700 lights/big trees and get tons of issues. It’s also very important how close they are and how many are on your screen at once.

It’s intentional for you to not be able to fit the statuettes. Hence, there’s an artificial furnishing cap. The logic is that you will still subscribe and maybe you’ll buy a new expensive home which grants you lots of extra slots to use your subscription rewards/other furnishings. Same reason there is no Furnishing craft bag - everyone I know who cares at all for Housing has multiple storage homes.

They don’t care if you can use the ESO+ rewards or not lol. You collected 21 of them, unable to use them, yet still are collecting. After over 3 years of waiting I don’t have any faith in furnishing limits increasing.

It's a somewhat arbitrary rule. But how are you gonna change it? Make big glowy statues take up more slots? Even more in close proximity to each other? Double it if in a small house?
The way it works now is just very simple and easy to understand. Yes, you will over time swap your forks for statues, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.