Restricting in-game purchases

Nephthys · August 2020

Hi all. My brother, who is quite new to ESO wants to set his grandson up with his own account. What we are not sure about though is, once the game is paid for and downloaded, is there a way that the young fellow is blocked from making in-game (crown) purchases using the account that was used to purchase the game.

I did look at my own account but didn't find a clue about this... maybe because I am ESO Plus, so obviously payment details would need to be stored online.

Hoping someone can clear up this mystery for us, thanks.

VaranisArano · August 2020

If you mean that your brother would like to purchase things for the grandson's account, the easiest way is to gift items such as DLC.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26375

lolo_01b16_ESO · August 2020

Well, depends on what you consider a purchase. As far as I know there is no way to prevent a player from spending ingame currencies like crowns that he already owns.
But he shouldn't be able to purchase any crowns or anything else using real world money as long as he doesn't have access to a payment method on his own. So if he has his own paypal account, he surely could use it and buy crowns, but he can't use your brother's paypal account as long as your brother doesn't accidently save his password on the pc.

Nephthys · August 2020

Thanks everyone. Yes this is the info I need. Of course the young man is welcome to spend his crowns on anything he so desires. What we wanted to be sure of, is that he could not use the credit card/Paypal (whatever my brother will use) to then go to the crown store & buy more crowns. Indeed if we want to give him crowns for birthday etc, that would be done by gifting.

Problem solved.... thank you

ZOS_Bill · August 2020

Thank you for letting us know your question was answered. With the problem now solved, the thread will be closed going forward.