Stinkyremy wrote: »
Yes, I've been scammed, so I don't even try anymore.
And yes, I would love to see a safer system to trade gold for crowns.
But I would guess the reason ZOS has not come up with a safer system is to discourage the whole notion, so we will buy crowns with real money - our gold doesn't help their bottom line. So I doubt this poll is going to prompt them to action.
That's a great idea.Other have suggested in the past being able to buy something like crown vouchers/gift cards from the crown store that you can sell on guild traders, direct trade or COD in the mail.
The one buying it can then cash the gift card/voucher in and get the enclosed amount of crowns to spend, as they would normally.
The solution to this problem is to put a tradeable item in the store that works as a voucher for crowns which can be bought with crowns. You buy your voucher with crowns, put it on a guild merchant, whoever wants to buy your crowns buys the voucher for gold and uses the voucher to give their account crowns. Each voucher could be 1,000 crowns or something. To incentivize sales this way, these items would not be subject to any listing fees on guild merchants.
There, I fixed crown sales forever.
I guess the “gift” option is not intended for trading. and you wouldn’t have that issue if you would only exchange gold for gifts with your close friends. gift or receive a gift for helping someone out.
But this is already in game - you can gift any player crown store items and this player can just send you gold by ingame mail. Changing UI to make this trade safer (one function to do both thing at the same time instead two seperate functions with the same result at the end) changes nothing if we talking about legal perspective.There may be some sort of legal or logistical barrier that keeps them from easily allowing what is basically a gold for crowns conversion and also a $$$ for gold option if you reverse it.
The solution to this problem is to put a tradeable item in the store that works as a voucher for crowns which can be bought with crowns. You buy your voucher with crowns, put it on a guild merchant, whoever wants to buy your crowns buys the voucher for gold and uses the voucher to give their account crowns. Each voucher could be 1,000 crowns or something. To incentivize sales this way, these items would not be subject to any listing fees on guild merchants.
There, I fixed crown sales forever.
If you continue whining, ZOS will stop the whole crown gifting thing, what would be really sad. You all knew the risk before, but you chose a risky transaction and got scammed. And the only issue probably was, that you were too lazy to organise a safe deal.
If you continue whining, ZOS will stop the whole crown gifting thing, what would be really sad. You all knew the risk before, but you chose a risky transaction and got scammed. And the only issue probably was, that you were too lazy to organise a safe deal.
I really doubt this, they are making a killing off vet players with too much gold and new players that want gold meeting in thie middle, or people that simply just want gold. I bet their crown sales sky rocketed when gifting became a thing. Think of this as arbitrage between people with too much gold and people with too much money. People that weren't buying crowns, now are buying crowns. People that otherwise would not have bought crown crates, are now buying crown crates via gold/crown exchanging.
Edit: I got scammed about 2 weeks ago, along with several others by the same person. I have heard nothing back from support, no gold returned, I'm uncertain they even care, or perhaps they are understaffed. If they had a formal method, this would alleviate practically all support tickets pertaining to being scammed. Furthermore, ZOS would no longer have to pretend to care. This would free up the existing support staff to provide better service regarding other issues.