Sfter all these years playing this game and not caring about housing, I finally decide to take the leap and fork over that much gold for Forsaken Hideout, and for the first time I'm thinking, "hey this is kinda cool".
I just burned 10k in the crown store for the merchant and banker, and the first thing I wanted to start doing was bringing the place to life and have my own "team" (for RP purposes only) to help me build the place, which means I need the merchant and banker to start buying and organizing the purchase of furnishings and such, I need a guard (the solitude guard from the store as well), I had the smuggler from the thieves' guild to help me get some deals with his "connection"s.....
Anyways I won't bore you with my own role playing head cannon stuff. Long story short I started placing a couple horses in the stables with various NPCs and making paths for them, I even placed down my pack rat NPC to accompany my khajiit smuggler, I was thinking I'd place a few house pets and even a couple mounts to wander around to make things lively.
I'm barely 15 minutes into this and I already get a message that I am putting too many collectibles, and now I can't place my scholar and librarian NPCs in the house portion. So I'm right now sitting here in a giant, empty house with literally nothing in it and the game is telling me that I already have too much.
This is ABSURD. My disappointment cannot be understated. After all these years I finally gave this thing a chance, and I really WANTED to give this system the benefit of the doubt, even though I have a very cynical view of crown stores and cash shops in general in video games. This just once again solidifies how utterly idiotic this stuff is.
I just spent the equivalent of almost 150 dollars of real life money, the equivalent of two entire, full AAA video games, and you're telling me I can't even place a few NPCs in this MASSIVE player home without running into some arbitrary limit?
Yeah, if I wasn't cynical enough before, this just solidifies my cynicism three-fold. Three digits worth of real-world money and you won't even give me a small handful of NPCs before blocking my enjoyment of your content.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the fact that I'm also an ESO+ member of several years, and I paid full price for every expansion so far. So apparently thousands of dollars of real-world money doesn't buy me more than a dozen collectibles in my virtual home.
This is outrageous.