mrfrontman wrote: »

Title says it all. I was actually kind of interested in purchasing it by looking at the advertised picture which is a nice blue colour, with bright glowing red eyes

When in fact all it is, is just a regular black Stag with regular non-glowing eyes. What the hell ZoS?

I have to agree; it looks like it has a lot more texture in the picture than I’ve seen on it in game. I presume it’s there but the surface absorbs too much light for most of the texturing to be visible in most circumstances?

Yea that picture is definitely from the website so it's hard to compare it to how it looks in game. The graphic settings the OP has might limit some of they glory displayed by the websites picture. Also, since it is a picture from the site, it is going to look more aesthetically pleasing as it will have been touched up to look as good as possible. Either way, definitely disappointing it doesn't look as good as the OP was hoping, or honestly, as good as it SHOULD look.

For 4,000 crowns it should damn well look exactly as advertised at all times.

In the advertised picture it is clearly daylight and the mount is still very blue with obvious glowing eyes with a halo.

My settings are maxed so there's no reason for it to look as different as it does.

I'm disappointed at how blatantly obvious the difference actually is compared to the advertised picture.

I'm just going to put this here for reference:


Creating a false or misleading impression
Businesses are not allowed to make statements that are incorrect or likely to create a false impression.

This rule applies to their advertising, their product packaging, and any information provided to you by their staff or online shopping services. It also applies to any statements made by businesses in the media or online, such as testimonials on their websites or social media pages.

For example, businesses cannot make false claims about:

the quality, style, model or history of a product or service <---- (FALLS UNDER THIS CATEGORY)
whether the goods are new
the sponsorship, performance characteristics, accessories, benefits or use of products and services
the availability of repair facilities or spare parts
the need for the goods or services
any exclusions on the goods and services.
It makes no difference whether the business intended to mislead you or not. If the overall impression left by a business’s advertisement, promotion, quotation, statement or other representation creates a misleading impression in your mind—such as to the price, value or the quality of any goods and services—then the behaviour is likely to breach the law.

Jaraal wrote: »

Miszou wrote: »

If it's anything like Sanguines black goat (and a couple of other pets), the eyes only glow at certain times.

You mean, like in full daylight like the media pic?

Actually, it’s at night, but the exposure time is so great to make visible the details of the stag, that everything else looks like full daylight!

Actually, to me, the most alarming thing is that they're still charging 4k crowns for a really old mount.

To be clear, I wasn't trying to be contrary. I try to offer insight on how a mount performs in the long term when I've had it for a while. Correct, it doesn't look quite like the product photo, and sometimes those photos are touched up waaaay too much. Someone in the art department should do a little less.

I would also like to add that when I bought it aeons back, my expectations were managed by the fact that I had seen it in game before I saw the product picture. I got exactly what I expected. I could imagine the disappointment if you hadn't previewed it or seen it first.

I think you need to run your own Reshade filter over the game to get those effects. When I look at official zos screenshots it always strikes me that they have applied some reshading on the image. I like to do that myself (well liked, been a while now since I tried it actually), but I just dont understand why they dont try to integrate that in the game then, like make it an option for people to enable whatever filters zos is using themselves?

What the heck is wrong with that poor thing's knees? If you have foot inverse kinematics on, turn it off! (settings/gameplay) I'm sure it would be much happier standing on a slight incline than having its leg bones twisted every which way to make each hoof flat on whatever surface it's standing on!

Other than that, the eyes sure don't appear to glow at all... but at least they're not smoking or burning like the eyes of some other mounts and pets. Does anyone actually like that?

You could ask for a refund if you feel you were misled and don't want it after buying it.

Bought it because it does not look like the picture... after checking it in-game it looks better in full black. Always preview the items in-game before buying.

Ever since I bought the dwarven spider mount with a gem in the front, I always assume it looks different in pictures. As that gem was supposed to be glowing, and it wasn't glowing in-game(still love it though).

Sarannah wrote: »

Bought it because it does not look like the picture... after checking it in-game it looks better in full black. Always preview the items in-game before buying.

Ever since I bought the dwarven spider mount with a gem in the front, I always assume it looks different in pictures. As that gem was supposed to be glowing, and it wasn't glowing in-game(still love it though).

Stand still and press space while mounted for the glowing gem

I preview and also go around looking at other players who have pet/mount/costume/house I'm interested in beforehands, the pictures are always slightly different/enhanced.