Dwarven Work Lamp broken?

JJMaxx1980 · December 2020

So I was excited to get the new Dwarven Work Lamp from the Crown Crates but the light doesn’t make any sense. The graphic for the ‘beam’ shines down, but the actual light is emitted up. That doesn’t seem right to me. In order to use it as a street lamp or spotlight for a stage you would need to use two and overlap them. Surely this is a glitch?

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Nairinhe · December 2020

That's usual ZOS quality control nowadays

Raideen · December 2020

I was excited for the work lamp and the beam emitter thing. I saw these a month or so ago by a datamine website.

I envisioned using 6 of the beam things to focus on a crystal to make some kind of power source. I wanted to get 10 work lamps littered throughout a cave I had made.

Problem is, we can only get them in gamble crates. The second problem is, ZOS in their infinite wisdom wants 100 purple gems for each one.

I would have gladly shelled out 1000 crowns for each one, but no way in hell I am gonna spend 500 bucks on gamble crates to obtain the purple gems to buy these outright. ZOS CLEARLY never learned the lesson in sales "a little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing", especially when we are talking about digital goods that can be replicated infinitely. So instead of spending 100 bucks or so, they get nothing.

GG

nukk3r · December 2020

Best part: you already paid for it.

ZOS_SarahHecker · December 2020

Hey all, just confirming this is not intended and we're working on getting it fixed.

Ratzkifal · December 2020

Raideen wrote: »

I was excited for the work lamp and the beam emitter thing. I saw these a month or so ago by a datamine website.

I envisioned using 6 of the beam things to focus on a crystal to make some kind of power source. I wanted to get 10 work lamps littered throughout a cave I had made.

Problem is, we can only get them in gamble crates. The second problem is, ZOS in their infinite wisdom wants 100 purple gems for each one.

I would have gladly shelled out 1000 crowns for each one, but no way in hell I am gonna spend 500 bucks on gamble crates to obtain the purple gems to buy these outright. ZOS CLEARLY never learned the lesson in sales "a little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing", especially when we are talking about digital goods that can be replicated infinitely. So instead of spending 100 bucks or so, they get nothing.

GG

Yeah, it's always the same with the furniture in the gamble crates. And yet coincidentally the Luxury furnishing vendor has only had one new thing every week which is totally niche and always repeating the same themes we already had. Weird.

I wanted to decorate a shrine to Namira and needed banners to cover up the windows so no light would get into my house anymore. Originally I wanted Namira banners for that but they ended up being too expensive. It's understandable that the statue would cost 100 gems but not the banners too. I wanted to get Shadow Tendrils too but they were very small in size and thus unsuited to cover the altar completely at 40 gems the piece. Now only the statue has tendrils.
My treasury had tons of tiny gold piles taking up valuable furnishing slots so I wanted to replace them with larger ones. Too bad each large pile was 100 gems and they only covered four times the area of a small pile.

But some chart says that the 1% of whales spend more money than the 99% of remaining customers combined so what can you do.
I sure hope that this will change with Microsoft next year and all that is available in crown crates is also made available through gameplay, just like their loot box policy states.

Starlock · December 2020

Ratzkifal wrote: »

But some chart says that the 1% of whales spend more money than the 99% of remaining customers combined so what can you do.
I sure hope that this will change with Microsoft next year and all that is available in crown crates is also made available through gameplay, just like their loot box policy states.

This is what I'm really, really hoping for.

As happy as I was to FINALLY see the hairstyle I've wanted for one of my favorite characters available, I thought it was scummier than a skeever to force customers to GAMBLE in order to get it. I would have felt the same way about the neat dwemer housing items, but the moment I saw those datamined, I went "yup, those are going into the unregulated gambling crates!" I mean, of course they did. So I resign myself to not give a crap, and considering my artificer's house only has one furnishing slot left anyway, well... that's not hard, ZoS.

Dracane · December 2020

There is some truth to people always claiming that they are quick to respond when it comes to crown store related issues.

Raideen · December 2020

Ratzkifal wrote: »

Yeah, it's always the same with the furniture in the gamble crates. And yet coincidentally the Luxury furnishing vendor has only had one new thing every week which is totally niche and always repeating the same themes we already had. Weird.

I wanted to decorate a shrine to Namira and needed banners to cover up the windows so no light would get into my house anymore. Originally I wanted Namira banners for that but they ended up being too expensive. It's understandable that the statue would cost 100 gems but not the banners too. I wanted to get Shadow Tendrils too but they were very small in size and thus unsuited to cover the altar completely at 40 gems the piece. Now only the statue has tendrils.
My treasury had tons of tiny gold piles taking up valuable furnishing slots so I wanted to replace them with larger ones. Too bad each large pile was 100 gems and they only covered four times the area of a small pile.

I know exactly what you are experiencing. It makes no sense to gate furniture behind LUDICROUS prices, ESPECIALLY when the assets were already made and presented in a DLC/Chapter. It does not benefit the housing community, does not allow players to show off what can be done. Its just, well I cant say what it is on the forums, but its just bad.

Ratzkifal wrote: »

But some chart says that the 1% of whales spend more money than the 99% of remaining customers combined so what can you do.
I sure hope that this will change with Microsoft next year and all that is available in crown crates is also made available through gameplay, just like their loot box policy states.

Thing I love about spreadsheets, is that they never tell the truth. They give a ballpark idea in most cases because it is impossible to account for every variable, especially when dealing with human decisions. ZOS is 100% leaving money on the table.

Asdara · December 2020

BOTH dwarven furniture are bugged
Patch to fix them asap plz

Saucy_Jack · December 2020

Yeah, the beam emitter's beam wonks out when you try to rotate it vertically.

Pixiepumpkin · December 2020

both of them are broken. i dont understand how they made it to game. did no one test them? it only takes a few seconds to see they are broken. a test would not have taken much time

UntilValhalla13 · December 2020

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

both of them are broken. i dont understand how they made it to game. did no one test them? it only takes a few seconds to see they are broken. a test would not have taken much time

We are the game testers; the customers. We pay them money to test their game.

Raideen · December 2020

UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

both of them are broken. i dont understand how they made it to game. did no one test them? it only takes a few seconds to see they are broken. a test would not have taken much time

We are the game testers; the customers. We pay them money to test their game.

Seems accurate. It is mind boggling though how such an easily identifiable bug would still get the OK to be pushed to live.