Blacknight841 wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »If the game has a system in it where you are encouraged to gamble for a cosmetic item, then it should be treated as such. Since you cannot buy a radiant apex mount with crowns directly, it is completely circumventing the system to be able to buy it with gold from someone else. That is not how the crown crates were intended to be played.
@Blacknight841 - If ZOS employees are facilitating the transactions, wouldn't that in its self suggest it is officially supported? Can you provide a link to where ZOS has said that is how crown crates are intended to be played? Or is this just a personal interpretation?
Here is a link to a statement by an official representative regarding the exchange of in-game items for in-game currency: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/5205829/#Comment_5205829
It is one thing to gift an item from the crown store, it is another to gift a bound item from your inventory. By your argument, what's the point of binding something to an account if you can still gift it with a letter to zenimax? Because I have an extra perfected maelstrom staff, does that mean I can gift it to someone for gold... or even one of my older houses that I am no longer using, can I gift that to a person for gold? I think not.
Radiant Mounts are not part of your inventory - they are part of your collections, and are obtained through the Crown Store. There is precedent set with Crown Store house trading before the direct gifting of Crown Store housing was implemented into the Crown Store UI. Of course, all of this is on a per case basis that would allow the acceptance or denial of the transactions based upon CR discretion, as it must be transacted through the help ticket system.
Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Trading in game items, which includes gifting for gold, is allowed by ZOS.
Asking Support to help out is the known workaround for stuff that used to not be giftable, like houses. Support doesn't really care who pays as long as ZOS gets paid.
Gifting items that can be purchased for crowns sure. Gifting items from your inventory that you are not using just because you would rather have gold, I think not. Can I gift a bout maelstrom staff? A radiant apex cannot be purchased by crowns, so one should not be able to gift the item from their inventory.
This isnt merely about gifting items. This is gifting items a person already owns. In essence getting a gold refund from the recipient for crowns spent.
I highly doubt that it is accepted by zos, for me to gift the 100+ mounts from my inventory to other people, and get gold in exchange.
The Radiant Apex mount was purchased with crowns, as is everything in the Crown Crates. So I think that's a moot point. Someone paid for the crown crates at some point, or there would be no mount to gift.
Your contention is that ZOS Support has facilitated this exchange (in which case, it seems logical that they de facto allow it), yet you doubt that ZOS accepts this type of trade.
Hmm.
Honestly, I suspect either someone is overstating what Support will actually let them do or ZOS Support will allow it even though they prefer to not make it an obvious type of gifting (yet.) As I noted, Support has done this for houses, which eventually became giftable for players.
Support has allowed the gifting of houses, by buying a new house for that person. That is clear. What this issue highlights, is gifting a mount from a persons inventory. The gifting system allows for the purchase of a NEW item for a recipient, not for gifting old items already in a persons inventory. Gifting old and unused items bound to a players account is a different scenario entirely. In all gifting transactions, zenimax gets new crowns spent. This scenario is circumventing that. Instead it is recycling old items for a profit (after all you can only use one mount at a time). Also if it is an accepted thing, then why make anything bound to an account at all? Furthermore this will lead to a general influx of tickets for gifting items, taking away from the ability of zenimax concentrating on tickets that put more emphasis on gameplay.
How it used to work:
Person A wants to gift a house to Person B.
Person A asked Support to charge them X Crowns and to gift the house to Person B.
Support takes X Crowns for ZOS from Person A and gifts the house to Person B.
You can insert whatever item you like. Some people had luck doing it with some older items no longer in the Crown Store.
How this Radiant Mount gifting thing apparently works:
Person A spends loads of Crowns on Crown Crates.
Person A gets Radiant Apex Mount.
Person A asks Support to gift it to Person B.
Support does apparently does so, because ZOS already profited from Person A spending loads of crowns to get the Radiant Apex mount in the first place.
In both cases, ZOS gets their profit from people spending crowns to get the item they gifted.
This would be true if zos rolled new crown crates for the person and then charged them the total crowns. This however is a fact of gifting previous crown crate mounts that a person has bound to their account. In your scenario A a new house is purchased, in your scenario B, no new purchase is made.
Kalik_Gold wrote: »Kalik_Gold wrote: »I didn't thinking gifting Gem related items were a thing, proof please...
I did know you could gift straight up crown mounts... but having a Radiant gifted... that's new.
It's done through the help tickets.
Wow, that right there is a slap in the face, when real help tickets for Bots, Bugs and other issues are put on hold. I also put in tickets for out of season Crown Items before and were denied. It must be a whale thing where they buy so much they get special privileges, a regular player/payer would be denied I assume.
VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Trading in game items, which includes gifting for gold, is allowed by ZOS.
Asking Support to help out is the known workaround for stuff that used to not be giftable, like houses. Support doesn't really care who pays as long as ZOS gets paid.
Gifting items that can be purchased for crowns sure. Gifting items from your inventory that you are not using just because you would rather have gold, I think not. Can I gift a bout maelstrom staff? A radiant apex cannot be purchased by crowns, so one should not be able to gift the item from their inventory.
This isnt merely about gifting items. This is gifting items a person already owns. In essence getting a gold refund from the recipient for crowns spent.
I highly doubt that it is accepted by zos, for me to gift the 100+ mounts from my inventory to other people, and get gold in exchange.
The Radiant Apex mount was purchased with crowns, as is everything in the Crown Crates. So I think that's a moot point. Someone paid for the crown crates at some point, or there would be no mount to gift.
Your contention is that ZOS Support has facilitated this exchange (in which case, it seems logical that they de facto allow it), yet you doubt that ZOS accepts this type of trade.
Hmm.
Honestly, I suspect either someone is overstating what Support will actually let them do or ZOS Support will allow it even though they prefer to not make it an obvious type of gifting (yet.) As I noted, Support has done this for houses, which eventually became giftable for players.
Support has allowed the gifting of houses, by buying a new house for that person. That is clear. What this issue highlights, is gifting a mount from a persons inventory. The gifting system allows for the purchase of a NEW item for a recipient, not for gifting old items already in a persons inventory. Gifting old and unused items bound to a players account is a different scenario entirely. In all gifting transactions, zenimax gets new crowns spent. This scenario is circumventing that. Instead it is recycling old items for a profit (after all you can only use one mount at a time). Also if it is an accepted thing, then why make anything bound to an account at all? Furthermore this will lead to a general influx of tickets for gifting items, taking away from the ability of zenimax concentrating on tickets that put more emphasis on gameplay.
How it used to work:
Person A wants to gift a house to Person B.
Person A asked Support to charge them X Crowns and to gift the house to Person B.
Support takes X Crowns for ZOS from Person A and gifts the house to Person B.
You can insert whatever item you like. Some people had luck doing it with some older items no longer in the Crown Store.
How this Radiant Mount gifting thing apparently works:
Person A spends loads of Crowns on Crown Crates.
Person A gets Radiant Apex Mount.
Person A asks Support to gift it to Person B.
Support does apparently does so, because ZOS already profited from Person A spending loads of crowns to get the Radiant Apex mount in the first place.
In both cases, ZOS gets their profit from people spending crowns to get the item they gifted.
This would be true if zos rolled new crown crates for the person and then charged them the total crowns. This however is a fact of gifting previous crown crate mounts that a person has bound to their account. In your scenario A a new house is purchased, in your scenario B, no new purchase is made.
No...in both circumstances, the purchase is made.
Person A purchased the house, and gifted it to Person B via Support.
Person A purchased the Crown Crates necessary to get Radiant Apex mount, then gifted the resulting mount to Person B, via Support - according to you.
In both cases, Person A purchases everything necessary. Support allows the gifting.
Assuming it actually happened, of course. You are the first person I've ever heard say that Support allows gifting collectibles from Crown Crates, instead of the more normal method of gifting the Crown Crates directly.
VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Trading in game items, which includes gifting for gold, is allowed by ZOS.
Asking Support to help out is the known workaround for stuff that used to not be giftable, like houses. Support doesn't really care who pays as long as ZOS gets paid.
Gifting items that can be purchased for crowns sure. Gifting items from your inventory that you are not using just because you would rather have gold, I think not. Can I gift a bout maelstrom staff? A radiant apex cannot be purchased by crowns, so one should not be able to gift the item from their inventory.
This isnt merely about gifting items. This is gifting items a person already owns. In essence getting a gold refund from the recipient for crowns spent.
I highly doubt that it is accepted by zos, for me to gift the 100+ mounts from my inventory to other people, and get gold in exchange.
The Radiant Apex mount was purchased with crowns, as is everything in the Crown Crates. So I think that's a moot point. Someone paid for the crown crates at some point, or there would be no mount to gift.
Your contention is that ZOS Support has facilitated this exchange (in which case, it seems logical that they de facto allow it), yet you doubt that ZOS accepts this type of trade.
Hmm.
Honestly, I suspect either someone is overstating what Support will actually let them do or ZOS Support will allow it even though they prefer to not make it an obvious type of gifting (yet.) As I noted, Support has done this for houses, which eventually became giftable for players.
Blacknight841 wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »If the game has a system in it where you are encouraged to gamble for a cosmetic item, then it should be treated as such. Since you cannot buy a radiant apex mount with crowns directly, it is completely circumventing the system to be able to buy it with gold from someone else. That is not how the crown crates were intended to be played.
@Blacknight841 - If ZOS employees are facilitating the transactions, wouldn't that in its self suggest it is officially supported? Can you provide a link to where ZOS has said that is how crown crates are intended to be played? Or is this just a personal interpretation?
Here is a link to a statement by an official representative regarding the exchange of in-game items for in-game currency: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/5205829/#Comment_5205829
It is one thing to gift an item from the crown store, it is another to gift a bound item from your inventory. By your argument, what's the point of binding something to an account if you can still gift it with a letter to zenimax? Because I have an extra perfected maelstrom staff, does that mean I can gift it to someone for gold... or even one of my older houses that I am no longer using, can I gift that to a person for gold? I think not.
Radiant Mounts are not part of your inventory - they are part of your collections, and are obtained through the Crown Store. There is precedent set with Crown Store house trading before the direct gifting of Crown Store housing was implemented into the Crown Store UI. Of course, all of this is on a per case basis that would allow the acceptance or denial of the transactions based upon CR discretion, as it must be transacted through the help ticket system.
With the previous house gifting, they did not take the item from your collections... But rather you had to purchase a new one for that person and you were charged that amount of crowns. Collections or not, you cannot gift the collections you have to other people, which is exactly the issue here. If people are allowed to gift radiant apex mounts without the cost of new crowns. Why would anyone want gift a new house when they can gift a previously owned house?
Hallothiel wrote: »Can you show what your proof is please, as whilst you have posted numerous times saying this is happening, that’s all it is - you saying this is happening. That isn’t proof.
furiouslog wrote: »So tracking that down, google "elder scrolls online na xb1 band", and you can see what's going on. It appears to be happening on xbox mostly.
Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Trading in game items, which includes gifting for gold, is allowed by ZOS.
Asking Support to help out is the known workaround for stuff that used to not be giftable, like houses. Support doesn't really care who pays as long as ZOS gets paid.
Gifting items that can be purchased for crowns sure. Gifting items from your inventory that you are not using just because you would rather have gold, I think not. Can I gift a bout maelstrom staff? A radiant apex cannot be purchased by crowns, so one should not be able to gift the item from their inventory.
This isnt merely about gifting items. This is gifting items a person already owns. In essence getting a gold refund from the recipient for crowns spent.
I highly doubt that it is accepted by zos, for me to gift the 100+ mounts from my inventory to other people, and get gold in exchange.
The Radiant Apex mount was purchased with crowns, as is everything in the Crown Crates. So I think that's a moot point. Someone paid for the crown crates at some point, or there would be no mount to gift.
Your contention is that ZOS Support has facilitated this exchange (in which case, it seems logical that they de facto allow it), yet you doubt that ZOS accepts this type of trade.
Hmm.
Honestly, I suspect either someone is overstating what Support will actually let them do or ZOS Support will allow it even though they prefer to not make it an obvious type of gifting (yet.) As I noted, Support has done this for houses, which eventually became giftable for players.
Support has allowed the gifting of houses, by buying a new house for that person. That is clear. What this issue highlights, is gifting a mount from a persons inventory. The gifting system allows for the purchase of a NEW item for a recipient, not for gifting old items already in a persons inventory. Gifting old and unused items bound to a players account is a different scenario entirely. In all gifting transactions, zenimax gets new crowns spent. This scenario is circumventing that. Instead it is recycling old items for a profit (after all you can only use one mount at a time). Also if it is an accepted thing, then why make anything bound to an account at all? Furthermore this will lead to a general influx of tickets for gifting items, taking away from the ability of zenimax concentrating on tickets that put more emphasis on gameplay.
How it used to work:
Person A wants to gift a house to Person B.
Person A asked Support to charge them X Crowns and to gift the house to Person B.
Support takes X Crowns for ZOS from Person A and gifts the house to Person B.
You can insert whatever item you like. Some people had luck doing it with some older items no longer in the Crown Store.
How this Radiant Mount gifting thing apparently works:
Person A spends loads of Crowns on Crown Crates.
Person A gets Radiant Apex Mount.
Person A asks Support to gift it to Person B.
Support does apparently does so, because ZOS already profited from Person A spending loads of crowns to get the Radiant Apex mount in the first place.
In both cases, ZOS gets their profit from people spending crowns to get the item they gifted.
This would be true if zos rolled new crown crates for the person and then charged them the total crowns. This however is a fact of gifting previous crown crate mounts that a person has bound to their account. In your scenario A a new house is purchased, in your scenario B, no new purchase is made.
No...in both circumstances, the purchase is made.
Person A purchased the house, and gifted it to Person B via Support.
Person A purchased the Crown Crates necessary to get Radiant Apex mount, then gifted the resulting mount to Person B, via Support - according to you.
In both cases, Person A purchases everything necessary. Support allows the gifting.
Assuming it actually happened, of course. You are the first person I've ever heard say that Support allows gifting collectibles from Crown Crates, instead of the more normal method of gifting the Crown Crates directly.
The issue here is that person A is gifting a house they purchase, they are not gifting a house from their collections. If that were the case, anyone tired of their old houses would just start gifting them, and not generate new revenue for zos. I Do not see an issue with gifting items from the crown store, but I do see an issue with gifting items out of a person collections that they are no longer using.
Taleof2Cities wrote: »You have anything better than a "wts" link to Imgur to prove this actually happened, @Blacknight841?
Taleof2Cities wrote: »You have anything better than a "wts" link to Imgur to prove this actually happened, @Blacknight841?
This.VaranisArano wrote: »Trading in game items, which includes gifting for gold, is allowed by ZOS.
Asking Support to help out is the known workaround for stuff that used to not be giftable, like houses. Support doesn't really care who pays as long as ZOS gets paid.
This it require one player who want crown items and has a lot of gold and another player with little gold but willing to burn money for it, both wins. ZoS also wins as they get crown sales they otherwise probably miss.Blacknight841 wrote: »Blacknight841 wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »Trading in game items, which includes gifting for gold, is allowed by ZOS.
Asking Support to help out is the known workaround for stuff that used to not be giftable, like houses. Support doesn't really care who pays as long as ZOS gets paid.
Gifting items that can be purchased for crowns sure. Gifting items from your inventory that you are not using just because you would rather have gold, I think not. Can I gift a bout maelstrom staff? A radiant apex cannot be purchased by crowns, so one should not be able to gift the item from their inventory.
This isnt merely about gifting items. This is gifting items a person owns. In essence getting a gold refund from he recipient for crowns spent.
When you gift an item from the crown store, it requires a new injection of crowns to zenimax. This however does not require any injection of crowns into the system,.
Grizzbeorn wrote: »Taleof2Cities wrote: »You have anything better than a "wts" link to Imgur to prove this actually happened, @Blacknight841?
Exactly. That pic is not proof of anything. Looks like a scam attempt, if anything.
Update to this juicy drama:
From the Band the Radiants are being sold from.
Update to this juicy drama:
From the Band the Radiants are being sold from.
Update to this juicy drama:
From the Band the Radiants are being sold from.
If ZOS actually looks at that page, other people might be hurting at some point.
mustangmorgan31 wrote: »I am very confused. Is anyone else? lol
VaranisArano wrote: »Does anyone else feel like this would be ripe for really slick scam?
"Hey, man, I got a buddy in Support who will gift t!his Radiant Apex mount to you for the cheap, cheap price of a ton of gold!"
Did look it up. Fun reading. https://band.us/band/58629829
Also, if you believe the screenshot, Support isn't fond of being taken advantage of. Seems to have been allowed, but not meant as a wholesale practice.
Hallothiel wrote: »Just to be clear, you sent me a link to a picture. Of someone apparently wanting to sell an RA mount.
That is not proof. That is a picture.