Superb! Excellent! Bravo ZoS

Nisekev wrote: »

Gee, what a great thing - they're introducing mind-numbing grind alternative to gambling. Amazing how shamelessly they introduce f2p mechanics into a fully priced game that has separately sold DLCs, microtransactions and premium subscription.

Can't please everyone I guess.

Dragonnord wrote: »

Wow! The people that invested REAL money to get Radiant Apex mounts will be REALLY p*s*ed since everyone can get everything now wihout spending a cent.

I have a few radiants. Why would it matter if someone else had a chance to also get them? It doesn't take any of mine away.

Keeps players engaged and likely helps to skirt EU anti gambling regs.

Nice move, no downsides.

Wow, this is potentially a very cool feature. Waiting to learn more.

OMG this is exciting! I really don't care how grindy it is, it's better than no option at all like what we have now.

(or risk crown trading, shudders)

This potentially means we can start earning mounts in-game. (Finally).

Hope it's not super restrictive and grindy...

But good news. Good move ZOS.

Dragonnord wrote: »

allhailskippy wrote: »

I have a few radiants. Why would it matter if someone else had a chance to also get them? It doesn't take any of mine away.

Remove "chance", add "free manner".

Again. Why would I care?

Anyone who gets upset because somebody has something they also have is EXTREMELY selfish.

It sounds like very good news, but I'm curious about how it's going to work in practice, in particular how long it takes to get any given item. If doing endeavours every day up to the cap means that once a year you'll be able to afford 1 legendary (100 gem) item then it's not going to be a practical alternative to buying crates. But even if that's the case it's better than nothing.

I'm also curious about whether all endeavours award seals and if any combination of endeavours which take you up to the cap will award the same number of seals or if people who specifically want to get seals might need to be careful about which ones they do first.

And yes I suspect this is an example of ZOS trying to get ahead of the increasing trend of loot boxes being included in gambling legislation. I've also heard Microsoft don't like loot boxes in their games, but I'm not sure of the specifics there. (The only game I've played recently which I know is by Microsoft is Ori and the Blind Forest - great game but not really helpful in this case.)

But it's also a nice fix to the problem of the majority of mounts and a lot of costumes, mementos, etc. being restricted to crown crates with fewer options to earn interesting cosmetic rewards (aside from motifs) in-game.

KalyanLazair wrote: »

What I do want is more pets and mounts to be made available in the crown store, instead of 90% of them being reserved to the Crown Crates. Since they introduced the crates I've been getting a feeling the items in the crown store are less and of poorer quality.

I've had the same feeling. In a way it's good because the amount I spend on crowns dropped off considerably after crates were introduced so it's saved me some money, but it's often been frustrating to look through the crown store showcase and see little/nothing of interest and then look at the new crates and see several things I like and would buy if I could get them directly.

I see this as a good thing, something that could give people a chance to get stuff without spending exorbitant amounts of money via gamblecrates in order to get things.

Now I would like to better understand people who have a problem with this, because I don't see the hard downside to this.

I feel like Microsoft actually did something good already for this game, well that's a pleasant thing to know even if it's way grindy at least it's an option given.