Insane Cost of Service Tokens

TheAlphaRaider · March 2022

Why is a service token between 20 and 25 dollars in crowns? This is something that should be at least a one time quest for each character. Yet it costs more than the price of the entire game to buy. Cmon ZOS this is absolutely ridiculous. You don't keep up with some of the RACES in the patches then when we need to change, from let's say trash redguard, you charge us the game again? I can't be the only one.

Lady_Galadhiel · March 2022

You are not.
Service tokens are ever so expensive because ZOS considers it as something ''not needed'' aka convenience items.
I had to buy several of them,unfortunatly.

DreamsUnderStars · March 2022

$$ is the reason. They need it to pay employees and so their CEO can go on luxury cruises (I'm joking). As the above stated, it's a convenience item, they probably think that 25$ for a character change is the equivalent of just about 2 months worth of grinding another character to 50 for free. I think 15$ would be a fair amount, but unfortunately I don't make the pricing decisions.

duagloth · March 2022

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

You are not.
Service tokens are ever so expensive because ZOS considers it as something ''not needed'' aka convenience items.
I had to buy several of them,unfortunatly.

nothing in the crown store is "needed", there is alos no short supply of said items. the price is artificially inflated.

TheAlphaRaider · March 2022

DreamsUnderStars wrote: »

$$ is the reason. They need it to pay employees and so their CEO can go on luxury cruises (I'm joking). As the above stated, it's a convenience item, they probably think that 25$ for a character change is the equivalent of just about 2 months worth of grinding another character to 50 for free. I think 15$ would be a fair amount, but unfortunately I don't make the pricing decisions.

I can understand if it was a race or class change. But alliance change seems like something you should be able to do through a quest and maybe a one time per year thing. Its just an insane price point. I don't see why the alliance is a service token.

Meiox · March 2022

TheAlphaRaider wrote: »

DreamsUnderStars wrote: »

$$ is the reason. They need it to pay employees and so their CEO can go on luxury cruises (I'm joking). As the above stated, it's a convenience item, they probably think that 25$ for a character change is the equivalent of just about 2 months worth of grinding another character to 50 for free. I think 15$ would be a fair amount, but unfortunately I don't make the pricing decisions.

I can understand if it was a race or class change. But alliance change seems like something you should be able to do through a quest and maybe a one time per year thing. Its just an insane price point. I don't see why the alliance is a service token.

betrayal has its price ;-)

Starlight_Knight · March 2022

I agree the service tokens are about 150% more expensive than other games. they are serriously inflated and ive brought a few before and always feel ill afterwards.

It would be great if they put them as a one time quest reward for each char, but unfortunatly that wont make them money and if you notice anything about eso its how they can get away with doing as little as possible and get the most $$$ for it.

The price of the service tokens is just a reflection of the eso busness model.