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Where is the Free Eso Plus Week for 2022?
DimTh
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Hi all, every year we had 3 times on the year duration free eso plus for a week, now we go on March and still nothing,
just i wonder, if zos stop it or it comes later this year... Do we know anything about this? May could zos inform us? Thank you!
Edited by DimTh on February 21, 2022 7:04AM just i wonder, if zos stop it or it comes later this year... Do we know anything about this? May could zos inform us? Thank you!
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belial5221_ESO✭✭✭✭✭Usually it's about every 6 months,free basegame trial is overdue been about 6 months or so.0
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Arunei✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭I never really pay attention to when the Free Play weeks happen, but looking through search results from Google for when ESO has done free play weeks, it looks like a number of them happened in April, usually near the start of the month.PC-NA | Been around since closed beta
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SeaGtGruff✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I never really pay attention to when the Free Play weeks happen, but looking through search results from Google for when ESO has done free play weeks, it looks like a number of them happened in April, usually near the start of the month.
Yeah, I think sometime around ESO's anniversary (April 4th) makes sense.I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!0 -
DimTh✭✭No guys, i remember it sure, also i checked it, last year it was 19-26 January the first, at 2020 on
February, every year 3 times, about 4 months between them, the next usual are on June - July and
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etchedpixels✭✭✭✭✭
✭belial5221_ESO wrote: »Usually it's about every 6 months,free basegame trial is overdue been about 6 months or so.
Given the game is falling apart under the current load I wonder if they simply had the senses to pull it rather than have a load of people experience just how bad it can be right now, made even worse by the extra load.
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Kwoung✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭etchedpixels wrote: »belial5221_ESO wrote: »Usually it's about every 6 months,free basegame trial is overdue been about 6 months or so.
Given the game is falling apart under the current load I wonder if they simply had the senses to pull it rather than have a load of people experience just how bad it can be right now, made even worse by the extra load.
That would be the easiest way to avoid the inevitable reviews of how bad performance is. Which would be devastating to a game that basically runs on a turn and burn customer model.2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭etchedpixels wrote: »
Given the game is falling apart under the current load I wonder if they simply had the senses to pull it rather than have a load of people experience just how bad it can be right now, made even worse by the extra load.
1. It's never stopped them before.
2. New players would generally be doing overland/questing/etc. In other words, stuff that's running just fine, not "falling apart under the current load"
3. That would be the "Free ESO week" not the "Free ESO+ trial week". Which is what the OP was asking about.1 -
Eric_Prince✭✭✭✭It will be on Jubilee Event. It's always on Jubilee Event, every year for at least 3 years.To be the Chosen One really sounds like lots of fun,
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✭Eric_Prince wrote: »It will be on Jubilee Event. It's always on Jubilee Event, every year for at least 3 years.
That's never been the first free ESO+ event of the year, which is what OP was asking.0 -
fiderelaSoul ShrivenHere we can see all Eso Plus free weeks for previous years https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/category/esoplus
And the last one was from 18 until 25 October. On average, 3 to 6 months elapsed between free weeks. As of today, it has been 7 months since the last free week and no comments from ZOS... Will there be no more of them? And if so, why not at least notify the players about this...
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TempPlayer✭✭✭✭✭They simply reach the conclusion that free trail doesn't lead to increase in subscription. So the incentive to do that decrease to this stage.8
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Danikat✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭So another month passed and we should have had 2 by now, anyone knows wtf is going on?
My guess is either Microsoft buying Zenimax is causing problems, because Microsoft doesn't want to run promotions like this or because no one's currently sure who gets to approve it, or they've found it's not cost effective and stopped doing them or are running them much more rarely.
ESO+ free trials aren't ZOS being nice and doing a favour for people who don't buy a subscription, it's a sales technique. The idea is that people who don't know much about ESO+ or don't think they'd want it get to try it out, discover they like it and then decide to pay for it. If they found that wasn't happening - that there was no significant increase in subscriber numbers after a trial they may have decided it's not worth it.
Especially if ZOS suspects that a lot of people who don't subscribe are relying on the trial to make that manageable by letting them periodically put materials into the craft bag, dye costumes and whatever else. They may be holding off on offering a free trial to see how many people subscribe when they can't get the benefits for free.
If they find subscriber numbers actually go up when they don't have regular trials that may stop them doing it at all. Although I suspect a middle ground is more likely - having about 1 per year at a time when there's a lot of new players who may just not know about ESO+ yet, because that will definitely still be the case for some people.PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
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Freelancer_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭They may feel running a free ESO+ event may cost them more than it brings in.
For example, I'd kind of like to get some items from some of the dungeon dlc that I do not currently own.
If ESO+ runs a free event, I'll likely go do those dungeons till I am totally sick of them to get the items.
Chances are I'll have a bad time but get most of the items. As I'll likely have a bad time it's not going to inspire me to buy ESO+ or get the dungeons.
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theendoftheriver✭✭✭Beggars should not be choosers.Eric Dikkersun - Achernar - EZE - theendoftheriver - Orion Silvercuff4 -
Amottica✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭So another month passed and we should have had 2 by now, anyone knows wtf is going on?
My guess is either Microsoft buying Zenimax is causing problems, because Microsoft doesn't want to run promotions like this or because no one's currently sure who gets to approve it, or they've found it's not cost effective and stopped doing them or are running them much more rarely.
ESO+ free trials aren't ZOS being nice and doing a favour for people who don't buy a subscription, it's a sales technique. The idea is that people who don't know much about ESO+ or don't think they'd want it get to try it out, discover they like it and then decide to pay for it. If they found that wasn't happening - that there was no significant increase in subscriber numbers after a trial they may have decided it's not worth it.
Especially if ZOS suspects that a lot of people who don't subscribe are relying on the trial to make that manageable by letting them periodically put materials into the craft bag, dye costumes and whatever else. They may be holding off on offering a free trial to see how many people subscribe when they can't get the benefits for free.
If they find subscriber numbers actually go up when they don't have regular trials that may stop them doing it at all. Although I suspect a middle ground is more likely - having about 1 per year at a time when there's a lot of new players who may just not know about ESO+ yet, because that will definitely still be the case for some people.
I doubt MS is micromanaging ESO. They likely do not care either way about a free ESO+ trial as it is fairly petty in the grand scheme of things.
There are likely other reasons such as it may not do much to "sell" people on getting ESO+. If it does not drive an increase in subs then it is rather pointless to offer the trial.
I guess we can all speculate as to the reasons but we lack the information required to actually steer our reasoning.
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✭✭✭✭So another month passed and we should have had 2 by now, anyone knows wtf is going on?
My guess is either Microsoft buying Zenimax is causing problems, because Microsoft doesn't want to run promotions like this or because no one's currently sure who gets to approve it, or they've found it's not cost effective and stopped doing them or are running them much more rarely.
ESO+ free trials aren't ZOS being nice and doing a favour for people who don't buy a subscription, it's a sales technique. The idea is that people who don't know much about ESO+ or don't think they'd want it get to try it out, discover they like it and then decide to pay for it. If they found that wasn't happening - that there was no significant increase in subscriber numbers after a trial they may have decided it's not worth it.
Especially if ZOS suspects that a lot of people who don't subscribe are relying on the trial to make that manageable by letting them periodically put materials into the craft bag, dye costumes and whatever else. They may be holding off on offering a free trial to see how many people subscribe when they can't get the benefits for free.
If they find subscriber numbers actually go up when they don't have regular trials that may stop them doing it at all. Although I suspect a middle ground is more likely - having about 1 per year at a time when there's a lot of new players who may just not know about ESO+ yet, because that will definitely still be the case for some people.
I doubt MS is micromanaging ESO. They likely do not care either way about a free ESO+ trial as it is fairly petty in the grand scheme of things.
There are likely other reasons such as it may not do much to "sell" people on getting ESO+. If it does not drive an increase in subs then it is rather pointless to offer the trial.
I guess we can all speculate as to the reasons but we lack the information required to actually steer our reasoning.
I mean to be honest a lack of a plus free trial may pressure more people to sub....4 -
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✭✭I would like to suggest that subbing for one month only could be beneficial as the additional time would relieve the stress of trying to achieve one's objectives in just a week.3 -
Elsonso✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I would like to suggest that subbing for one month only could be beneficial as the additional time would relieve the stress of trying to achieve one's objectives in just a week.
It is still giving them more money, which I tend to discourage.
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The3sFinest✭✭✭✭They are waiting until I pay for a one month sub, then at my last week they will release a one week free trial. 7 -
EinionYrth✭✭✭✭I've been gaming it for years, and I imagine I'm just one of a largish number; it's a bugger but I couldn't blame them if they've stopped them.1 -
Drammanoth✭✭✭✭✭No point in making them any more - people are flooding here, they know what ESO is, so it would simply brought them losses.
Marketing and all that.0 -
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✭✭TempPlayer wrote: »They simply reach the conclusion that free trail doesn't lead to increase in subscription. So the incentive to do that decrease to this stage.
This seems likely.
That and the forum filled with players suggesting skipping subscription in favour of force-feeding the craft bag with as much mats as you can stuff in there during previous free eso+ weeks/days.
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Aluna✭✭✭
Or into deinstallingwolfie1.0. wrote: »
I mean to be honest a lack of a plus free trial may pressure more people to sub....
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Or into deinstallingwolfie1.0. wrote: »
I mean to be honest a lack of a plus free trial may pressure more people to sub....
Somehow I don't think suggesting that non-revenue generating people may uninstall the game, will pressure ZOS into giving them a freebie.10 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I would like to suggest that subbing for one month only could be beneficial as the additional time would relieve the stress of trying to achieve one's objectives in just a week.
That depends on what your objectives are. I buy all the DLC I want to play, so my only use for ESO+ is moving items into the crafting bag and dying costumes and once I've got dyes I like I don't tend to change them often so it's only new costumes I've gotten since last time. Oh and occasionally moving more furnishings into a house, but I do that even more rarely than dying costumes.
I usually only need ESO+ for about 2-3 hours at a time, every 6-9 months at most. If they sold 1 day (or a couple of hours) I'd buy that instead of a full 30 days.
Since that's not an option I might buy 30 days at some point, but since I don't really need the subscription time itself I'll probably wait until there's something else to help justify the price, like crown store discounts on items I want (or exclusive items I want, but that's rarer). For now I'm finding it interesting to see how my system for storing materials works long-term, I was surprised when I got over 200 of one of the trait items in storage, but then I haven't been doing much crafting recently.
Or into deinstallingwolfie1.0. wrote: »
I mean to be honest a lack of a plus free trial may pressure more people to sub....
Somehow I don't think suggesting that non-revenue generating people may uninstall the game, will pressure ZOS into giving them a freebie.
I agree ZOS won't care about a few people uninstalling (I doubt there would be many who would quit because they don't get free ESO+) but the fact that someone doesn't subscribe doesn't mean they never spend any money on the game, a lot of people will buy DLC and crown store items and just don't want or need the subscription benefits.PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
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Danikat✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Monte_Cristo wrote: »ElvenOverlord wrote: »
"Wasn't I supposed to turn something on last month?"
If it's anything like jobs I've had it would be that there's 1 person who normally schedules and activates the free trials and they left or changed jobs and forgot to include it in their handover notes because it hadn't happened recently and it's a really simple process if you know what you're doing, so now there's no one who knows what the schedule normally is or how to activate it. They'll keep meaning to have a meeting to discuss it and work something out but then it gets bumped to the next meeting because something else takes too much time and this is a lower priority, but they'll definitely get around to it one day.PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
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LalMirchi✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm curious, what is the reason to not want to give them money, poverty or ideology?
The game costs less than 0.40 USD a day so I for one get great value for my yearly subscription.1
