I just realized the question is how much "could" you give rather than how much "would" you give. The first would indicate how much gold we have while the second would indicate how generous we are.

Randos begging for gold in zone chat get told that if they do their daily writs they'll get their gold in no time AND earn it themselves. I'd never talk down anyone who gave them gold though, its's their own choice.

I could give a new player 500k to 1 million without really noticing it, but I probably wouldn't unless I really knew they were a new player struggling, so maybe if they are between cp10 and cp160.
And also only if they didn't actually ask for it but I just kinda noticed that they were sturggeling

If its a friend of guildmate I play with, I would be more than happy to help out with some cash for a specific purpose, if they are in a bind.

But I would not be giving away my hard earned cash to anyone simply begging or not being willing to engage with content to earn their own money.

That said, quite some time back I noted that random players would on a semi regular basis, just ask for anyone to give them gold in zone chat. I remember thinking that is ridiculous, surely no one actually gives out gold like that. I then tried it just for a laugh and to prove my hypothesis, I travelled around the zones and just asked for various sums of cash... 10k, 50k, 100k. Quite incredibly I found players genuinely offering to give me the these sums, some just sent it to you, no text chat, no email chat, just sent tens of thousands in gold.

In principle I object to this practice and in particular the begging side of it. But each to their own. There are some very generous players in ESO, which is positive and fair play to them.

ps - I have on two occasions also "earned" 1,000,000 from clearly wealthy individuals, for making them laugh and entertaining them (in zone chat). Fun times.

So many wealthy and ultra generous people in this thread!
I will take 5-10 minutes and provide online resources and explain the writ + hirling aspects of this game, among other things.
Knowledge is power...teach a man to fish and all that.

Browiseth wrote: »

i roleplay as scrooge mcduck

You know diving into a pile of gold is probably lethal. Don't do what that duck does irl ok.

I once offered to buy someone in my guild a mount that was available at that time for gems. I never used gems so said I would gift them the mount. I was a bit embarrassed when I found out you couldn't gift gem purchases to other players. Maybe I'm not such a Scrooge afterall. It's the thought that counts.

I help people genuinely struggling though or randomly trade people recipes or mail them

The 27 people who said 200k+ I wish I met you when I was a new player lol

Varana- Tbf you can only speak for yourself not anyone else. Also OP clearly didn't actually mean to use 'could''. And it was a joke so your reply was unnecessary anyway but thanks.

I'm not naive. My gold cost me a lot of playing time, why would I give anything to someone who is not willing to bend his neck and pick items scattered around. The gold lies on the ground, they need to run a bit and find it. This is a game where you kill or pick to make gold, not ask for charity, like some beggar or scammer.

Varana wrote: »

ElvenOverlord wrote: »

The 27 people who said 200k+ I wish I met you when I was a new player lol

Paying attention to the actual question is important here.

The question is how much you could give.
That doesn't mean that these people (including me) ever would do that.

If for some reason a family member or a really good RL friend started playing, I could certainly give them 200k+ without feeling much of a loss. That doesn't mean I would do anything even close to that to random people. (Although I have given crafted stuff worth about 100k or so to various guild members.)

I'm not sure what the OP intended to ask. What he did ask, is not what players would actually really do.

It's absolutely obvious that OP meant "would".
If he meant could, he would just have asked "How much gold do you have"

I mean ..it's really, really obvious.

WiseSky wrote: »

Sharing is caring or is it?

Depends on what platform u play on, tbh if ur on console id practically give the money away around now and play a different game, CBA with it considering there's hardly anyone on anymore, on pc id do guild quiz and house games and reward would be around 100k, it's not like it's my real life cash stack. I have given 100s to homeless in real life money is a root of being evil.

This needs an "Other" option. I do give new players gold sometimes (and lots of other stuff). But NOT if they ask. For some reason that doesn't sit right with me. 100k for sure I have given. But I give way, way more in value via equipment and motifs and collectibles like pieces for the big eared ginger kitten or the sixth house robe. And, of course my time in taking them through dungeons, which i love doing (but I tend to just wander around, so maybe my time isn't worth anything).

Edit: Just noticed the point @SilverBride made that the question asks how much "could" you give. That does change things. i think the better question is how much "would" you give. Otherwise you are just asking how wealthy we are.