spartaxoxo wrote: »<snipped for brevity>
I think this is part of the issue. ZOS has devalued non-combat pets by giving them away so often. A non-combat pet as a prize doesn't feel special anymore in the way that a house or a mount does, which is why I think so many suggestions keep circling back to these two items. Non-combat pet might be a similar prize in terms of crown pricing (they are in the same ballpark as a dlc) but the perception of them as a prize has cheapened them.
I would bet that not only would certain plus members mostly feel more appreciated if they had received one of these, but they'd have sold more plus memberships if the prize was considered cool. They also might have made more people angry that a cool prize was double paygated too though.
VoodooPlatypus wrote: »The key question becomes, does giving away the 4Q DLC increase the chapter sales more than giving away a home? That is what will drive continuing to give away the 4Q DLC more than anything said in this thread.
It must. i doubt it it would have been repeated two years in a row otherwise. Perhaps both the Blackwood and High Isle chapters did poorly compared to annual sales projections. Perhaps the “free DLC (if you own the chapter you haven’t purchased yet)” marketing technique provided enough profit last year to justify repeating it this year.
Personally, I am a bit disappointed in the “prize” (and somewhat irritated by the token salamander). That said, I selfishly want the game to be profitable enough to continue, so if this particular technique provides that, then so be it.
Oh, I agree that the free DLC likely proved to be a great promotion though I did not state that as I know it to be true since we do not have access to such information just as we do not know how well sales of each chapter has performed. We just do not have that information.
I wouldn't mind the salamander at all if they used the better animation set for it, the one that hops when following you (like the blue pet), but I have a feeling it will be the ugly, twitchy one that most of the salamanders have (the red and yellow ones.) All of my salamander pets have the ugly running animation, so I never use them, despite loving the way they look otherwise
SilverBride wrote: »Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »Free stuff is always nice. Also, I don't think it is healthy approach to be mad / angry that someone else is getting free stuff.
I'm upset that I'm not getting free stuff... 2 years in a row.
This completely invalidates having DLC access as an ESO+ perk.
Oh, I agree that the free DLC likely proved to be a great promotion though I did not state that as I know it to be true since we do not have access to such information just as we do not know how well sales of each chapter has performed. We just do not have that information.
This is a pre-Holiday sales event. They would not be doing this again if it did not work last time.
I wouldn't mind the salamander at all if they used the better animation set for it, the one that hops when following you (like the blue pet), but I have a feeling it will be the ugly, twitchy one that most of the salamanders have (the red and yellow ones.) All of my salamander pets have the ugly running animation, so I never use them, despite loving the way they look otherwise
I AM SO HAPPY! They made the salamander have the adorable hopping animation; I am quite pleased to just get this pet; love it so much
spartaxoxo wrote: »I wouldn't mind the salamander at all if they used the better animation set for it, the one that hops when following you (like the blue pet), but I have a feeling it will be the ugly, twitchy one that most of the salamanders have (the red and yellow ones.) All of my salamander pets have the ugly running animation, so I never use them, despite loving the way they look otherwise
I AM SO HAPPY! They made the salamander have the adorable hopping animation; I am quite pleased to just get this pet; love it so much
I'm glad you enjoy it so much! I like it better than I thought it would now that I've seen it in game.
Parrot1986 wrote: »Didn’t even get a full set of attunable stations like last time.
For some reason it didn’t include jewellery and that was the only part of the reward that was remotely useful for me.
Pretty lacklustre.
TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »It devalues the collector's edition which I would of gotten but now it would not be worth the cost, not to mention ESO+ do not benefit from this at all.
How does this devalue the collector's edition? It wasn't part of it, would never be part of it?
Because the Collector's Edition of a DLC still costs the same whether you own the base DLC or not. There is no lower-cost "upgrade" option for Q4 DLC like there is for Q2 DLC (i.e. DLC formerly known as Chapters). So if the Q4 DLC CE is, say, 4k crowns (by current prices), while the Q4 DLC alone is 2k crowns, then High Isle owners will have gotten the base 2k part for free but now still have to pay the full 4k for the CE items alone. You don't get the option to buy just the CE part alone for the 2k it costs when sold with the DLC.
So if you have already bought High Isle and get Firesong free but want the Firesong CE items, you have to pay 4k crowns - whether you think of that as paying double for the CE items or for paying over again for the base DLC that was folded into your High Isle purchase. Either way the "free" aspect of the base Firesong DLC is lost.