Not only are they gem exclusives, but you can only have one active at a time. You won’t be able to fully customize your character with a theme, even if there were enough.

Panchaea wrote: »

Adding customised actions is just another step on the game's over reliance in the Store when so many of these items could be integrated into the game to give us incentive to play and enjoy it, i.e lock a costume behind an obscure achievement. And that revenue is not going back to the game's development. We can see that in play at the moment.

Player retention and more engaging gameplay means providing incentives, meaning customised actions could have been a feature of future content as unlockables for doing content. So yes, I think it should be booed.

I disagree personally. I think the game is full of free unlockables and give more than enough incentive to play and enjoy. There are like 30 free costumes attainable via achievements, dailies, fragments, zone quests, museum collections, antiquities. A vast majority of these unlockables are buried in the game though (PvP Proofs, Public Dungeon Fragments, Antiquities Leads, Holiday events). I think most players don't even know they exist, and even more sadly, just purchase the items for gold.

Could they improve? Of course.

I would LOVE to see more earnable Mounts like the Ebon Dwarven Wolf. HOWEVER, it seems like ZOS has decided (subtly) to gate "free" mounts behind holiday events, collection bundles, and Endeavors (probably because these can also be bought outright for Crowns?...). I am happy they brought back the Indrik Vendor this year and I hope they keep that up!

And on the topic of Customized Actions! I would have liked to see a hand full released for free as part of a Chapter release! Firesong would have been a good chapter to release like 3 Customized Actions, Druidic themed, earnable via zone quests and achievements. Then, they could have also released 4 others in the Crown store.... alas, they didn't do that.

I don't think it is as bad as I think most players want to paint it. However, they could certainly improve with just a couple minor, better decisions.

Personally I like them, as they aren't that intrusive/attention seeking. While I do like my mounts that way, gameplay actions should not be like that, as we often perform those actions.

heaven13 wrote: »

Not only are they gem exclusives, but you can only have one active at a time. You won’t be able to fully customize your character with a theme, even if there were enough.

You can have more than one active. I have both active on all my characters currently.

Billium813 wrote: »

INSTEAD! What about reusing and combining emotes, mementos, and furnishing effects to make a new "Customized Action"? This is cheap too because it reuses animations... but by combining them, you create something new and interesting.

Earthen Root Essence furnishing + Token of Root Sunder memento

Nicely done

The crown store saturation and pushing will be what will kill this game's playerbase. Not the updates. I am so tired of all these cool things locked behind a paywall and rng as well. Give me more things to want to play and earn beside armor styles.

Jarl_Ironheart wrote: »

The crown store saturation and pushing will be what will kill this game's playerbase. Not the updates. I am so tired of all these cool things locked behind a paywall and rng as well. Give me more things to want to play and earn beside armor styles.

I disagree because I think what will kill the game is a 1-2 punch: meh content + over monetization focus. I think we are feeling it now.

The content has been sub-par. I don't think High Isle was that interesting for most players. Tales of Tribute had mixed reviews (personally, I think it was a flawed decision from the drawing board, but I digress). ESO has been in a slump mechanically for over a year now.

Meanwhile, the crown store keeps pumping out "content". Now, I'm not an idiot; monetization is necessary. I personally am 100% for cosmetic monetization. I want the game to make money so that it gets further developement! This is a reason why I loved Customized Actions when they were announced. I thought it was a great new, cosmetic monetization. It wasn't just flashier mounts or MORE motifs, it was something NEW! [snip]

However, the game isn't dying or dead. It's in a bad way, but it's totally salvageable. They need to start making smart decisions. Start connecting core gameplay content together and stop the system bloat. The game needs to be tightened up, pulled together. There is SOOO much that is being neglected and left flapping in the wind while they have been off in Mythic/Companion/Quest land pumping out the same old stuff.

Personally, I am putting it all on the next release. If we get another High Isle 2.0 or refresh servers or some minor stupid thing, I'm out. Really. This is it. I'm done. I've done everything worth doing in this game. PvP is stale. New mythics aren't going to save it. It isn't about new sets or more quests. It's about real content. I'm actually hopeful based on Matt Firor's letter! It SOUNDS like they are doing exactly what I think ESO needs: good, repeatable content and less story. We have enough quests and story for now.

All we can do is pray they don't [snip] it up. TBH, I post things on the forums in the smallest hope that my feedback and ideas get to developers to help them course correct. It doesn't seem that hard from my perspective. Just smarter choices.

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Shihp00 wrote: »

They could've just copied the animation that mage npc's do after they win a duel (random encounters). The one where they spawn a bright portal and enter in it l0l

I would actually buy that

heaven13 wrote: »

Not only are they gem exclusives, but you can only have one active at a time. You won’t be able to fully customize your character with a theme, even if there were enough.

Only one active at a time is scandalous to be honest

I think I see what you guys did here! While we’re all thinking of wardens and druids and where are the leaves? This green effect should also work nice with arcanist.

Of course I would love even more swirling leaves for my bosmer ranger and some runes for my arcanist! But I will definitely utilize this effect on several characters to come.