This needs to happen, I was lucky enough and I didn't need any of the items in the crown store since gifting was disabled but many people must have missed something they liked.

And this isn't related to the post but you should let us buy items that are no longer available like... if I want to pay ZOS 140€ for a house that's not available right now and ZOS says no uhm it seems like a bad decision on your side.

Daoin wrote: »

the thing is your not paying 140 euros for a house your asking other people to pay 140 euros for your house, also the items are available you just need to buy them yourself.

They are not available, lets say I want to buy the Psijic Villa, that's some big boy amount of money but it isn't available right now, I could contact support and ask to buy that one and they would get that money, or I can keep playing, be frustrated that I can't get it, try to wait until it becomes available but the rotation is so slow that I will most likely stop playing before that happens. I understand the FOMO factor but with a system like this FOMO would still work and players that play for years would benefit from this because they are going to buy it anyway.

About the asking other people, if the item is available and I pay gold for another person to buy it for me, its basically the same thing for ZOS, someone spent that money to buy it and most people that buy items with gold are not going to buy it with real money anyway so not being able to do that is a loss for them as well.

i wont say anything more on the point of gifting, except i hope it is never re-enabled. but yes i guess access to more housing more frequently could be a good idea.

Daoin wrote: »

the thing is your not paying 140 euros for a house your asking other people to pay 140 euros for your house, also the items are available you just need to buy them yourself.

'Gifting' is more often than not trading a crown item for gold. People can make their own choices. If they want to stock up on their ESO+ crowns, or buy crowns, to sell for gold then it's a win-win.

Not everyone likes the shinies.

But I sure as hell do.

Daoin wrote: »

i wont say anything more on the point of gifting, except i hope it is never re-enabled. but yes i guess access to more housing more frequently could be a good idea.

One will have to hope that those who sell their rl money for in game gold are adults and knows what they are doing.


Selling some crowns are cheaper then go out and get drunk lol

They use third-party sites because this method seems easier. ZOS banned gifts, ok, but it was good to give people an alternative. So that people do not sell crowns and gold on third-party platforms, for example, a crown merchant, or a gift merchant. With very simple mechanics. if a player wants to sell something, he simply sends crowns / a gift to this merchant, setting the price in gold, and those who want to buy used as a guild merchant, a kind of auction house, in the capitals of alliances, for example. In the absence of a point transfer of crowns / gifts, this will greatly complicate the work of third-party sites. The problem is that we don't know exactly why they shut down the system. an in-game auction of crowns /gifts would be a good further development option, in my opinion.