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Is it time to move on from the Daily Rewards?

moderatelyfatman
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There has been a lot of comments about the relative paucity of the Daily Rewards, especially compared to previous years. The overall effect seems to be discouraging rather than encouraging players to log in.
It is easy to forget that in previous years we didn't have Endeavors or Golden Pursuits, so the Daily Rewards were pretty much the main source of 'free stuff'

What I propose is that ZOS scraps the Daily Rewards and replace it with a flat number of Endeavors that players receive just by logging in each day. It's not flashy or fancy but at least players will be getting a little bit closer to getting an item they want rather than having the irritation of deleting useless garbage on a mediocre day.

All the things in the Daily Rewards section (e.g. crafting mats, ink etc) should be still available in the Crown Store and purchaseable for Endeavors. Old expansions, dungeons etc which were given away as promotions should instead be purchasable for Endeavors at a deep discount for the month.
(This will also stop players who already own said content from feeling they are getting nothing that month.)
Edited by moderatelyfatman on January 6, 2026 2:46AM

Is it time to move on from the Daily Rewards? 142 votes

Yes
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No
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Maybe (please comment)
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  • scrappy1342
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    Yes
    was going to click no on the off chance that they did decide to start giving us nice monthly gifts again >.> until i read what you wrote. i don't expect them to do it, but it would be nice to have more endeavor seals in exchange for the regular daily bonuses. as you said, ppl who need those things can purchase them with the seals instead. those of us who don't need them can put them towards mounts/pets/etc
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  • Gabriel_H
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    No
    Daily Rewards help newer players. What needs to be done is giving something the veterans find useful - having a choice out of 3 every day would accomplish both.

    The wheel doesn't need re-inventing it just needs changing from a wooden cart wheel to something with some rubber on it.
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  • hiyde
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    Maybe (please comment)
    When the stuff in there is interesting, I think it can be beneficial in driving a good number of players to log in more often, which pushes the metrics up, which can be a good thing to point to with their MS overloards.

    But no month should look like this. I don't think virtually anyone is going to log in even one extra day for anything on this list.

    This feature is done, coded and the only thing needed is the tiny amount of time it would take to pick some signature items for the month and then sprinkle in the usual. I don't necessarily mean 100k gold, or a pile of crown crates, a house or a DLC (although all those things are very nice). Just make it *interesting*.

    If they can't do that then yeah, kill it and let Endeavors/Pursuits carry the day because I think months like this do way more harm than good.
    Edited by hiyde on January 6, 2026 5:10AM
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  • Soarora
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    No
    Filling it with bigger and bigger endeavor amounts as the month goes on could work. Or, you know, give us a reasonable amount of tri potions and materials. Could even just do a static 12 month rotation with collectibles that, when acquired for a second time, is replaced crown gem style.
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  • moderatelyfatman
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    Yes
    Gabriel_H wrote: »
    Daily Rewards help newer players. What needs to be done is giving something the veterans find useful - having a choice out of 3 every day would accomplish both.

    The wheel doesn't need re-inventing it just needs changing from a wooden cart wheel to something with some rubber on it.

    My suggestions was to give a certain amount of Endeavors each day just for logging in. New players can spend the Endeavors of basic pots and mats while more experienced players can save it for expensive cosmetics.
    A win-win scenario in my eyes.
  • LunaFlora
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    No
    We already get Seals of Endeavour from Daily Rewards in some months.

    i like some of the Daily Rewards items.
    - All the saved up Experience Scrolls have been useful for leveling Subclassed skill lines.
    - Whenever i use my secondary Characters, the Research Scrolls, Poisons, and Potions are especially helpful.
    - i was able to finish my 2 Arcanists' mount training pretty fast due to the Daily Rewards.
    And i have enough saved up for future characters too, if we ever get them.
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  • alakeyfox
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    Just let us convert daily rewards into gems. Considering you only get 1 gem for 3 billion potions, it's not like we will be swimming in gems by any means, but better than nothing.
  • Horace-Wimp
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    No
    Ideas like this say to me that the person(s) advocating them need to simply move on and leave this game behind. Or at least take an extended break.

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  • Onomos
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    Maybe (please comment)
    I'm not opposed but a lot of times I don't need what they have (scrolls, potions, riding lessons), whereas these may be useful for other people.

    How about a choice? Two items, you get to pick one. So if I don't want an XP scroll, how about gold or tel var? Big items like pets or adornments, those could be a single item. But for most days, having an option would be nice so I don't keep filling my bank with stuff I don't use (or end up destroying).
    Edited by Onomos on January 6, 2026 3:07PM
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  • Destai
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    Yes
    If they need other login incentives outside of actual gameplay (releases, events, whatever), then perhaps the game isn't as fun as it should be. They should take that as an opportunity to review and address the lack of fun. Why put things in daily rewards when you can make the systems involved less painful - horse training, item research. Outside of revenue, I guess.

    And if they're struggling to make even the daily rewards rewarding, then yeah, just remove it. One less thing to mess up or have people complain about.
    Edited by Destai on January 6, 2026 7:20PM
  • Tandor
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    No
    In some ways I'd rather keep the daily rewards and get rid of the golden pursuits and endeavours, which obviously isn't going to happen.

    I say that simply because the daily logins sometimes are useful, sometimes aren't, but they're always simple to handle and are never time consuming, while I find the golden pursuits and endeavours are a significant distraction from actually playing the game.
  • katanagirl1
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    No
    I’ve been playing for years and I still use the items in the daily rewards, like tri-pots and I bank up the research scrolls for future characters so I can level up their riding skills fast.

    The only things I don’t use are poisons but I just delete those.
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  • SkaiFaith
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    No
    OP and whoever votes yes, please consider this: an idea may sound good but the realization of that leaves disappointed - how many Seals do you really think would be given out daily? Realistically they would end up with a number between 1 and 2, for a total of 30-60 per month.
    Just no thanks.

    I prefer if they bring back the occasional big rewards, such as crown crates, big amount of Seals (as happened many times), masses of gold, or new collectibles (said collectibles should become purchasable with crowns after a period).
    I understand Golden Pursuits offer these, but IMO one doesn't exclude the other nor steals value.
    Edited by SkaiFaith on January 6, 2026 8:00PM
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  • SilverBride
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    No
    I am always happy to get free things. I have enough mount training books now to almost fully train an alt if I ever choose to make another.

    I also have many research scrolls I will never use and would love if we could sell these, or any of the other daily rewards we have no personal use for.
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  • Elvenheart
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    No
    I like daily log in rewards in every game I play that has them and just consider them a free gift.I do agree with others that of late they could have been a little better, they seem to be missing that one special gift we’ve usually gotten on the 21st day of each month.

    Edited by Elvenheart on January 6, 2026 8:26PM
  • hiyde
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    Maybe (please comment)
    Destai wrote: »
    If they need other login incentives outside of actual gameplay (releases, events, whatever), then perhaps the game isn't as fun as it should be. They should take that as an opportunity to review and address the lack of fun. Why put things in daily rewards when you can make the systems involved less painful - horse training, item research. Outside of revenue, I guess.

    And if they're struggling to make even the daily rewards rewarding, then yeah, just remove it. One less thing to mess up or have people complain about.

    I mean...they could just rename it Crown Store Consumables Free Sampler at this point. :)
    Edited by hiyde on January 6, 2026 8:29PM
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  • SilverBride
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    No
    I never realized that we ever got a special gift on the 21st of the month. I knew that every now and then we'd get a bigger reward but thought it was random.
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  • SeaGtGruff
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    No
    Tandor wrote: »
    In some ways I'd rather keep the daily rewards and get rid of the golden pursuits and endeavours, which obviously isn't going to happen.

    I say that simply because the daily logins sometimes are useful, sometimes aren't, but they're always simple to handle and are never time consuming, while I find the golden pursuits and endeavours are a significant distraction from actually playing the game.

    Most of the time, the Golden Pursuits and Daily/Weekly Endeavours help to drive my gameplay, steering me toward various activities that I enjoy but that I might not have engaged in recently. Sometimes I'll choose the Endeavours or Pursuits which will get done virtually by themselves while I'm doing other things that I do every day anyway, but often I'll deliberately choose ones that require me to engage in specific activities that I don't normally do every day. I very rarely choose one that would require doing something I have little-to-no interest in, so I don't feel as though they're manipulating me, or distracting me from my preferred activities.

    As far as keeping or removing Daily Login Rewards, they seem to be mostly intended for helping new players get caught up in various ways, such as with maxing out riding skills, researching crafting traits, or just gaining experience more quickly. These things can also be useful for longtime players who've created a new character, but a lot of longtime players are altaholics who have already filled up all of their available character slots, so the rewards are definitely most useful to new players. Why take that away from them?
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  • SwordOfSagas
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    No
    So basically you want free crown store items.
  • Vonnegut2506
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    Yes
    So basically you want free crown store items.

    No, we should all just be happy that ZOS is giving us FIVE! whole imaginary potions and keep any suggestions or complaints to ourselves obviously.
  • raystormusa
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    Yes
    Suggest to offer an OPTION on the daily reward:
    A: the daily reward as it is currently offered, OR
    B: minimum 10 Seals of Endeavor (so that max login total is at minimum 280-310 Seals per month if going for all Seals every login).

    Both new and vet players will have something to look forward to.

    If ZOS can do better in balancing Seals amount to login reward equivalence then all the better, otherwise keep it at minimum 10 is fine by me - all this being still Suggestion only.

    The OPTION menu is already built in-game - port it over from Infinite Archive and repurpose it for reward selection.
    Edited by raystormusa on January 7, 2026 8:41AM
  • licenturion
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    No
    I would keep the whole system as is but make the stuff you get available to vendor or put it up for trade.
    Edited by licenturion on January 7, 2026 8:37AM
  • Anilahation
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    Yes
    Honestly I say yes and just steal the monthly season journey thing wow has, you get rewards at check points. Incentive to log on once to get the dump of tender and Incentive to play and do stuff to unlock the pinnacle reward
  • Renato90085
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    Yes
    This is just telling us that the real good stuff all is in crown crate..
    I more hope delete daily reward,not add any reward there,and give us more in game reward
    maybe only in event have log in reward
    the forums alway contradiction, say we hate FOMO but daily should have special FOMO item
    endeavors seals maybe sound good ,but we have other way get more later. i dont think they will give us seals so easy,and crate rotate to slow,This is a bit unrealistic
  • Fischblut
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    No
    I appreciate when we get nice collectibles and crates from daily rewards.

    From consumables, for me personally Skill Respec scrolls are awesome :)
    I think Research scrolls are super nice for new players, but as an old crafter I hope we get additional trait for each profession someday - so that I could use those scrolls as well :D

    Riding lessons are great too, but the problem is - we only have 20 character slots... I need much more of character slots please, so I can put those lessons to use (and for roleplay options, of course) :smiley:

    I wish we would get at least 1 Outfit slot and Armory slot every month (or every other month) - I can't justify spending crowns on them because these are per character only; my characters are really starving for extra outfit and build options, so getting those from daily log in rewards would be epic <3 This is my main wish for Daily Rewards, since we get collectibles from Golden Pursuits nowadays anyway.

    The only daily rewards I personally don't understand is tri-stat drinks... I don't know why anyone would use such consumable unless it's for daily "consume X amount of drinks" endeavor... But maybe someone has some build which relies on just tri-stat recoveries, so those drinks also find their use? But for me, this daily reward is the only item with zero usefulness :/
  • Petoften
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    It'd be nice if there was an option to get a missed day.
  • spartaxoxo
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    No
    Well, I guess it is. They're eliminating Endeavors and Daily rewards for a new system.
  • Abelon
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    Yes
    Yet another month that has absolutely nothing of value or interest. It's kind of outright junk at this point, most of it might as well be destroyed after it lands in my inventory. And with no bigger rewards towards the end, there is no need to bother to login every single day. Ergo, there is no need to bother with this little sticker book whatsoever.

    I also got to say, the more low value those items look, the more those kinds of rewards remind me of some korean MMO slops. Where you open the game and get multiple tabs of daily rewards and all of them are the most useless nonsense made to fill up your inventory, overwhelm you, and make you think you might be missing out on something when you really aren't. I'd rather prefer to not have daily rewards at all, than have something that brings forth such associations.
  • wolfie1.0.
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    Maybe (please comment)
    Abelon wrote: »
    Yet another month that has absolutely nothing of value or interest. It's kind of outright junk at this point, most of it might as well be destroyed after it lands in my inventory. And with no bigger rewards towards the end, there is no need to bother to login every single day. Ergo, there is no need to bother with this little sticker book whatsoever.

    I also got to say, the more low value those items look, the more those kinds of rewards remind me of some korean MMO slops. Where you open the game and get multiple tabs of daily rewards and all of them are the most useless nonsense made to fill up your inventory, overwhelm you, and make you think you might be missing out on something when you really aren't. I'd rather prefer to not have daily rewards at all, than have something that brings forth such associations.

    Your a bit out of the loop it seems. Daily login rewards are gone after March 9th.
  • Abelon
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    wolfie1.0. wrote: »
    Abelon wrote: »
    Yet another month that has absolutely nothing of value or interest. It's kind of outright junk at this point, most of it might as well be destroyed after it lands in my inventory. And with no bigger rewards towards the end, there is no need to bother to login every single day. Ergo, there is no need to bother with this little sticker book whatsoever.

    I also got to say, the more low value those items look, the more those kinds of rewards remind me of some korean MMO slops. Where you open the game and get multiple tabs of daily rewards and all of them are the most useless nonsense made to fill up your inventory, overwhelm you, and make you think you might be missing out on something when you really aren't. I'd rather prefer to not have daily rewards at all, than have something that brings forth such associations.

    Your a bit out of the loop it seems. Daily login rewards are gone after March 9th.

    Indeed lol. Going out with a whimper though. But good.
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