Trade Bar Conversion FAQ

ZOS_Kevin · March 9

Hi everyone, in Update 49, Event Tickets will be converting over to Trade Bars. With this FAQ, we want to answer some player questions that have come up regarding the conversion. For a refresher on the conversion, any Event Tickets you possess before Update 49 launches will be converted into Trade Bars. This conversion happens automatically, and you shouldn’t need to do anything! Now on to the FAQ.

Q: What is the Event Ticket to Trade Bar conversion rate?
A: The conversion rate will be 1 Event Ticket to 100 Trade Bars.

Q: Will there be a cap on Trade Bars?
A: No, Trade Bars will not have a cap. One of the core benefits of this conversion of Event Tickets to Trade Bars is to get rid of the currency cap.

Q: Is there a way to get more than 12 Event Tickets on any character before the conversion happens in Update 49?
A: No, the total amount of Event Tickets will remain the same until they are removed in Update 49.

Q: With Trade Bars, how will the cost of existing items, like Morphing Collectible fragments, be adjusted?
A: Event rewards (including morphing collectibles) will have their price converted to maintain their value, as they are available for Trade Bars instead of Event Tickets.

Q: What happens if I think I did not get the full conversion amount of Trade Bars from my Event Tickets?
A: If you suspect there may be a discrepancy, please send in a ticket to our Customer Service team. They should be able to assist you. In addition, it is also a good practice to take a look at your full number of Event Tickets before Update 49. That way, you have the correct number recorded somewhere before the conversion to Event Tickets happens. Please note that the maximum amount Trade Bars someone could have when the conversion happens with Update 49 launch is 1,200 (for 12 Event Tickets.)

Q: How do I acquire Morphing Collectible fragments moving forward?
A: For the current Morphing Collectible, we made a change starting with Jester’s Festival where you can earn the current collectible fragment via the Event's reward boxes in the first event that collectible fragment is available. After the debut event for the fragment, you can still get the fragments through the Impresario with Trade Bars along with older fragments.

twisttop138 · March 9

All positive changes. Thank you. This is getting posted in guild discord immediately to head off all the pings I will get today.

ZOS_Kevin · March 9

twisttop138 wrote: »

All positive changes. Thank you. This is getting posted in guild discord immediately to head off all the pings I will get today.

Thanks for sharing it with your guild!

twisttop138 · March 9

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

twisttop138 wrote: »

All positive changes. Thank you. This is getting posted in guild discord immediately to head off all the pings I will get today.

Thanks for sharing it with your guild!

I'm usually that guy. With so many changes happening, it's important to take care of the community in what's in your power to do. It helps that it's easy to read and understand.

thejadefalcon · March 9

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

One of the core benefits of this conversion of Event Tickets to Trade Bars is to get rid of the currency cap.

... what? What does this change have to do with the ability to remove the cap? You could have changed it at literally any time.

ZOS_Kevin · March 9

thejadefalcon wrote: »

... what? What does this change have to do with the ability to remove the cap? You could have changed it at literally any time.

While Trade Bars function similarly to Event Tickets, how they work behind the scenes is different. The system needed to be built to accommodate no cap limit along with other functional systems. Which is why we don't have the cap for Trade Bars. It was not a simple, remove the cap off Event Tickets fix.

Bobby_Digital81 · March 9

thejadefalcon wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

One of the core benefits of this conversion of Event Tickets to Trade Bars is to get rid of the currency cap.

... what? What does this change have to do with the ability to remove the cap? You could have changed it at literally any time.

Probably because the Event Tickets were hard coded into the game. Considering how old the game is and how many events have been added to the game over the years, it's probably easier to create a newer system which they can have an unlimited cap to that currency.

LootAllTheStuff · March 9

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Q: How do I acquire Morphing Collectible fragments moving forward?
A: For the current Morphing Collectible, we made a change starting with Jester’s Festival where you can earn the current collectible fragment via the Event's reward boxes in the first event that collectible fragment is available. After the debut event for the fragment, you can still get the fragments through the Impresario with Trade Bars along with older fragments.

This is a welcome change

However, I do have to ask if there any thoughts about changing some of the older fragments over to the new system? I think that would also be a welcome change, although it wouldn't all need to be done in a single pass.

Maitsukas · March 9

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Q: How do I acquire Morphing Collectible fragments moving forward?
A: For the current Morphing Collectible, we made a change starting with Jester’s Festival where you can earn the current collectible fragment via the Event's reward boxes in the first event that collectible fragment is available. After the debut event for the fragment, you can still get the fragments through the Impresario with Trade Bars along with older fragments.

This is a welcome change
However, I do have to ask if there any thoughts about changing some of the older fragments over to the new system? I think that would also be a welcome change, although it wouldn't all need to be done in a single pass.

As of U49, you will no longer need to acquire the Base Pet repeatedly to morph it.

Sordidfairytale · March 9

Will players be able to gift items with the Trade Bars (or the other new ingame currency)?

ESO_player123 · March 9

Will we get an update on what will happen to the fragments for base pets from past events that the players might have?

For example, I might have some Nascent Indrik fragments in addition to the pet itself since I was planning to transform it into an Indrik pet of a variety for which I do not have the berries yet.

agelonestar · March 9

A really useful FAQ - more of this style of communication please! Direct, clear, concise, easy to share, and you hung around to answer some questions afterwards.

Thanks

I'll also stick a link to this in my guild, Sunfre's Sect (may the Lady Meridia bless us).

ZOS_Kevin · March 9

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

Will players be able to gift items with the Trade Bars (or the other new ingame currency)?

No, you will not be able to gift. But there will be many opportunities for all players to earn Trade Bars in-game. Through events, Twitch Drops, Tamriel Tomes, etc.

thejadefalcon · March 9

Bobby_Digital81 wrote: »

thejadefalcon wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

One of the core benefits of this conversion of Event Tickets to Trade Bars is to get rid of the currency cap.

... what? What does this change have to do with the ability to remove the cap? You could have changed it at literally any time.

Probably because the Event Tickets were hard coded into the game. Considering how old the game is and how many events have been added to the game over the years, it's probably easier to create a newer system which they can have an unlimited cap to that currency.

Again, literally *nothing* was stopping them from doing this at any time. Convert Event Tickets into Event Tickets 2.0 which didn't have a hard cap. This change is being advertised like it's a benefit only Trade Bars can accomplish, when it was entirely self-inflicted.

Bobby_Digital81 · March 9

thejadefalcon wrote: »

Bobby_Digital81 wrote: »

thejadefalcon wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

One of the core benefits of this conversion of Event Tickets to Trade Bars is to get rid of the currency cap.

... what? What does this change have to do with the ability to remove the cap? You could have changed it at literally any time.

Probably because the Event Tickets were hard coded into the game. Considering how old the game is and how many events have been added to the game over the years, it's probably easier to create a newer system which they can have an unlimited cap to that currency.

Again, literally *nothing* was stopping them from doing this at any time. Convert Event Tickets into Event Tickets 2.0 which didn't have a hard cap. This change is being advertised like it's a benefit only Trade Bars can accomplish, when it was entirely self-inflicted.

I guess if there was something to be mad at, for no reason, this would be it.

Like I said, the Event Tickets were something that might have been hard-coded in the system. Changing around something that is hard-coded can be difficult and high risk of breaking the rest of the game. SO, instead of going the difficult route, they changed the system entirely to make it easier on them, and actual seems like a better system going forward.

ZOS_Kevin · March 9

Bobby_Digital81 wrote: »

Like I said, the Event Tickets were something that might have been hard-coded in the system. Changing around something that is hard-coded can be difficult and high risk of breaking the rest of the game. SO, instead of going the difficult route, they changed the system entirely to make it easier on them, and actual seems like a better system going forward.

This is more or less what my previous post was trying to explain. Building Trade Bars to be more flexible from the ground up was the better solution here.

Sordidfairytale · March 9

Bobby_Digital81 wrote: »

Like I said, the Event Tickets were something that might have been hard-coded in the system. Changing around something that is hard-coded can be difficult and high risk of breaking the rest of the game. SO, instead of going the difficult route, they changed the system entirely to make it easier on them, and actual seems like a better system going forward.

This is perhaps also why they adjusted the riding lessons to increase by 3 rather than reducing the riding skills to 20. The risk of adjusting math on one end is negligble compared to making the adjustments on the other end.

wolfie1.0. · March 9

thejadefalcon wrote: »

Bobby_Digital81 wrote: »

thejadefalcon wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

One of the core benefits of this conversion of Event Tickets to Trade Bars is to get rid of the currency cap.

... what? What does this change have to do with the ability to remove the cap? You could have changed it at literally any time.

Probably because the Event Tickets were hard coded into the game. Considering how old the game is and how many events have been added to the game over the years, it's probably easier to create a newer system which they can have an unlimited cap to that currency.

Again, literally *nothing* was stopping them from doing this at any time. Convert Event Tickets into Event Tickets 2.0 which didn't have a hard cap. This change is being advertised like it's a benefit only Trade Bars can accomplish, when it was entirely self-inflicted.

Not necessarily. Based on how its been explained, discussed, and revealed in patch notes a name change was warranted anyway. The differences

Event tickets: only able to earn via active events by doing specific event tasks or being purchased in the crown store. Only able to spend on event related items from current or past events. Limited to 12 at a time.

Trade Bars: earned via events, but also via other ingame activities, twitch drops, or possibly tome rewards. Can be used to purchase current and past event items, as well as other items that are made available in rhe bazaar. Trade bars can not be purchased with crowns, and have no cap.

The changes seem subtle but the scope and purpose has increased, which warrants a new currency. Awarding event tickets when no event is active would be confusing.

Honestly, with the conversion I dont see what the complaint is. The ONLY downside is that you cant buy trade Bars wirh crowns and I am not sure that its a bad thing. Even at the best conversion rate a single ticket is over $1 USD per ticket pre tax when you convert it. Having trade Bars only in game or as drops is a good trade off.

LootAllTheStuff · March 9

Maitsukas wrote: »

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Q: How do I acquire Morphing Collectible fragments moving forward?
A: For the current Morphing Collectible, we made a change starting with Jester’s Festival where you can earn the current collectible fragment via the Event's reward boxes in the first event that collectible fragment is available. After the debut event for the fragment, you can still get the fragments through the Impresario with Trade Bars along with older fragments.

This is a welcome change
However, I do have to ask if there any thoughts about changing some of the older fragments over to the new system? I think that would also be a welcome change, although it wouldn't all need to be done in a single pass.

As of U49, you will no longer need to acquire the Base Pet repeatedly to morph it.

Is that actually going to be retroactive to all previous morphable pets? I had got the impression from the PTS notes and last event that it was only for those and any future ones.

Also curious if the same approach can be applied to non-morphable pet fragments tied to events, since there are now rather a lot of those.

PoveusRonin · March 9

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Q: Is there a way to get more than 12 Event Tickets on any character before the conversion happens in Update 49?
A: No, the total amount of Event Tickets will remain the same until they are removed in Update 49.

I'm either confused or this line was pointless to be added for today. Isn't this Update 49 we installed?

Maitsukas · March 9

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

Maitsukas wrote: »

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Q: How do I acquire Morphing Collectible fragments moving forward?
A: For the current Morphing Collectible, we made a change starting with Jester’s Festival where you can earn the current collectible fragment via the Event's reward boxes in the first event that collectible fragment is available. After the debut event for the fragment, you can still get the fragments through the Impresario with Trade Bars along with older fragments.

This is a welcome change
However, I do have to ask if there any thoughts about changing some of the older fragments over to the new system? I think that would also be a welcome change, although it wouldn't all need to be done in a single pass.

As of U49, you will no longer need to acquire the Base Pet repeatedly to morph it.

Is that actually going to be retroactive to all previous morphable pets? I had got the impression from the PTS notes and last event that it was only for those and any future ones.

Yes, I even tried it out on PTS myself.

ZOS_Kevin · March 9

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

Maitsukas wrote: »

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Q: How do I acquire Morphing Collectible fragments moving forward?
A: For the current Morphing Collectible, we made a change starting with Jester’s Festival where you can earn the current collectible fragment via the Event's reward boxes in the first event that collectible fragment is available. After the debut event for the fragment, you can still get the fragments through the Impresario with Trade Bars along with older fragments.

This is a welcome change
However, I do have to ask if there any thoughts about changing some of the older fragments over to the new system? I think that would also be a welcome change, although it wouldn't all need to be done in a single pass.

As of U49, you will no longer need to acquire the Base Pet repeatedly to morph it.

Is that actually going to be retroactive to all previous morphable pets? I had got the impression from the PTS notes and last event that it was only for those and any future ones.

Also curious if the same approach can be applied to non-morphable pet fragments tied to events, since there are now rather a lot of those.

Yesh, it will be retroactive for previous morphable pets.

spartaxoxo · March 9

Will the Impresario still have all of this year's previous fragments during New Life?

Eternity_Was · March 9

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Yesh, it will be retroactive for previous morphable pets.

Will the pets be unlocked if we don’t currently have them, but HAD used them into one of their morphs?

msetten · March 9

Eternity_Was wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Yesh, it will be retroactive for previous morphable pets.

Will the pets be unlocked if we don’t currently have them, but HAD used them into one of their morphs?

Yes, I'd like to know that too. Especially the one for the Indriks which I had to buy a lot of times in the past.

ZOS_Kevin · March 9

Eternity_Was wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Yesh, it will be retroactive for previous morphable pets.

Will the pets be unlocked if we don’t currently have them, but HAD used them into one of their morphs?

No. You will need the active fragments to get the pet if you currently do not have the pet unlocked.

shadoza · March 10

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

Will players be able to gift items with the Trade Bars (or the other new ingame currency)?

No, you will not be able to gift. But there will be many opportunities for all players to earn Trade Bars in-game. Through events, Twitch Drops, Tamriel Tomes, etc.

I think offering trade bars for using Twitch is wrong. Drop items is fine, but dropping trade bars is like buying attention.

Elvenheart · March 10

shadoza wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

Will players be able to gift items with the Trade Bars (or the other new ingame currency)?

No, you will not be able to gift. But there will be many opportunities for all players to earn Trade Bars in-game. Through events, Twitch Drops, Tamriel Tomes, etc.

I think offering trade bars for using Twitch is wrong. Drop items is fine, but dropping trade bars is like buying attention.

I personally don’t really mind it myself. When I get Oroboros Crates for watching a Twitch drop the only reason I’m getting them is for the gems that I can convert the items in the crates into.

ESO_player123 · March 10

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Eternity_Was wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Yesh, it will be retroactive for previous morphable pets.

Will the pets be unlocked if we don’t currently have them, but HAD used them into one of their morphs?

No. You will need the active fragments to get the pet if you currently do not have the pet unlocked.

@ZOS_Kevin
What if we have the pet AND the fragments for the pet. What will happen to these fragments that we cannot use for anything now? Will they be deleted, left hanging in the Collections, or converted to Trade Bars?

Thoriorz · March 10

Will we be able to buy items that are normally available in Crown Crates at the bazaar? (such as various styles, radiant apex mounts, etc.)

Tornaad · March 10

I know that a new benefit of ESO+ is that you are supposed to get trade bars with it, and I know you have plans to get those whose ESO + renewed earlier this year. When is that supposed to happen?