Update on ESO Plus Benefits & Seasons

ZOS_Kevin · February 24

Hi everyone! We want to share a quick update on ESO Plus benefits in relation to Seasons and the seasonal currencies. We have a path forward to make sure everyone who has an active ESO Plus subscription starting at the beginning of 2026 will get the seasonal currencies. This includes those who purchased multi-month subscriptions before January 2026 that covered January, February, and/or March 2026.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026. In both cases, the currencies are being delivered before the Season Zero launch on April 2. Please note that seasonal currencies will not be spendable until the Season Zero launch.

LunaFlora · February 24

thank you for the detailed clarification!

Mathius_Mordred · February 24

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi everyone! We want to share a quick update on ESO Plus benefits in relation to Seasons and the seasonal currencies. We have a path forward to make sure everyone who has an active ESO Plus subscription starting at the beginning of 2026 will get the seasonal currencies. This includes those who purchased multi-month subscriptions before January 2026 that covered January, February, and/or March 2026.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026. In both cases, the currencies are being delivered before the Season Zero launch on April 2. Please note that seasonal currencies will not be spendable until the Season Zero launch.

To be clear, we are still going to be receiving crowns with our subscription?

BloodstainedFay · February 24

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi everyone! We want to share a quick update on ESO Plus benefits in relation to Seasons and the seasonal currencies. We have a path forward to make sure everyone who has an active ESO Plus subscription starting at the beginning of 2026 will get the seasonal currencies. This includes those who purchased multi-month subscriptions before January 2026 that covered January, February, and/or March 2026.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026. In both cases, the currencies are being delivered before the Season Zero launch on April 2. Please note that seasonal currencies will not be spendable until the Season Zero launch.

To be clear, we are still going to be receiving crowns with our subscription?

When have they ever said we weren't receiving crowns anymore? Yes, we are.

ZOS_Kevin · February 24

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi everyone! We want to share a quick update on ESO Plus benefits in relation to Seasons and the seasonal currencies. We have a path forward to make sure everyone who has an active ESO Plus subscription starting at the beginning of 2026 will get the seasonal currencies. This includes those who purchased multi-month subscriptions before January 2026 that covered January, February, and/or March 2026.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026. In both cases, the currencies are being delivered before the Season Zero launch on April 2. Please note that seasonal currencies will not be spendable until the Season Zero launch.

To be clear, we are still going to be receiving crowns with our subscription?

Yes, you are still getting crowns.

Chef42 · February 24

A couple of my guildies were asking if this means that people who have an active plus sub now are getting extra currency when its awarded? Or if they sub now, will they get more than if they sub to plus on the 2nd?

WerewolfMoonHunter · February 24

Sounds like a good solution. Thank you for information and can't wait to try new seasons ^^

gabbo1928 · February 24

It's probably worth reminding people not to open the Tome Point coffers before Season Zero starts. Unless I'm mistaken, any points you gain from sealed coffers will count towards the seasonal unlocks. You need the points to purchase items from the Tome, but you also need them to unlock later pages of rewards in the Tome (done automatically as you gain Points). So if you claim the contents of a Tome Point coffer before Seasons are rolled out (assuming the system even lets you), you may get the currency, but you probably won't get the page unlock benefit.

For that matter, if you do get Tome Point coffers, it's probably best to sit on them until the very end of the season, to unlock stuff if you haven't managed to do so yet via gameplay. If you already have everything you want from that Tome, just hold the coffers for a future season.

spartaxoxo · February 24

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Techwolf_Lupindo · February 24

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Good question. I pay for a yearly ESO+ via the steam store all at once. No monthly payments.

Destai · February 24

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Yup! I renewed my yearly subscription in December. Curious how this works myself and others in that boat.

eternalshockcable · February 25

what y'all should be doing.. is cranking out some seasonal ore, lumbers, and cloth.

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO · February 26

Destai wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Yup! I renewed my yearly subscription in December. Curious how this works myself and others in that boat.

Same here. i renewed december and it would be unfair and demotivating if we get left out

PeacefulAnarchy · February 26

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Yup! I renewed my yearly subscription in December. Curious how this works myself and others in that boat.

Same here. i renewed december and it would be unfair and demotivating if we get left out

I have no stake in this, but what do you mean by left out? They've said you will get the currencies, the only thing that's not clear is how much. Reading between the lines I would guess you're getting eleven months worth of the currencies, the proportional amount for the months this year. This would mean everyone gets the same value for the same time frames.

spartaxoxo · February 26

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Yup! I renewed my yearly subscription in December. Curious how this works myself and others in that boat.

Same here. i renewed december and it would be unfair and demotivating if we get left out

I have no stake in this, but what do you mean by left out? They've said you will get the currencies, the only thing that's not clear is how much. Reading between the lines I would guess you're getting eleven months worth of the currencies, the proportional amount for the months this year. This would mean everyone gets the same value for the same time frames.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026

This part could be read as you'll only get the currencies that would have been rewarded for purchasing those 3 months.

Which means if someone say bought a family member a year of Plus as their Christmas present, it sounds like they'll get Jan-Mar only, whereas if they had bought the year sub March 10th then they'd get a year's worth.

PeacefulAnarchy · February 26

spartaxoxo wrote: »

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Yup! I renewed my yearly subscription in December. Curious how this works myself and others in that boat.

Same here. i renewed december and it would be unfair and demotivating if we get left out

I have no stake in this, but what do you mean by left out? They've said you will get the currencies, the only thing that's not clear is how much. Reading between the lines I would guess you're getting eleven months worth of the currencies, the proportional amount for the months this year. This would mean everyone gets the same value for the same time frames.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026

This part could be read as you'll only get the currencies that would have been rewarded for purchasing those 3 months.

Which means if someone say bought a family member a year of Plus as their Christmas present, it sounds like they'll get Jan-Mar only, whereas if they had bought the year sub March 10th then they'd get a year's worth.

That's not a reading I would have considered, but I understand the worry. Hopefully they clear that up for you all, I agree that such an interpretation would be incredibly unfair.

Elvenheart · February 26

eternalshockcable wrote: »

what y'all should be doing.. is cranking out some seasonal ore, lumbers, and cloth.

What does this mean? What are seasonal mats?

Malyore · February 27

I pay for ESO+ monthly. I resubbed in February due to the improved communication. Then I unsubbed again after I played hearts week and felt dissatisfied with the game quality, and especially now with having been ignored after having tagged staff about a concern that someone in ZOS was posting hate messages to players.

Assuming I decide to resub again...
does the eso+ I spent money on in February still count for the new season currency too? Or does it only count for people who did a multi-month subscription across those three months?

wolfie1.0. · February 28

spartaxoxo wrote: »

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Yup! I renewed my yearly subscription in December. Curious how this works myself and others in that boat.

Same here. i renewed december and it would be unfair and demotivating if we get left out

I have no stake in this, but what do you mean by left out? They've said you will get the currencies, the only thing that's not clear is how much. Reading between the lines I would guess you're getting eleven months worth of the currencies, the proportional amount for the months this year. This would mean everyone gets the same value for the same time frames.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026

This part could be read as you'll only get the currencies that would have been rewarded for purchasing those 3 months.

Which means if someone say bought a family member a year of Plus as their Christmas present, it sounds like they'll get Jan-Mar only, whereas if they had bought the year sub March 10th then they'd get a year's worth.

Its more like two seperate actions. The eso+ thst goes live on March 9th is when it goes into effect for new subscribers and gets delivered instantly.

What happens on March 30th is likely zos will run software to determine how many months you were subbed and for how long, then credit the full amount that you would have received if you subbed from January 1st.

So if you bought a year sub on December 1st, on March 30th you should receive 11 months worth of tome currency.

Whizzinglane · March 8

I buy yearly subscriptions. Will I receice the seasonal currencies as well?

DoofusMax · March 16

For reasons mostly related to the craft bag, I renewed the sub on my alt account earlier today and noticed that I received Seasonal currencies along with the "liberated" pack space. I was preparing to come ask about my main account not having any Seasonal currencies, when I found this one. Talk about timely/useful information... good job @ZOS_Kevin!

shadoza · March 27

Malyore wrote: »

I pay for ESO+ monthly. I resubbed in February due to the improved communication. Then I unsubbed again after I played hearts week and felt dissatisfied with the game quality, and especially now with having been ignored after having tagged staff about a concern that someone in ZOS was posting hate messages to players.

Assuming I decide to resub again...
does the eso+ I spent money on in February still count for the new season currency too? Or does it only count for people who did a multi-month subscription across those three months?

It appears if you do monthly subscription, you get one month, March. If you want multiple months, you have to pay in advance.

LadyBriala · March 27

Hmm.. my yearly sub goes out in October.. so it renewed last year.. rip my full package worth of points

ESO_player123 · March 27

LadyBriala wrote: »

Hmm.. my yearly sub goes out in October.. so it renewed last year.. rip my full package worth of points

The way I understand it you should get points for the months starting from January of this year.

BretonMage · March 28

gabbo1928 wrote: »

It's probably worth reminding people not to open the Tome Point coffers before Season Zero starts. Unless I'm mistaken, any points you gain from sealed coffers will count towards the seasonal unlocks. You need the points to purchase items from the Tome, but you also need them to unlock later pages of rewards in the Tome (done automatically as you gain Points). So if you claim the contents of a Tome Point coffer before Seasons are rolled out (assuming the system even lets you), you may get the currency, but you probably won't get the page unlock benefit.

For that matter, if you do get Tome Point coffers, it's probably best to sit on them until the very end of the season, to unlock stuff if you haven't managed to do so yet via gameplay. If you already have everything you want from that Tome, just hold the coffers for a future season.

I don't quite understand this about tome points. The unlocking mechanism sounds a little complicated to me, and I don't think we have any other system where you get penalised for opening a coffer early.

I hope there will be a clearly-written comprehensive guide to this new system (I've read ZOS' and eso-hub's article on it but it's hard to visualise at this point) when it launches.

virtus753 · March 28

BretonMage wrote: »

gabbo1928 wrote: »

It's probably worth reminding people not to open the Tome Point coffers before Season Zero starts. Unless I'm mistaken, any points you gain from sealed coffers will count towards the seasonal unlocks. You need the points to purchase items from the Tome, but you also need them to unlock later pages of rewards in the Tome (done automatically as you gain Points). So if you claim the contents of a Tome Point coffer before Seasons are rolled out (assuming the system even lets you), you may get the currency, but you probably won't get the page unlock benefit.

For that matter, if you do get Tome Point coffers, it's probably best to sit on them until the very end of the season, to unlock stuff if you haven't managed to do so yet via gameplay. If you already have everything you want from that Tome, just hold the coffers for a future season.

I don't quite understand this about tome points. The unlocking mechanism sounds a little complicated to me, and I don't think we have any other system where you get penalised for opening a coffer early.

I hope there will be a clearly-written comprehensive guide to this new system (I've read ZOS' and eso-hub's article on it but it's hard to visualise at this point) when it launches.

The word coffer is misleading. The caches of Tome points are not coffers and do not show up as inventory items. They’re counted under the currency tab (even though they’re no more a currency than crown crates or transmutation geodes).

When you would like to get your 2k Tome points from a cache, you open a cache from within the Tome (like opening a crown crate from Pacrooti’s menu). Doing so grants you the 2k Tome points to spend and applies that 2k point gain to the current Tome, meaning it counts towards unlocking a new page of items. You can still unlock new pages of a Tome by getting Tome points from other activities (weekly and seasonal challenges), but opening/consuming a cache gets you a bunch of points immediately. You can choose to hold onto these caches for later seasons if you wish.

We also do have quite a few systems where opening actual coffers early is penalized. Several coffers have items on a daily cooldown (or in some cases a drop rate that tanks really hard after getting your first in a day), like Siege of Cyrodiil merits, certain motifs, the transmutation geode from Rewards for the Worthy, and scripts for scribing. Opening the coffers “early” deprives you of the guarantee/possibility of getting these items.

BretonMage · March 28

virtus753 wrote: »

The word coffer is misleading. The caches of Tome points are not coffers and do not show up as inventory items. They’re counted under the currency tab (even though they’re no more a currency than crown crates or transmutation geodes).

When you would like to get your 2k Tome points from a cache, you open a cache from within the Tome (like opening a crown crate from Pacrooti’s menu). Doing so grants you the 2k Tome points to spend and applies that 2k point gain to the current Tome, meaning it counts towards unlocking a new page of items. You can still unlock new pages of a Tome by getting Tome points from other activities (weekly and seasonal challenges), but opening/consuming a cache gets you a bunch of points immediately. You can choose to hold onto these caches for later seasons if you wish.

Thank you for the explanation. I suppose the highlighted part is the key point which makes the mechanism unavoidable. So when premium tome points "carry over", are those tome points carrying over for use and unlocking purposes for the next Tome, or are the premium Tome owners just getting to keep their previous season's Tome and the points contained there? Which means that premium Tome owners must also plan when to open their caches?

LadyBriala · March 28

ESO_player123 wrote: »

LadyBriala wrote: »

Hmm.. my yearly sub goes out in October.. so it renewed last year.. rip my full package worth of points

The way I understand it you should get points for the months starting from January of this year.

That only means that I will forever be be off the amount of points needed to purchase a tome now.. as I will keep needing to wait til October to get the rest as I sub per year

That really sucks.

They should give full points based on how many months you've currently got subbed and not from January onwards..

PeacefulAnarchy · March 28

BretonMage wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

The word coffer is misleading. The caches of Tome points are not coffers and do not show up as inventory items. They’re counted under the currency tab (even though they’re no more a currency than crown crates or transmutation geodes).

When you would like to get your 2k Tome points from a cache, you open a cache from within the Tome (like opening a crown crate from Pacrooti’s menu). Doing so grants you the 2k Tome points to spend and applies that 2k point gain to the current Tome, meaning it counts towards unlocking a new page of items. You can still unlock new pages of a Tome by getting Tome points from other activities (weekly and seasonal challenges), but opening/consuming a cache gets you a bunch of points immediately. You can choose to hold onto these caches for later seasons if you wish.

Thank you for the explanation. I suppose the highlighted part is the key point which makes the mechanism unavoidable. So when premium tome points "carry over", are those tome points carrying over for use and unlocking purposes for the next Tome, or are the premium Tome owners just getting to keep their previous season's Tome and the points contained there? Which means that premium Tome owners must also plan when to open their caches?

Possibly. We don't know becaise they won't say how any of this works.

ganzaeso · March 28

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Will the people who purchased a year of Plus before January 2026 have the full time credited? Know someone in that situation

Yup! I renewed my yearly subscription in December. Curious how this works myself and others in that boat.

Same here. i renewed december and it would be unfair and demotivating if we get left out

I have no stake in this, but what do you mean by left out? They've said you will get the currencies, the only thing that's not clear is how much. Reading between the lines I would guess you're getting eleven months worth of the currencies, the proportional amount for the months this year. This would mean everyone gets the same value for the same time frames.

New ESO Plus memberships from March 9, 2026 onwards will receive their seasonal currencies alongside the purchase (delivered similar to how Crowns arrive now), while players with active memberships between January 1, 2026 and March 9, 2026 will have their currencies retroactively awarded on March 30, 2026

This part could be read as you'll only get the currencies that would have been rewarded for purchasing those 3 months.

Which means if someone say bought a family member a year of Plus as their Christmas present, it sounds like they'll get Jan-Mar only, whereas if they had bought the year sub March 10th then they'd get a year's worth.

Its more like two seperate actions. The eso+ thst goes live on March 9th is when it goes into effect for new subscribers and gets delivered instantly.

What happens on March 30th is likely zos will run software to determine how many months you were subbed and for how long, then credit the full amount that you would have received if you subbed from January 1st.

So if you bought a year sub on December 1st, on March 30th you should receive 11 months worth of tome currency.

Should be 12, Nov. 30 12:59:59 pm renewal would be 11 maybe, but I do not like the idea of penalty for yearly subscribers. I am a monthly subscriber myself and this is good news.

Arunei · March 28

BretonMage wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

The word coffer is misleading. The caches of Tome points are not coffers and do not show up as inventory items. They’re counted under the currency tab (even though they’re no more a currency than crown crates or transmutation geodes).

When you would like to get your 2k Tome points from a cache, you open a cache from within the Tome (like opening a crown crate from Pacrooti’s menu). Doing so grants you the 2k Tome points to spend and applies that 2k point gain to the current Tome, meaning it counts towards unlocking a new page of items. You can still unlock new pages of a Tome by getting Tome points from other activities (weekly and seasonal challenges), but opening/consuming a cache gets you a bunch of points immediately. You can choose to hold onto these caches for later seasons if you wish.

Thank you for the explanation. I suppose the highlighted part is the key point which makes the mechanism unavoidable. So when premium tome points "carry over", are those tome points carrying over for use and unlocking purposes for the next Tome, or are the premium Tome owners just getting to keep their previous season's Tome and the points contained there? Which means that premium Tome owners must also plan when to open their caches?

The Caches can be opened at any time and don't need to be opened during the current Season. The Points gained from them aren't any different from Points gained from the Free tier, they aren't counted separately or anything. There is no Free Tome Points vs Premium Tome Points; opening Caches and getting Points any other way will all go into the same count.

That being said I could have SWORN I heard or read somewhere that Points will carry over between Seasons but the only thing I can find after double-checking is from ESO Hub that states only up to 2k Points will carry over and any above that will be lost.

@ZOS_Kevin
Could we get some verification on whether Points do indeed carry over or if there's any sort of limit or not?