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Making ESO+ Worth Having - Suggestions
Horace-Wimp
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I want to share a few ideas that I think will make having ESO+ worth having, at least for me.
1) Remove fees from wayshrines. As a free player I am okay with the current system where I have to pay to use a wayshrine if I am not starting a wayshrine. But why should I have to pay when I have ESO+? I do not think I should. It makes sense to me that one of the perks of paying real money for ESO+ is that I will not have to ever pay for any wayshrine ever so long as my ESO+ is in effect. I'd port all over the place like a madman if I didn't have to pay for wayshrines all the time. I'd stay in the game longer, do more content and not feel so exhausted like I do now needing to spend time running to a wayshrine or just porting from one zone to another by way of housing to get where I want to go.
2) Dedicated Daily Crafting Writ area. Instead of picking one of the Overland crafting locations to complete our Daily Crafting Writs I think we should have a special micro-zone for crating with its own waychrine and turn in crates. We port to the special crafting zone where all the Daily Crafting Writs are automatically accepted upon arrival then all we need do is do them and turn them in or abandon them if we change out mind. All the crafting stations are organized around the wayshrine with the turn in crates next to each crafting station. Boom! Done and gone without all the running around that we have to do now. Free players will still craft as usual.
3) Reduce the cost of ESO+. $15 a month is so 2004. Other MMOs have learned to increase their memberships by reducing the monthly cost from $15 a month to $10 and even $7. Of course reducing the cost of ESO+ would also mean there would no longer be any discounts for paying for multiple months at once. A more uniform pricing structure would, I think, give customers peace of mind when it comes to spending money on ESO. PLUS, with this new Battle Pass-like season model I think it would encourage players to spend that extra $30 to buy seasons. With the cost everything skyrocketing since January 20, 2025 it would help for customers to NOT have to spend so much on trivial luxury services like a video game.
4) Toss in a few extra Crowns. 1650 Crowns is pretty darn good but nothing in the Store costs 1650 Crowns. 2000 Crowns would be even better. Imagine getting a flat 2000 Crowns with ESO+ where you can actually buy items offered in the Store that cost...2000 Crowns. I imagine that would be better than what we have now.
Give it some thought, ZOS. Let me know what you think.
1) Remove fees from wayshrines. As a free player I am okay with the current system where I have to pay to use a wayshrine if I am not starting a wayshrine. But why should I have to pay when I have ESO+? I do not think I should. It makes sense to me that one of the perks of paying real money for ESO+ is that I will not have to ever pay for any wayshrine ever so long as my ESO+ is in effect. I'd port all over the place like a madman if I didn't have to pay for wayshrines all the time. I'd stay in the game longer, do more content and not feel so exhausted like I do now needing to spend time running to a wayshrine or just porting from one zone to another by way of housing to get where I want to go.
2) Dedicated Daily Crafting Writ area. Instead of picking one of the Overland crafting locations to complete our Daily Crafting Writs I think we should have a special micro-zone for crating with its own waychrine and turn in crates. We port to the special crafting zone where all the Daily Crafting Writs are automatically accepted upon arrival then all we need do is do them and turn them in or abandon them if we change out mind. All the crafting stations are organized around the wayshrine with the turn in crates next to each crafting station. Boom! Done and gone without all the running around that we have to do now. Free players will still craft as usual.
3) Reduce the cost of ESO+. $15 a month is so 2004. Other MMOs have learned to increase their memberships by reducing the monthly cost from $15 a month to $10 and even $7. Of course reducing the cost of ESO+ would also mean there would no longer be any discounts for paying for multiple months at once. A more uniform pricing structure would, I think, give customers peace of mind when it comes to spending money on ESO. PLUS, with this new Battle Pass-like season model I think it would encourage players to spend that extra $30 to buy seasons. With the cost everything skyrocketing since January 20, 2025 it would help for customers to NOT have to spend so much on trivial luxury services like a video game.
4) Toss in a few extra Crowns. 1650 Crowns is pretty darn good but nothing in the Store costs 1650 Crowns. 2000 Crowns would be even better. Imagine getting a flat 2000 Crowns with ESO+ where you can actually buy items offered in the Store that cost...2000 Crowns. I imagine that would be better than what we have now.
Give it some thought, ZOS. Let me know what you think.
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BretonMage✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭In light of the information that most tome points expire, then I'd suggest ESO+ members get at least double tome points carrying over.5 -
wolfie1.0.✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Eso+ has enough value in it already.
But I find it telling that you want a cost reduction and more crowns at the same time. Thats not going to happen. As it stands you get more crowns for the same price as the 1500 crown pack on the store...ALONG with the other eso+ benefits.
I sonr think thats going to happen. I could see the cost reduction. If they dropped the crowns from the package. Or some of the benefits went away. But they also just gave us a free premium upgrade for tomes once a year. I don't see it happening.6 -
Horace-Wimp✭✭✭✭wolfie1.0. wrote: »...But I find it telling that you want a cost reduction and more crowns at the same time..
A little clarification on this point. If I wanted them both at the same time I would have stated them both as a single idea instead of separating them into their own points. But I do admit that I LOVE your thinking on this. Why not give us both! Great suggestion.1 -
AzuraFan✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Horace-Wimp wrote: »2) Dedicated Daily Crafting Writ area. Instead of picking one of the Overland crafting locations to complete our Daily Crafting Writs I think we should have a special micro-zone for crating with its own waychrine and turn in crates. We port to the special crafting zone where all the Daily Crafting Writs are automatically accepted upon arrival then all we need do is do them and turn them in or abandon them if we change out mind. All the crafting stations are organized around the wayshrine with the turn in crates next to each crafting station. Boom! Done and gone without all the running around that we have to do now. Free players will still craft as usual.
I log in every day next to my favourite crafting area, do the daily crafting quests, and literally run 10 seconds for turn-in. Having to port to a special area would be an extra step. I'd never use an area like you've suggested.
As for reducing the cost of ESO+, I think it's fairly priced now, especially since AFAIK, there's never been a price increase. And as someone said upthread, wanting to reduce the price and increase the number of crowns doesn't make sense.
I like your wayshrine idea.BretonMage wrote: »In light of the information that most tome points expire, then I'd suggest ESO+ members get at least double tome points carrying over.
That would be nice.4 -
BXR_Lonestar✭✭✭✭✭
✭Plus will remain worth it so long as craftbag is exclusive to plus.
If they remove the craftbag, then they're going to have to come up with something else to make it "worth it."2 -
tomofhyrule✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭BretonMage wrote: »In light of the information that most tome points expire, then I'd suggest ESO+ members get at least double tome points carrying over.
In all technicality, we are getting that in a roundabout way.
ESO+ also gives a Cache of Tome Points for every month subscribed, which can be applied to any Tome for 2000 points instantly. That means that being subbed for a whole 3-month season will give you 6k Tome points you can use on that (or any future) season.4 -
DenverRalphy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭BretonMage wrote: »In light of the information that most tome points expire, then I'd suggest ESO+ members get at least double tome points carrying over.
The system is already setup to provide enough Tome Points to purchase everything in the tomes. Additional tome points would only serve to get players to the end faster. IMO, that's something that should rest solely under the tiered season pass options. It wouldn't add any recognizablt value to ESO+, while at the same time lowering the value of the Premium+ tier.Edited by DenverRalphy on April 1, 2026 2:19PM1 -
BretonMage✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭DenverRalphy wrote: »BretonMage wrote: »In light of the information that most tome points expire, then I'd suggest ESO+ members get at least double tome points carrying over.
The system is already setup to provide enough Tome Points to purchase everything in the tomes. Additional tome points would only serve to get players to the end faster. IMO, that's something that should rest solely under the tiered season pass options. It wouldn't add any recognizablt value to ESO+, while at the same time lowering the value of the Premium+ tier.
I think that being able to carry over more points would give us the flexibility to choose not to spend our points on Tomes we're less interested in, and to keep those points for seasons where we might have less time to devote to earning points.
Also, I don't particularly like the idea of wasting points, or spending them just to spend them.2 -
wolfie1.0.✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Horace-Wimp wrote: »wolfie1.0. wrote: »...But I find it telling that you want a cost reduction and more crowns at the same time..
A little clarification on this point. If I wanted them both at the same time I would have stated them both as a single idea instead of separating them into their own points. But I do admit that I LOVE your thinking on this. Why not give us both! Great suggestion.
OK so your intent was to propose ALL of your suggestions to be mutually exclusive? It wasnt exactly written that way.
Also, i am glad that you agree with me that increasing the crowns and having a price decrease is unreasonable and unrealistic.0 -
Horace-Wimp✭✭✭✭wolfie1.0. wrote: »...Also, i am glad that you agree with me that increasing the crowns and having a price decrease is unreasonable and unrealistic.
Separating them into their own individual suggestions seems mutually exclusive to me. My bad?
And please don't get the wrong idea. I do NOT agree with you that they are unreasonable and unrealistic. However, I do acknowledge that some bean counters at ZOS (Microsoft) might object to one or the other - possibly - both.
A trivial matter to be sure. I can live without giving my hard earned money to companies that do NOT provide the value I look for in their products (ex. Firaxis' Civ 7 launch and PDX's Stellaris and Crusader Kings III.) And as long as there are those customers with less discerning tastes that have no qualms with giving them their monies those companies have nothing to be concerned with and can expect a LONG and prosperous future. Just not from me.
The crafting bad is nice but it's nowhere near enough for me to pay for ESO+. I expect more for my money.1 -
BretonMage✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭tomofhyrule wrote: »BretonMage wrote: »In light of the information that most tome points expire, then I'd suggest ESO+ members get at least double tome points carrying over.
In all technicality, we are getting that in a roundabout way.
ESO+ also gives a Cache of Tome Points for every month subscribed, which can be applied to any Tome for 2000 points instantly. That means that being subbed for a whole 3-month season will give you 6k Tome points you can use on that (or any future) season.
Tbh I disagree with the mechanic of expiring points anyway. All they've done is transfer FOMO from daily login to FOMO of earning tome points. It may have relaxed the time limits somewhat, but it is still a limiting system.
I guess it also depends on the proportion of earnable points 2000 points makes up. If it's half of total earnable points, then I'd say it's fair. But if it's just a fraction of total earnable points, then I'd really chafe at the idea of wasting so many points.4 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I think the price of eso+ is reasonable, there have been no price increases but we have seen less value over the past couple of years. They could add more value but most of the suggestions above are not ones that work for everyone or may even be feasible.
Wayshrines probably have fees to limit the number of fast-travel options from non-dedicated locations. Yes, you can do that to a house you own, but the purchase of houses likely limits the number somewhat itself.
I would not use a dedicated crafting area either, unless I could do so in my house and pick up and turn in there. The argument against that is it makes cities less busy.
More crowns? They did increase the number sometime in the past but I would not argue with getting more.
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wolfie1.0.✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Horace-Wimp wrote: »wolfie1.0. wrote: »...Also, i am glad that you agree with me that increasing the crowns and having a price decrease is unreasonable and unrealistic.
Separating them into their own individual suggestions seems mutually exclusive to me. My bad?
And please don't get the wrong idea. I do NOT agree with you that they are unreasonable and unrealistic. However, I do acknowledge that some bean counters at ZOS (Microsoft) might object to one or the other - possibly - both.
A trivial matter to be sure. I can live without giving my hard earned money to companies that do NOT provide the value I look for in their products (ex. Firaxis' Civ 7 launch and PDX's Stellaris and Crusader Kings III.) And as long as there are those customers with less discerning tastes that have no qualms with giving them their monies those companies have nothing to be concerned with and can expect a LONG and prosperous future. Just not from me.
The crafting bad is nice but it's nowhere near enough for me to pay for ESO+. I expect more for my money.
I only took you out of context because you took me out of context, by implying that I agreed with you. So I returned the favor.
Its fine if you dont think that gaining acces to all prior dlcs, the ingame grinding bonuses, tome related rewards, craft bag, and the crowns are worth the cost then dont buy into it.
I also get that you want more value out of it, and honestly I can understand that too.
I also think that chapters were falling into the Stelaris trap where if you were to start that game right now and buy all of the dlcs you would be paying several hundred dollars for minimum content.
Eso is moving away from that. That said, they have to keep the servers online, so its subscriptions and battlepasses. A cost reduction is not realistic, especially since they havnt increased prices either in over 10 years.0
