Crown Crate Gap

Leighlaa · December 2

I was reading the Crown Store Showcase and noticed that there is a gap between when the current crates end (in 3 days, on the 4th), and when the NEXT crates, supposedly, come out on Dec. 22nd? Unless there are NEW crates that are not in the showcase under the NEW items?

If so, why are they not mentioned anywhere? If there is going to be a whole article about them, it should come out at the same time as the monthly showcase, with just their name or something. I'm trying to plan for my month and crates are a big part of that... where will they be for 2.5 weeks?

While I know there are datamine sites out there with the information, that feels dirty and I'd like a bit better communication!

meekmiko · December 2

Leighlaa wrote: »

I was reading the Crown Store Showcase and noticed that there is a gap between when the current crates end (in 3 days, on the 4th), and when the NEXT crates, supposedly, come out on Dec. 22nd? Unless there are NEW crates that are not in the showcase under the NEW items?

If so, why are they not mentioned anywhere? If there is going to be a whole article about them, it should come out at the same time as the monthly showcase, with just their name or something. I'm trying to plan for my month and crates are a big part of that... where will they be for 2.5 weeks?

While I know there are datamine sites out there with the information, that feels dirty and I'd like a bit better communication!

If the newest crates are indeed leaving in three days we should see a preview article (and thread) tomorrow. They usually post them two days or so in advance of the previous ones leaving.

(The All-Maker Crates shown in the December Showcase are just old returning crates.)

MoonPile · December 3

Hmmmm I wonder when the preview for [EDIT: The new Crates which are almost certainly related to Moons and Orsinium but that should not be named here, probably] will go live. Came to the forums to check if there's anything about it here, thus finding this post.

Historically they publish the new crate previews on Monday or Wednesday, and the winter ones within the first days of December. Usually at least a day before the old ones expire. But this morning there's only a Vengeance post

Soarora · December 3

MoonPile wrote: »

Hmmmm I wonder when the preview for Moons Over Orsinium Crate will go live. Came to the forums to check if there's anything about it here, thus finding this post.

Historically they publish the new crate previews on Monday or Wednesday, and the winter ones within the first days of December. Usually at least a day before the old ones expire. But this morning there's only a Vengeance post

We’re not allowed to talk about things that come from datamines / what ZOS hasn’t posted about themselves. People have gotten upset about datamined things never showing up before as if datamine = what we’re getting.

MoonPile · December 3

Soarora wrote: »

MoonPile wrote: »

Hmmmm I wonder when the preview for Moons Over Orsinium Crate will go live. Came to the forums to check if there's anything about it here, thus finding this post.

Historically they publish the new crate previews on Monday or Wednesday, and the winter ones within the first days of December. Usually at least a day before the old ones expire. But this morning there's only a Vengeance post

We’re not allowed to talk about things that come from datamines / what ZOS hasn’t posted about themselves. People have gotten upset about datamined things never showing up before as if datamine = what we’re getting.

The link is to UESP, not a DM site. Though I understand it's still an unknown and UESP gathers data from the game, which could be considered DM by this forum I suppose (you're probably right; I think this is a bit egregious at this point, but will edit just to be careful.) Maaaaybe it's not the winter season crate this time. From the past few years, the items filled in on these UESP pages changes very little when these go live; I just wish they'd made the post already so we could plan for the month ahead, as stated in the OP.

MoonPile · December 3

MoonPile wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

MoonPile wrote: »

Hmmmm I wonder when the preview for Moons Over Orsinium Crate will go live. Came to the forums to check if there's anything about it here, thus finding this post.

Historically they publish the new crate previews on Monday or Wednesday, and the winter ones within the first days of December. Usually at least a day before the old ones expire. But this morning there's only a Vengeance post

We’re not allowed to talk about things that come from datamines / what ZOS hasn’t posted about themselves. People have gotten upset about datamined things never showing up before as if datamine = what we’re getting.

The link is to UESP, not a DM site. Though I understand it's still an unknown and UESP gathers data from the game, which could be considered DM by this forum I suppose (you're probably right; I think this is a bit egregious at this point, but will edit just to be careful.) Maaaaybe it's not the winter season crate this time. From the past few years, the items filled in on these UESP pages changes very little when these go live; I just wish they'd made the post already so we could plan for the month ahead, as stated in the OP.

Aaaand here it is, Moons Over Orsinium

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/686067/official-discussion-thread-for-moons-over-orsinium-crown-crate

Soarora · December 3

MoonPile wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

MoonPile wrote: »

Hmmmm I wonder when the preview for Moons Over Orsinium Crate will go live. Came to the forums to check if there's anything about it here, thus finding this post.

Historically they publish the new crate previews on Monday or Wednesday, and the winter ones within the first days of December. Usually at least a day before the old ones expire. But this morning there's only a Vengeance post

We’re not allowed to talk about things that come from datamines / what ZOS hasn’t posted about themselves. People have gotten upset about datamined things never showing up before as if datamine = what we’re getting.

The link is to UESP, not a DM site. Though I understand it's still an unknown and UESP gathers data from the game, which could be considered DM by this forum I suppose (you're probably right; I think this is a bit egregious at this point, but will edit just to be careful.) Maaaaybe it's not the winter season crate this time. From the past few years, the items filled in on these UESP pages changes very little when these go live; I just wish they'd made the post already so we could plan for the month ahead, as stated in the OP.

Yeah, I don’t know at what point the moderators jump on it, I just don’t want you or UESP to get in trouble ahah.

ZOS_Kevin · December 3

Leighlaa wrote: »

I was reading the Crown Store Showcase and noticed that there is a gap between when the current crates end (in 3 days, on the 4th), and when the NEXT crates, supposedly, come out on Dec. 22nd? Unless there are NEW crates that are not in the showcase under the NEW items?

If so, why are they not mentioned anywhere? If there is going to be a whole article about them, it should come out at the same time as the monthly showcase, with just their name or something. I'm trying to plan for my month and crates are a big part of that... where will they be for 2.5 weeks?

While I know there are datamine sites out there with the information, that feels dirty and I'd like a bit better communication!

We normally try to get new crown crate news up the week the crate is supposed to go live. We also have a ton of factors to consider, like volume of posts we put out per day, the various teams working on these updates, etc. So we just have a bunch of other things to consider regarding sharing updates.

Additional as we have noted with datamined info, sometimes you will see things in a datamine and then it will not show up in the crate for whatever reason. It has happened before and then folks will get upset that they were saving for something that we never formally announced. So we advise not taking those as gospel and to wait for the official communication.