Crown store is kind of crazy

[DiabloMuerto]

So I've had this game for a good long while but never really got into until like two weeks ago. I finally even got a character to 50 and a small bit of champ points under my belt. There's always been a myriad of things I don't like about this game which is why I never really could get into but for some reason when I came back this time they bothered me a bit less and while two weeks is hardly a long time it is the longest I've played this game consistently since years ago when I first bought it.

That said the crown store is just insane, I actually don't mind spending money on micro-transactions if I think they're fair, I generally don't even think twice about it. ESO however they just seem unreasonable so I can't bring myself to do it. 5k crowns for one of those merchants that only provide the simple convenience of being able to bank or sell w/o traveling back to town? 5500 crowns is $40, so you're telling me that simple feature is damn near worth the cost of a full price game, add ten dollars to that and I can buy Metro Exodus which came out today. When you have those comparisons to make it just seems so insane they're selling this stuff at those prices.

Same is true for other stuff in there, riding speed, I think that was 1500 crowns for 1 point of riding speed. The only reason I even considered it is b/c I play a lot of alts and it gets tedious to log into them all just to train riding so I don't have to wait 100 days on every one if I decide to play them to get their riding speed up. They could just make it so you can pay for all your characters from one or even better just make the silly feature account wide. If you're going to try and encourage people to spend money to buy mount speed (I'm assuming that's why it is the way it is) then at least price it fairly. Also selling it in one point increments is silly.

Sorry, long rant but it's been festering for a few days now, I want the banker and merchant npc's, I could buy them and I wouldn't really miss that $80 but it's more just the principle of how I'd just feel like I completely wasted that money for such a small thing.

[Gebba]

The mount speed is probably one of those plagues from when the game launched.
Edit: Not saying its an excuse, just explaining

The merchant and most of the things on the crown store aren't that ridiculous when you consider ESO plus gives you all dlc's and previous expansions + a couple ingame benefits, and also throws in 1650 crowns per month (which is more than paying 1500 crowns for 12.99€ without plus which you could cancel at any time anyways).

It doesnt personally bother me cuz most of the important stuff like cosmetic outfits are through achievments and ingame stuff, so when i buy ESO plus i won't really have anything to spend on the crown store anyways. I'll buy the Warden class and after that i have no idea lol.

Edit 2: Comparing microtransactions to a full game is not a right comparison. Instead, compare the base game price or Elsewyr expansion to Metro Exodus and it's more fair. Compare MTX with MTX, not with other games. MTX is always overpriced when it comes to value-per-dollar no matter what game it is.

[robo]

Since they allow trading of crown items between players now you can actually pay a player in game gold to buy you whatever you want in the crown store. I think it has been one of the best things introduced in the game, today I traded a player 357000 gold to gift me the imperial character dlc which was around 175gold per 1 crown but usually going rate is about 200 gold to 1 crown

[Elusion]

Not sure why stuff is so expensive, I personally bought the vendor NPC just because it's nice to sell all your junk if you get full in the middle of a dungeon or something.

But $40 for something you can't even customize is pretty crazy.

The thing that hits the hardest for me is the fact that everything that gives your house functionality is very expensive. NPC traders, crafting stations, storage, exc.

[DiabloMuerto]

I suppose end of the day it sort of balances out, if I bought those two npc's there's really nothing else I would feel obligated to spend money on. I mean some of that other stuff is nice but not nice enough that I would pay what they're asking for it. Mostly though they're screwing themselves out of money. It' simply cheaper to go buy gold from some gold seller and then get items with that. By having the prices set so high they're encouraging people to give money to people that's not them to get what they want. If those NPC's were $20 bucks a piece I'd still think that's a bit high for what they actually allow you to do but I spend $20 on a pizza so I'd probably do it anyway. $40 dollars though is just a little harder for me to get behind mentally just b/c I start thinking of what else I could get with that or a little more and then I just can't bring myself to do it.

[Requimatic]

Originally posted by Illusive Energy:

Not sure why stuff is so expensive, I personally bought the vendor NPC just because it's nice to sell all your junk if you get full in the middle of a dungeon or something.

But $40 for something you can't even customize is pretty crazy.

The thing that hits the hardest for me is the fact that everything that gives your house functionality is very expensive. NPC traders, crafting stations, storage, exc.

Crafting Stations for your house aren't that expensive at all.. anywhere from 25-50k each for the standard stations (non-attunable, of course). The Outfit station is one that's a little more expensive, along with the dye station.. I think?

The biggest expense is the Transmutation station.

I'm not even sure attunable stations can be sold among players.. but I also may be wrong because some guild halls have all of the set stations available for use.

What REALLY gets me is.. the merchant NPC you can buy? It can't repair your equipment.

I believe their reasoning behind that was that the merchant being able to do so would basically nullify your need to go to town for anything.. which, honestly, is dumb.. because you have to go to town to pick up dailies and such anyway.

So on that note, I agree.. the merchant NPC is too expensive. The banker I do like, and don't mind the limitations it possesses. (Being unable to access Guild banks/stores.)

Even when placed in your home, though (as decor), the merchant NPC can't repair. Such a shame.

Thankfully there's a lot in this game that basically makes it worth it despite those kinds of downsides existing.

[psychotron666]

Those 40 dollar merchants that save you 45 seconds of convenience are ridiculous. The only reason they are that price is because there's obviously a bunch of people retarded enough to pay for it.

I don't buy anything in the crown store unless it's dlc that I use free crowns from eso plus to buy, everything else is a rip off and you're dumb if you spend real money on that crap and enable the developers to constantly hose the ♥♥♥♥ out of their customers

[Ghigi]

The amount of base content in this game and the fact that the Crown Store isn't selling any power both make this game one of the most fair MMO on the market. You have loot crates, monthly subscription, in-app purchases, DLCs and expansions, yet none of those is mandatory.