Is this game a money pit?

[King A-Hole]

I have thought of checking this game out but don't need to get in to a game that becomes a monthly bill. Will a cheap bastard such as myself be satisfied solo-ing as much as possible and absolutely never buying any in game currency or add ons?

[BUSS DRIVER]

Yes, especially when you spend about 1k+ hours playing the game and realise that all "balance" things ZOS are making is all around money they will get from it, all new content which is Buy2Play (regular sets, mythics etc.) is coming out overpowered at launch and then slowly nerfed, it happens all the time.
PvP is dead, server lags, desync, balance problems etc. ZOS dont give a F, they literally dont know how to balance the game and fix server problems.
ESO is pretty good game... for casual player, just get in to some raids, do some quests, farm some dungeons, get in to the lore etc.
You can buy in game currency (crowns) for gold btw, you need to contact crown sellers tho, but it's unsafe and will cost you like few millions of gold per 1 addon. Expansion content is always Buy2Play via irl money, you cant buy it for gold.

[St.Absinthe]

No. Anyone who tells you that the assistants or crown items are useful are deluding themselves. If you have gold, you have crowns. If you have crowns, you have access. Though it's significantly easier to just get a 1 month sub to do all the dlc zones + previous chapters than to earn gold to buy them yourself.

[🅵🆁🅴🅳🅴🆁🅸🅺]

No, the only time I have spent money on this game over the course of seven years actively playing is when they release a new story DLC. The vast majority of Crown Store items are just cosmetics. The game give you daily awards for free if you are active which include some Crown Store items like experience scrolls and potions, and even occasionally a mount. There is also another ingame currency you earn by just playing the game and completing simple tasks called Seals of Endeavor that can be used to purchase Cown Crate items. And to answer your second question yes you will do just fine as a solo player as the game is tailored for both solo and group content in mind. If you avoid the group events and the PVP-zone you can play this game just like any other The Elder Scrolls game and be occupied for a very long time. :)

[St.Absinthe]

Originally posted by Autismius Maximus:

Yes, especially when you spend about 1k+ hours playing the game and realise that all "balance" things ZOS are making is all around money they will get from it, all new content which is Buy2Play (regular sets, mythics etc.) is coming out overpowered at launch and then slowly nerfed, it happens all the time.
PvP is dead, server lags, desync, balance problems etc. ZOS dont give a F, they literally dont know how to balance the game and fix server problems.
ESO is pretty good game... for casual player, just get in to some raids, do some quests, farm some dungeons, get in to the lore etc.
You can buy in game currency (crowns) for gold btw, you need to contact crown sellers tho, but it's unsafe and will cost you like few millions of gold per 1 addon. Expansion content is always Buy2Play via irl money, you cant buy it for gold.

lmao half the things in this post are so untrue or just disingenuous.
1) Of course new content is buy to play, it's an expansion of an already large base game.
2) Unless it's a mythic or dungeon item, you can give/sell people DLC gear even if they don't own the dlc.
3) Crown exchange have regulated channels on both NA and EU. Buying from non-friends/guildies aka randoms is unsafe, but that's like saying fire is hot.

You don't even need crown store items. Or dlc sets to do endgame. The base game gear is only a few k dps loss from dlc items.

[BUSS DRIVER]

Originally posted by Macinjosh:

lmao half the things in this post are so untrue or just disingenuous.
1) Of course new content is buy to play, it's an expansion of an already large base game.
2) Unless it's a mythic or dungeon item, you can give/sell people DLC gear even if they don't own the dlc.
3) Crown exchange have regulated channels on both NA and EU. Buying from non-friends/guildies aka randoms is unsafe, but that's like saying fire is hot.

You don't even need crown store items. Or dlc sets to do endgame. The base game gear is only a few k dps loss from dlc items.

you distort the meaning of my words
1) the meaning is not buy2play expansion is bad, the thing is attracting people to paid content (especially PvPers) by releasing OP sets and mythics is bad and then slowly it's nerfing
2) in short you can get only crafted or overland gear sets from expansion content, dlc is all about dungeons and BOP gear
3) idk what is this point all about, i said that u can buy crowns for gold from crown sellers and it's unsafe coz it's not official trade thing

for sure casual player don't need dlc sets TO DO endgame, but tryharders always trying to minmax things, and you basically need certain dlc/expac piece of gear 99% of the time and there is a huge gap as example between 50k semi casual player in overland/crafted sets and full dlc/expac 120k dps tryharder

[Megahurts]

Can be if you want stuff bad enough to spend money on. I bought the base game for 12 bucks 5 years ago and haven't spent another cent. A fair numbers of hours for 12 bucks.

[Kissing Fish]

Originally posted by King A-Hole:

I have thought of checking this game out but don't need to get in to a game that becomes a monthly bill. Will a cheap bastard such as myself be satisfied solo-ing as much as possible and absolutely never buying any in game currency or add ons?

Buying the base game, you will eventually finish or consume all of its content. Its really upto you whether you want to continue playing (by buying the expacs), its upto you on how you decide how much of a money pit any game is.

[belgarathmth]

Just don't do the provisioning profession and you'll be fine with the base game. Provisioning is what eats up people's space so much they want a crafting bag. To a lesser degree, alchemy can fill up inventory space too, so you might want to forgo that.

Join a good trading guild so you can sell your junk to other players and make enough gold to max out your bags and bank space.

If you're the type to become a hoarder pack-rat in games, though, you won't be happy without buying the subscription for the crafting bag. For myself, I get rid of junk I'm not using without a second thought.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by King A-Hole:

I have thought of checking this game out but don't need to get in to a game that becomes a monthly bill. Will a cheap bastard such as myself be satisfied solo-ing as much as possible and absolutely never buying any in game currency or add ons?

Every expansion is the length of Skyrim's main quest line at least, I'd recommend buying the collection instead of the base game to get lots of content...
As for the $200+ in DLC... Well... Depends on your definition of soloing. If you still intend to join queues for dungeons and such then you may be bored by how easy the normal dungeons are, the DLC dungeons on the other hand all feature a wealth of mechanics and are very fun to complete. DLCs are a lot smaller than expansions though and you definitely don't get the same money to time ratio out of compared to expansions considering there are over 25,000 crowns worth of DLC vs the pack to buy all the expansions for a mere $59.99.

(also how can you be cheap if you own 1200+ games?)

[AmaiAmai]

The game is P2W if you want to be competitive. That's the reality this patch, regardless of what anyone says.

@ResidentContrarian "former" forum poster

[Lowbei]

Originally posted by King A-Hole:

I have thought of checking this game out but don't need to get in to a game that becomes a monthly bill. Will a cheap bastard such as myself be satisfied solo-ing as much as possible and absolutely never buying any in game currency or add ons?

I buy all dlcs with ingame gold. Being good at the game will pay for future expansions for you.

[Fonzy]

Literally can trade Crowns for Gold, so just farm some gold and buy everything for gold. Game is only the 15 bucks for the base game, rest trade in game currency, lolol.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

The game is P2W if you want to be competitive. That's the reality this patch, regardless of what anyone says.

@ResidentContrarian "former" forum poster

DLCs and Expansions are not "pay to win". Pay $250~ for all the DLCs once and you never need any subscription and you have access to all the expansion content through the $60 collection. A lot cheaper than some other full games and the DLC gives you full areas of content to explore, but you still need to complete the content... More buy to play than p2w.

Originally posted by Lowbei:

Originally posted by King A-Hole:

I have thought of checking this game out but don't need to get in to a game that becomes a monthly bill. Will a cheap bastard such as myself be satisfied solo-ing as much as possible and absolutely never buying any in game currency or add ons?

I buy all dlcs with ingame gold. Being good at the game will pay for future expansions for you.

This is a thing too. I never need to maintain ESO sub because I own all DLC and just need to buy latest expansion when it comes out (no crown conversion). You can literally buy crown gifts of dlc from other players with gold ^^

[Anissa]

The DLC can be a money pit if you're buying permanent access to them. Of course there's also the monthly subscription which gives u access to all of that plus other bonuses. But the base game has a years worth of content easy, so unless you're extremely lazy and have a fat wallet, you shouldn't have to spend any money at all for a long time.

[MMOGamer71]

Q. Is this game a money pit?
A. No