Worth playing without ESO+ if I'm a casual?

[PixelNuts]

I just intend to do story quests, some dungeon. I'm not interested in crafting (housing perhaps). Will I have too many restrictions by playing F2P model?

[watchdog79]

ESO is not Free to Play, rather Buy to Play.

I am a casual myself and I cannot imagine playing without ESO+, because while it is doable, the restrictions on inventory would feel too bad. If you intend to delve into housing, you would find the placeable furniture items count for your houses too limiting, as ESO+ gives you a double limit. Even then some ofc he big houses are difficult to decorate properly.

A lot of the nice stories happen in the chapters and in the DLC's, some are linked, such as Morrowind, Clockwork City, and Summerset.

I consider the monthly cost of ESO+ very reasonable for all the fun I am having, especially as I went for the 12 months plan, which meant the lowest cost per month.

[Harmisol]

Eso is playable without Eso+ (i know some peeps who do it and are raiding endgame). tho gathering stuff well you can make 'mules' and even like late late late game when you havee currency ppl are selling crowns for gold, so there is that.

Tho Eso+ if you would buy it, what you get back for it is quite amazing compaired to 'other monthly fee based' games. As in i played a crap ton of mmo's and for a change eso+ is realy well done for bank for buck wise. if not one of the best. Even if you take it for a month and play the hell out off the game its worth it. ( pretty much if you buy eso+ for 1 month you get for the same ammount of crowns worth that aswell for that price + all the extras thats comeing with it.)

Tho if you have to buy something with crowns thats pretty damn expensive in the end especially with dlcs and such...

If you would buy eso, try to get a combo deal with it like as many dlcs you can get with a discount or someting ( thats what i did).

The game has a nice selection of adjustability + addons, so if set up correctly can do alot aswell.
Even if you sell all your resources and such you can make quite alot of gold. (Selling in eso is abit of a pain).

The quests itself are quite amazing, good story and your actions feel like they have a impact
(normally i cba about story and quests and such, but eso is kinda the 1st that i actually read stuff and curious how 'things' go).

In the end, is it worth? I would say yes. But i would either get Eso+ or wait on a killer deal / combo package sale for eso. ( soon apprearntly the game excists 5 years, i assume there will be a sale than.).

[AndyRobby]

If you want a game to last for years dont get eso+ . I play now for 2 years no hurry just explore is a great game for wasting time if you have time to waste. Once in a while you will get a free upgrade for a week so you can see what your missing with eso+, mainly not having to run to find a bank or workbench, trader to offload your stuff every half hour. get on your horse and follow the paths open as many wayshrines as possible so you can fast travel in future. Exploration at your own pace is very relaxing :) .

[The Aegis Warlock]

Nah just buy all the DLC you want. Only get it if you are desperate for the crafting bag

[Lightning4Life]

Are you kidding guys?!
Im always enough 120 inventory slots, and its half emty for loot/stolen things to sell.
Maybe i will buy eso+ later when start crafting, but now i just doing quests, explore the world

Eso+ gives small bonuses, but yeah, with crafting bag and doubles your inventory and housing space, it is useful only for crafting or first housing setup by me...
I feeling no problems to by some characters customization stuff like outfits, because i like it and DLC, but never need ESO+ features.
(Yeah :D i know about some people, never enough space for lots of useless stuff)
*You can buy more inventory slots from backpack traders by gold.*

This game is pretty good balanced with its payments system in my opinion by this reasons:

1) If all and will be free (as you people ask) it cant no longer exist for a time.
2) F2P model will be much worse too, just look at all those freakin "free-to-play" grind disbalance mmo, (with a real donate restrictions) trashed by greedy donate.
3) Feeling free to play easy in ESO as is, when buy the game and DLCs you need.
Any other features (eso+, customizations, mounts, pets and stuff) is just additional options.

So, there`s no any difficult restrictions you talking about to play without eso+

[watchdog79]

Originally posted by Lighting4Life:

So, there`s no any difficult restrictions you talking about to play without eso+

How about the Crafting Bag?

I know there are some crafters who do manage to play without it, but I would consider it too limiting, because too much of my time would be spent managing inventory. You may call many items useless, but for me having as many units of each crafting material as possible is absolutely vital, because furniture crafting is very material hungry.

Besides, if everyone stops subscribing and purchasing Crowns, we won't have any game running soon, because ZOS is a large company and needs the income to stay afloat. Not just to cover the costs of the servers, but to pay the employees too. You see, they are not a charity, an NGO or something like that. ZOS is running a business here.

[Lightning4Life]

Originally posted by watchdog79:

Originally posted by Lighting4Life:

So, there`s no any difficult restrictions you talking about to play without eso+

How about the Crafting Bag?

I know there are some crafters who do manage to play without it, but I would consider it too limiting, because too much of my time would be spent managing inventory. You may call many items useless, but for me having as many units of each crafting material as possible is absolutely vital, because furniture crafting is very material hungry.

Besides, if everyone stops subscribing and purchasing Crowns, we won't have any game running soon, because ZOS is a large company and needs the income to stay afloat. Not just to cover the costs of the servers, but to pay the employees too. You see, they are not a charity, an NGO or something like that. ZOS is running a business here.

I absolutely agree that ESO+ subscription is necessary for serious crafting

[737]

I played about 1k hours of this game without ever getting eso plus. If you're just casual you do not need eso+.

[Requimatic]

Once you have all of your inventory slots unlocked via gold (or Crowns, if you want to buy some and spend on something useful without subbing; highly recommend bag/bank upgrades), and your bonus 60 slots via mount training..

If you find inventory space to STILL be a problem, then I'm afraid you may be a hoarder.

If you want to be sensible and focus pretty hard on one crafting line, it's entirely possible to do without ESO+.. if you want to ram your face in to your keyboard over and over because you went full crafter and don't have ESO+.. well, that's your problem, honestly.

As I mentioned, if you kinda sorta want to spend a little money on the game, but don't necessarily want to sub every month.. buy yourself some bag & bank upgrades, and maybe some mount lessons (capacity). Most newer people find, though, that the bag/bank upgrades cost a loooottt of gold when you first start out, so they're a good place to spend a little money if you wanna get something that's non-cosmetic.

Do keep in mind that those upgrades are on a per-character basis, as well as the mount upgrades. (Kinda lame there, at least on the mount part, but meh. Mount upgrades are cheap enough, just severely time-gated.)

In short, it's entirely possible to obtain master crafter achievements without ever having ESO+.. it's just going to take you a liiiittle bit longer since you'll have to focus maybe on 2 crafting lines maximum; possibly 3 if you have your inventory maxed out.

On that note, though.. you could potentially maximize crafting without ever crafting a single item yourself; just make a bunch of gold in-game somehow or another and do nothing but deconstruct CP160 blue, purple, and Intricate items from the guild traders that are cheap enough.

That's how I maxed out Jewelry Crafting, hah. (And also how I'll be maxing out basically every crafting line on my StamDK.)

[The Vampire Kain]

if you want to play the dls yes. if you wan more storage space yes. if you buy crowns yes. this is why + give's you 1500 plus crowns per month more storage and all the dlc content.

[ZombieCo]

The amount of content and bonuses that you get from ESO+ makes it VERY worthwhile Game is VERY playable without ESO however.

[Killiberke]

It's not necessary. I'm a master crafter in everything and I never subbed.
I do have mule alts and I also always use the free ESO+ trial weeks (about twice a year) to empty my inventories of mats. Because of that I have thousands and thousands of mats in a crafting bag I never paid for.

[Elecks.]

The reason to get ESO+ is the crafting bag and a little bit of EXP boost (10%). You will get access to all DLC's (including previous expansions). So if you are interested in the story, it is not really worth it. But it kinda is as all the DLCs come with it. And every now and then you get a free furniture item (so far only crap).

[watchdog79]

Originally posted by 🦉 E L E C K S:

The reason to get ESO+ is the crafting bag and a little bit of EXP boost (10%). You will get access to all DLC's (including previous expansions). So if you are interested in the story, it is not really worth it. But it kinda is as all the DLCs come with it. And every now and then you get a free furniture item (so far only crap).

Assuming you mean chapters with the term "expansions", no, ESO+ does not grant access to those.

ESO+ grants access to all DLC, including Morrowind DLC (Vvardenfell zone only, not Warden class). It does not grant access to Summerset or Elsweyr.

[Elecks.]

Originally posted by watchdog79:

Originally posted by 🦉 E L E C K S:

The reason to get ESO+ is the crafting bag and a little bit of EXP boost (10%). You will get access to all DLC's (including previous expansions). So if you are interested in the story, it is not really worth it. But it kinda is as all the DLCs come with it. And every now and then you get a free furniture item (so far only crap).

Assuming you mean chapters with the term "expansions", no, ESO+ does not grant access to those.

ESO+ grants access to all DLC, including Morrowind DLC (Vvardenfell zone only, not Warden class). It does not grant access to Summerset or Elsweyr.

Well you gain access to the story of the 'expansion that became an DLC after release of new expansion' basically what you said above ;)