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Battlegrounds for Everyone, Morrowind Coming to the Crown Store & More - Elder Scrolls Online - MMOR
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Battlegrounds for Everyone, Morrowind Coming to the Crown Store & More - Elder Scrolls Online - MMORPG.com
Elder Scrolls Online News - The Elder Scrolls Online site has been updated with a great post to lay out some of the changes in the game and how players will soon be able to gain access to even more ESO content going forward. The new "base version" of the game is being renamed simply to Elder Scrolls Online and will contain all of the content through the Morrowind chapter. In the coming weeks, the Morrowind zone will also be available in the Crown Store as will the Warden Class, available separately.
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"You might have already noticed, but we've changed which versions of The Elder Scrolls Online are available for purchase in stores. The product known as The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited is no longer available via digital retailers (ESO Store, Steam, PSN, Xbox Store, etc) and is no longer being produced for physical retailers. In its stead, we are renaming the product currently known as The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind to simply The Elder Scrolls Online, and it is becoming the base game version of ESO. This means that moving forward, if you purchase this new base game—The Elder Scrolls Online, not The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited—it will include the Morrowind Chapter."
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26355?utm_source=SocialMedia&utm_medium=bitly
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
The Battlegrounds will become a base game thing for anyone with any version of ESO.
And the Warden class is a separate crown purchase unless you already have the Morrowind Chapter before Summerset releases (the chapter with the Warden is also included with a pre-order of the Summerset upgrade.)
Going forward after the Summerset release any new players buying ESO for the first time will get the Morrowind zone included. The Warden will still be extra though.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
If you've been around ESO for a while you would have seen something similar before: they had a "gold edition" for a while that included 4 or 5 DLC with it that anyone already in the game needed to buy with crowns.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
If you gonna make something good make it for all your customers period.
Let me ask you this. Any time you've bought a game at release and then a year and a half later they sell a Game of the Year edition cheaper with all DLC included, did you get upgraded to the GOTY for free?
Unless you've been living under a rock you'd know that it's ALWAYS cheaper and a better deal later.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
It's also similar to "just buying video games" in that a new game will cost full price. Over time the price will come down and companies will even add dlcs'.
So it is more than likely that "the next game you go to" will do something exactly like this.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
They download everything whether you buy it or not, so you don't need to make space.
The battlegrounds should never have been locked behind an expansion, and I think the reason they're doing this is because a lot of people simply aren't since:
1. It isn't worth paying for that feature, esecially when the game has a high number casual PvE/Crafters who do not even do Cyrodil or BGs.
2. Many people don't care too much about Wardens since the class was lackluster and it's typical for any build that seems strong to get heavily nerfed fairly quickly in this game... So why waste the money and risk it?
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@ Sovrath
The issue is that paywalls aren't an issue. Zeni's pricing structure is incredibly confusing. Every component wants their own "currency" to make users overspend for things and trickle in tons of extra cash (this is why they don't just charge you cash for most things - it also makes it seem cheaper than it is). They have it set up so that the subscription becomes pretty much mandatory unless you were there close to the beginning buying everything, due to content crown costs.
Of course, you can always buy it over time, but that doesn't really fix anything. The subscription still needs to be held for several months before you can rack up the 12k+ coins to catch up on the game's base content packs (not any cosmetic, scrolls, etc. BTW) and you're paying for those via the subscription :-P
It is, indeed, confusing. Moreso than many other games I've played...