I Spent €150 on The Elder Scrolls Online! Was It Worth It?
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2023
- I spent over €150's of my own money and bought lootcrates, DLC, mounts and emotes to answer the ultimate question! Are any of ESO's many microtransactions even worth it? You'll never guess the answer! Go ahead, guess.
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There are plenty of things you can spend your money on but there's plenty of things you don't need to.
And the part I think that you would enjoy the most is getting to see places that you know from Morrowind but from way before Morrowind
And those really expensive houses are ment more like guild Halls where you can have large groups of people meet there and do things like having crafting tables and stuff like that
Thank you, I will NEVER play a game like this!
@@magicpyroninja that's still ridiculous bro, come on...
Yeah I guess Joov is pretty...
I missed you saying "epic" at first. But, fuck it, I was right the first time.
having your gambling machine mascot automatically say "perseverance is a virtue my friend" is actually just evil
get it because it's a khajiit so it's in character haha give us money
They're acknowledging how scummy their microtransactions are
Oh you're mad? Pay me money bich!
Gambling machine, without the CBBE Physics. Its like paying someone to neuter you. MMO's are just terrible. Bethesda games are just terrible, actually. Modders are the only reason they are worth playing.
@@greenflamingoentertainment8613Bethesda games are amazing what are you speaking about? Fallout 3,4 Elder Scrolls 2,3,4,5, Starfield seems promising, Elder Scrolls Online And Fallout 76 aren't great games but they are more then playable.
- get on a voice call
- get all your friends to your 80€ house
- play dnd in there
peak gaming
I thought the same thing
It’s funny because people have actually done that. I’ve seen a few stories on the sub reddit lol.
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Nope I enjoy eso
@@MasterJazz09 People 'enjoy' Heroin, doesn't make it good, or morally acceptable, or a good use of one's time or money.
Mickyd: 'we can't keep letting them get away with it'
Mickyd: *gives them 150 dollars to get away with it*
Tbf, he’s doing it and showing us what you get so we don’t have to lol. So we see how ridiculous it is.
@@jellymop Its like Coyote Peterson, Stinging himself with some obscure dangerous insect and then writhing on the ground for 10 minutes talking about how terrible it was.
For anyone with a brain, Its pretty obvious it isn't good for you. Its really all just for attention.
And he didn’t even spend them well 😭 good for him tho
Tbh I think the crown store only good to buy the dlc as they are cheaper in the game
150 Euro.
In USD its 164.79$
The biggest problem I have with the crown store is how predatory it is to new players. People already commented how easy it is to get a vampire or werewolf bite for free in game if you just know where or think to ask. And there are plenty of things overpriced for how easy they are to get for free. I tell most people that are interested to avoid buying crowns and if they enjoy the game to just sub for all the DLC content and the craft bag since they give you $15 worth of crowns with each monthly sub. Then you can blow your crowns on whatever or save it up for something actually useful like a banker or merchant or DLC areas you want to have always available.
I've played subscription based games before and I enjoy ESO enough to treat it like one cuz I find it nearly unplayable otherwise. I'm with you on removing key features to make premium being some bullshit.
Underrated comment. Honestly there's so much you can find in the game for no additional real money/crowns. Buying the first pack upgrade (let alone any, though the price does scale up) is just painful to watch because it's like 800 gold from the npc pack merchant. 800 gold is a pittance in this game, even if you're relatively new. The big January login reward (like 20 days of logging in daily) was 100,000 gold. Players are generally helpful in zone chat if they don't think you're trolling, minus the occasional number of people that will troll you. But 99.99% of players will tell you how to avoid the crown store if there is a way around it, because we all know it's terrible.
For context I've played and subscribed since the 2014 launch.
I do not really understand why anyone ever should buy crowns before looking into the game (or store). It takes 10 minutes to realize that the store is mostly optional and more like a "reward system" for the ESO+ subscription model. ESO is a subscription based game with a big extended "trial". But you can theoretically play the trial even endlessly because of the more horizontal focussed progression + champion/paragon system. And if you want to play the game only for the base game, dungeons, veteran base dungeons / raids and all the story from the 3 alliances... damn this all will take 300-1000 hours alone if you are a real TES player and enjoy the dialogues etc.
I got the sub for the game, burned out, forgot about the sub, and came back like, 8 months later expecting to have 8 months worth of crowns, but no. You don't get those crowns for the month if you don't log in.
That's when I knew I was dealing with criminal scum.
@@alexanderrahl7034 Ever tried to contact the support instead of only complaining? I know people had this issue, but there is no login required it sometimes is more of a problem with the subscription system (because you can get the crowns in advance for multiple months) or steam payments (not marked as DLC). People in my guild had this issue too and got it afterwards by the support team. They even write on their website ("As an ESO Plus member, you'll receive 1650 crowns for each month of your membership to spend in the in-game Crown Store.").
@@alexanderrahl7034 you get Crowns once for the yearly sub, monthly for the slightly more expensive monthly sub.
That entire crown crate had the contents of like two chests in someone's basement in Oblivion or Morrowind.
Game fun. Content cool. Store bad 👎🏻
Thanks for having me on the show!!
This is so true
The collab we needed
Yep basically my opinion of ESO
Joov spotted.
I'm subscribed to both of you guys😁
Large houses are used as Guild Hubs mostly. But the majority of guilds I’ve visited use Psijic Mansion as their base. It’s large, pretty and it was given away for free during Summerset Season.
should join a housing guild, the real end game and see all the large houses they have. its inspirational
@@kayef5724 I saw creative house builds like space ships or AT-AT from star wars
I missed that... So sad..
One other thing with houses in ESO is not only are they waaaaay too expensive, the furniture limit is stupidly small. You can have houses the size of a palace and you maybe have enough slots to furniture a room or two, the rest will stay empty. People been asking for higher limit, but response was "we don't play to do anything about it" ;x
Yeah I nearly died laughing when I first went in to the dog house you get for free and found out I could put down one dungeon trophy and the 30 slot chest and thats it 😂 I spent like 30 mins completelly baffled and laughing at that ffs.. the limit makes sense tho because it all takes server space but for them to sell such massive castles and shit ans then you can't do much decorating is stupid..
I can't wait for the day that Bethesda decides that Daedric Quests are too good for base games, and hides the quests behind a paywall, and THEN the artifact behind another paywall. That's going to be SO much fun, I just know it.
Stop giving Todd ideas
Isn't there already a ton of quests behind paywalls?
Please don’t give me this anxiety. I don’t wanna sound like some “back in my day” asshole but seriously I miss when games were on discs because at least then the game had to be good and playable for people to buy it.
Now they can ship stuff out for $70 and promise to fix the game with updates within 2 years. FUUUUCK I fucking hate AAA studios
u mean like shivering isles🤣
Just like Mehrunes' Razor from Oblivion!
Vampirism can be gotten for free in game if you can find a vampire to bite you.
Usually if you hang around one of the vampire shrines you can get somebody who will offer a bite.
Same thing for werewolves
Meh you might have to wait a while for someone to do it for free. People usually charge a small fee ingame now seeing as you can only do it once a week or something
There are nice players who will do it if you ask, it's how I got it, and now I'm on the very long path to getting level 10 so I can do the same for others
Yeah I managed to do that for a werewolf, and my character still is a werewolf, it's really fun, lmao.
This happened a while ago but I tried to get a werewolf to bite me and the dude scammed me out of like 10k gold. Asshole knew what he was doing because I saw him bite someone else right in front of me before claiming that "no I bit you" when he just did his attack animation at me. My antisocial ass just went and bought the bite right after that instead of trying to find someone else -_-
@@SilvarusLupus anybody who's charging is a douchebag.
And back in the day we used to chase them off the server.
Everybody would be calling them out charging for a bite what's wrong with you trying to scam new players
I wanted to note that most of the smaller houses can be bought with gold in game. Almost everything that isn't a huge mansion fits in this cstegory.
The house you ended up buying is one you can earn through an achievement and buy with gold.
you can even buy a lot of the mansions with gold that aren't limited time lol
If you can pay to skip content in a game that means that it is worth money to not have to play the game.
@@sp0ckz0mbi3 pay to skip overland content for the house? I guess... but it's not like you can pay to skip actually difficult or time consuming content. And you will don't get the achievements related to the content (although you do get the achievement for owning the house itself).
@@Lovefromwcu1 Shouldn't the player be made aware of stuff like that through the game before they make the purchase then, and not have to rely on the internet or playing the game for many hours to learn that? I've seen a few games have simple disclaimers like, "this content can be unlocked through X currency/progression as well".
So not informing the player of their choices when it's so easy, and especially when there's SO MUCH STUFF in the microtransaction store, seems like a deliberate trap for newcomers.
Its nice to see someone calling this out. The greed is incredible.
Whats really incredible is people unironically play this. Or unironically give Bethesda money in any year past 2011.
@@HotRossBuns well 2016 is excused cuz the special edition was quite okay but ye
The money they get from the crown store is put back into the game.
@@NigerianCrusaderYou're hilarious
@@poopikins WHAT DO YOU MEAN
You paying actual currency for pack upgrades it nearly killed me
especially since you can get all the gold you need for the upgrades in like one day lol
When he was talking about paying 600 crowns for a house you can buy for 1000 gold and saying it was reasonable, I just shut it off. Really does not look like he is looking at anything with any depth.
@@The_Conundrum_Crew then you missed the entire point. New players are fooled exactly like this by the crown store because it's designed to trick you.
@@xX.D3DP00L_Xx I was a new player. I saw that basic house from playing long before looking at the crown store for houses. Don't bullshit me on how a youtube streamer actually plays games like a new player.
@@The_Conundrum_Crew and don't bullshit me who has about 8000 hrs into this game. I know exactly how that trash crown store works. Sit down toxic casual
I played ESO consistently for years. I personally found the subscription a pretty decent deal for myself who played so consistently. I didn't get it for the first few months and had no problems, but once I wanted to get into crafting, the subscription was a must. That said, I knew so many people who were spending probably hundreds of dollars a month, some of the houses are well over a hundred to begin with. The crown crates are straight up just predatory bullshit
exactly i just afk on their twitch streams to get their free crates or get them with dlc pre-orders. I've been playing eso probably since 2019 and i wanted to get eso+ but kinda guessed that i just wanted dlc and not the extra stuff with the membership so i havent invested in it. The fear of missing out with a lot of the crown store stuff is way too predatory i feel into that trap before and try to get what i can for free now
@@arseyne see shit like that makes me just not want to touch the game even though I might enjoy it.
@@arseyne honestly it's not bad they give you a monthly allowance of crowns.
And the crafting bag is definitely worth it it's hard to play without it once you've used it.
It's nice being able to go through a whole dungeon without being full at the end and unable to pick up your end reward
@@magicpyroninja yeah the fact they make it so necessary is the problem
“You can play without this item yes, but it’s completely necessary for crafting” is bull to me. I can’t say much because I did buy eso+ mostly for the fact that I wanted to experience stuff without being “held back” in a way but the idea of it is bull and even in other comments on this video you can see ESO white knights defending this game with all there might. Now my opinion is if you have the money to enjoy the game and your not putting yourself at risk do it your decision. But at the end of the day, it is very predatory.
6:04 "a spyro 1 enemy that's been upscaled by AI" is a hilariously accurate description
One guy I sometimes play with bought like 100+ gamble boxes to get that bear with the moose horns mount. Paying MORE than what mickyD spent.
He had only been playing for a couple of months. It was insane. The mount didn't even look good, nor did it fit the aesthetic of his character. He basically fronted the costs for all the megaservers across all platforms for like an hour.
Moral of the story:
Gambling sucks, whales are a thing.
That's your best opening Mick, that must have taken you ages
When ESO releases its new Necrom chapter, you should do a video on Tamriel Rebuilt, specifically walking around the Necrom part of the map
This monetization style has killed so many games for me. It's not just the store and not just the constant advertising, it's also the game design that suffers.
The money they recieve from the store is put back into the game.
@@NigerianCrusader As opposed to what? That's literally just how companies work, they use the money they make from sales to pay for production and possible expansion. It's not a fucking charitable endevor it's literally the most basic aspect of how a company works.
29:34 actually yeah!! My dad has a big ESO guild and they can fill houses, they also have their houses as like a hub with practice dummies and such.
One time someone arranged items so high they played “lawn darts” except your character is the dart jumping from a high place
I think it's really cool your dad has an ESO guild
Hello Michward Dickens, I beta tested ESO. They didn't exactly add microtransactions, they've always had them 😂
But they added more, much much much much much more.
I'm pretty sure he said they Started them...
Here's your participation trophy good sir.🏆 lpl
The only things in the shop in old ESO were Imperial upgrade and one horse, IIRC. And they were WAY cheaper than stuff in store nowadays.
I miss the old ESO and it's competent and passionate dev team.
I beta tested ESO, too and loot crates weren't a thing back then and this is only one example, meaning they added tons of microtransactions to the game
If you hate a game, atleast be honest with your critique on it.
I could never feel immersed in an MMO. They are effectively theme parks, but you can't bring any souveniers home!
I mean you literally can own a home, and decorate. I mean Skyrim is also a theme park “you can go this way”
The game is open world but it’s on rails to some degree. Eso has most of Tamriel and if you play solo it’s really not much different from Skyrim just in more of Tamriel the combat is different but who cares no one plays an elder scrolls
Game for combat they play for the lore (unless you are one of those weird mmo fans who play any mmo for sick pvp action …
Which is appears a lot
Do and get disappointed the game is really designed for tes fans and not mmo fans).
FFXIV
Try osrs :)
@@TheVioletBunny They are theme parks because all players have the same experience as visitors. You line up for "attractions" while seeing other visitors do the same, and all the NPCs are costumed actors repeating the same thing to everyone.
@@maurice5402 OSRS community seems to have gotten extra sweaty. Last time I played, most of my friends wouldn’t even chat in game cause they were too busy running like 6 accounts at once
From what I remember, 100 crowns is equal to $1 USD, so the big houses cost the equivalent of $50-100+... that's ridiculous
It's meant for people who play the game alot, that's why it's so expensive.
@@NigerianCrusader Imagine thinking that's an actual excuse for egregiously overpriced pixels. It's unbelievably pathetic how much of a dog you are for a multi-million dollar company.
Not like you can get House from quest or achievement; y’all ever have play to a MMORPG?
@@NigerianCrusader So it exploits people's emotional attachment to the game?
@@hedgehog3180 No, the amount of free crowns you get just for being subscribed would make those end games houses affordable in like 6 months of being subbed to the game.
When ESO first came out I spent the whole summer playing it, You could only become a werewolf by activating a monument that only activated once an hour to one person. Or by a player giving it to you but they could only do it once a week I think .
I got the beast blood by my friend "DrSmokingBud" who I thought was an actual doctor, he wasn't lmao.
That's not true lol. There were rare spawn werewolves that only spawned on a full moon around the map. You needed to get attacked by them to contract the disease. It was either that, or get bitten by another player. Idk where you got the monument from lol.
You know what doesn’t have micro transactions? Morrowind online 😎
what is morrowind online?
@@NigerianCrusader There are multiplayer servers for OpenMW. It's pretty cool. Basically Morrowind MMO.
@@drutarthesavage5156 thanks
I'd honestly love to see you play through the stories as they are the only thing in eso that actually made me want to play it!
Story and dungeons are quality, I recommend it :) But use Eso plus.
@@miroslavzima8856 I'll try it, but I'll never pay twice for a game.
@@TheTuttle99 shy tuttle?
@@TheTuttle99 plus is on of the few times its worth it lol unlimited crafting mats bag ,costume dyeing , a good amount of crowns and extra spaces
I really dont get the hate for this game
"I'll revive you! NOOOO!" Funniest damn thing, just the immediate drowning, it was like a smash-cut in real time.
As for the pointless water area in that house, one thing you can do is craft platforms as furniture and create a dock. Put some dock related stuff out there, maybe an npc houseguest or two, and you got yourself a "lived in " area that was literally nothing before
From what I've seen the big expensive houses are usually used as guild halls
Few notes: the bag upgrades can be gotten with ingame gold, and the crown crate consumables are outclassed by crafted consumables. Most of the houses that are always in the crown store can be bought with gold. And for the housing, you can place your mounts and pets like furnishings, and even set them on paths to walk around your house. And you can make a dock with furnishings yourself down in the ocean. The vampirism and lycanthropy both can be given for free by other players. There no P2W parts to the crown store, it's either pay for convenience or cosmetic.
Though you spending crowns on many of these things show how the crown store is predatory towards people who don't know better.
If you want someone to help you settle into ESO, lemme know.
So glad to see you do more ESO! With that said the store is awful for new players, since they wont know that many things are either free, easy to earn, or just cost gold to purchase. DLC/Chapters are the only thing worth investing in the crownstore tbh
Assistant banker and traders are not only for your house. You can summon them everywhere, except PvP content. Your group members are able to use them btw.
Yeah I love my crow frands
Would love to see you give the story content in all the chapters a go, best aspect of the game imo
The smaller zone dlc can also be pretty great
yeah its soo much etter when the story is done on order,i will never understand why they start players near the end
The reason story content is best aspect of the game, becasue it's kinda the only aspect of a game that gets love from devs lol
@@mayalewis2956 i think that is a choice you can make tho, if i am not mistaken?
@@zerrierslizer1 no they just mean a tutorial (the tutorial is also in the latest area)
Hot damn I knew ESO had microtransactions but I had no idea it was this bad.
It's honestly really bad, BUT thank fuck it isn't p2w
It’s bad but it’s completely optional. Majority of the items are cosmetic and at least it isn’t p2w
All the gameplay altering items are really common and pretty useless. So it's pretty much just cosmetics.
Still pretty bad though with the prices
@@pedropedro1 they literally give out the stuff he gotten from the crates for free in mass quantities, and literally everything he got from them was more easily obtainable and cheaper to get in game than to use the crates. The potions and food from the crates really only serve the function of breaking down into gems to buy specific items you want from the crates. even the xp scrolls. Nobody is buying crown crates for a couple potions that they can make with less than 5 minutes of work or are literally given hundreds of for free which the game is pretty transparent about.
The real pay to win practices comes with the release of new dlcs which introduce new sets that end up being overpowered in pvp and end up being nerfed whenever a new dlc comes out.
@@mihawk508 I mean when they release new Mythic items they're always broken making people buy them. "But you have to farm them in game", it's just pay2win with extra steps. When a overpowered item is literally locked behind a paywall that's the definition of pay2win.
They also allow RMT and buying in game gold with crowns, essentially cutting out the middle man and not needing to even farm items and just buy any gear, paying for trials, specific dungeon gear or upgrades etc. This isn't too bad because it can all be farmed in game, well if you have the corresponding DLC or subscription you've paid for that is.
I watched the whole video from start to finish like you asked me, can I get out of the basement now, MickyD?
We'll see
The ESO Plus unlimited crafting bag is the only reason I play so rarely. It's so convenient that not having it is not fun, and I rarely get ESO Plus cause having it makes me feel forced to play to not waste money. It's too bad cause I like the game but I wanna play others games too.
The house interiors seem oddly scaled, compared to the walls and stairs the character looks 5'4".
Somewhat similar to how the main door in the Forbidden Zone in Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues is scaled. Roughly twice the regular size.
Yeah. I can understand why gates are big, they made like that for you to be able to ride in on your horse/mount. But regular doors in houses...
@@W4iteFlame guys, that all depends on what height you give to your character.
@@Cptn8993 are you speaking theoretically or is there an actual character creation slider that can make your TESO character a giant? I don't remember it from Beta and that is all I know
You can’t make your character taller but there are furnishings/npc’s you can put in your house that are pretty big
Basic mmo scale
Micky you don't need to buy DLC for us to be your friends
EOS without paying for all the stuff is an inventory sorting simulator.
I love ESO - sunk so much time before buying anything - and never felt needing to actually buy anything. Craft bag is the only thing that really feels predatory - but it can overcome by not hoarding and organizing.
Only ever bought crowns for DLCs which are generally worth it.
The bag upgrades don’t transfer to other characters lol. Plus the only other method to increase the bag space per character is to use crowns or to buy it with in game gold. The cost ramps up per upgrade
And the 13,000 thieves Oasis thing is a house not a dlc. You could buy several major dlcs and still have left over crowns compared to the giant house purchase
Yeah the bag upgrades with in game gold are cheap but get progressively more expensive. You never have to pay a cent. Daily writs give you extra gold, playing the game, etc even casually playing. Those crown store bag upgrades are predatory.
This first-hand video approach to what you receive in game for your Dollar is a lot better for viewers to understand than most youtubers who only quickly slap a few numbers on screen.
I’m surprised once he wanted to just get rid of it he didn’t just buy the DLC stories.
Would be awesome to see him play through some of the storylines.
Also, if you are trying to get ESO and not sub, and just want expansions, get the high isle (or whatever expansion is out) collection set. Comes with all the previous expansions plus extra “collection” stuff if you’re into the mounts and stuff. Probably the best deal, I got the non collector one for 20$.
I just bought the Necrom Deluxe Collection on sale for $23. From what I am seeing online, the story content from each expansion will alone make that price worth it. If I enjoy the game enough, I will wait until the upcoming expansion goes on sale in however many months and buy it, hopefully for under $20. Outside of future expansions and the initial cost of entry, it sounds like everything else is not worth it.
There's a lot of the store that is paying for convenience. The assistants can be summoned anywhere and used by players in your group, between the merchant and banker you can practically remove the need for visiting towns.
Which seems stupid to me since "going" to town is just a teleport and doesn't take any time. Maybe it would make sense if this were EverQuest and travel was actually a game mechanic instead of a lie.
Another way to describe it: the game is designed to be inconvenient so they can sell you stuff.
You’ve gotten so good at editing Mickey! The quality of your videos just keep going up
... I may have been a crown crate addict at one point.
I actually enjoy playing ESO in small bursts and i use my crowns to decorate my digital home because I will never own a real home.
Because my mortgage is spent in ESO homes.
I played a LOT of ESO a few years back, I remember basically none of it beyond grinding white gold tower and my guild's daily quest run. The clearest memory I have is hanging out in that big mansion player owned house with most of the people in our guild. They had a training dummy set up while people tweaked their build to max their damage.
2:52 Your music references are one of the main reasons I watch your videos. Was NOT expecting More Than Words.
oh yeah, also! if you want to be a vampire or a werewolf its totally free, you just need to ask zone or guild chat and usually people would just happily give u a bite.
also curing them only need like a small amount of gold at the local temple thats it lol, dont let the crown store fool you! its like a trap sometimes
That sounds opaque and misleading, like a maybe predatory practice
@@GreenEyedDazzler it is, sadly :(
I can't wait for TES6 where Bethesda will hopefully give us a subscription option to remove weight that doesn't give us an in game option like Skyrim where you can enchant armor to do that.
Cant wait to find out that TES 6 is not a multiplayer game so you dont have to pay money as a developer to keep the game running
As someone who almost got to max level in ESO I've got to say I had a little chuckle when you bought vampirism knowing you can get it for free pretty easily.
Then imagine you are a new player who didnt play skyrim. You see people talking about the vampirism on chat but noone answers how to get it. You look at the store and see the only option is to buy it with real money.
It's cringe, and trying to be edgy acting like: ,,iM SuCh a PrO i KnOw EvErYthInG aBoUt tHE gAmE yOu NoOB"
@@rybkagaming8575have you played with any text chat in a game? Worst case scenario asking “how do I become a vampire” will get the response of “google it”
Based on my experience with the game the common response is “join my group I’ll help you out”
@@rybkagaming8575 I don't think that's the vibe he was going for. I think he was saying that it's pretty ridiculous that - given his level of experience with the game and presumably his knowledge of how easy it is to get X - zeni/beth has the gall to sell X for money.
He wasn't throwing shade at any new player in particular, he was throwing shade at zeni/beth.
Also you'd have to be pretty stupid/unable to use your money properly if the first thing you do as a new player is to open the money store to see how you can... skip playing the game? You probably deserve to lose your money in that case, since you're just interested in watching big number go up at that point.
Thats exactly why its so scummy smart arse
@@A_Simple_Neurose that is in fact, not the vibe I was going for.
just a little add up : The game also has "seals of endeavour" which you can earn by daily and weekly quests. With these seals you also can place all the things you can buy with the gems. It is pretty grindy though if you want the high rewards, but at least you can buy some things with it oncce in a while
Did... did the game give you a premium cosmetic item for red eyes... when your character genetically has red eyes?
This whole thing is grim, and super predatory, as you say!
I was curious about the housing in eso and you can actually buy most houses without spending crowns but you can also buy those houses with crowns.
@@Moebz818 Prefurnished houses cost crowns, but usually there is a non-crown price in gold that's pretty reasonable. Newer noble homes seem to be 50-50 crowns only though.
@@Moebz818 you could get homes without real money, I was able to get one way back when I was still in school and not making money
That intro was both hilarious & very impressive to behold. My editing skills may be meagre atm but I can still appreciate the effort you've been putting into your content lately.
Not to get too mushy but just wanted to say your an inspiration to this community & to the Elder Scrolls community as a whole. You also inspired me to start uploading my own content & though it pales in comparison to yours, I'm just trying to have fun with it. And who knows if I'm lucky, I could be joining you in the Lime(ware platter) light soon enough 😝
Thank you for the kind words Outlanish and best of luck with your channel! It all takes some practise but I'm sure you'll get there soon. You'll be very surprised at how quick you improve with experience.
@@MickyD Your very welcome, let's both keep doing our best 😊
Filling out home instances was definitely fun, Micky, the rp guild I was in would swap to different homes every session to keep everything from being too samey and it was pretty cool seeing all the decorations and themes
How's it goin basement legends?
TESO is my MMO of choice and I am glad to see you cover it some more.
Believe me even with my probably thousand or so hours sunk into the game I still just stick to buying Expansions/DLC since that's proper content. I have plenty of cosmetics, mounts, pets, etc, from just grinding out the game. So that works for me. I always ward other potential players away from spending any cash for that reason.
But man, it's painful seeing ya spend dosh on things you *can* get through gameplay. Anyways
I prefer new world where I had to physically search for the store . It’s nice not having it thrown in my face in a game.
I recommend going through the zones in order of release because there are some characters that you meet in base game zones that appear around the newer dlcs and chapter zones.
"is it really a reward if I bought it?" is the question that separates the pay pigs from the commissioners
my god the amount of editing just on the first mins of the vid, i alrdy know this video will be a treat.
also fun fact, there are crown to gold exchange discord specificly made to trade gold for crowns, so basicly you give the person the gold and he gifts you the item or dlc or whatever from the crown store. it also comes with a witness and if any of em tries to run off the person gets refunded and the person who ran gets blacklisted from the discord.
after each transaction the person gets a point to his profile to show how many succesful transactions he did to see if he's trustworthy.
This video was great Micky my boi, well worth the wait. I'm genuinely impressed by how far you've come in a reasonably short period of time.
Keep up the amazing work & we'll be behind you every step of the way.
Fuck microtransactions. The more we put up the worse it gets. It's nice to hear someone say "these are my favourite games but I'm not gonna shill"
yeah i love eso, but i hate the predatory crown crates, spent a bit years ago, and kind of regret it
Hey Micky I hope you feel better soon man, we all love you ❤
whenever I get the urge to play ESO I watch this video and the urge goes away instantly
I love this type of videos. It was random and fun. Just two friends chilling and making fun. Hope to see more from two of you!
YES
Will it be more ESO videos?
Thanks Todd for letting me pay for a game I bought and then pay more
Thanks Todd to not shut the servers down because nobody pays for them
This is a thing many ignore, a theme park MMO is among the most expensive vedeogames to make, sustain infrastructure and develop content for. It is literally impossible to sustain an MMO of the Scale of ESO and other mayor titles with just a buy to play model. So they either have to implement a mandatory subscription, of an "extensive" monetization to be able to sustain the game.
You can do daily and weekly challenges to get a currency called endeavors that can be spent on stuff that are in crown crates but I mean obviously it’s terribly slow
You know its preditory when I have never even played this game and watching someone buy stuff on the shop gave me an itch to do it myself
I still really enjoy these long videos to sit down with, I don't know if you're ever unsure about uploading but there you go
The best thing to do is probably pay for a month of Eso plus and rush through all the dlc main story quests if you have the time but I would suggest just playing the free base story quests with the alliances and the coldharbour planemeld.
Still the closest most Gen Zers will ever get to owning their own home.
What people have been asking for for decades:
Main line TES co-op mode
What we got:
"This one suggests you buy a crate from the store"
Well highlighted! I've played quite a few MMOs and this is the most predatory I've seen. Sadly people don't really care anymore anyway as they've been conditioned to pay 'automatically'. :)
Wat? In WoW you can litteraly buy gold lol? And most of the stuff he bought like inventory space you can get in an one hour grind ingame
@@iuppiterr They're all pretty bad dude! Tried WOW long ago and didn't like it!
Micky I like seeing you have a good time with any Scrolls game.
Locked branch of Skyrim SE updated just 5 hours ago, is the whole new micro transaction revive methinks
Honestly in my own opinion the best thing you can buy is the helper followers, yeah they do everything that's already free in game but I like being able to stop mid-whatever and sell, decon, fence, and then put the rest in my bank. There's a few other things less gratifying that I bought too but I believe the followers really helped enhance my experience, I also got them all over a span of like 2 years so I don't feel like I dumped to much to fast and have got their worth out of it.
Those goblins aren't vibing, they're three to torment you, to always follow you because you have the staff.
ESO I only spend money on what I want outside of monthly. If you spend it just to see if its worth it, its a bad time all around. I enjoy the game, but any helpful items in the cash shop are traps (You get em for free all the time), and the motifs, and houses, most of them you can get in game.
PS: You can earn crown crate stuff by doing daily endeavors. And furniture, 99% of it is in game. Another trap for newbies. Inventory capacity? It costs almost nothing in gold to do so. Just a waste of crowns and another trap.
yeah! i enjoy the game but the crown store is such a predatory and misleading trap
Micky D spent 150 euro to make me depressed
The only reason I buy any crown crates is for the emotes, it may be because I use them for various vids but other than that I steer clear of them. I will say you're right the crafting bag should be included in the game to make it less of a hassle to play.
A lot of the base houses and stuff that can be bought in the crown store can be gotten or be done in the game.
The game can be a lot of fun with the various stories in the zones that's what I like getting into. Fun video! 😄
GW2 has pretty non-predatory monetization, no sub, no pay to win, easy to reach max gear that doesn't depreciate every time a patch comes out and raises the ceiling.
Also the camel has a spit command and is therefore the best mount in ESO and a worthwhile buy.
The reason why I stopped playing eso, I mean it was fun in the beginning, but the fact that you need to buy more inventory because the lack of space... I earned a lot of gold to buy space but the prices went high rock every time it took too long to grind just for a little inventory space, then the game was boring for me and all those ingame purchases just made me quit this game entirely
Just like FO76, have to pay to have scrapbox to store unlimited craft components. Yes, playing without it is possible, but it's a chore, especially late game when you have to craft ammo & other things
early game is not fun ether as expanding bank costs money , so is inventory , early on you wont have money for ether
Crafting ammo? Bro just buy 100,000 rounds of ammo from a shady rmt trader!
One of the Zenimax guys who works on the team that does the art designs for ESO and namely the lootboxes came to our school during a career day thing. I of course realised he was on zenimax and not Bethesda but i still made sure to be a annoying little shit and asked him at least 3 times when TES6 is coming out. He just looked at me with the despair of someone who wanted to design art for games as a dream, but got assigned to loot boxes.
My theory is that 2 companies made this game. The first one made a really good game and sent it to zenimax, then the big Z got a 2nd team to absolutely fuck it up.
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Every single time Mick uses Ratchet and Clank music I will make sure to timestamp it.
Surprised someone caught that one
Microtransactions should be shamed and not normalized, the amount of content and often useless content that's created just to squeeze a little money out of dedicated fans is genuinely disgusting and scummy.
I love ESO and 76. I was paying for subscriptions back a while ago but without the extra storage space it takes so long to get anything done because after every point in a quest you have to go back and craft/sell/upgrade stuff just so you can continue. It tries to force you to pay money to get anything done. Out of all modern MMO's that are popular FFXIV is the most cost friendly from what Ive seen. I just love the lore of ESO and its a beautiful game, just wish they would focus more on cosmetics for cash.
42:05 Trilam: "Uh, do not look upon me stranger."
Mickyd: Aiight bye.
Me:🤣
24:00 That house is actually 2, 3 story homes with a balcony. It has an entire other section of house haha... I also own it
The editing is crazy! I love it so much
I'm saving this bad boy video for when I'm at work. Cheers micky for the long concert bro I really enjoy it.
There's so many free mods for Skyrim that give you vastly more impressive player homes than that.
Honestly the best was the Khajiit Lootboxswindler voice because I think that he spoke Zevran from Dragon Age Origins.
I’ve played every elder scrolls game and tried ESO for a number of hours. Maybe I’m just cynical but I could never shake the feeling that every single aspect of the game was to tease you with enough content to keep you playing for as long as possible and annoy you enough to spend money. I never got that feeling of exploration like the actual games
Can't relate, I found questing in ESO to be more fun than Skyrim or Oblivion. The scenery is unique and the older quests are well written.
For real, it doesn't even feel like elder scrolls, it feels like mobile game levels of shading, lore dumps, mob AI. I have a friend and we used to play the Neverwinter MMO, we played through ESO together for about 2 months and it was just sooo bland, we had more fun on the community made quests in Neverwinter than we did in ESO, didn't have to spend money on Neverwinter to have fun🤷♂️
@@LadyAsteria58 autism speaks
@@LadyAsteria58 agreed I find eso the best elder scrolls game since morrowind. It has the best lore and writing since tes 3. I think people who don’t like aren’t true elder scrolls fans becuase it’s so rich with lore it’s amazing. People act like zos has a gun to their head making them pay for in game items lol it’s all optional you don’t need to buy any of those things its extra
If you don’t want it don’t buy it you can play without it.
@@jigglypuff3311 sounds like you aren’t a real elder scrolls fan if you are upset over “lore dumps”
Considering it had the deepest and richest lore since morrowind. Skyrim was a drip in the bucket compared
To eso in the lore dept.
Nice video and I can tell you've been working on your editing! Thank you for spending your money so we won't have to
I think you can actually place your mounts in your houses, as well as pets, it's in the furnishing menu somewhere. So y'know, that's... something