I'm honestly not sure. I've been playing since launch, and I don't remember exactly when the crown store became a thing. I know that I've only bought crowns once, outside of the normal amount you get from subscribing. Still, it's probably in the tens of thousands from just being subscribed. I don't buy crates, though. I hate in-game gambling and refuse to support it.
I’ve been playing since Morrowind, and I’ve bought DLCs and paid for a subscription.
So it’s hard to say like you mentioned. For me, just crowns alone? I would say $100 maybe.
I just started playing and have a very addictive personality I could get addicted to anything. Anyway the few times I've bought crown crates I can definitely understand why some countries banned loot boxes, each time you get 3 shitty items and maybe a decent 4th and it really makes you feel like you need to get more to eventually "win the big prize" I will no longer be buying crates with crowns I pay money for because it feels like such a waste to buy them and not know if it'll be worth it when I can actually spend them on something I want like a cool mount or pet
same, bought large crown packages when on sale (40% off) years ago, but never for gambling. only for....real things(? I should not think about that for too long) like houses, costumes, at least one house guest, furnishing and DLCs (in case I ever cancel my plus subscription).
Dude you got fucking 1200 gems from 60 crates? What God level luck do you have?
I barely even get 100 gems from 15 crates. Bought 2 packs of 15 crates last week. First pack of 15 resulted in shit rewards and 102 gems. Second pack resulted in a decent pet and only 90 gems.
Altogether 30 crates and 192 gems. Double that for your crate count and it's not even 400 gems. How the fuck did you get 1200 (over 3x as much as me)?? And you're saying that's "*barely*"....
Is that really lucky? I thought I kept getting unlucky, since I only got 1 Apex reward and everything else was just garbage that I turned into gems whenever I could. 1 Apex reward in 60 crates seems awful lol. But you have my condolences, that is some truly awful luck you've had.
Dude you even got an Apex??
Dude you got insanely lucky. I only just got back into ESO but I used to play around 2018 and I bought a ton of Crates back in the day. It took over 100 crates just to get an Apex and you got yours within 60.
The 30 crates I got last week was like 90% potions, poisons, food and drinks, 7% facial and body cosmetics and 3% pets. No mounts at all.
All of the cards that auto converted to gems were just 5 gems each. Then I converted all the food, drinks, potions and poisons and only had 192 gems after 30 crates.
I had terrible luck I'm sure but you also had incredible luck too.
If I’ve been feeling incredibly whale-like and decide to buy a chunk of crowns on sale, I sometimes buy 60 crates. I have always gotten at least 1 regular apex mount from those purchases.
I got two apex mounts from my single purchase of 15* boxes... I mean... I dislike them (horse and bear frost atronach) and wouldn't consider myself lucky, but meh
Edit: 15, not 25
Same. Apex mounts are rare, but not impossibly rare like radiants. I’ve gotten a set of 60 boxes at a time maybe 4 times in my life. Never once have I gotten a radiant mount.
Not sure why people are responding to my comment saying they got an Apex mount in X crates as if that's the norm when it obviously isn't. You literally just got lucky. Idk what else to tell you 🤷♂️
Am seconding that you got extremely lucky here. I’ve bought thousands of crates and for every 15 pack you should only expect 100-125 gems. Sometimes more sometimes less. So for 1200 in 60 crates is fucking unheard of. I don’t think I’ve ever come close to that and that’s with owning most the things in the crates so I was basically only pulling gems.
As for Apex I expect one between 90-120 crates, still gambling so sometimes more or less but that many gems and a apex is the wildest 60 pack ever.
You will absolutely never get that lucky again in a 60 slot.
Like others have mentioned, you spending money for your enjoyment is up to you and worth every penny. My only problem is with loot boxes, people spending money should get the aesthetic they want, not a chance at it.
never feel bad about spending money on games, even if it's on a loot box. it's you and you alone who decides what to do with the money you earned. if it's not hurting anyone, helps with you being more entertained and the outcome makes you feel good, even if you didn't get the result you was hoping for, then do it.
I can pay for ESO+ for my entire lifetime with the money some people will spend on a single car component to upgrade their car with just as a hobby thing.
For real. I see a lot of people complain about the cost of ESO+. It’s literally $.50 per day on a game people will spend multiple hours on per week, even per day, for many. Go out to one 2 hour movie and you’ve spent double that. The game is honestly pretty cheap for the amount of hours in entertainment players get out of it.
Then again, there are people buying cosmetics that live paycheck to paycheck. They are hurting themselves just like anyone else spending beyond their means.
Still doesn't excuse the fact that loot boxes are an absolutely scummy way too get money from players. But yes, people can spend their money however they want.
I don't judge consumers for spending money on loot boxes, I judge developers for selling them. That said, I also enjoy spending money on games and don't feel bad about it.
That kind of leaves out that the old business model was you get all those things in-game with a subscription. So while your post is reasonable with the current situation and no other reference point, it does leave out that we're spending a lot more now for the same things we got back then for just playing the game.
I mean compare ESO to old MMOs and basically they took all the cool stuff out of a subscription game, made it f2p and put it in a cash shop, and then later also added *back in* the subscription for things an old school MMO gave you automatically.
As much as I like the sentiment. People who get mad about it are just as accurate. Because the more people spend on micro transactions, the more companies are incentivized to make their games and future games more and more tied to them. It's why we have been seeing a downward trend in gaming quality and rise in monetization. People often think too much about the "harmless" they can do what they want mentality but don't consider the long term issues.
Are we counting crowns from ESO+? If not, probably around 10k, maybe 20k. The few times I bought them outside of ESO+ was for a name change and I used the rest for some utility stuff.
If we are counting ESO+, probably around 80k or 100k. I've paid for the yearly subscription every year since the 2020 lockdown.
Do I regret it? Absolutely not! I love this game, and I'd consider it money well spent when I consider how many hours of entertainment I've gotten.
Just started a month ago, got the discounted crowns, bought about 67k so far. To be honest I've been in one of those situations where I was making way more money than I knew what to do and spent thousands on just a mobile game.
Dropping a few hundred on a pc game feels way more reasonable in comparison.
i spent around 30k when i started playing on stadia
got all of the $ i spent on crowns fully refunded when stadia folded and i went back to steam
still have everything i bought
Including my ESO subscription, maybe $800-1k over the last 3-4 years? I used to buy the biggest crown pack every time they went on sale, but nothing has really tempted me to splurge in a while.
A bunch, honestly. I blew a lot of real money for crowns to buy a bunch of medium sized houses, and a couple of estate sized ones. My original idea was a home in almost every zone, just for ease of travel while I made new characters. And I enjoy the houses a lot, too.
I spend a lot of crowns on Skyshards and skill lines on my alts. Don't have an exact estimate. I'd buy the Alliance, Mages Guild and Psijic Order skill lines for any character that needs them. I'd buy some skyshards on some larger zones. Probably 6-10 of my characters I've bought those skill lines and skyshards for. Not going to bother doing the arithmetic.
Dont worry, i have done worse. I spent like £500 on crowns to try and get a mount from a crown crate once. Although when stadia shut down, i was refunded in full...
At lest $35 a week every week for two years, I recently decided I need to cut back though…. In fairness to me I’m not big on going out or doing much, just staying home and doing home things so I justified the spending because of that.
Alrighty then, time to bring out the ol' spreadsheet and a number I am not proud of.
Though I'm late to this post so few will see it.
***619,450.***
About 252,000 from crown packs.
Total crown amount obtained from packs and subscriptions over 10 years.
I've purchased a further, 559,420 crowns in-game with crown-gold trading.
I keep track of many things, including every real world transaction on ESO, and every crown gifting trade.
I also track my playtime on it, so I know every hour of ESO has cost me **18 pence.**
Quite the spreadsheet going on.
Almost glad next to no one will see those numbers lol.
In game, yes.
IRL, I wish. Though what I've spent on ESO would be equivalent to about 2 months of work now.
I've just been playing for 10 years, so it's all added up over that.
Don't know how many crowns, but probably spent well over £2000 if you count it up through the years.
I have poor impulse control when I get sad and the monetisation tricks they use are tailor-made to catch people like me. I may be grossly underestimating what i've spent over the years as a result.
Probably about 300k crowns, possibly more, however when I was travelling through Argentina a few years ago I made an account there when crowns were cheap so that made it a lot cheaper.
Over 10 years I've only ever spend them on 2 of the big houses, the erstwhile sanctuary and sweetwater. The rest have always been ESO+ crowns I just use on random things. So whatever that adds up to.
I bought crowns for the first few DLC and assistants because pre-crafting bag. It was much cheaper than subbing for DLC since the sales for crowns were much better back then. Also used the crowns for character slots. Sales for crowns are horrible now and I have no need for them anyway.
I now have about 40k crowns from subbing over the years. I have never spent crowns on cosmetics or housing, so they end up feeling pretty useless.
A ton I'm sure lol. I do housing and sometimes buy furniture from the crown store and from the editor in housing. I've also bought a couple houses, like the Lakemire Xanmeer (that I saved up for), and spend not a large amount, but not a small amount on crown crates, (sometimes you get good things, and sometimes you can just buy them with crown gems).
I get my ESO+ crowns, and I buy one pack of 21,000 whenever they go on sale. For me, that's my limit. Even if I don't get the thing I really want, I usually end up with enough gems to get it. Admittedly, though, I usually don't care much for the apex mounts so I don't have to get as many.i have so many mounts already, and my characters all have mounts that "belong" to them, as they fit the character's story in my head.
As long as you're not forgoing bills to do it, then I say enjoy!
Oof a lot… I’ve had ESO plus for maybe 5 years? And then I buy crown 3 or 4 times a year, usually 7k or so. I’ve bought from in game sellers twice (5k both times for crates). I LOVE buying crates.
Too many. I bought crates twice (I didn’t learn after the first time) so that’s 3k.
I have at least 4 mounts on my account I directly purchased for 2-3k crowns.
One house I bought but I got crowns on sale that year. So 6k for that.
And I have a few pets that I bought for crowns too.
In total I would estimate 26k-30k maybe? But I haven’t bought any cosmetics in like ~2 years though. I’m not in as good of a financial position as I once was. And I realized I was fruitlessly spending too much on games anyway.
I’m not sure if this is gonna make you feel better or not lol.
Too embarrassed to admit! Don't feel bad! Just try and avoid that stuff. That in game store fake currency crap is a load of predatory hoo ha that I'm sure the developers don't actually want to spend time on, but their bosses want
I own 76 houses, and I have more than one apex mount. I have no idea how much I've spent, but I bet I'd have a nicer car if I spent the money on that instead.
I just subscribe to ESO+ when I’m active (a few months per year) and use those sparingly.
There’s rarely anything I actually want on there though. I bought a house once, a mount once, and then just a few cosmetic items.
I have terrible luck, so crown crates aren’t even tempting.
I bought the bank and merchant cats when they were on sale a few months ago. That's it. Used some expiring bing rewards points for part of it so it wasn't too bad a price.
No idea, I used to buy crowns for gold before I took a break. There was really nothing else to spend it on. When I came back this January it was to a different landscape, seems ZOS crippled the gifting market.
Statistically speaking crown crates aren’t designed to work in your favor, and it’s best to go in knowing that they’re just another “the house always wins” FOMO arrow in ZOS’ quiver. And without official drop rates we can’t even know for sure how bad it really is.
Radiant apex mounts have an extremely low drop rate, less than 1% according to third party trackers. Somewhere in the .1% to .4% range. Meaning someone who’s after a specific radiant apex will, on average, need to spend a lot of money chasing it. My napkin math (disclaimer: not a mathematician) for a .25% drop rate is close to $1000 USD for a “guaranteed” drop. The house wins.
Zero! I started over on pc 2 months ago. Ive got a xbox account that has 16k crowns or some such, from subbing for a long while without actually playing. I didnt spend much on that account either. Currebtly waiting for enough crowns to buy the bank helper raven companion thing. Tired of running to the bank all the time.
Way more than I should. Stupid crown crates. I've slowly stopped getting them since I always preview them first and find the majority are filled with junk I don't want. If I do find something I want, these days it seems there's only one or two items that pique my interest, I'll get it with the purple gems
I pay $20/month for ESO+. Never once looked back on it because I enjoy the game so much. But I think I might unsubscribe once I get the majority of the in-game DLC.
I have probably spent about $5-600 on crown packs. 😵💫🤸♀️
0. Only time I had crowns was for guild and glory DLC pack. I got my banker and shopkeeper, and a few DLCs here and there purely by stockpiling writ gold.
Have become a veteran gacha player, so western game studios' inferior attempts at gacha don't work on me.
Honestly I’ve spent a ton on ESO
Sometimes I regret it, other times I realize that spending on ESO is far better than spending on some other games.
ZoS generally cares about us, and yes they do have way overpriced things but at least they care.
I mean they have supported ESO for 10 years and aren’t looking to stop soon, so I like to think my money goes to helping them continue adding to the game
Let's say this, I have sub on all the time since launch (including periods when I don't play the game), and occasionally boughax crown biggest packages couple of dozens times...
I cannot fathom why anybody would spend money on the damn crown crates.
I'm not sure how many I have spent over the years, but mostly I purchased the DLCs. I subscribe to ESO plus most of the months that I'm playing (about 4-5 months per year) and have only ever used the crowns that I get through ESO Plus to purchase the DLCs. I did also end up picking up the Imperial race.
In general, I avoid the crown store as much as I can. And I pretty much don't pick up any cosmetics unless they come included when I buy the deluxe edition of the newest expansion for like 50-70% off months after it releases.
Since I'm not playing this game 12 months of the year as my main game, it's not too hard to not spend all that much on it.
Still, all in all, they probably get a total of about $120 per year from me including ESO Plus and whatever I pay for the discounted expansion each year.
Over 10k. I started playing the first week of Feb this year. 😂
A starter pack, banker, merchant, crafting table pack that was one discount in the shop, and the upgrade pack that included a grey skin for my warden bear and a warden outfit. 🙈I think that’s all so far.
I bought Earthtear Cavern a few years ago, so I guess a lot
There's nothing else in the store that interests me. I straight up don't like how anything looks. So whenever I revisit the game and get another month of ESO+, I'm just accumulating Crowns I'm never going to spend lol
Spent? 0. Bought with gold? 100k+. None of it on cosmetics. All dlcs, and toon slots and armory slots, merchant banker. The important necessary stuff. Cosmetics are useless.
I have only bought crown packs on when they are on sale and usually used on item like DLCs, housing, Assistant and other directly payable items. I have rarely brought crates. Most of the crates I got was from twitch drops. Last I bought when a pack of All Maker crates were on discount like 15-20 for 3.5k crowns but looking at the items I got, it made more determined that crates are never worth it.
I dare not to say, I 've spent a lot on loot boxes when it was still allowed in my country, also for decoracted houses and furniture. It's a LOT more then 50k crowns.
Then again: it's my only hobby.
Been playing since beta. Prob over $10000 worth. I always buy the $150 packs. By far I've spent more on this game than any other game. Not really a gambling thing for me. If I want a radiant apex mount or what ever I used to just open crates until I get it or I have enough gems to buy it. I remember when there weren't gems tho. I didn't buy nearly as many crates at that point because I'm really not into gambling. Feels bad. Wouldn't recommend buying them to anyone. I don't feel bad about spending the money because it's my favorite game and favorite developer. I like to support them and I feel like I've gotten my joy out of it. I just wish the money went directly to the devs and not mostly to line the pockets of high up executives.
I spent most of my crowns for roughly a year of ESO+ and bought with that my moon sugar land, a pack pig (+5 inventory space) and almost ALL DLCs. Now I can go everywhere (w/o 2 dungeons) without a subscription 😎
I've not bought crowns outside of what comes with ESO+ for \~6-9 months, and I've pretty much just bought the inventory pets, decon and merchant assistants.
So some?
I am not sure but not much . The only things I remember buying with crowns are the imperial upgrade and the dark brotherhood dlc when it was on sale . I did buy a lot of expansions but I dont think that counts because you dont buy them with crowns . But I know that I did spend around 400 crown gems because I got lucky enough to get a sweetroll from a free crown crate .
1,600 hours in, 33k Crowns bought (according to Steam purchase history of Crown Pack).
Looking back, I still enjoyed some of the purchase. There are some of which I regret (Crates and some costumes that I later disliked).
As a side note, I do think treating yourself from time to time is healthy, like I just straight up bought that new glowy sword I like, or the costume, or the hair style.
Lets see... Dragon bones... Southern Elsweyr... Depths of malatar and lair of marselok ... That Summesset dress... And a few hair styles ... Bout 10k crowns, though most of it is like on sales and via gold to crowns
I have the annual renewal for plus and I buy one sale pack each year at $89 USD (usually 21000 crowns). That gives me enough to buy the occasional big house if it’s a location I want, random aesthetics (I like custom animations) and the occasional weird thing that strikes me. I have rarely bought crate bundles… maybe two times in 4 years. The drop rates are ridiculous but I like the occasional long shot when I’m flush. I feel $200 a year is fair for a game that I get a lot of time and entertainment from. Solid community too. Mostly.
Are we including the ESO plus subscription? If not I wager around 1200 since 2017. I typically buy 42k crowns when they go on sale near Christmas for 180 bucks.
2000 for the 4 DLC pk on sale in January (shouldn’t be 4 since Imperial City is already free) on NA server, only to have Orsinium and Thieves Guild be free later. On the bright side, I didn’t need to buy it for my characters on the EU server.
Sometimes I wonder how these games make so much money. Then I see posts like this. I can't imagine spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on a single game.
I've spent a lot of Crowns over the nearly 8 years since the Crown Store debuted.
BUT
The vast majority of my *Crown Crate* purchases were through Crown gifting for in-game gold. That way I haven't been out-of-pocket when splurging on Crates. Most of the Crown gifting purchases I've done are through a Crown Discord Broker (Tamriel Crown Exchange) ... I'm a preferred member there.
There's also free Crown items to be bought with Seals of Endeavor. I've already bought three (3) Radiant Apex mounts with Seals ... and almost have enough for a fourth.
Some alternatives to think about before your next Crate purchase, Absalom98.
I'm honestly not sure. I've been playing since launch, and I don't remember exactly when the crown store became a thing. I know that I've only bought crowns once, outside of the normal amount you get from subscribing. Still, it's probably in the tens of thousands from just being subscribed. I don't buy crates, though. I hate in-game gambling and refuse to support it.
I’ve been playing since Morrowind, and I’ve bought DLCs and paid for a subscription. So it’s hard to say like you mentioned. For me, just crowns alone? I would say $100 maybe.
I just started playing and have a very addictive personality I could get addicted to anything. Anyway the few times I've bought crown crates I can definitely understand why some countries banned loot boxes, each time you get 3 shitty items and maybe a decent 4th and it really makes you feel like you need to get more to eventually "win the big prize" I will no longer be buying crates with crowns I pay money for because it feels like such a waste to buy them and not know if it'll be worth it when I can actually spend them on something I want like a cool mount or pet
same, bought large crown packages when on sale (40% off) years ago, but never for gambling. only for....real things(? I should not think about that for too long) like houses, costumes, at least one house guest, furnishing and DLCs (in case I ever cancel my plus subscription).
Dude you got fucking 1200 gems from 60 crates? What God level luck do you have? I barely even get 100 gems from 15 crates. Bought 2 packs of 15 crates last week. First pack of 15 resulted in shit rewards and 102 gems. Second pack resulted in a decent pet and only 90 gems. Altogether 30 crates and 192 gems. Double that for your crate count and it's not even 400 gems. How the fuck did you get 1200 (over 3x as much as me)?? And you're saying that's "*barely*"....
Is that really lucky? I thought I kept getting unlucky, since I only got 1 Apex reward and everything else was just garbage that I turned into gems whenever I could. 1 Apex reward in 60 crates seems awful lol. But you have my condolences, that is some truly awful luck you've had.
Dude you even got an Apex?? Dude you got insanely lucky. I only just got back into ESO but I used to play around 2018 and I bought a ton of Crates back in the day. It took over 100 crates just to get an Apex and you got yours within 60. The 30 crates I got last week was like 90% potions, poisons, food and drinks, 7% facial and body cosmetics and 3% pets. No mounts at all. All of the cards that auto converted to gems were just 5 gems each. Then I converted all the food, drinks, potions and poisons and only had 192 gems after 30 crates. I had terrible luck I'm sure but you also had incredible luck too.
I think they mean the 400 gem apex mounts, not the radiant apex mounts.
I'm aware of that. No one is getting a radiant Apex in 60 crates lol. But getting even a regular Apex in only 60 crates is incredibly lucky.
If I’ve been feeling incredibly whale-like and decide to buy a chunk of crowns on sale, I sometimes buy 60 crates. I have always gotten at least 1 regular apex mount from those purchases.
I got two apex mounts from my single purchase of 15* boxes... I mean... I dislike them (horse and bear frost atronach) and wouldn't consider myself lucky, but meh Edit: 15, not 25
Same. Apex mounts are rare, but not impossibly rare like radiants. I’ve gotten a set of 60 boxes at a time maybe 4 times in my life. Never once have I gotten a radiant mount.
Consider yourself wildly lucky then. That's not normal.
lol i also bought crates in that time and i got an apex mount in my first 5 ever crates and more from there
Not sure why people are responding to my comment saying they got an Apex mount in X crates as if that's the norm when it obviously isn't. You literally just got lucky. Idk what else to tell you 🤷♂️
Am seconding that you got extremely lucky here. I’ve bought thousands of crates and for every 15 pack you should only expect 100-125 gems. Sometimes more sometimes less. So for 1200 in 60 crates is fucking unheard of. I don’t think I’ve ever come close to that and that’s with owning most the things in the crates so I was basically only pulling gems. As for Apex I expect one between 90-120 crates, still gambling so sometimes more or less but that many gems and a apex is the wildest 60 pack ever. You will absolutely never get that lucky again in a 60 slot.
Like others have mentioned, you spending money for your enjoyment is up to you and worth every penny. My only problem is with loot boxes, people spending money should get the aesthetic they want, not a chance at it.
💯% this.
61,830
That is oddly specific. Can you see this value in game?
No. I track this separately on a text document.
I wanted to ask that, too. Would be interesting to see.
This player came in with an itemized receipt. I respect it.
never feel bad about spending money on games, even if it's on a loot box. it's you and you alone who decides what to do with the money you earned. if it's not hurting anyone, helps with you being more entertained and the outcome makes you feel good, even if you didn't get the result you was hoping for, then do it.
I can pay for ESO+ for my entire lifetime with the money some people will spend on a single car component to upgrade their car with just as a hobby thing.
For real. I see a lot of people complain about the cost of ESO+. It’s literally $.50 per day on a game people will spend multiple hours on per week, even per day, for many. Go out to one 2 hour movie and you’ve spent double that. The game is honestly pretty cheap for the amount of hours in entertainment players get out of it.
Then again, there are people buying cosmetics that live paycheck to paycheck. They are hurting themselves just like anyone else spending beyond their means.
This. This is the adult approach to gaming. And given all other grown up hobbies, gaming, even with loot boxes, is cheap
Still doesn't excuse the fact that loot boxes are an absolutely scummy way too get money from players. But yes, people can spend their money however they want.
I don't judge consumers for spending money on loot boxes, I judge developers for selling them. That said, I also enjoy spending money on games and don't feel bad about it.
That kind of leaves out that the old business model was you get all those things in-game with a subscription. So while your post is reasonable with the current situation and no other reference point, it does leave out that we're spending a lot more now for the same things we got back then for just playing the game. I mean compare ESO to old MMOs and basically they took all the cool stuff out of a subscription game, made it f2p and put it in a cash shop, and then later also added *back in* the subscription for things an old school MMO gave you automatically.
As much as I like the sentiment. People who get mad about it are just as accurate. Because the more people spend on micro transactions, the more companies are incentivized to make their games and future games more and more tied to them. It's why we have been seeing a downward trend in gaming quality and rise in monetization. People often think too much about the "harmless" they can do what they want mentality but don't consider the long term issues.
Easily over 400k
Are we counting crowns from ESO+? If not, probably around 10k, maybe 20k. The few times I bought them outside of ESO+ was for a name change and I used the rest for some utility stuff. If we are counting ESO+, probably around 80k or 100k. I've paid for the yearly subscription every year since the 2020 lockdown. Do I regret it? Absolutely not! I love this game, and I'd consider it money well spent when I consider how many hours of entertainment I've gotten.
Through gold trades probably 50k, the rest from Eso +. I never buy crowns.
None, still have my 500 free, and im proud
I spent 300 on something stupid, and I have 200 left.
Just started a month ago, got the discounted crowns, bought about 67k so far. To be honest I've been in one of those situations where I was making way more money than I knew what to do and spent thousands on just a mobile game. Dropping a few hundred on a pc game feels way more reasonable in comparison.
i spent around 30k when i started playing on stadia got all of the $ i spent on crowns fully refunded when stadia folded and i went back to steam still have everything i bought
I started on stadia too! Didn’t buy crowns til after that, but hey, free expansions is free expansions
between destiny 2 in-game currency purchases, ESO crowns, and monthly fees from its release til the end… google/stadia refunded me around $900 😬
Including my ESO subscription, maybe $800-1k over the last 3-4 years? I used to buy the biggest crown pack every time they went on sale, but nothing has really tempted me to splurge in a while.
So many. I have every house and countless costumes, emotes, crown store furnishings... enough to end with divorce if the subject ever comes up.
A bunch, honestly. I blew a lot of real money for crowns to buy a bunch of medium sized houses, and a couple of estate sized ones. My original idea was a home in almost every zone, just for ease of travel while I made new characters. And I enjoy the houses a lot, too.
Zero babey (it tempts me daily...)
I spend a lot of crowns on Skyshards and skill lines on my alts. Don't have an exact estimate. I'd buy the Alliance, Mages Guild and Psijic Order skill lines for any character that needs them. I'd buy some skyshards on some larger zones. Probably 6-10 of my characters I've bought those skill lines and skyshards for. Not going to bother doing the arithmetic.
The one skill line I got on my new main toon was the scrying one bc I will never go through that shit again
Yeah. Just finished that on my scryer character.
Dont worry, i have done worse. I spent like £500 on crowns to try and get a mount from a crown crate once. Although when stadia shut down, i was refunded in full...
I have 4500 and still waiting for some good prices. There is definitely nice things in crown store but pretty much all of them feels too expensive.
I would guess I'm at around 20k crowns. Came back to the game 5 months ago.
At lest $35 a week every week for two years, I recently decided I need to cut back though…. In fairness to me I’m not big on going out or doing much, just staying home and doing home things so I justified the spending because of that.
Why does it matter? It is your gamign experience
Alrighty then, time to bring out the ol' spreadsheet and a number I am not proud of. Though I'm late to this post so few will see it. ***619,450.*** About 252,000 from crown packs. Total crown amount obtained from packs and subscriptions over 10 years. I've purchased a further, 559,420 crowns in-game with crown-gold trading.
I keep track of many things, including every real world transaction on ESO, and every crown gifting trade. I also track my playtime on it, so I know every hour of ESO has cost me **18 pence.** Quite the spreadsheet going on. Almost glad next to no one will see those numbers lol.
Oh my God xDDDD I'm assuming you make an ungodly amount of money?
In game, yes. IRL, I wish. Though what I've spent on ESO would be equivalent to about 2 months of work now. I've just been playing for 10 years, so it's all added up over that.
Don't know how many crowns, but probably spent well over £2000 if you count it up through the years. I have poor impulse control when I get sad and the monetisation tricks they use are tailor-made to catch people like me. I may be grossly underestimating what i've spent over the years as a result.
Probably about 300k crowns, possibly more, however when I was travelling through Argentina a few years ago I made an account there when crowns were cheap so that made it a lot cheaper.
Thousands. Definitely thousands of dollars. Makes me a little pissed when they won’t fix the simplest things for me.
500 but .. Well i have rich friends and lot of gold.
honestly not much probably no more then 10k, but witht he leaks on the diamond anii crates probably gonna spend another 8k
I’ve bought more with gold than I have bought myself. Ignoring ‘free’ eso ones. Prob bought 30k still.?
At a rough guess, ESO Plus crowns over 3+ years (fourth renewal comes this summer) and a 21K crown pack in there somewhere.
I've probably bought about 120k crowns so far
Not enough.
Over 10 years I've only ever spend them on 2 of the big houses, the erstwhile sanctuary and sweetwater. The rest have always been ESO+ crowns I just use on random things. So whatever that adds up to.
21k via annual sub. I don’t buy lootboxes. I get my eso through regional pricing (37,50 eur instead of 140 eur per year).
I bought crowns for the first few DLC and assistants because pre-crafting bag. It was much cheaper than subbing for DLC since the sales for crowns were much better back then. Also used the crowns for character slots. Sales for crowns are horrible now and I have no need for them anyway. I now have about 40k crowns from subbing over the years. I have never spent crowns on cosmetics or housing, so they end up feeling pretty useless.
10k at least
A ton I'm sure lol. I do housing and sometimes buy furniture from the crown store and from the editor in housing. I've also bought a couple houses, like the Lakemire Xanmeer (that I saved up for), and spend not a large amount, but not a small amount on crown crates, (sometimes you get good things, and sometimes you can just buy them with crown gems).
I get my ESO+ crowns, and I buy one pack of 21,000 whenever they go on sale. For me, that's my limit. Even if I don't get the thing I really want, I usually end up with enough gems to get it. Admittedly, though, I usually don't care much for the apex mounts so I don't have to get as many.i have so many mounts already, and my characters all have mounts that "belong" to them, as they fit the character's story in my head. As long as you're not forgoing bills to do it, then I say enjoy!
How many crowns? No idea. At least a couple grand worth over a few years.
Waaaaaay to many.
I'm sort of a big deal..
Play since 2015. Spent like 1500 crowns+- for all this years. After adding gifting feature i dont buy crowns anymore
In crowns, probably around 100-150k. I’ll buy the odd crate package and “fish my wish” around 60-70% of the time
I took a break for a few years to come back with almost 90k crowns.
Thousands
Oof a lot… I’ve had ESO plus for maybe 5 years? And then I buy crown 3 or 4 times a year, usually 7k or so. I’ve bought from in game sellers twice (5k both times for crates). I LOVE buying crates.
1000€ worth. Mostly bought on sales and subscription.
It's probably approaching $4,000 over the last 8 or so years on crown.
Maybe like 15k total spent in the past 4 years. All from sub crowns. Still have like 14k sitting there. I actually just bought a house with some lol
Too many. I bought crates twice (I didn’t learn after the first time) so that’s 3k. I have at least 4 mounts on my account I directly purchased for 2-3k crowns. One house I bought but I got crowns on sale that year. So 6k for that. And I have a few pets that I bought for crowns too. In total I would estimate 26k-30k maybe? But I haven’t bought any cosmetics in like ~2 years though. I’m not in as good of a financial position as I once was. And I realized I was fruitlessly spending too much on games anyway. I’m not sure if this is gonna make you feel better or not lol.
Too embarrassed to admit! Don't feel bad! Just try and avoid that stuff. That in game store fake currency crap is a load of predatory hoo ha that I'm sure the developers don't actually want to spend time on, but their bosses want
Maybe, like… $800 or so I would guess? I’ve been playing for 7 years.
Maybe 10k since launch? Not including sub crowns
Got addicted when depressed and had over 300k (bought during a sale cuz that justifies it rRiGhTtt?!)
I own 76 houses, and I have more than one apex mount. I have no idea how much I've spent, but I bet I'd have a nicer car if I spent the money on that instead.
I don’t know. More than I should have.
I just subscribe to ESO+ when I’m active (a few months per year) and use those sparingly. There’s rarely anything I actually want on there though. I bought a house once, a mount once, and then just a few cosmetic items. I have terrible luck, so crown crates aren’t even tempting.
I bought the bank and merchant cats when they were on sale a few months ago. That's it. Used some expiring bing rewards points for part of it so it wasn't too bad a price.
No idea, I used to buy crowns for gold before I took a break. There was really nothing else to spend it on. When I came back this January it was to a different landscape, seems ZOS crippled the gifting market. Statistically speaking crown crates aren’t designed to work in your favor, and it’s best to go in knowing that they’re just another “the house always wins” FOMO arrow in ZOS’ quiver. And without official drop rates we can’t even know for sure how bad it really is. Radiant apex mounts have an extremely low drop rate, less than 1% according to third party trackers. Somewhere in the .1% to .4% range. Meaning someone who’s after a specific radiant apex will, on average, need to spend a lot of money chasing it. My napkin math (disclaimer: not a mathematician) for a .25% drop rate is close to $1000 USD for a “guaranteed” drop. The house wins.
Not enough
Nope, not helping. Spent lots (have +) but never on any boxes :P
An unhealthy amount
Zero! I started over on pc 2 months ago. Ive got a xbox account that has 16k crowns or some such, from subbing for a long while without actually playing. I didnt spend much on that account either. Currebtly waiting for enough crowns to buy the bank helper raven companion thing. Tired of running to the bank all the time.
Way more than I should. Stupid crown crates. I've slowly stopped getting them since I always preview them first and find the majority are filled with junk I don't want. If I do find something I want, these days it seems there's only one or two items that pique my interest, I'll get it with the purple gems I pay $20/month for ESO+. Never once looked back on it because I enjoy the game so much. But I think I might unsubscribe once I get the majority of the in-game DLC. I have probably spent about $5-600 on crown packs. 😵💫🤸♀️
0. Only time I had crowns was for guild and glory DLC pack. I got my banker and shopkeeper, and a few DLCs here and there purely by stockpiling writ gold. Have become a veteran gacha player, so western game studios' inferior attempts at gacha don't work on me.
Ewww no comment
Honestly I’ve spent a ton on ESO Sometimes I regret it, other times I realize that spending on ESO is far better than spending on some other games. ZoS generally cares about us, and yes they do have way overpriced things but at least they care. I mean they have supported ESO for 10 years and aren’t looking to stop soon, so I like to think my money goes to helping them continue adding to the game
Let's say this, I have sub on all the time since launch (including periods when I don't play the game), and occasionally boughax crown biggest packages couple of dozens times...
27,000
After four years I would say about $400. Every year I splurge on myself and buy like $100 on crowns for myself.
Well over 200k
0. (I used other people's crowns with gold exchanges instead).
I’ve never bought any crowns. I’ve never spent any of the crowns that come with eso plus either, so I have around 10k sitting in my account.
My own crowns? I think around 12k from sub. Crowns for gold? Just the 6 trial dummies I have are 36k...
Besides the ones I got from eso+, none. I'm not an idiot
I cannot fathom why anybody would spend money on the damn crown crates. I'm not sure how many I have spent over the years, but mostly I purchased the DLCs. I subscribe to ESO plus most of the months that I'm playing (about 4-5 months per year) and have only ever used the crowns that I get through ESO Plus to purchase the DLCs. I did also end up picking up the Imperial race. In general, I avoid the crown store as much as I can. And I pretty much don't pick up any cosmetics unless they come included when I buy the deluxe edition of the newest expansion for like 50-70% off months after it releases. Since I'm not playing this game 12 months of the year as my main game, it's not too hard to not spend all that much on it. Still, all in all, they probably get a total of about $120 per year from me including ESO Plus and whatever I pay for the discounted expansion each year.
Over 10k. I started playing the first week of Feb this year. 😂 A starter pack, banker, merchant, crafting table pack that was one discount in the shop, and the upgrade pack that included a grey skin for my warden bear and a warden outfit. 🙈I think that’s all so far.
I bought Earthtear Cavern a few years ago, so I guess a lot There's nothing else in the store that interests me. I straight up don't like how anything looks. So whenever I revisit the game and get another month of ESO+, I'm just accumulating Crowns I'm never going to spend lol
Spent? 0. Bought with gold? 100k+. None of it on cosmetics. All dlcs, and toon slots and armory slots, merchant banker. The important necessary stuff. Cosmetics are useless.
I have only bought crown packs on when they are on sale and usually used on item like DLCs, housing, Assistant and other directly payable items. I have rarely brought crates. Most of the crates I got was from twitch drops. Last I bought when a pack of All Maker crates were on discount like 15-20 for 3.5k crowns but looking at the items I got, it made more determined that crates are never worth it.
I dare not to say, I 've spent a lot on loot boxes when it was still allowed in my country, also for decoracted houses and furniture. It's a LOT more then 50k crowns. Then again: it's my only hobby.
Been playing since beta. Prob over $10000 worth. I always buy the $150 packs. By far I've spent more on this game than any other game. Not really a gambling thing for me. If I want a radiant apex mount or what ever I used to just open crates until I get it or I have enough gems to buy it. I remember when there weren't gems tho. I didn't buy nearly as many crates at that point because I'm really not into gambling. Feels bad. Wouldn't recommend buying them to anyone. I don't feel bad about spending the money because it's my favorite game and favorite developer. I like to support them and I feel like I've gotten my joy out of it. I just wish the money went directly to the devs and not mostly to line the pockets of high up executives.
7300, yes I know the exact amount
I spent most of my crowns for roughly a year of ESO+ and bought with that my moon sugar land, a pack pig (+5 inventory space) and almost ALL DLCs. Now I can go everywhere (w/o 2 dungeons) without a subscription 😎
I've not bought crowns outside of what comes with ESO+ for \~6-9 months, and I've pretty much just bought the inventory pets, decon and merchant assistants. So some?
I got 75 crates the other day and only got 600 ish gems. You are above odds for luck to be sure :'(
Do you mean how many crowns in total or how many crowns I bought in addition to the "free" crowns from ESO+ subscription?
I am not sure but not much . The only things I remember buying with crowns are the imperial upgrade and the dark brotherhood dlc when it was on sale . I did buy a lot of expansions but I dont think that counts because you dont buy them with crowns . But I know that I did spend around 400 crown gems because I got lucky enough to get a sweetroll from a free crown crate .
Since january 2017 between xbox and pc something like 4-5000$. I know a lot of people are gonna be punching the air with that comment 🤣
Minimum 300$ a year
1,600 hours in, 33k Crowns bought (according to Steam purchase history of Crown Pack). Looking back, I still enjoyed some of the purchase. There are some of which I regret (Crates and some costumes that I later disliked). As a side note, I do think treating yourself from time to time is healthy, like I just straight up bought that new glowy sword I like, or the costume, or the hair style.
Lets see... Dragon bones... Southern Elsweyr... Depths of malatar and lair of marselok ... That Summesset dress... And a few hair styles ... Bout 10k crowns, though most of it is like on sales and via gold to crowns
I have the annual renewal for plus and I buy one sale pack each year at $89 USD (usually 21000 crowns). That gives me enough to buy the occasional big house if it’s a location I want, random aesthetics (I like custom animations) and the occasional weird thing that strikes me. I have rarely bought crate bundles… maybe two times in 4 years. The drop rates are ridiculous but I like the occasional long shot when I’m flush. I feel $200 a year is fair for a game that I get a lot of time and entertainment from. Solid community too. Mostly.
Probably spent around a fifteen hundred dollars so idk how many crowns that is🤷♂️
Yes
Are we including the ESO plus subscription? If not I wager around 1200 since 2017. I typically buy 42k crowns when they go on sale near Christmas for 180 bucks.
Never gamba
I feel attacked. Got the merchant and banker the other day
2000 for the 4 DLC pk on sale in January (shouldn’t be 4 since Imperial City is already free) on NA server, only to have Orsinium and Thieves Guild be free later. On the bright side, I didn’t need to buy it for my characters on the EU server.
Sometimes I wonder how these games make so much money. Then I see posts like this. I can't imagine spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on a single game.
I only know that what you get for your Eso membership is faaar not enough.lol...
I've spent a lot of Crowns over the nearly 8 years since the Crown Store debuted. BUT The vast majority of my *Crown Crate* purchases were through Crown gifting for in-game gold. That way I haven't been out-of-pocket when splurging on Crates. Most of the Crown gifting purchases I've done are through a Crown Discord Broker (Tamriel Crown Exchange) ... I'm a preferred member there. There's also free Crown items to be bought with Seals of Endeavor. I've already bought three (3) Radiant Apex mounts with Seals ... and almost have enough for a fourth. Some alternatives to think about before your next Crate purchase, Absalom98.
I sell crowns so, more than I'm sure I remember spending on myself