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Elder Scrolls Online FREE Weekend for Beta Players + 500 Free Crowns (16/4 to 20/4)

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Elder Scrolls Online FREE Weekend for Beta Players + 500 Free Crowns (16/4 to 20/4)
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easternculture on 14/04/2015 - 21:29 elderscrollsonline.com (112 clicks)
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A lot has changed since The Elder Scrolls Online beta, and we want you to discover all the new adventures waiting for you in Tamriel. From Thursday, April 16th at 15:00 BST through Monday, April 20th at 15:00 BST, we're inviting all beta players who never purchased the game to join us for a free weekend! You'll be able to download the game and experience all of our six major game updates, tons of improvements and fixes, and all of Tamriel Unlimited. We hope you'll join us!

If you're a beta player who is planning to participate in the Welcome Back Weekend, please check your email for more information and start downloading or updating your ESO client today!

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  • DrStinge on 14/04/2015 - 21:43
    +2

    I wouldn't call this much of a deal - restricted to a very select group and only 4 days of play - I feel like they should be doing a free to all weekend by now.

    FYI the client is 30gb - I've currently been getting download speeds of around 1MB/s (quite slow).

    • perkinma on 14/04/2015 - 22:01
      +4

      30gb? This is what was in my email:

      The client is approximately 80GB, so please begin your download as early as possible. You will need to download the entire game before attempting to play.

      I didn't even bother trying to download it. Wasn't impressed with the beta.

      • DrStinge on 14/04/2015 - 22:08

        I think it's 80gb unpacked - at 1% I still have 30169MB to go.

        • Vlaka on 14/04/2015 - 22:44

          DrStinge i'd honestly save your download and HDD space and look to something else. You'll stil have to buy it and 4 days ishardly enough time to work out what's what and get into things.
          Go watch reviews from last years launch if you don't know what ESO is all about. Angry Joe's is pretty spot on.

        • Ebany on 15/04/2015 - 03:29

          @Vlaka:
          AngryJoe did get that review pretty accurate.

  • onggie on 14/04/2015 - 21:53

    Free weekend? I thought this went F2P?

    • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:07

      Once you pay a huge sum of $$ for the game.

      • DrStinge on 14/04/2015 - 22:12
        +1

        I wouldn't say "huge" it's the standard RRP of any game.

        • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:32

          It's an opinion thing.

          Take Civ: Beyond Earth as an example. I consider US$80 or US$90 a "huge" sum for that game but many people still purchased it and would disagree with me.

          Considering what ESO offered for the price tag, it was a huge sum to pay in my eyes.

    • easternculture on 14/04/2015 - 22:09
      +1

      you have to buy it first.

      A free weekend gives a chance for gamer to "play before you buy" period

      • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:21
        +2

        Except us Beta players have been in the game already and didn't purchase it for a reason :)

        • easternculture on 14/04/2015 - 22:24

          and didn't purchase it for a reason :)

          And others did , so don't assume nobody bought it because you didn't.

        • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:37

          @easternculture:
          Are you actually aware that this "Welcome Back" offer ONLY applies to those Beta players who DIDN'T buy the game?

          No-one else except those old Beta players will get the serial to activate the game.

    • baker bob on 14/04/2015 - 22:20

      we're inviting all beta players WHO NEVER PURCHASED THE GAME

  • perkinma on 14/04/2015 - 22:16

    This just came in email - also get 500 free crowns:

    Don’t forget, this weekend in The Elder Scrolls® Online: Tamriel Unlimited™, we are hosting our Welcome Back Weekend from April 16th until April, 20th, and you’re invited to take part! For more information, check out our blog post and your email for instructions on how to download the game and log on.

    To help your adventures, we wanted to give you a little something extra.

    Upon logging in, you’ll find 500 crowns on your account which allow you to purchase cosmetic and convenience items, vanity pets and more.

    Here is a quick list of some limited time items we’ll be offering this weekend.

    A Senche - Leopard mount to ride around in style

    Pledge of Mara to seal your eternal bond and give you a nice experience boost when questing together

    Crafting motifs to help you find the perfect style for your crafted gear

    Reset your Skill and Attribute points so you can easily build the perfect hero of Tamriel

  • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:18
    +2

    Not attempting to attack you East but this should be in the forums section as it's not a deal, the game isn't even discounted for us people who waste hundreds of hours of our precious time doing bug reports which were never even addressed. Can't even comment on the ESO forums, how sad is that that they block out all but a few.

    They even sent me this as they must have known how many people would be laughing right now:

    **To help your adventures, we wanted to give you a little something extra.

    Upon logging in, you’ll find 500 crowns on your account which allow you to purchase cosmetic and convenience items, vanity pets and more.

    Here is a quick list of some limited time items we’ll be offering this weekend.**

    A Senche - Leopard mount to ride around in style

Pledge of Mara to seal your eternal bond and give you a nice experience boost when questing together

Crafting motifs to help you find the perfect style for your crafted gear

Reset your Skill and Attribute points so you can easily build the perfect hero of Tamriel
    • easternculture on 14/04/2015 - 22:20

      Not attempting to attack you East but this should be in the forums section as it's not a deal

      feel free to report to mods if you feel that way

      • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:25
        +2

        That's not my style, nor would I do it to someone who regularly posts good deals - except this once.

        I'm assuming you play ESO so I'm trying to contain my true feelings about the game ;)

        • easternculture on 14/04/2015 - 22:27

          i dont play games at all. However i did see this online, then searched the deals on ozbargain and found this Deal that was posted last year & reached > 100 votes. And due to the popularity of that deal, i posted this

        • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:52
          +1

          @easternculture:
          K, I understand now.

          That old deal you linked was for the actual Beta, the game hadn't been released at that stage, it was (kind of) available to anyone. I noticed quite a few said it wasn't a deal either

          This current deal is only for those people who played in those beta events (more than a year ago now), we are been offered a free weekend with the option to buy the game (at full price) upon the weekends completion. Because so few people have downloaded the client, and a few even got on ESO twitter page for a good laugh, the company must be trying to entice people by now giving people 500 "crowns" (purchased in-game for real cash, 1 crown = roughly 1 cent).

          The actual game would then cost AU$70 and can ONLY be purchased from ESO, so no cheap CD-Keys.

        • Ebany on 14/04/2015 - 22:54

          @easternculture:
          Addendum

          I should clarify: I understand why you posted this thinking it was a deal but I don't understand why your not a gamer ….. that's crazy talk!

  • baker bob on 14/04/2015 - 22:22

    I really liked this game, as a healer thought the mechanics were brilliant but just nothing to do end game except grind more XP. Maybe things have changed these days.

    • ryang on 14/04/2015 - 22:24

      As opposed to every other MMO where you just grind gear?

      • Vlaka on 14/04/2015 - 22:36

        At least you're progressing towards something. ESO has nothing but xp grinding and all gear can be pretty much crafted which makes it mean even less.
        @robbie: nothing has changed. It's still the same bare bones single player mmo (yes it's not supposed to make sense) with delusions of grandeur.

        • ryang on 15/04/2015 - 14:48

          I managed to score a copy before this "tamriel unlimited" stuff for $20. And I've been playing it for the story…

          So as a single player MMO it's pretty good! lol

      • Ebany on 15/04/2015 - 03:26

        WoW is a grind like nothing else on the planet, and they charge a small fortune for the privilege, yet they still seem to do consistently well (financially). Don't get me wrong, I think it's excessively amusing that people pay a subscription just to waste their real lives farming 1's & 0's, but we can't deny that Blizzard is doing something correctly.

        Then we have a game like ESO ……..

      • baker bob on 15/04/2015 - 14:23

        In other MMO's there is the challenge of raid boss mechanics to defeat and that is the challenge for many including myself. Gear is secondary though obviously needed to be able to attempt more difficult content. The PvP content in other MMOs is also much better.

  • Vlaka on 14/04/2015 - 22:34
    +2

    Trying to lure in such a niche of players who would NEVER return. It's still the same junk as it was a year ago only with more grinding and a lot less to do at max level.

  • Kanasuke on 15/04/2015 - 05:47

    When are they doing free-to-play for all?

    • Ebany on 15/04/2015 - 10:45

      Someone asked that on their Facebook page, they made a response that they were looking into it but wasn't planned as of yet.

      I think the main aim is to get the Beta testers back as the group contained many people who were playing specifically to write a reviews prior to the game going live. If ESO can entice them back then maybe the changes will mean more favourable reviews - just my thoughts though.

      • stevarja on 15/04/2015 - 15:22

        Wait, let me get this straight. There are already free beta testers, and they all gone? And ESO planned to sell this game for money? and somehow they want ppl to go back?

        • ryang on 15/04/2015 - 18:46

          The beta period was free. When it ended, people had to pay plus sub. Now they are offering free entry for the original beta testers for a small period of time.

        • Ebany on 16/04/2015 - 02:03

          We knew that purchasing the game & a monthly subscription would be a requirement once it went live, just very few of us found the game worthy.

  • Kritter2069 on 15/04/2015 - 13:23

    I was a beta player, as was my wife, and neither of us were impressed with the game as a whole based on our wealth of experience with the MMO genre. We'll still be giving this a go though to see what's improved since then.

    • Ebany on 16/04/2015 - 02:04

      Let me know if it's any better. I quit my download after a couple of days :/

    • perkinma on 17/04/2015 - 16:17

      Same as Ebany. I would be keen to hear your thoughts on whether things have genuinely improved or not.

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