Pirate bundle? Where is it, in the Crown Store? I didn't see it yesterday, ?

It wasn't there yesterday. Today is International Talk like a Pirate Day, and it gets a 24 hour special. I need to grab it when I get home tonight. I'm now desperately looking for a Polar Bear event to suggest.

There is one in the northern areas: International Polar Bears Day. I think it is held in February in the colder climates where the water will still be icy cold. I don't know if you have to be a member of the Polar Bears International (club) or if you can become a member just by joining the event. It is quite a big thing on the Northern East Coast; the members and anyone else interested in doing it goes to one of the sites and strips down; jumps into the icy waters. You have to immerse yourself once, but don't have to stay in long. They have been doing it annually as long as I can remember, and probably before then too.

And actually, they already added that into ESO in one of the New Life Festival events = everyone enjoyed getting that achievement, so why not push for it as a solo event with a limited time bear mount?


https://polarbearsinternational.org/get-inv...-polar-bear-day


** EDIT = February 27, 2019 is the next one. Here is the Wiki on it:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Polar_Bear_Day


And here is a good argument to use when you approach them about it:


http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs066/110331...a=1104649923550


Some of the site events:



https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/im...?mod=1533691611



https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q...-TiV6RJW9U5WmcK



https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia...eu_2075399i.jpg



https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/1301...rge-gallery.jpg


The parade to the Plunge Site:


https://katu.com/news/offbeat/photos-2018-c...ear-club-plunge


(so it is not a small annual event at all, and is celebrated globally).

Ah I miss my polar bear mount, stranded back on the Xbox version of the game Hope he's doing ok.

The pirate outfits are great though, I highly recommend them for people who haven't picked them up yet.

When I googled Polar Bear Day, it asked me "Are you sure you don't mean Polar Beer Day?"

I got the pirate bundle, so now Cat Man Dhou looks like a Cat, not a Can.

Nice! He and Feng could be bros, bro.

I hope everyone is getting their Summerset Pathfinder Achievement before the time runs out! We have already qualified for the Psijic pony pet; the Psijic horse is next = but I am hoping we get that Psijic mansion!!!

I've already got the Achievement on at least one character on both my account and my son's, but have been bringing my younger characters there to get it on them also (even though it is only required on one character) = just so anyone in any of my guilds that needs to can "Travel to Player" to me and get the Achievement without having to do all the quests involved in the quest locked Artaeum one (right now for this event).

When they all have it, then I'll bring them over there for skyshards next.

All you have to do is get all the Summerset and the one Artaeum Pathfinder sites "discovered" on your map. The list of them for the Achievement is in your Achievements journal for an easy way to look up the ones you are missing. Here is the page about the event, if anyone missed it:



https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/54801



EDIT:

And the official discussion on it:



https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...ummerfall-event

Khajiit doesn’t own Summerset, so... yeah.

Aw... It is only 20 dollars right now for the sale period = I've been wishing I waited to get it for my son's game. They had it for sale for 24 when I bought it.

They aren't counting the people that don't have it in their "100%" tally, though (which is good). Also, if any of us do get it = you will be able to see it, come visit in it because the houses are "neutral instances," so you can visit their "cells" even if they are in DLC you don't own.


In case anyone missed it, here is the official discussion on it:


https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...ummerfall-event

Lol, this one is probably just being sulky because he’s a little bitter that he bought Morrowind and then they released it for free to Plus members. Khajiit may consider getting it tomorrow.

Yeah, that didn't sit well with me either. I think that is why they are having all these events for Summerset, it probably didn't sell like they thought it would compared to Morrowind's big response. It has only been months since Summerset's release and they have already put it on sale twice now.

Oh, here is the page that shows our progress so far, they said to keep checking back to it to see if it is growing (it was 35% last night, so we def get the little Psijic Pony Mascot pet).


https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/summerfall

The Treasure Hunter costume is in the new crown crates! I've been waiting for this to make a re-appearance ever since I transferred over to the PC version of the game. Woo!

Woo Hoo, Hazmick!


We are at 42% on the percentages toward getting that free stuff = almost to the horse! (got to have a blue glowy horse if you have a blue glowy pony, right?)

47%!

63% !!! That means we have the Pony and the Horse!

Er, speaking of the house though...I was on the PTS earlier and noticed that the house has been removed on that save! Wonder what that was all about? GAAAAAAH!

Thanks for the updates, mALX. That is a very neat horse.

Well, technically we need 3 more percent to get the horse; but I'm sure we will be able to get that before the event ends.

76%! We get the horse!!

WOO HOO!!! I was just about to go look when I saw your post!

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/summerfall


85% !!!!!!!!!!


WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What does that get y’all?

We already have the pony and horse; but now we only have 15% to go before we get the house!!! We are almost there!

Oh ok gotcha

I'm guessing they'll boop it up to about 94% today, then 100% the day after. Everyone make sure to log in over the next couple of days so you're on the list to get the rewards!

I bet they won't let us know we are at 100 till the last minute to keep everyone scrambling, lol.

But yeah, got to sign in every day = one more day for the 100,000 gold daily reward! Woo Hoo! That will give me plenty of gold to spend furnishing the place, lol.

92% !!!!!!!!!!!

We got till Friday. Hopefully this progress doesn't slow.

I'm seriously thinking about spending some time over there just to give members of my 5 guilds someone to port to if they are trying to do a last minute thing (or maybe even offering myself at wayshrines to port to near the Pathfinders! )

Hey guys!

I never bought the Summerset Isles DLC but the house has me tempted. I bought one house but wasn’t too happy to find I’ll have to spend more cash on crowns to furnish the place. From what I’ve read so far you just need to have the Summerset Isles DLC to qualify for all the new stuff, instead of completing the pathfinder achievement since it’s community based. Can anyone confirm this for sure? I read a bit of the forums and that seems to be the case.

From the eligibility section of the event page:

"If you own The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset and log into the game before October 7, you are eligible to receive each reward (if its requirements are met). Even if you only buy the new Chapter towards the end of the event and are unable to earn the Summerset Pathfinder Achievement in time, you will receive the rewards. The deadline for acquiring the Summerset Chapter and logging in is October 7 at 8:00PM EDT."

And I don't know when the sale ends, but for this event the price of Summerset was dropped to just 20 US dollars!

I am re-downloading my PS4 game to see if I can get a couple more hits for the total by tomorrow.

Done! 100%. Pony, horse and house!

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/summerfall

All I could find on delivery date is 'by October 10'.

Whoop!!

October Crown Store Showcase

Some familiar items but also a few new ones.

Khajiit loves how ZOS is pretty much forcing him to buy Summerset. While it’s true that this one still has the choice to not buy, Khajiit would be madder than Sheogorath’s jammies to miss out on the free stuff. Guess this one will be buying that tomorrow and we promise to do our part with the achievement even though it’s moot at this point.

Bringing back all the Halloween stuff I see. The Dead-Water motif sounds gross and interesting, I might have to have a closer look at that.

I'm in the same situation of having no Summerset, but the only thing that's tempting me to get it is making/upgrading jewelry. I've been to Alinor and Artaeum on the PTS and wasn't persuaded by the new lands/homes/quests that I needed them NOW! I'll explore Morrowind until the next chapter comes out and go there when it downgrades to DLC. There's so much I haven't done with the DLC's I've got with ESO+.

Summerset would allow me to farm dolmens for dropped jewels and upgrade the blues/greens to purples, which takes a lot less time than grinding them for all purple; or to bypass that process and craft other sets that didn't have jewelry before.

It's not quite enough to persuade me to spend, even if it's equivalent to half a tank of gas. ESO+ was an easier sell, as the craft bag is priceless. There's also all the extra grind if I did get it for Jewelry crafting.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!!! I've already been over there for two days planning out some decorations, etc!

WOO HOO !!!!!!!

@ Khajiit - Imho, I think the 100% they needed to achieve was always about sales on the Summerset Chapter because they needed them. Summerset didn't make near the money for them that Morrowind did; (probably because no one wanted to buy Summerset after ZOS gave Morrowind away free after just a year, and all those people who paid so much for it felt like shmucks).

This is the second time they have put Summerset on sale since its release just a few months ago; and now them giving away this house to push sales on it - I'll bet they had to because the sales for Summerset were way below what they needed it to be (and that the 100% is actually them reaching their funding needs from Summerset).

The Pathfinder thing was so easy that everyone would be able to do it with no problems; and would distract us from the actual goal they needed to reach.

But at any rate, WOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!! We get a free house with 700 slots !!!!!

ghastley, for what it's worth, getting jewelry improvement plates is hard. Buffy's been actively collecting since day one of Summerset and has a career total of 8 purple improvement plates and 2 gold ones. With all perks, it takes 3 purple plates to upgrade one piece of jewelry from blue to purple. Purple plates sell for about 17K each at the guild traders. So. . . it is faster and easier to farm a set of purple overland dropped purple jewelry than to improve 3 blue pieces. I figure in another couple weeks Buffy will actually be able to craft one full set of purple jewelry.

Awesome. Thanks for the info. Getting it as soon as I get home.
It is $22 with PlayStation Plus membership. Not bad at all!



Join me on an adventure if you’re ever on!

Awesome! We made 100%.

Honestly I’ll have to admit I’m a bit intimidated now. I bought the Surrealist Estate a few days ago, and now the Hunter’s Glade when it comes out and now the Psijic Home!

I swear all I’ll ever do now is grind for coins to buy furniture for the house. Quests? Never mind that! I’ll be stuck on all three homes decorating

Ask haute. She has nearly thirty different homes - or maybe it is thirty now?

That Grand Psijic Villa is so huge that it will intimidate anyone trying to make it look even partially good with only 700 slots. But a free mansion is a free mansion, lol.

Oh, and they have a whole section of furnishings now that is varioius bloody and chewed up body parts in the Crown Store, that should help you with the Hunters Glade! Plus I think you can get those huge slabs of black rock to make caves with for only 500-5,000 gold each at the housing furniture vendors. I want to read your Kraven story again to see how you will decorate it since it is in Hircine's Realm!

Well Khajiit is not really sure what they expected. Morrowind had name recognition and nostalgia going for it and it was the first “Chapter” to be released so people didn’t really know what to expect. There was no indication that it would ever be free to Plus members so if you wanted Morrowind, you had to buy it. Where ZOS really messed up in regards to Summerset (in Khajiit’s honest opinion), was releasing Morrowind for free right before launching Summerset. They had to know that, having witnessed that, a large portion of the player base would simply wait to get Summerset for free. This one knows that was his own intention until this special event came about.

tbh Don't most MMOs make their expansions free after a while? Then again most (good) MMOs are subscription based. 'Course I don't play many MMOs to begin with so I could be wrong.

Anyways, I can't believe ESO fulfilled the dream of many Millenials and gave us free housing. With a catch that it has no furniture.

We've known since day 1 that ZOS have no idea how to do MMOs. They know how to take all of the money, and that's their primary concern

I shudder to imagine how many crowns are going to be spent on furniture packs in the coming weeks. What a handy coincidence that more were added to the crown store recently.

My thoughts exactly. That was a huge mistake; because it let everyone who was feverishly waving their credit cards in anticipation for Summerset (know that if they waited a year they could have Summerset for free).

Yeah, whoever was responsible for the timing on that idea is probably in the unemployment lines right now as ZOS scrambles to recoup that income they would have made. But I don't mind, because I got a free 700 slot house plus my son's Summerset purchase for half price, lol.

Yeah, ESO is the only MMO this one has played for longer than 6 months so don’t really know how other MMOs do their expansions.

From what I saw, they are going to be selling the furniture that was in it in "Packs;" but I couldn't see the price they were asking for them on the PTS (since everything on there is 1 gold, lol).














I never even played one before this one.