Crown Crates Opening! 15 ESO Crown Crates Opened - Are Elder Scrolls Online Crown Crates worth it?

It's a shame they still suck. They've shot themselves in the foot, with these and continue to do so. A mount I want costs 2,500 gems. That makes that mount ridiculously over-priced so there's no way I'll bother. You could buy a car with that amount. ;D . I'll stick with the mounts I have. They could have made 40 or 50 bucks out of me but instead they get nothing. The fact that you can't buy it with Crowns is disgusting. They'll wake up one day...hopefully.

Holy Cow - old Vid but i just stumbled over it - Thanks a lot, they still suck... and now i know it's just to milk gamblers.

I've bought fifteen of every crown crate I've wanted to date (around 5) and always gotten an apex from the fifteen.

Just started ESO 4 years later
I want the fennec fox. . .but not enough to spend 5 k gems atm Q~Q

lmao you know 4 years later after this vid i got into eso and bought crowns and got the same results as you did since i got the storm crates. not worth it

The hate for crown crates was always lost on me. If you don’t want them... don’t buy them. If anything this adds rarity in mounts and pets finally. Because 10,000 people can’t all just buy the “cool one” making it valueless.

The most accurate description of Visible Disappointment

My plan is to create that many max lvl toons that I unlock enough gems to buy a Apex reward
Lol

Shame, the more this video goes on the more triggered she gets 😭

Great video! Been so tempted by these new Bandaari items but I think ima hold off on crates for now!

Please do not support online gambling in games as it gives publishers a bad message and fuels their greed.

If Congress gets their way loot crates and such will be deemed illegal in all video games. Europe has already done it. We can only hope!

shots fired at argonians wow typical dry skin

You look like someone who plays this

All that for a dumb pig?? Really wtf

The Dislikes Are From Men Who Like Men. Also The Other Dislikes Are From Women Who Are Jealous. 😂

I hate crown crates too

:( that was a terrible lot. Ugh

Thats literally gambling.I dont see difference between crates ahd 'one-handed bandits'.And this just now was terrible bad luck ,not even one yellow?...only 2-3 purple?

wow i have shit luck and even I had WAY better luck with my 15. Got 2 Apex mounts, a DB motif, exp boost stuff, instant research stuff, mount upgrades, and a few decent costumes and of course potions and poisons galore

Just buy the membership and spend the bonus crowns on the crates therefore I class it as a bonus

Even if you get a mount , you can only ride one. I learned quickly that those boxes suck !

Every video on YT that has someone opening crown crates is basically just them whinging about what they didn't get. Yet other people still pay for em and try. Gambling at its finest.

ESO is just way too expensive !!

I do have the storm bear, its just amazing, and the storm cat mount :) Love em :)

And people complains about SW Battlefront 2 lootboxes......

You don't own a khajiit it owns you

I brought 50 crates and only opened 10 got nothing now I'm scared to open the rest

OK, so I decided to do some "research" of my own...

I wanted a particular (Legendary) mount and a (hideously overpriced!) matching (Legendary) pet.

It's crazy to me that the pet costs the same as the mount, but there you go.

I bought 10K Crowns worth of crates (2 x 5K).

So, 30 crates total, which cost me about £26.00, as Crowns are currently on sale.

Turns out that was more than I needed, in terms of gems extracted; but, I expect there will be something else I want in future, so no big deal.

From those 30 crates I extracted 264 gems in total, plus the option of 33 more, if I decide to trade-in a statue.

So, 297 if you were trying to truly maximise the yield - or slightly more than that, actually, as I got a mimic stone (which I kept), as well.

I did not win either the mount, or the pet, I wanted...

However, to my surprise, I won 2 x Flame Atronach Apex mounts (the camel and the guar).

I don't really want either of them, to be honest.

I don't hate them - they're just not really my style.

So, it's a shame I can't give them away to people, who have been kind to me and others, who would no doubt appreciate them more. :)

Aside from the mounts and the statue, I also won:

2 x Superior pets (both very cute, actually),

5 x costumes (none of which I will use!),

1 x hairstyle (which I probably won't use, either),

1 x (hideous!) hat (Rebreather),

1 x circlet (OK, but I like others more and it sits too high on the forehead),

3 x head markings (probably won't use any of them),

3 x body markings (ditto!),

1 x momento (I like it, but how much use can you really get out of them?),

All in all, I think I did pretty well prize-wise - especially in terms of mounts.

Or would have done, had I wanted most of it...

Think I did relatively well in terms of gem extraction, as well.

However, not everyone does as well (or does as well, every time) and I still maintain that it is wrong to push people, who don't like gambling, or who have a problem with it, into gambling and to give them no other way of just purchasing certain items outright.

It's like encouraging a teetotaller, or an alcoholic, to drink when they don't want to.

There has to be a better way.

Wish people would see past ZoS's 'kindness' towards their fanbase and look at all of these incredible unhealthy business practises that they are promoting in our industry. Sure, this game has improved a lot since beta. Turning it into some kind of perpetual milk machine like this will kill it again eventually, as it has for me. It's bad enough that these cost so much and you get so little, but they even have the audacity to recycle their past 'limited time offer' content that they probably made you panic buy before they took it from the crown store. What a fucking joke.

I'm done with eso

I apologize if this is a double post, I thought I posted my comment, and went to look at other comments, but do not see it. Anyway...

I have purchased crown crates in the past, when they first came out. This video is now 6 months old, so around that time. I got predominately junk that I will never use and collectibles that I do not like. I did get a hat that was ok and the lizard pet. I got a costume dress that is ok for my female character, though typically if I see a costume I like enough, I will just purchase it directly.

I got Argonian and Khajiit only items though. I have neither of those races. I personally do not care to play what I term 'animal' races. I tend to love elves, so most of my characters are elves. ZOS would not even deign to respond after I wrote to them and explained I will NEVER use those collectibles and could players please have some way to opt out of a collection item in favor of the gems? Even during the recent event where they gave us free crates (Somehow I managed to miss log in on two of the days, so I got 3 crates instead of 5) and still got nothing at all that I liked, including a lame collectible that I will not use.

Going by the three gem rule is ok for the lower cost items. Unless you have a LOT of money to waste, it is not worth it to obtain the 400 gem Apex items that way. I did the math and it comes out to $600 USD for an Apex item. it would be NOT worth it in my book. I suppose if you're rich and $600 USD is pocket change for you, then fine. Have fun. It would still be $280 for a 100 gem item. Again, not worth it to me, but if you have that kind of money lying around, and it is worth it to you, then go for it. Personally, I will pass. Maybe I might find something I like that AI can get with the gems I already have.

tbh the worst offender for loot crates is overwatch. Not only are they expensive, but EVERYTHING is in loot crates. the only way to get currency to buy anything. is done from loot crates. And all events lately have a 3000 currency pricetag. :/ Blizzard doesn't even let you buy currency with real cash. Sure its all cosmetic, but its the only reward in the game.

Shit

Really with this poor rng chance it looks like a scam, 5k crowns spend just to get an adorable pig pet after turning all consumables into gems. So all you got for 5k crowns is ~50 gems and some trash. And this pig costs you how much, $30? That's the most expensive pet I heard about :). Anyway I thank you for the vid since it opened my eyes and I now know I'll never buy any of those packs. Also I really don't like the new look of those crown crates mounts. Especially dwemer ones - they stand against lore of the Dwemer and shows how greedy for money is ZOS. They don't care about legend they created and all those mysteries are gone when money is on top. Atronach mounts started this animation madness, Dwemer mounts are now, I wonder what will be next? 3-head flying dragon mounts? Definitely wrong way they go in ZOS.

I should have watched this video before I bought some of these.

Tried it, was lucky, stopped there.
Really hate RNG.. but hey guess the luck factor grants you that splash of dopamin when you succed in getting rares..

cool

I am having buyer's remorse. :P
Just did one for the dwarven, that's 5k crowns I won't see again, in a hurry. :P

Your so unlucky you deserve some better rewards 😂

What utter garbage n trash items why ppl waste$ on these i only use the ones they gave me free with the game n morowrmind

This comment section is pure cancer. She bought them because SHE valued the pig at that amount. I don't, you don't, NOT OUR FUCKING MONEY. "well, i just think you're a terrible person because you support something you claim to hate"

She wanted the fucking pig folks... it's simple. If it wasn't for that, she wouldn't have bothered. She figured if all else fails, i got something i wanted. She also had the chance to make a video about it for her subs, that also factors into the worth it/not worth it ratio here. The nerd rage in the comments and the down votes = misdirected anger.

Also thanks for this, i wanted to know the ratios, not all of us come here seeking to have our opinions validated.

3 month ESO sub = 4500 Crowns = Bear, Seche, Wolf and Camel(...camels ew).....i got lucky :D

Why do you even bother buy crates when you don't want anything...

I so like your headphone.

Those crates are a rip, you gotta pay over 40 bucks at a chance to get what you want

Ill be level 600 still riding my 10k horse lol, I'm not paying for a re-skinned mount, honestly I hate all of the mounts besides the regular horses they are cool looking but they're just not very immersive to elder scrolls, they make the game feel like a try hard w.o.w in my opinion.

Thank you, I was debating on buying the 15 pack just so I can try and get them cool glowing mounts but now I see that I won't get shit

Sorry that didn't work out well for you Miss Bizz. And yeah, I'm in agreement with you. Crown crates suck. I don't buy them.