Elder Scrolls Online to Finally Let You Earn Loot Boxes for Free, Likely Due to Microsoft

A lot of developers and publishers have become a fleck more enlightened when it comes to loot boxes in recent years, removing them from games altogether or tweaking them to be more than fair. Meanwhile, the makers of The Elder Scrolls Online have stuck to their guns, only assuasive randomized Crown Crates to exist purchased with existent money. Sure, ESO does hand out some free Crown Crates hither and there, but if you lot want one right now, you've got to cough up.

Well, Bethesda has appear they're finally making changes that will allow players to earn Crown Crates strictly through gameplay. A futurity Elder Scrolls Online update will introduce "Endeavors," a new serial of updated challenges that volition reward players with gold, XP, and a new currency called Seals of Attempt, which tin be used to purchase any Crown Crates currently available. Here are some of things you might be asked to exercise as part of the Endeavor organisation…

Steal or pickpocket items
Complete quests
Defeat enemies using Form or Weapon abilities
Sell items to vendors
Craft different types of items
Defeat different types of monsters
Harvest resource nodes

So, why has Bethesda inverse tactics after all this time? Well, many think it hinges on Microsoft'due south contempo buy of Bethesda and the former's loot box policy that says all randomized items accept to be earnable in-game somehow…

Items in loot boxes can always be earned through play. All items available through paid boodle boxes in our games will besides be available through unpaid opportunity past gameplay (i.due east. grinding).

Neither Microsoft or Bethesda have confirmed this rule is at the root of the ESO changes, but it seems pretty probable. If so, it seems the merger is already begetting some positive fruit.

The Elder Scrolls Online is available at present on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and playable via backward compatibility on Xbox Serial X/Due south and PS5. The game's Blackwood expansion and official next-gen console upgrades arrive on June 8. Endeavors volition exist added in an update arriving in "mid-June."