Discover Seasonal Savings on Necrom, Base Game, and Select Crown Packs During the 2023 Holiday Sale
Enjoy up to 67% off the Necrom Chapter and up to 40% off select Crown Packs during ESO's end-of-year sale.
'Tis the Season for Savings!
The 2023 ESO Holiday Sale is now live, allowing you to pick up The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom Chapter at up to 67% off and The Elder Scrolls Online: Standard Edition at up to 70% off. These festive deals are available across all platforms, including Xbox (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S), PlayStation (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5), and PC/Mac (The Elder Scrolls Online Store, Steam, Epic Games Store).
These seasonal savings are available for all versions of the Necrom Chapter (Collection, Deluxe Collection, Upgrade, and Deluxe Upgrade), offering you the opportunity to explore the mushroom forests of the Telvanni Peninsula, navigate through the twisted realm of Apocrypha, and master the power of the new Arcanist class!
To get started, visit our Buy Now page and select your edition.
In addition to savings on the latest Chapter and base game, we’re also providing some major discounts on Crown Packs:
21,000 Crowns—Up to 40% off
14,000 Crowns—Up to 35% off
5,500 Crowns—Up to 30% off
3,000 Crowns—Up to 25% off
1,500 Crowns—Up to 20% off
Ready to take advantage of these limited-time savings? Head over to the Buy Crowns page to grab your bundle of choice. You can use these crowns to purchase all sorts of practical and cosmetic items from the in-game Crown Store such as pets, costumes, houses, skill lines, XP scrolls, and more. Check out what offers are currently available by visiting the Crown Store page.
Both discounts are available for a limited time and may conclude on different dates depending on your platform and territory. To discover when your platform’s sale ends, check out the schedule below:
Xbox
Standard Edition—December 14, 2023-January 3, 2024
Necrom—December 14, 2023-January 3, 2024
Crown Packs—December 14, 2023-January 3, 2024
PlayStation America
Standard Edition—December 20, 2023-January 6, 2024
Necrom—December 20, 2023-January 6, 2024
Crown Packs—December 20, 2023-January 6, 2024
PlayStation Europe
Standard Edition—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
Necrom—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
Crown Packs—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
PlayStation Asia
Standard Edition—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
Necrom—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
Crown Packs—December 19, 2023-January 5, 2024
Elder Scrolls Online Store
Standard Edition—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
Necrom—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
Crown Packs—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
Steam Store
Standard Edition—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
Necrom—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
Crown Packs—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
Epic Games Store
Standard Edition—December 13, 2023-January 10, 2024
Necrom—December 13, 2023-January 10, 2024
Crown Packs—December 21, 2023-January 4, 2024
With these discounts on the Necrom Chapter, base game, and Crown Packs, there's a host of new adventures waiting for you this festive season. Which of these deals are you considering taking advantage of during the 2023 ESO Holiday Sale? Let us know via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.
Happy Holidays! Claim a Free Adornment as a Gift from Us!
The Effigy Earrings of Saint Vorys are now available free within the Crown Store until January 2024—don't miss out!
Across Tamriel as well as lands more mundane, this is the season for holiday cheer and gifts. In the spirit of this season, you can now claim the free Effigy Earrings of Saint Vorys adornment from the Featured page of the in-game Crown Store as a gift from us! Once you claim it from the Crown Store, the adornment can be found in your Collections under the Appearance tab. Claim this free adornment from us!
This stylish adornment is available now until January 4, 2024, at 10 AM EST, so be sure to add it to your collection the next time you visit Tamriel.
These earrings honor the patron saint of House Telvanni, Saint Vorys the Immolant. Whether you plan to wear them to honor the Telvanni ancestors or simply as a fashion statement, we hope you enjoy this holiday gift from us!
Complete Merry Quests & Earn Special Rewards During the New Life Festival Event!
Spread holiday cheer while enjoying bonus XP gains and seasonal rewards during this year’s New Life Festival.
Warm Wishes for a Happy Holiday
The 2023 New Life Festival in-game event begins Thursday, December 21, 2023, at 10AM EST, and continues until Wednesday, January 9, 2024, at 10AM EST. During this year’s festivities, you can earn a variety of jolly rewards including New Life Boxes, XP boosts, Event Tickets, and more. Find Breda in Eastmarch to begin
During the New Life Festival, you will automatically enjoy a 100% boost to XP gain whenever you log into the game, with no extra steps required! If you’d like to join the party and toast the passing of another year, complete the New Life Festival’s introductory quest and collect Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug memento via the following steps:
Open the Crown Store and acquire the free quest, “The New Life Festival.”
You can also pick up this quest by speaking with Breda at the New Life Festival tent in Eastmarch.
You can instantly transport yourself to Breda by using the portal located at any Impresario tent location.
<*>Complete the introductory quest to receive the Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug memento.
You won’t need to acquire Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug if you finished the quest during a previous year.
<*>Enjoy your endless supply of winter spiced mead! After wrapping up the event’s introductory quest, you’ll unlock 10 special New Life Festival daily quests: nine from Breda and one from Petronius Galenus. The pair will task you to travel across the vastness of Tamriel and share seasonal merriment with its denizens.
Good Deeds, Great Rewards
Whenever you complete one of the 10 daily quests, you’ll be rewarded with a New Life Festival Box. Contained inside these seasonal cases is the chance to receive the following rewards:
Assortments of alchemy crafting materials
New Life Festival Toys:
Sword Swallower Kit
Juggling Knives
Fire-Breather’s Torches
Mudballs
Wolfsbane Incense
One of the following:
A Skinchanger motif page
New Life Festival Recipes
New Life Furnishings
Deep Winter Charity Writs
Imperial Charity Writs
A chance for one of the following:
An Evergreen outfit style page
NEW A Morningstar Frostwear outfit style page
If you’ve already earned a Morningstar Frostwear page that day, an Evergreen outfit style page or a Nord Carved armor outfit style page will be given instead
Earn a new armor style
Impresario & Event Tickets
The first New Life Festival daily quest you complete each day rewards three Event Tickets in addition to the reward box. You can earn up to a colossal 60 Event Tickets by the event’s end! Don’t forget that you can only ever hold up to 12 Event Tickets in your inventory at once.
During the New Life Festival, the Impresario will update her stock with the following items:
All three Passion Dancer Blossom pet fragments
All components for this year’s morphing collectibles:
Passion’s Muse personality
Meadowbreeze Memories skin
Passion Dancer Garment costume
All three Hoardhunter Ursauk mount fragments
Blessed Honeycomb
Gilded and Dyed Saddle
Sorcerous Golden Ink
Bound style pages for the following:
NEW Morningstar Frostwear pages
New Life Festival Grab Bag
Mud Ball Pouch memento
Nordic Bather’s Towel costume
Colovian Fur Hood hat
Colovian Filigreed Hood hat
Sword-Swallower’s Blade memento
Juggler’s Knives memento
Fire-Breather’s Torches memento
Snowball Buddy pet
Powderwhite Coney pet
Impresario Group Repair Kits
Companion Guild Commendations
The New Life Festival is also your last chance to pick up the third fragment needed to construct this year’s final event Morphing Collectible, the Hoardhunter Ursauk mount! The Hoardhunter Ursauk
Additionally, the Impresario’s colleague, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor, has the following items available for purchase with Event Tickets:
Nascent Indrik Feathers
Pure Snow Indrik Berries
Crimson Indrik Berries
Frost-Light Indrik Pet
Rosethorn Indrik Pet
Lastly, the Impresario’s Assistant is offering the following, which you can also acquire with Event Tickets:
Unstable Morpholith fragments
Deadlands Flint
Rune-Etched Striker
Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
Dagonic Quasigriff fragments
Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather
Black Iron Bit
Bridle Black Iron Stirrups
Tamriel Rings in the New Year
As this year draws to a close, you can send 2023 off in merry style during the New Life Festival and collect some special event rewards as you do. How do you plan to spend the holidays in ESO? Let us know and be sure to share any fun New Life-themed creations with us via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, or Facebook.
The New Life Festival in-game event begins this Thursday, December 21 at 10AM EST, and continues until Wednesday, January 9 at 10AM EST.
Studio Director’s Letter: ESO’s 2023 Retrospective & the Future
Matt Firor, ZeniMax Online Studio’s Studio Director, breaks down a special year for The Elder Scrolls Online and discusses its future.
Greetings everyone—it’s time to look back at ESO in 2023 and look forward to 2024.
In 2023, our #1 priority—besides shipping Necrom and Infinite Archive—was to make the service more stable. The hardware refresh of all game servers finished in 2023, and even though we have some more non-player-facing hardware swaps to go, we are all reaping the benefits of more modern and powerful servers powering ESO’s infrastructure. We also have refined our processes to ensure that updates launch with fewer issues, and for the great majority of situations, we achieved that. We did have longer downtimes than usual a few times due to the hardware refresh, but looking back, I’m pretty happy with where things are—especially after our Epic Games Store launch in July, where we saw our highest monthly active user numbers since 2015.
Necrom was our highest-rated Chapter (in some ratings, highest since Summerset), and shows our commitment to amazing storytelling. I’m especially happy with how the Apocrypha zone turned out. Adding to the Elder Scrolls lore on Daedric realms is something we take great pride in, and I think we nailed the combination of obsession with knowledge and creepy visuals that are the hallmark of Hermaeus Mora. And for the first time in a few years, the story will continue in 2024, as the 2023 story (no spoilers here!) ended on a cliffhanger.
And wrapping up 2023, we launched Infinite Archive, adding a challenging, repeatable game mode to ESO. This is a type of content that we want to do more of in the future: really fun, challenging experiences with great rewards that players can enjoy for a long time. ESO is always about great storytelling, so we won’t abandon story quests and content, but we will balance it out with more systems like dungeons, trials, and special new content like Infinite Archive.
Looking forward to 2024, the obvious first thing to note is that April 4, 2024, is ESO’s 10-year anniversary, marking a decade since we launched on PC/Mac. Reaching this milestone with the game in such great shape will be an amazing achievement—and we will celebrate with both in-game and real-life events. You already know about the first two: our 10-Year Anniversary community event in Amsterdam in April and a 10-Year Anniversary-themed ESO Tavern in Germany from July 13-14. Stay tuned for more information about all these events, and I certainly hope to see you in person at one or more of them!
Also, I remind you that April 4, 2024, is the 10-year anniversary of the PC/Mac launch, but many of you didn’t join the community until June 2015, at ESO's massive console launch. As such, we are considering the entirety of April 2024 through July 2025 as our 10-year anniversary period, and we will fill it as much as we can with special events, retrospectives, and lots of other fun stuff to celebrate you, our community, and the ESO dev team. We can’t wait to share all of this with you when we are ready.
Next year will kick off with a Global Reveal show in January, and we are excited to continue the story from last year but in a different part of Tamriel. It's going to be great, and we have some new systems that I think everyone will want to hear about. I'm not going to spoil it now, but you should definitely look out for the Global Reveal announcement and mark your calendars!
Finally, I'd like to take a moment to talk about all of us in the ESO community. Now that we are a year or so past the pandemic, it's good to take stock of where we are and where we want to go.
ESO is in a great place—enjoyed by millions. In fact, almost two million of you joined ESO last year, not counting the players enjoying the game for free from the Epic Games Store. We have been massively successful for many years now, and we are very thankful for all of you who have helped make this happen. As we approach the 10th anniversary of this amazing experience, I would just like everyone to acknowledge the path we've been on and appreciate the hard work we have all done to keep ESO amazing. It takes a village to develop and operate a game like this, and that village absolutely includes everyone reading this right now. Thanks so much for everything you do for ESO.
See you in Tamriel!
ESO’s 10th Anniversary Is Coming–Join Us for a Very Special In-Person Event!
Commemorate a decade of The Elder Scrolls Online and our amazing community with a special in-person event that kicks off our massive 10th Anniversary Celebration!
Celebrating 10 Amazing Years
Next year, The Elder Scrolls Online will reach its 10th anniversary since it first launched on PC/Mac in April 2014. To celebrate this incredible milestone, we’re kicking off a massive 10th Anniversary Celebration in April.
During the celebration, we’ll look back on ESO’s history and celebrate the game itself, its dedicated group of developers, its passionate, ever-growing community, and its bright future.
Whether you’ve been a member of the #ESOFam since early beta, have recently begun your journey into Tamriel, or are looking for a new epic online roleplaying game—you won’t want to miss this incredible celebration. It all kicks off next year in Amsterdam!
Join Us in Amsterdam
The fun begins next year with the first ESO 10-Year Celebration Event, a two-day in-person event we’re hosting at the SugarFactory just outside of Amsterdam, Netherlands, from Friday, April 5, until Saturday, April 6. You can grab your tickets now by visiting the official signup website below.
At the event, you can mix and mingle with your fellow ESO adventurers and developers while enjoying two days of fun. This will include developer panels and roundtable discussions (with some livestreamed), hands-on gameplay, food and drink, live music, community activities, and more. In addition, the April 2024 event will host our first-ever in-person ESO cosplay competition, so if you’ve got an amazing ESO costume in mind that you think the community will love and are planning to attend, get crafting!
We'll share more specifics on the event with the community in the future, so keep an eye out on elderscrollsonline.com and our social channels.
Celebrate ESO with Us!
We’re planning to make this the biggest in-person community event we’ve ever had, but it’s not the only one we plan to host during this massive anniversary celebration. There’s going to be a ton of special 10th Anniversary in-person events all over the globe throughout, including a big one in the United States in 2025. Celebrate ESO’s anniversary with us!
Stay tuned for additional announcements in April 2024 when we unveil more.
Are you excited to celebrate 10 years of adventure in Tamriel’s Second Era with us? Let us know if you’re planning to make your way to the Netherlands for this initial event via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook—we hope to see you there!
Cyrodiil Population Cap Testing
Hi All! We have a message from our Lead Combat Designer, Brian Wheeler, about our upcoming Cyrodiil Population Cap Testing, starting Dec. 6. See the message below:
Heyo all!
Over the course of the next few days, we will be running some tests in Cyrodiil where we’ll be periodically adjusting the population caps. The first realm being tested is PC EU on Wednesday, December 6. During this time, we will increase population caps and monitor throughout the day through prime-time hours; if all goes well, we will do the same on PC NA and consoles later in the week.
We encourage everyone willing to fight for their Alliance to hop into their respective Campaigns because throughout the testing period until December 12, everyone in Cyrodiil will earn Double AP!
Thanks in advance for joining this population test for Cyrodiil and enjoy the double AP while the test is active. See you on the field!
-Brian Wheeler
Crown Store Showcase—December 2023
Treat yourself to a holiday delight from among December’s new and returning Crown Store items.
You cancheck out all the new and returning items arriving to the Crown Store in December 2023. Don’t forget, you can head over to the Crown Store page right now to view all offers currently available. And be sure to drop by the Buy Crowns page to purchase however many crowns you might need this month!
Additionally, a variety of Crown Crates are returning this holiday season, including Ragebound and Unfeathered Crown Crates with the renewal of Gifting, alongside the cosmic Celestial Crates. Some items and offers are available for a limited time only, so be sure to read their individual details and don't miss out.
Click below to view the full Crown Store Showcase for December 2023.
Take a look at some of the free rewards available to you simply by logging in to ESO this December 2023!
Though 2023 may be winding down, the daily rewards are only picking up this coming December. A few examples of the rewards on offer are listed below, including a new pet. You can claim them from the Daily Rewards section of the Crown Store, as described in this help article.
Gold Coast Grand Experience Scroll—Day 1 Experience more holiday spirit this year!
Start the month off strong by improving your experience gains with this Grand Experience Scroll. Level up, gain Champion Points, and improve your Skill Lines with a 150% boost.
Herald the return of the Second Empire with Akaviri Potentate Crown Crates, first introduced way back in 2020. Get one crate each day from day two until day six.
Crown Lessons: Riding Capacity ×5—Day 7
How many presents can you carry?
Fill your saddlebags with loot—or holiday presents—after expanding them using these Riding Lessons. Sleigh not included.
Seals of Endeavor ×250—Day 14 Gift yourself fine Crown Crate goods.
Stock up on Seals of Endeavor for choice Crown Crate items, perhaps even from the new All-Maker Crates. You can also earn Seals from Daily and Weekly Endeavors in-game and use them to buy goods contained in Crown Crates or normally purchased with Crown Gems. Learn more about Seals of Endeavor in this blog.
Anchorborn Pony Pet—Day 21 Probably not a Daedra. Probably.
Is this part of Molag Bal’s plot to dominate Tamriel, or just an unfortunate beast of burden geared up with the recycled debris of collapsed Dark Anchors? Whatever its origins, it’s adorable! Log in for 21 days to claim the Anchorborn Pony pet. We’re (mostly) sure it won’t betray you to the God of Schemes.
Remember, these aren’t all the rewards you can claim when you log in to the game this December 2023. To see the full list, log in on the first day of the month! If one of these rewards speaks to you, be sure to tell us about it on X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. Of course, if it’s the Anchorborn Pony speaking, you might also want to tell a priest of the Divines!
Drive Back the Adversary with Items from the New All-Maker Crown Crates
Pay homage to the deity of the ancient Skaal faith with the items and collectibles found in the new All-Maker Crown Crates.
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The people of the Skaal bow their head in reverence to the All-Maker. For through the All-Maker all are One. Will you join them in their distant land, to stand against the Adversary? Don their stalhrim armors, take up their rune-carved blades. Uphold the Wind and the Earth and the Sun as you seek harmony without and within. The great river of life flows, traveler. Will you flow with it back to the arms of the All-Maker?
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The new All-Maker Crown Crates arrive in the Crown Store this Thursday, November 30 at 10AM EST. Opening these crates might grant you a sign of the All-Maker’s favor in the form of new and returning items and collectibles.
These goods include unique mounts, pets, furnishings, and much more. You can see just some of the items available within All-Maker Crown Crates below. Clear Ice Boulder furnishing & Frostfall Recall customized action Windcaller Garb costume and Orphan of the Stars skin
Those who are fortunate enough to truly catch the All-Maker’s eye might find one of the below extremely rare Radiant Apex mounts. Solstheim Shiver Wolf and Star-Orphan Elk mounts Blessed Highmane Lion mount
All-Maker Crown Crates will be available in one-, four-, and 15-crate bundles in addition to a unique 25-crate offering that is available as a one-time purchase only. In addition to the crates, this special bundle also includes the Solstheimstone Incarnate polymorph. Enjoy a bundle of All-Maker Crown Crates alongside the Solstheimstone Incarnate Polymorph
This polymorph will be unlocked automatically and added to your collectibles when the one-off bundle is first purchased. It is not part of the All-Maker crates themselves.
Of course, the above are just some of the gifts the All-Maker can bestow upon his children. If you wish to see the full list of items you have a chance to receive when opening an All-Maker Crown Crate, check out this thread on our official forums.
Be warned, when the new crates go live, the currently available Buoyant Armiger Crown Crates will be removed from the Crown Store in turn, so don’t forget to pick them up while they’re still available!
All-Maker Crown Crates arrive this Thursday, November 30 at 10AM EST, and can be acquired from the Crown Crate section of the in-game Crown Store. Do you hope to prove yourself to the All-Maker and oppose the Adversary? Let us know about your wintry devotions via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. AnnouncementsCrown Store
Ride This New Mount Toward Great Savings with the 2023 Black Fredas Bundle
Grab the 2023 Black Fredas bundle and get your hands on both great savings and the reins of a new mount!
A special Black Fredas bundle is now available for purchase from the in-game Crown Store, providing you with an opportunity to save big while acquiring a brand-new mount! This bundle contains a host of items for a fraction of what they would cost individually—a mere 1,900 Crowns for 8,100 Crowns of value.
Check out the full list of the bundle’s contents here:
Black Fredas Senche-Lizard mount
10 Crown Experience Scrolls
10 Crown Lessons: Riding Speed
10 Crown Lessons: Riding Capacity
10 Crown Fortifying Meals
10 Crown Soul Gems
50 Crown Tri-Restoration Potions
You’ll find so much to enjoy in this great Crown Store bundle. Not only does it come with a unique mount, but it also has an array of useful consumables that can speed you along in your adventures in Tamriel.
This special offer is now available in the in-game Crown store and will remain until November 30 at 10AM EST. Be sure to take advantage of this fantastic deal! Are you going to ride out atop the Black Fredas Senche-Lizard? Let us know via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.
