TL;DR: Hunter's Glade was advertised as a perk of buying Wolfhunter, but right now it's on a limited time sale exclusively for crowns. In fact, it still is being advertised as a perk of buying Wolfhunter - the tooltip I screenshotted is still there if anyone wants to check it out for themselves.
This thread is from Reddit, where it gained significant traction.
Hunter's Glade is in the Crown Store right now for a "limited time".
Originally I thought the Glade would be like Hakkvild's High Hall - purchasable unfurnished with gold after completing a difficult achievement in the new DLC, or for crowns without it. I was given that impression because when you mouse over the hat icon in the Wolfhunter DLC in the Crown Store, you see this:
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"Gain access to new [...] Housing locations, including the weird Hunter's Glade in Oblivion itself."
Obviously, that hasn't panned out, since we're a month on from the release of Wolfhunter (and HHH was released at the same time as the DLC its achievement came from).
So today I thought, okay, maybe by "access" they mean you can only buy the house
with Crowns if you have the DLC. Seems like kind of a counterproductive move for ZOS, but whatever. I got my friend who has neither Wolfhunter nor ESO+ to check. Nope, she was still given the option to buy the house.
So unless I'm completely missing something, these are the options here:
1. The Glade will be made available for gold for Wolfhunter owners at a later date. (Oh my god, if this is the case, the people who bought it with crowns are going to be PISSED. That would be a terrible PR move.)
2. The "limited time" only applies to people who don't have the DLC, and people with the DLC will be able to pick it up for crowns at any time. Seems unlikely.
3. ZOS lied.
What I actually suspect happened is that the Glade was supposed to be released with Wolfhunter originally, and then when they came up with the plan to give the Villa away for free during Summerfall, the money people panicked at the idea of giving up revenue from TWO giant houses that they were previously selling for like $150 each. So they changed it, but forgot to alter the tooltip. I don't know. Again, this is just speculation.
Also note that the text also advertises housing location
s, plural, and so far we've only seen one. So more houses connected to Wolfhunter should be coming at some point. But Hunter's Glade was mentioned specifically. And right now, people without the DLC have the
exact same "access" to the Hunter's Glade as the people who have it, halfway into the next quarter.
I don't want people to take this as bashing ZOS. I enjoyed the Summerfall event and am grateful for the Villa, and in general I'm pretty pleased with the direction they're taking with notable houses (for example, the Glade is a little over half the price that members of my housing guild were speculating it would be, due to ZOS's new focus on selling furniture packs instead). I'm actually not even super interested in this house. But this isn't okay. If you paid for Wolfhunter, part of what you paid for was access to the Glade. Right now it's plain false advertising.
edit: Added link to reddit thread
