The Elder Scrolls Online received a feature in the last major update of 2020 that has delighted many fans and also our MeinMMO author Jürgen Horn. This feature is the “Sticker Book”, which makes clearing out the inventory easy and guilt-free.
What is it about? ESO received a function in the most recent update 28 that I and many fans have been waiting for a long time: The “Item Collections”, which are known internally in the community and among developers primarily as the “Sticker Book”.
This is a system that allows you to reconstruct your items from collected sets at specific crafting stations whenever you want. This means you no longer have to carry all the sets around in your inventory because you might need them after a certain patch or update. Since storage space in ESO is quite limited, every item slot in the backpack and bank is valuable.
With the “Sticker Book”, you can finally declutter properly.
Finally, I can throw things away without worry!
How I became a hoarder: I am one of the victims of the great set hoarding compulsion in ESO. I hate throwing away things I might need again. Especially when the set is from some obscure dungeon that I probably won’t do again soon, or it was a rather rare drop.
Since I hadn’t thrown anything away, my inventory was full of stuff I actually didn’t need. For example, a cool shield from the Frostvault or a helmet from Auridon. Maybe I want to skill my Orc warrior as a tank at some point, then I do need that silly shield after all. So, better send it to the bank where three other shields I never used are already lying around.
A lot has accumulated over the years, and that’s why I was also completely thrilled when the developers announced Update 28 along with the Markarth DLC. The “Sticker Book” was a feature that ESO had urgently needed!
The freedom in decluttering: Once I had my items in the Sticker Book, I could declutter to my heart’s content. A ton of items were taken from the depths of the bank and backpack and finally broken down or deconstructed. If I need the stuff again, I can craft it back together for a few transmutation stones, and that’s it!
Throwing away the now unnecessary items filled me with a pleasant sense of freedom and harmony. The bank space was nicely decluttered, there’s room again for meaningful things, and it just felt good.
This is how the community responds: By the way, I am not alone in this opinion. On reddit, a user posted that he is also glad that he was finally able to clean up:
I just deleted all my weapons and armor from my bank and my storage box due to the Sticker Book.
I felt some regret, but I also felt free. For the first time since 2014, I could try out the automatic looting system.
BeenOnReddit
Another user likely represents many typical hoarding ESO players by writing:
I collected so much stuff because I’ve seen how sets were nerfed in one update and came back to the meta in the next update. So I just hoarded so many things, just in case they come back in the future.
But now I did the same [as the thread creator] and got rid of everything. I used to always struggle with bank storage space.
But I didn’t realize how much I hoarded. Now I’m struggling to fill my bank back up. I’m very happy about the new Sticker Book.
Draymont
With each update, ESO gets bigger. But what else does the game need to make a good impression as a next-gen MMORPG in the coming years? We at MeinMMO surveyed the German ESO community and compiled a detailed list of the desired features. More bank space was also included.
