From the new AMA:

"The vanity pets in ESO are accessible account-wide. Any character can read the in-game mail that the vanity pet is delivered in, and retrieve the attachment. When a character retrieves an attachment, the attachment is removed from the in-game mail and placed in the character’s inventory for use. If you wish to use the vanity pet on a different character, you can simply place it in the bank and retrieve it with the new character. Each attachment is a single item."

This makes it seem like you simply get a single vanity pet in the mail, and if you make a new character you do not get another vanity pet for that character.

This caused some huge issues with Guild Wars 2 launch becuase many people did not realize this and deleted a character that had it in their inventory, etc.

Also for people that play more then one character (IE alts) this means they will constantly have to shuffle the pets around their active characters back and fourth, which is annoying.

Why not simply make the pet get sent in the mail to each character that is made on that account? This is MUCh easier on the players and solves the issues of accidentally deleting it when it's on a character.

They take up precious bag space, I say we delete them.

You can use it on any character, just have to put it in your bank and you other characters have access to it. yeah its just one item, but again can use it for any character.

They're items that don't get consumed on use. They're toggled.

Still so many misinformationz.

That's exactly what it's saying. One version of the pet per account, to be shared among all of your 8 characters.

Yet he raises a valid point.

What protection is there against deleting the character with the vanity pet in it's inventory?

I find it fairly odd that you get only 1 copy of all the pre-order and imperial edition items. I can understand if you want to limit the treasure maps, but all the other items should be mailed to each character, though not sure how that is going to work since you mail an account and not a character

in fallen earth mmo they gave you a code upon purchase. so all you had to do was enter the code for any new character you made and it gave you full access to all pets and all items.

but then gold hackers started selling the code for ingame gold

Wouldn't it be much simpler to just give each character a pet instead of just one? They have to know many people on release day are going ot make a character, claim their pet/items, then decide they don't like that character or faction and delete them, all while having those items.

In many mmo's thats how it works, each time you make a new character you get those items again.

Just make sure that you NEVER delete the character that is holding the pet on mistake.

I can't stress this enough. I see many topics on GW2 forums everyday of people complaining that they deleted their characters with one-time rewards or cash shop items on them and demanding the item back. It is never pretty.

Whenever you think about deleting a character, double check their inventory and equipped items. Triple check, even. Put a post-it on your monitor that will remind you of that. Better safe than sorry.

ESO seems to be using some very archaic systems, not sure wtf they're thinking. It's really poor form.

yeah, i did that and now my character is perminantly locked in the starter prison because he cannot pick up a weapon from the weapons rack to start the game

eso has it registered that once you take the starter weapon and delete it or put it in the bank you will be perminantly locked out of getting a new starter weapon. its a very Nasty glitch

If they are a toggable item in your inventory... can you drop it on the ground?

Does the pet appear and just stand there?

Does it drop a small box or magic tile?

I wonder if they are bound to the account. Otherwise, if previously awarded pets remain exclusive, then it will promote them to commodity status and they will be sold in the open market.

if you take an item and place it outside of your inventory (IE: click and drag it) to the ground or anywhere else besides your inventory box. it will ask you if you wish to delete the item.

you wont see any item on the ground unless a dev put it there for a quest.

Perhaps, but it should be noted that the in-game mail system does not mail items to characters. It mails them to your entire account, and any of your characters can take attached items. They could just send 8 mudcrabs and prohibit a single character from summoning more than 1 at a time.

Unless ZOS is able to introduce a Guild Wars 2 method of crafting material storage, the mudcrab remains in the mail forever. It's not worth the precious inventory slot.

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4737/kw/deleting%20pet

Items granted in this manner are protected. While players can delete them, they will have to take extra steps ensuring their intentions. If they do accidentally sell or delete their digital items, players should contact our dedicated http://help.elderscrollsonline.com/ team.

yeah but the problem, didnt they say there was going to be a "curior" or "mail man" deliver our mail to us like it was in skyrim?

It's not archaic, it's just not pandering to the brainless.

If you're so absent-minded to delete a character on a whim without even putting a second thought as to what you might have left behind in your bags, then you deserve to suffer.

Bethesda clearly never intended for us to keep more than one vanity pet. Bag space shouldn't be an issue.

in a game where the bank is shared between all characters in the account, i can see why they dont send useless fluff items to every character you create.

honestly i dont think pets have anything to do in a mmorpg, if it was companions that could help you fight, it would be different. But handing peple useless fluff items is just bad game design, dont try to convince me that rendering 100 people at the time with pets out, wont be more laggy than rendering 100 people without pets...

ill either have to let the pets etc sit in the mail system(just get my horse;)), or make an alt just to hold fluff items, i know i should just delete pets, but my 5 year old daughter does like to see them now and again

ikr

They should just make the items available from the cash shop. Can only be purchased by those accounts that have redeemed the code, and costs nothing. Accidentally deleted it? Re-buy from the cash shop. No muss, no fuss.

As it currently stands, your mail just appears in your inbox. You can send and receive mail regardless of your location.

I don't really think Bethesda cares one way or another about bag space or pets.

I also haven't seen anything official saying that the space that is currently in the beta is the space that will be in the finished game. Just like how many characters we can have "created" at one time.

That kinda would require a cash shop to be ingame. Unless I really overlooked something, there was no shop in the beta. Granted, it may just be hidden until launch.