ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026 ends on Tuesday, November 10 at 3pm GMT (10am EST). You can activate the trial from the in-game Crown Store without buying a subscription. Open the ESO Plus tab and select the Free Trial button while the offer is running.
ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026 is a good opportunity to stock up on crafting materials or try DLC dungeons you’ve missed. It doesn’t give you every benefit of a paid membership, though. Some perks, including the monthly Crowns allowance and the special Camel-Lizard mount, are reserved for paid members. Here’s what you get, what you don’t and how to activate it before the deadline.
How to Activate ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026
You activate it inside the game, whether you’re playing on PC or console. First, sign in to The Elder Scrolls Online after the servers are available. Then open the Crown Store, choose the ESO Plus tab and select Free Trial! to activate the promotion.
Simply logging in won’t activate the trial. You need to select the Free Trial button. Once you’ve selected it, check the membership panel in the Crown Store and your available benefits. If you’re trying during the November 9 maintenance window, wait until you can access the game properly before troubleshooting a missing button.
You don’t need to go to a separate website, enter a promotional code or buy Crowns to start this free offer. The listed end time is fixed, though, so leave yourself enough time to sign in on November 10.
What Does the ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026 Include?
The ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026 temporarily opens access to more than 30 DLC game packs, including 30 group dungeons and systems such as Tales of Tribute. The storage and progression bonuses are useful too, especially if you usually play without a subscription.
| Trial benefit | What you get |
|---|---|
| DLC access | Access to 30+ eligible DLC packs, including group dungeons |
| Craft Bag | Unlimited crafting-material storage while active |
| Bank space | Double standard bank storage allowance |
| Housing | Double furnishing and collectible placement allowances |
| Transmute storage | Double Transmute Crystal capacity |
| Progression bonuses | 10% bonuses to XP, gold, Alliance Points, Tel Var, inspiration, trait research rates and Archival Fortunes |
| Other perks | 10% additional Tome Points from challenges, longer Antiquities leads and costume dyeing |
If you’re mainly interested in the Craft Bag, take advantage of the trial while it lasts. Crafting materials placed there stay in the bag after the offer ends. You won’t be able to add more without active ESO Plus, but you can still access what’s already stored.
What Isn’t Included in the Free Trial?
The trial does not give you the monthly Crowns stipend included in a paid ESO Plus subscription. It also doesn’t unlock the Companions introduced with base-game Update 44 or in the Blackwood, High Isle and Necrom Chapters. Don’t plan your trial around getting those companions for free.
The temporary DLC access isn’t a permanent entitlement either. Once the offer expires, you keep any items that the game allows you to retain, but DLC zones or systems that still require ESO Plus or ownership return to their normal access rules. Don’t mistake temporary access for having bought those packs.
You won’t need the trial for every new addition this week. Markarth is scheduled to join the base game on November 9, independently of ESO Plus. That’s a permanent free-content change, unlike this short membership offer.
Can You Get the Pyrodraconic Camel-Lizard Mount?
No, not with the ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026. The Pyrodraconic Camel-Lizard offer is restricted to fully paid ESO Plus members. ZeniMax says qualifying paid subscribers who missed the previous claim can pick up the mount from the Crown Store’s Mounts category through November 16.
Eligible subscribers pay nothing extra for the mount, but it isn’t a giveaway for all players. Activating a trial by itself won’t change that rule. If the Mounts section shows you an eligibility restriction, the free trial isn’t a workaround.
Players who have already claimed the mount don’t need to claim it again. ZeniMax announced a November 16 end date but not a specific closing hour, so don’t rely on a guessed last-minute deadline.
What Happens When the ESO Plus Free Trial Ends?
The ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026 finishes at 3pm GMT on Tuesday, November 10. After expiry, the added benefits stop and your game goes back to the access and capacity rules associated with your actual membership status.
The Craft Bag is where players often get caught out. Materials stored there are still yours even though they’re no longer in your normal backpack. Open your inventory and choose the Craft Bag icon to see them. You can use or retrieve those saved materials without subscribing again.
Extra bank and housing capacity also ends with the trial. Check those limits separately: the Craft Bag’s rule about keeping existing materials doesn’t describe how every other storage perk works. Our Craft Bag guide covers the specific material rules.
Is November 9 Maintenance Affecting Activation?
ESO scheduled its North American and European megaservers for maintenance on Monday, November 9, with a planned 7am to 5pm GMT window. The ESO Store and Account System has a separately listed maintenance window reaching 11pm GMT. These are estimates, not guaranteed return times.
If you can’t activate the ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026 during maintenance, check the official notice and try again once the relevant services are back. You still have until 3pm GMT the next day, November 10.
Official source: Bethesda: ESO Plus Free Trial November 2026 news.
