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One year and counting of ESO, my recap.
SG_Celerrimus
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Alright, this is going to be a loooong post of me just looking back on my history with ESO, reminiscing over memories.
One year ago on this very day (Sept. 4th), I, an aspiring young beta tester and loyal ES fan, created my very own ESO account and beta forum profile, and set to work preparing for what would be a long and joyous adventure through Tamriel during the ESO beta and live launch. To this day, I still play ESO and will gladly continue doing so for as long as I possibly can.
Over this one year period, I have seen ESO develop from being a very unstable, very odd looking game when I joined the beta team, to being a grand triple A MMO title that many people play and enjoy. I thought, since I just recieved my one year badge today, I would do a little recap on my thoughts and experiences I have had from my one year in Tamriel.
It all started on Bleakrock Island during my first ever beta test. During those days, the old crafting system was in place and the first thing I tried doing was crafting a mighty sword to slay my enemies. Sadly, all I could manage to craft was either a dagger, a slightly better dagger, or nothing. I then realised, after seeing a familiar name run past me, that a friend of mine had also gotten in the beta. I confronted him in game, and then we grouped up and began questing in ESO, shortly after, however, I killed a pig with a bow and the server immediately crashed as soon as the pig hit the floor, I thought I had broken the beta at that point.
After that first beta test, I was sold on ESO and began saving up for a collectors edition (which had not even been announced at the time), and any doubts I had about ESO back when I used to participate in the Facebook discussions were instantly evaporated.
Over the course of a few months after that first beta event in September, I was invited to several other beta tests, ranging from stress to focus tests in higher up zones. I had even developed a ritual that I performed for a few days after each beta test, where I would go to the store and stock up on provisions I would need for the upcoming weekend tests, which included chips, microwave food, lots and lots of mountain dew (usually 3-5 cases), beef jerky, and basically anything that I could get my hands on to keep my fed and awake so I could play and test as much as possible. I think more than once I stayed up for 24+ hours straight just non-stop playing.
Among these special tests was the first ever Cyrodiil test, where I probably only got 4 hours of sleep the entire weekend.
After several testing phases came and went, sometime around December I believe, I got the email of my life. I had received an invitation to join the 24/7 beta test group for ESO. It took me several minutes of re-reading the email because I was almost sure it was someone pulling my leg or some scam email, but sure enough the code worked and I thus became a member of the Psijic Order tester group.
After I got that email, I made sure I would play ESO whenever I could from December until launch. I also participated in other stress and focus tests in between that time, but a large portion of my time was spent on the Psijic realm leveling my Nightblade character. During that time, a good portion of people that are in the gaming community that I am a member of also got in, and we formed a branch of our community in ESO, and we played together all the time.
During my time on the PTS, I formed close friendships with people that are part of the ESO community that I still play with to this day, and also created rivalries that also still exist to this day, unfortunately. For the majority of my time on the PTS, I took things very slowly, hunting bugs wherever I could find them, trying to find ways in which I could purposefully break the game and cause problems so that I could then report them. I also spent a good amount of time raising my sword and fighting in the fields and forests of Cyrodiil for the Daggerfall Covenant, the alliance that I still to this day fight for in Cyrodiil.
On the last PTS day, a few days before launch, I looked back on all the things I had seen and accomplished, and even checked my /played time. I know it was definitely over 14 days, so over 336 hours of play time total, and that was just for one character. I had around 5 characters I believe, my main one being around veteran 3 before the server shut down, and a few others ranging from 20-40 I believe. I fondly remember, and probably will never forget, the last five minutes of the PTS server being up. I was in Cyrodiil, near Fort Warden, looking for an AD to fight since I wanted to go down fighting. I found one in the last 30 seconds on the server being up as they were doing the countdown, and with a sword and shield equipped, I shield charged him at the last second, knocked him down, then servers went offline a second after he hit the ground.
After that, I underwent a few days of ESO withdrawal as I could not play the game, then the moment the servers came up for early access, I went right to work making a new character and leveling it up to v10. I remember wanting to get to v10 so badly that I would even play ESO in the middle of class with the volume off, doing dungeons with guild mates while teachers were giving lectures on X, Y, or Z subjects (I don't remember anything from those class days :P ). I even remember standing up and cheering one time when we got a boss down on a veteran dungeon that we had been struggling on all class, and thankfully no one noticed (I think).
To this day, I have become the Guild Leader of that branch of the gaming group I mentioned earlier, I have been playing the game ever since launch, I have a v12 Nightblade and a v1 Dragon Knight with a few other non-veteran alts, and I continue to enjoy the game to this day and am always looking forward to the new content that they plan to release.
I plan on sticking with ESO for a very long time, and would just like to thank everyone at Zenimax Online Studios for a great year of Tamrielic adventures, and I look forward to hopefully many more years of adventures to come.
Edited by SG_Celerrimus on September 5, 2014 7:19AM One year ago on this very day (Sept. 4th), I, an aspiring young beta tester and loyal ES fan, created my very own ESO account and beta forum profile, and set to work preparing for what would be a long and joyous adventure through Tamriel during the ESO beta and live launch. To this day, I still play ESO and will gladly continue doing so for as long as I possibly can.
Over this one year period, I have seen ESO develop from being a very unstable, very odd looking game when I joined the beta team, to being a grand triple A MMO title that many people play and enjoy. I thought, since I just recieved my one year badge today, I would do a little recap on my thoughts and experiences I have had from my one year in Tamriel.
It all started on Bleakrock Island during my first ever beta test. During those days, the old crafting system was in place and the first thing I tried doing was crafting a mighty sword to slay my enemies. Sadly, all I could manage to craft was either a dagger, a slightly better dagger, or nothing. I then realised, after seeing a familiar name run past me, that a friend of mine had also gotten in the beta. I confronted him in game, and then we grouped up and began questing in ESO, shortly after, however, I killed a pig with a bow and the server immediately crashed as soon as the pig hit the floor, I thought I had broken the beta at that point.
After that first beta test, I was sold on ESO and began saving up for a collectors edition (which had not even been announced at the time), and any doubts I had about ESO back when I used to participate in the Facebook discussions were instantly evaporated.
Over the course of a few months after that first beta event in September, I was invited to several other beta tests, ranging from stress to focus tests in higher up zones. I had even developed a ritual that I performed for a few days after each beta test, where I would go to the store and stock up on provisions I would need for the upcoming weekend tests, which included chips, microwave food, lots and lots of mountain dew (usually 3-5 cases), beef jerky, and basically anything that I could get my hands on to keep my fed and awake so I could play and test as much as possible. I think more than once I stayed up for 24+ hours straight just non-stop playing.
Among these special tests was the first ever Cyrodiil test, where I probably only got 4 hours of sleep the entire weekend.
After several testing phases came and went, sometime around December I believe, I got the email of my life. I had received an invitation to join the 24/7 beta test group for ESO. It took me several minutes of re-reading the email because I was almost sure it was someone pulling my leg or some scam email, but sure enough the code worked and I thus became a member of the Psijic Order tester group.
After I got that email, I made sure I would play ESO whenever I could from December until launch. I also participated in other stress and focus tests in between that time, but a large portion of my time was spent on the Psijic realm leveling my Nightblade character. During that time, a good portion of people that are in the gaming community that I am a member of also got in, and we formed a branch of our community in ESO, and we played together all the time.
During my time on the PTS, I formed close friendships with people that are part of the ESO community that I still play with to this day, and also created rivalries that also still exist to this day, unfortunately. For the majority of my time on the PTS, I took things very slowly, hunting bugs wherever I could find them, trying to find ways in which I could purposefully break the game and cause problems so that I could then report them. I also spent a good amount of time raising my sword and fighting in the fields and forests of Cyrodiil for the Daggerfall Covenant, the alliance that I still to this day fight for in Cyrodiil.
On the last PTS day, a few days before launch, I looked back on all the things I had seen and accomplished, and even checked my /played time. I know it was definitely over 14 days, so over 336 hours of play time total, and that was just for one character. I had around 5 characters I believe, my main one being around veteran 3 before the server shut down, and a few others ranging from 20-40 I believe. I fondly remember, and probably will never forget, the last five minutes of the PTS server being up. I was in Cyrodiil, near Fort Warden, looking for an AD to fight since I wanted to go down fighting. I found one in the last 30 seconds on the server being up as they were doing the countdown, and with a sword and shield equipped, I shield charged him at the last second, knocked him down, then servers went offline a second after he hit the ground.
After that, I underwent a few days of ESO withdrawal as I could not play the game, then the moment the servers came up for early access, I went right to work making a new character and leveling it up to v10. I remember wanting to get to v10 so badly that I would even play ESO in the middle of class with the volume off, doing dungeons with guild mates while teachers were giving lectures on X, Y, or Z subjects (I don't remember anything from those class days :P ). I even remember standing up and cheering one time when we got a boss down on a veteran dungeon that we had been struggling on all class, and thankfully no one noticed (I think).
To this day, I have become the Guild Leader of that branch of the gaming group I mentioned earlier, I have been playing the game ever since launch, I have a v12 Nightblade and a v1 Dragon Knight with a few other non-veteran alts, and I continue to enjoy the game to this day and am always looking forward to the new content that they plan to release.
I plan on sticking with ESO for a very long time, and would just like to thank everyone at Zenimax Online Studios for a great year of Tamrielic adventures, and I look forward to hopefully many more years of adventures to come.
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✭ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Too much to read but I did anyway. Have an awesome on me
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This took a very long time, and included one very long pause to do some gaming and several moments of looking back and reflecting on memories.Edited by SG_Celerrimus on September 5, 2014 5:38AM1 -
renton1x1x1✭✭✭nice to see a thread that doesn't have "omg" and "nerf/buff" in. I'm also happy that there are people that enjoy the game as much as i do.Renton Sc Breton Sorcerer VR14
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TheAmu✭✭✭Wish there were more threads like this. A delight to read.
It can get so depressing reading these forums with everyone telling, no, aggressively insisting that I should hate this game.
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Greetings from a fellow early beta and Psijic Order PTS tester.
My 1 year anniversary was on July 9th.
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✭@dimmanxak ESO is not my first MMO, for a time I played SWTOR and was a WoW player for many years until I got into the ESO beta. Now I mostly only play ESO, along with some single player titles.Edited by SG_Celerrimus on September 5, 2014 6:43AM2 -
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Could you go into more detail about the old crafting system? I have a lot of interest in early beta. I still remember that twitch stream/video that got the uploader sued. Never got to see it, because it was frequently being taken down after being posted anywhere on the internet. I wish people would have recorded that stuff so they could show us now. Unfortunately, I didn't start playing until stress tests in February.2 -
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✭@david271749 I can try, but it might be a bit vague as I only tried it for a few minutes until I gave up trying to craft a sword, and I had no idea what was going on.
So, for starters, the UI was very different and was way too big to fit on the screen, and there were portions that were clipping into the bottom of the screen and you could only see about half of one section.
I remember you changed how many of different ingredients you put into making something, and I recall there were more things to put into making something then there was before. I recall something about adding animal blood or something like that into it. The system kinda reminded me of Skyrim's Alchemy system a bit. I also remember styles were handled a bit differently back then, still requiring the book, but the UI had it setup differently.
You also didn't have a clear picture of what you were making until after you made it, similar to the Skyrim alchemy system, for example, I believe there was a "learned" tab on there, and when you first started out it was empty. Then, you very confusingly started mixing ingredients you had picked up, changing the amounts a bit, and then pressing create, and it would say you created an iron dagger, and add the item and ingredients to the "learned" tab. I also remember there were different combinations that led to the exact same iron dagger, and different combinations that led to different iron daggers (i.e. different qualities, different levels, and different damage).
I wish I could go more into it, but it was only something I briefly looked at and tried to figure out, and I only have a fuzzy memory of what the UI looked like and I recall making a few daggers then running out of mats and walking away, its really hard to remember the old system. Really wish I could tell you more
Edit: I also think I recall seeing a bunch of drop downs that brought you to different menus I think, but I forgot what they were for.
Edit#2: I also think Iron Peat was used for something, or that I tried using it for something in Blacksmithing.Edited by SG_Celerrimus on September 5, 2014 7:10AM2 -
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✭✭✭@SG_Celerrimus , sorry to bear the news, but the first cyrodiil test was in July 2013, I participated in it... not September. So your test was not the first
Hi from another Psijic by the way 
! EDIT: See below, I misremembered.
That said, I am quite happy to wear this first anniversary badge: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/badge/anniversary and earned it as of July 12th
. Hopefully the first of many to come assuming they continue to improve the game, and I enjoyed reading your post.First Anniversary
Thanks for sticking with us for a full year.
Attorneyatlawl - You earned this badge July 12Edited by Attorneyatlawl on September 5, 2014 7:18AM-First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
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✭Attorneyatlawl wrote: »@SG_Celerrimus , sorry to bear the news, but the first cyrodiil test was in July 2013, I participated in it... not September. So your test was not the first Hi from another Psijic by the way !
Maybe one of the first large scale tests? I recall something about it being the first for something.Edited by SG_Celerrimus on September 5, 2014 7:15AM1 -
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✭✭✭SG_Celerrimus wrote: »Attorneyatlawl wrote: »@SG_Celerrimus , sorry to bear the news, but the first cyrodiil test was in July 2013, I participated in it... not September. So your test was not the first Hi from another Psijic by the way !
Maybe one of the first large scale tests? I recall something about it being the first for something... -_-
I could be mistaken, but I'm 99% sure. Still doesn't make your post any less awesome though, I just wanted to correct what I think was incorrect is all.
EDIT: Your post prompted me to go check my email, and guess what! This is going to be something absolutely UNPRECEDENTED on the internet! Get ready.... I'm admitting... I was wrong, it actually was indeed the first Cyrodiil test done in September 2013. My invite email is dated Sep 17th from last year for that one and it states it was the first. My prior invites were actually for pve it turns out.
Edited by Attorneyatlawl on September 5, 2014 7:18AM-First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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dimmanxak✭✭✭SG_Celerrimus wrote: »@dimmanxak ESO is not my first MMO, for a time I played SWTOR and was a WoW player for many years until I got into the ESO beta. Now I mostly only play ESO, along with some single player titles.
Then I can't understand why you're so enthusiastic about this game like it's your first. I have played WoW for 7 years and I DO like ESO but it feels like WoW in another skin. Still, I will keep subscription active because the game have a great potential. I hope Zenimax will implement it well.Edited by dimmanxak on September 5, 2014 7:21AMDmitry7 -
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Martinus72✭✭✭✭Thanks for good reading and it's always good to see such topics among all those moans and demands.
I have also had pretty rough beta experience, rough enough to put me off the release even but couldn't resist it at the end and bought my copy on April the 10th, since that day I have fallen for this beauty of Tamriel and don't look back at MMO's I had played before.
@dimmanxak - I've spent 6 years in WoW but cannot say in any way whatsoever that this is just another clone.
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✭Didn't even realize that I got my 1 year badge on the 4th, nice.☠ Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? ☠
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"Fear can claim what little faith remains."
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✭Arsenic_Touch wrote: »Didn't even realize that I got my 1 year badge on the 4th, nice.
Wait... you got yours on the 4th as well? Beta testers ftw!Edited by SG_Celerrimus on September 5, 2014 8:15AM1 -
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✭SG_Celerrimus wrote: »Arsenic_Touch wrote: »Didn't even realize that I got my 1 year badge on the 4th, nice.
Wait... you got yours on the 4th as well? Beta testers ftw!
Yup, along with 547 other people on that date.☠ Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? ☠
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"Hope can drown lost in thunderous sound."
"Fear can claim what little faith remains."
"Death will take those who fight alone."
"But united we can break a fate once set in stone."
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Screenshot saved for future reference!Attorneyatlawl wrote: »This is going to be something absolutely UNPRECEDENTED on the internet! Get ready.... I'm admitting... I was wrong 5 -
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✭BETA (edited because I said BETS lol ) TESTERS UNITE!! I am still playing though I have some issues with the game. love the hell out of it though. Hate it majority of the time :P It is a love hate thing for me where the hate gets less and less everday. Now if only i could figure out how to make gold in order to afford these outrageous prices of gearEdited by Gorthax on September 5, 2014 5:58PM1 -
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✭✭✭✭This post made me want to quit my job and play ESO all day every day.
I hate you OP. I hate you because of how much I love you.Daggerfall Covenant
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✭Congrats. But to be honest, I'm glad I wasn't on beta that long because I would be tired of the game. As long as the Imperial city is not in game I won't be pleased and I feel like I have waited enough.Edited by Sotha_Sil on September 5, 2014 10:11PMRestoration is a perfectly valid school of magic, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! - Spells and incantations for those with the talent to cast them!0 -
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✭Congrats. But to be honest, I'm glad I wasn't on beta that long because I would be tired of the game. As long as the Imperial city is not in game I won't be pleased and I feel like I have waited enough.
I can't wait for the Imperial City patch, hopefully its the one after this upcoming one.0
