Back in my day, one could equip the Shadowsilk Gem and gain the ability to become a horse-surfing goblin.

Back in my day (eso related only)

If you had more than one vr10 character you had no life.

Cyrodiil and blink mages fml...shutting down whole server for fun. Frigging Chuck Norris guild and meteor spam.

BWB was so fun

They had to take the lions, torchbugs and deer (most) from Cyrodiil in a patch to resolve unplayable lag. It IS better now, no lie.

When myself and 2 other NA players got all nirn all motifs as master crafters it was a big deal. [and I made lots of $$] Soon after that a patch came and you could loot better gear from barrels than you could craft. Still exists today smh.

Dosha took 2 guildies outside the dungeon rooting me on and trading more repair kits to kill her, without which I would of uninstalled the game.

There were so many people playing you had to wait 10-15 mins to be able to kill a final boss in order to advance the quest. Just trying to get a hit in.

Going into a dungeon as a group was so bugged once inside you had to port to one another in order to share the instance.

There was a Que to login "you are number 368 in line".

The psijic order referred to a ultra group of Alpha players.

There were Game managers in guilds and playing the game. There were also ZOS employees in chat.

The people in game chat were so kind and helpful..WAIT that's still there!


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Back in my day we played with sticks and rocks.

Back in my day:
- The game could run decent on directx 9.0 & Windows XP (yep, I know it is crazy to think of, but those rly are system reqirements back from 2014).
- Hybrids were a thing.
- NB tanks were decent (sap tank).
- Woodelfs were playable race.
- Argonians were playable race.
- There was almost no meta (lol ? ).
- There were no ball groups in pvp.
- There were no weapon ultimates.
- There was no lag in Cyrodiil.
- NB cloak had a build-in purge (lol ?).
- Sorcs had unlimited streak (lol ?).
- Mobs & dungeon bosses had different resistance for different type of dmg (so the dmg type actually mattered).
- There was no inventory management issues for regular players (today we have this problem introduced by zos and solution sold by zos (craft bag) in a forced subscription form).

(I am pretty sure I can think of more stuff, but that would probably make my post too long).

Back in my day going to the wrong map meant certain death to my low lvl toon...

and I loved it - no sense of progression nowadays

Back in my day I had to wait for the servers to spin up for the newest test cycle. Seems they are still working on that...

Back in my day que for dps in dungeon only took, who am I kidding I’m still waiting

LukosCreyden wrote: »

...20K DPS was a lot...

Hold my beer, back in my day 1k was a lot.

Molag Bol was impossible to defeat on my max lvl sorcerer even after a huge buff (given by a dev) during Beta.

A very long time ago....

*Back in my day each zone had levels. :0 But many ignored that and you saw plenty of level 20s in a lvl 30 zone. xD

*Back in my day veteran levels was a thing!


This seems to be more a thread to awe new players. I imagine some go all "really??? :0 o.o Wow!"
Nostalgia alert hehe.

Back in my day vampire's elusive mist was almost as fast as other peoples mounts - and it was epic

Back in my day we dueled in Cyrodiil and started the fight by jumping three times. -_-

Back in my day resto staff was used for ganking, the entire game didn't feel like tutorial until you hit max get rank, cyrodill had higher player caps per faction and didn't lag as much, dmg numbers used to be in the hundreds and resources used to be in the low thousands like sub 4k.