Standing in line to complete a quest in Reapers March.

Naked jumping in Coldharbour to light braziers.

Harvesters that wrecked your day.

Daedric motif selling for 100k

Thinking playing a paladin was a viable choice as a templar.

Occasional subscription loyalty rewards.

No craft bag. No group finder. No NPC hirelings to bank for you. No blade of woe. No justice system.

Good times.

I only started playing last year so I never got to experience that golden age of the first years. Instead I've chosen to experience my own golden age in the game.

I remember being thrown back by how good the game looked, because all other mmos I had seen pictures or videos of didn't really appeal to me. It was also the first time I ever got into an Elder Scrolls game, so obviously there was a lot of lore that I needed to discover (and still do, as I have yet to play any of the single player games)

svartorn wrote: »

Gravord wrote: »

Lag free Cyrodiil, back in beta and early launch, before they start messing it up. Now its not even quarter of that population cap, torchbugs and most animals was removed and it still works worse now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bBvOKxnVE

Ahhhhh.

That brings back memories. It seems so distant.

Wow, sad to think some players will never know what this game was.

Same. I miss cyrodil. These days I lag out in a 10v10 keep fight and just turn the game off.

I very clearly remember my first impression upon arriving in daggerfall - who the *** are all these other people running around inside my game (my first mmorpg)...

ESO in 2014 aka "ESO Classic": a number of bugs and server issues, but TRULY AWESOME.

ESO in 2019 aka "ESO BFA": a number of bugs and server issues, and it's gameplay sucks, races don't have relevant bonuses, skills have been nerfed and streamlined into an endless sea of boredom.

i didn't like the game at all at first, everything felt... grey and soulless...
but with each new year and new dlc, the game gets bigger and better. now it's one of my favorite MMOs

My initial feelings in ESO were similar to those inspired by other games - overwhelmed, confused, awkwardness while trying to learn how things worked, too distracted by learning the game to fully notice the music, landscape, graphics etc.

After a time though, that faded and I grew comfortable in the game. I believe the first time this really hit me was when fighting a world boss and, for the first time, being comfortable enough to pay attention to the beautiful combat music. Increasing comfort and skill in the game has enabled me to much more fully appreciate its beauty and atmosphere.

So it was with Oblivion and Skyrim for me. The difference in ESO is that the mass and scale in ESO is such that, after a few thousand hours of play, I see no sign of ever 'outgrowing' it. With so many zones and places to explore, by the time I get back to where I've been it feels new again.

As primarily a soloist who prefers single player, my biggest frustration with this wonderful game has been having skills that I'm comfortable with and enjoy getting nerfed. My solution has been to retreat even further into solo play and to have numerous variants of my character so when I get frustrated by nerfs that undermine a class, I can play her as another class until the next round of nerfs.

During the three years I've been playing, I still find all the original zones and quests more enjoyable than any of the DLC. Overall, I'd say the game has taken 10 steps forward and perhaps 9 steps back while I've been playing. I still find it very enjoyable.

I hated the game initially, didnt like the combat or the crafting interface and Stone Falls was so dreary. Basically, it wasnt Skyrim. I also didnt like having to pay a subscription to play right after dropping 60 bucks for the game. I only played for a few hours. Fast forward 1 year; For nostalgia's sake, I decided to go see what they did with the Skyrim area. I walked all the way from davon's watch trying to get to Whiterun lol. At level 6ish vs lvl 35+ mobs, I died a lot. And I went over the same areas a lot until I figured out what a wayshrine does, and then started aiming for those when they pop up on the compass (no add-ons yet) I ended up exploring all of The Rift and Eastmarch and I thought those areas were super cool and it was a fun journey that got me interested in the game.

2014: Deciding at level 9 that I HAD to be a vampire and walking all the way from Auridon to Reaper's March to find vampire spawns only to be killed by level 30 skeevers. (Had no idea I could port to a guild mate) I finally made it and got very lucky (a lovely player showed me where to look) with a spawn by Dune Wayshrine, but then I was waaay underlevelled to do the quest, didn't manage until I'd levelled up more anyway. Spending weeks in the daggerfall bank looting because I need the Daedric motif to go with my new vampirism and someone told me the drop rate was higher there

Not being able to kill Molag Bal, because big fiery death attack kept killing me (vampire ofc), until a kindly player crafted me some rings of resist fire, which I keep to this day.

I was utterly clueless about everything, I was V10 before I realised that I wasn't actually doing any damage (I was a DPS) and that I should learn a bit about, you know, everything.

The broken quests, omg, waiting for Telenger the Artificer to do his thing and everyone doing the /hammer emote on him. Ah those were the days.

call me weird, but after my sorc was deemed no longer useful. I rolled a new toon. I did the main quest from start to finish again, and man, it was awesome. Things I had forgotten, things I did remember, the whole coldharbour quest was just great. Imbued with the powers of my friends, kicking the crap out of Molag Bal and his minions in God-mode was such a wonderful time. Then doing Cadwells silver/gold was a reminder why I started to love this game. Good times.

Vhozek wrote: »

eovogtb16_ESO wrote: »

I loved how difficult the game was before one tamriel. I loved how smooth 100v100v100 battles were before one tamriel. I loved everything before one tamriel. I mean it's still good and there were issues too back then but it definitely didn't feel as broken as it does today.

You had 100vs100vs100?
What?
What the hell did One Tamriel do to the game?

We REALLY had almost DAoC / Warhammer RvR. After all, they hired some game developers from the company that made those awesome PvP MMOs. Epically huge, battles, free of lag. Guild (100 people) vs other guild or zerg.

But we cannot have something good last forever. Some players found ways to hack the ESO client to do all sort of cheats so ZOS had to move most of the spells, skills and positioning code on the server. Result: the disaster you see today.

When I first started I had no idea how to join a guild, and had no friends who played, so I walked everywhere. It took forever for me to even get out of Glenumbra. I did every single quest.

The first time I ever saw Wayrest I thought it looked amazing. Now the cities in the DLCs look even better than the original cities did.

The first time I ever saw a frost mare mount, I thought it was the coolest (LOL) thing I'd ever seen.