Classic? I remember only nightmarish material.

I’m nostalgic for that time only because of the shiny newness of it all, and the great guilds and friends that were active. The high cyrodiil population, and with soft caps and no CP we were all on a level playing field. It came down to who had more skill, who had better group coordination and a stronger raid lead, who had better RNG for Warlock jewelry.

Every new dungeon and eventually Craglorn and trials were a fun challenge that we all discovered together.

But looking past the nostalgia the game just wasn’t great then. There’s a reason it was widely panned the first year, and why most players from launch didn’t stick around.

I don’t want to go back to a time without the gameplay enhancements that have been introduced in the last 9 years. I don’t want to go back to only being able to group within my own faction, and having completely empty vet zones, and leveling each alt though vet ranks. I don’t want to go back before the Thieves Guild, or Dark Brotherhood, or weapon ultimates. A time before a functional group finder. Before Imperial City. Before the best dungeons and trials were introduced. Before dueling. Before jewelry crafting.

I DO want to be able to destroy resource towers again. Maybe give their doors back. Reenable ground oils. Bring back clear, logical questing progression for new players.

I really love where the game is now

I'm assuming you're referring to some pre-one tamriel time so it's a hard pass from me. Besides, my favorite year of content (2019) is from quite a while after that update, as well as most of my favorite features like the outfit system, antiquities and companions.

Level gated zones? Level gated missions?

No way, that dumb unfun outdated game mechanic can stay buried in 2010.

It was the reason I once tried ESO and dumped it after a day.

Also other modern gaming advancements like the stickerbook, duplicate protection, group finder, AWA and many other things are stuff that I can't miss.

Yes BUT...I wouldn't play it full time, i want it to exist out of curiosity, i want to see if it was as bad as people say, i just want to give it shot as i never got to play it's first version and im REALLY interested in what it was like.

I've never played WoW but from what I've heard a big part of the appeal of WoW Classic wasn't balance and removing QoL updates but that some expansions had completed changed or removed areas of the game, so entire quest chains and storylines were unavailable and zones looked and worked differently.

That's never happened in ESO. Even One Tamriel only removed restrictions on how you go through zones, it didn't remove or change any of the quests, it's still possible to play every in the same order you were required to play it before, but now it's your choice if you want to do that or do something different.

If the majority of players could agree on a point in time that had the 'best' balance, best versions of all the skills etc. etc. I think it would be far better for ZOS to update the game to match, while retaining the new classes, skill lines etc. rather than sectioning it off as an alternate version (which we'd have to pay extra to access). Making a seperate 'classic' version would not only split the playerbase even more but give ZOS a financial incentive to ensure the main game never comes close to that version of balance ever again, so they can keep selling it as a seperate extra.

But getting everyone to agree on one version is going to be easier said than done.

It would depend on which version of ESO, but most likely yes.

However, I wouldn't want to have veteran levels back as their were too tedious to be even remotely considered fun and I'd prefer One Tamriel since it gives me a choice in which alliance to quest.

No, I wasn't that impressed with ESO the first time around when it was new and only came back to it with Summerset, so a classic version wouldn't interest me.

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Start over with 0 cp? No skills? WOW and Runescape have both milked the "classic" versions. Especially WOW. Now they are the 3rd version of classic. How about it for ESO?

I would not play ESO Classic. A rollback of the game to the point before everything wrong was fixed and necessary changes were not yet made? No thank you.

However, I would definitely start over with 0 CP and no skills in the current game.

Only thing old eso has thats better is old jabs and flurry animations

Oh and old glowy bound armaments.

Normally I would vote yes but I was here for BETA and am still here. It was not a good time to be in ESO