I wasn't around for the first couple of years of ESO so I have no idea what a classic ESO would be like.

I never stopped playing it lmao.

The problem is too many people 'covet' things, it's like an addiction. So no, they're not going to part with their stuff, even if it might bring about something better for everyone.

It'll never happen. Some of us know what's up though... I own the wealth, it does not own me.

No.

I tried the Beta and passed on getting it.

I got it a bit after the subscription requirement ended since a bunch of my friends pushed for me to get it but then everyone got sick of it after a bit.

ESO works better now because the early content releases went so badly that they were forced to adjust. (With that said, at times the adjustments bury problems more than fix them)

I wouldn't play any version of ESO that didn't have the ability to do any of the content in any order. For me that was the main benefit of One Tamriel, prior to which I could only do DLC content on release of that content by interrupting progress in the base game zones which I'd then have out-levelled on returning to them.

That and the wretched trading system was the only problem I had with the game at launch, I never really understood then or now why a lot of people consider the game to have been badly broken back then.

Nope. I started on Xbox right after Imperial City was released, it was fun but having started over on Playstation a few years ago with no research and no anything, nope. If you want it so bad switch consoles or servers, nothing carries over.
Vet ranks and leveled zones were annoying, especially with guilds of different alliances, and doing group activities left you stuck at your lowest level player’s areas. Again you can start with nothing by changing servers if you really want to though it’d still be the much better version we have today even if it’s not perfect.

Not sure what this would even mean in the context of ESO, but what I am sure of is that if you asked 10 players what prior iteration of eso is "best", you'd get 11 different answers. If we're talking about pre-One-Tamriel here, I personally doubt that ZoS would be interested in investing resources into bringing back a time when the game was not very popular and was doing very poorly.

If the point is "starting over", I did that once with a cheap new account when base game was on sale, and it was fun. But I wouldn't be interested in giving up all that's been added to ESO over the years. And there's no way to actually re-create the experience of starting the game "fresh" for the first time - one's knowledge and skills would still carry over.

If the point is that this is really a "vet overland" thread in disguise, well I'm gonna leave that discussion where it belongs other than to say that I do hope ZoS can find a solution that pleases that crowd.

If the point is that pvp was more fun and better balanced at some point in the past, well that might be true. I don't pvp so that's not my area. But I imagine they *could* add some kind of "classic" pvp instance if there was a lot of interest - but again... what would that look like? Very unlikely that whatever "classic" point in time they pick would please everyone.

[EDIT for typo].

It was so difficult that I left and didn't come back until they changed it with One Tamriel.

licenturion wrote: »

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.

Don't forget housing, armory, and outfit stations too. Then there's not being faction locked to the map. Those were all huge QOL changes.

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After continually dying in the starter areas in old ESO I left to play something else. I only came back a few years ago and am having fun now.

If they changed it back I would just leave again, like I did a few years ago in NWN when they decided to make the trash take much longer to kill. If trash mobs are no longer trash they is not worth my time, period.

Edit: clarity

No... unless I got per character tracking back. If "Classic ESO" meant I could start a character over, from scratch, and receive recognition from the game properly as I explored lands as if completely anew, with acknowledgements of my feats for fighting world bosses, beating dungeons etc.... then I'd be tempted.

But honestly I am not 100% sure what a "Classic ESO" would really look like. It has been a long time since my WoW days, but from my understanding part of how they progressed the game was to completely disrupt the lands such that "going back to what it was before" is actually a thing. ESO devs have added on but haven't completely re-built any of the areas from the ground up, such that classic would mainly be less areas to explore, less content to see, wouldn't it?

Also it is my understanding that ESO was launched without some key features that they specifically planned to add after launch, and it had multiple launches because it has both PC and console. So identifying when ESO "Classic" should be seems like an exercise in dividing the community more than anything else.

Nope. I was there. The game’s a lot better now.

I may be in the minority here, but I enjoyed the more challenging PvE environment back in the early days.

Adernath wrote: »

I may be in the minority here, but I enjoyed the more challenging PvE environment back in the early days.

It was only more challenging if you were willing to skip large parts of the story.

I wanted to do all the quests as I was moving through each zone, to get the full experience, but that meant I was always overlevelled for what I was doing. Eventually I'd stop getting XP at all and it would catch up a bit, but I'd quickly out level it again.

One Tamriel actually made the game harder for me. Most overland and quest things still aren't particularly difficult (except some world bosses) but at least it takes multiple attacks now. Before I'd pick whichever skill I wanted to see the animation for and just use that because it didn't matter what I hit them with and I'd only get 1 attack, 2 if I was lucky.

Pre One Tamriel for me and pre AWA.