One Year Ago! - The thread

[Frisque]

one year ago........

-You had to have your panties repaired by the NPC (OR you had to roll w/ a spare set so they could be repaired thru crafting)
-You had to search every single retainer in the wards to find an obscure part to finish a synth, only to find out it was ridiculously expensive because only 2 people on the server could make it.
-Everyone and their mother were packed into the starting and secondary camps for each city
-You couldn't skip cutscenes (LOL, I know the guy who posted the "sight for me sore eyes" was in closed beta)
-you got to hear about it in your chat box every time someone crafted something (or pulled something from gathering)
-There was horrible UI (Menu) lag. (10-15 minutes to make a trade, anyone?)
-There were random DC's during levequests/behests
-Everyone seemed to have a "don't attack red-named mob" macro
-Every 20 mins or so in town, there would be /shouts from people looking for shields
-People would spam shout w/offensive crap just to see how long it would take for them to get kicked
-Parties would fight high HP low attack mobs like Nannys to draw out every single kill as long as possible to increase chances of SP from more actions
-Every mage looked like a real-life trappist Monk (Cowls & Rope belts FTW)
-Practically every recipe was guess-work because the Lodestone recipes were fail (and YG/Zam etc were having a helluva time trying to catch up)
-We only started with ONE retainer
-We were unable to summon retainers from outside of wards
-There was no Sort function on inventory
-there were "emergency maintenance" patches and server outages like once every few days
-There were no Forums (although to be fair, there are some days when I wish they weren't here)

(that's all I got time for.......for now)

*Edit: wait.....I think i"m wrong. Weren't the Behests added later? If so ignore my behest items, and add in: "-We did not have behests"