I started playing Allods in early spring 2010 and here are my oldest screenies - took awhile before I even learned one could take screenies xD
Dated June 28th 2010. I had just gotten new gears from Asee-Teph around lv 23(ish) and 1 gear had a bug that made the toon appear without arms.
Dated July 2nd 2010. I reached lv 32 in Eljune and made my first avatar from this screenie xDDD
Dated July 9th 2010 I had my very first experience with the first mount in Allods - a Kanian horse in League side. If I remember correctly it was a free try out for limited time when gPotato "advertised" the long waited mount in the days long before auto-running was invented and with considerably less teleport pads existing per zone. At that time there was only Aidenu's Tower's teleport in Lightwood and you had to painstakingly run all around Lightwood! (no auto-run) and there was no short-cut path to Oreshek on the hill's side like they added in 2012... you had to follow the main road all the way >.>
Dated August 6th 2010 I tried Empire side. Never got to the second zone as I just didn't like the quests nor landscapes.
I do miss the days when dying had no penalty, there was no need for myrrh (forgot what it is called now), no need for high runes etc. Apart from mounts and outfits, you could really play for free and succeed without ridiculous amounts of grinding for gold or putting hundreds - even thousands - of €/$ cash to keep your toon surviving in raids and astral - not even mentioning pvp. Those days are long gone...
-Gwin-