i am genuinely intrested to know: how many people have actually completed the main quest of morrowind?
or, like me, were tempted away by the vastness and never quite finished it?

Know one can really say , though I do know that the moderators and people like me have finished the main quest . Though the only reason I did the main quest was so I could get the the Wraithguard that was worth 500,000 . Though many people have taken the back door like I once did on a save .

Many people have finished it. Not just moderators and people like you. Sometimes people like you don't finish it (I'm guessing. I don't know you). lol. And yes shadowj, we do know that the game has been out for 5 years.

No ... People like me feel impulsed to finish the main quest (inculding expansions) , so if your like me your lvl. 250 .

I guess I'm not. Im level 24682 (Or somewhere close)

I do as I usually do with video games. Rush through the first time and don't check FAQs or walkthroughs or anything and complete the game quickly to my own accord. Then I replay the game 2-3 times trying to get and do everything in the game, discover things and go 100% completion on the game. I've done pretty much all I can think of or have heard of in the xbox version of morrowind. grandmaster of all houses (on separate files), highest rank on all factions, every known sidequest, and a maxed out character (or as close as you can get in this game, lol). I've also done the backdoor a few times and have killed every plot sensitive character in a different file, lol!

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Many people have finished it. Not just moderators and people like you. Sometimes people like you don't finish it (I'm guessing. I don't know you). lol. And yes shadowj, we do know that the game has been out for 5 years.

And that you can steal and kill at will , I one time had a save , and my main objective was to screw up the main quest every way possible , though the first things I do are kill vivec and that fat spider guy thing .

As soon as I finish the expansions, I'm embarking on a mission to kill every NPC in the game! I'm gonna wipe out every city & town, from Dagon Fel to Vivec. I'm going to clear out every bandit cave and Daedric ruin, from Abernanit to Zergonipal. Mournhold and Solstheim will fall before me! I will claim all of Vvardenfell as my own! Muahahahaaaaaa!!!!!

That is, after I finish the expansions and get a new game disc...

i havent even started the main ques yet and ive been playing it for two weeks straight

Well , that is if you have played the expansions before . Obviously if you have played the expansions before it's going to be easy , like I was able to beat the Mournhold expansion in just 1 measly day .

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As soon as I finish the expansions, I'm embarking on a mission to kill every NPC in the game! I'm gonna wipe out every city & town, from Dagon Fel to Vivec. I'm going to clear out every bandit cave and Daedric ruin, from Abernanit to Zergonipal. Mournhold and Solstheim will fall before me! I will claim all of Vvardenfell as my own! Muahahahaaaaaa!!!!!

That is, after I finish the expansions and get a new game disc...

It is only possible if you use console commands or something . Well , unless you where able to bet the scrolls from this guy in the Mournhold expansion , though you could use the windwaker scroll which has the same effect as the other scrolls .

I wasn't thinking about guards... dang! Oh well, I'll still kill off every unique NPC.

Well , I only consider people such as Vivec unique .