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Its hard to get around Morrowind without quest markers to guide your way
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Its hard to get around Morrowind without quest markers to guide your way
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Here's the problem: anyone with the technical know-how and patience to use the original Morrowind Engine likely frowns upon the mere idea of such "crutches." And, speaking as someone who has extensively played the game, I sort of get why: because the entire game is based around the idea that quest text must be read and retained, the placement of key objects and characters is much more precise to the directions given. It's not so much "you're not HARDCORE ENOUGH to play the game", it's "I mean I could make a GPS system OR you could listen to me when I say it's that building over there down the street."
In a bigger game, later on, I understand the necessity for quest markers. Think of every marked and unmarked location in say Fallout 4 for instance: there's a lot of them. Some of them have zero purpose besides being an encounter zone (a concept implemented in Oblivion) for a "radiant" adventure. You go into this apartment building and you shoot the bad guys and they drop loot. There's no quests revolving around it, but that's realistic; not every single place in a fantasy setting needs a purpose.
Morrowind is not like that. If a place is important, it'll be mentioned. If it isn't, then... well, it's not important. Assuming you're entering/exploring things as you find them, by the time you reach the quest you'll likely have a record of the name in your character's journal and a description of where to go. For lack of a better term, Morrowind has less "filler" than later Bethesda games.
TL;DR: Anyone who COULD implement it likely won't, and because of the size of the game it's not really necessary either way.