When released on the computer, the game's performance was so lacking that many reviews joked that the ideal system for playing Morrowind was "a computer two years from now". As of 2004 - roughly two years after the game was released - many of the newest systems still have difficulty playing the game at an acceptable speed.
There are numerous references to humor writer Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka of Somethingawful.com An island directly west of Tel Aruhn has the body of a man named Arlowe (R-Low) and it has a weapon called "The Banhammer". On the website, Lotwax refers to banning people as "Hitting them with the ban-hammer".
The some of the music in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is parts of the soundtrack to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, remastered.