10 years ago I was . . .

[Renathras]

It's nice to see some praise for MoP. I remember how dubious people where about WoW trying to copy ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and all that, but it turned out to be my fav expansion. What I loved most about it was that it decided to explore new lore. The expansions before it always fell into "Oh remember this person/place from the old games? Well now they are back!" but this time we got a whole new continent and lore to explore that had, prior to then, just been hinted at with a ‘joke’ character from an old game. Plus I just loved the music and scenery.

Something I've noticed in life is that people tend to be much rougher on a lot of things than history is. And it's weird seeing the turnaround.

I tend to just like what I like, but I remember, for example, FF9 being hated when it came out by the community (now it's looked at very fondly and praised as one of the "last legacy" FF games), the Star Wars prequels I remembered getting a lot of hate at the time but now people compare them to the new ones as positive, Star Trek: Enterprise was disliked when it was running but looked at pretty fondly now, etc.

When Mists was live, I was thinking at the time it was probably one of the better expansions the game had. Things were probably the most balanced overall in that expansion than they ever had been before (or arguably since), the world was pretty alive, I enjoyed the various content forms like the raids and the Timeless Isle (I think I was deployed during the Thunder isle, but it seemed to be pretty popular as well), and so on. It also has one of the most epic lines in gaming history to me:

"When I was young.... When _I_ was young......
...I was EMPEROR."

After that mountain climb with the old man, it was just such a powerfully delivered line to me, I still get a bit of chills from it.

I think it was probably the best or one of the best overall expansions in the game's history, it just took WoD and BfA and Shadowlands for people to finally make that realization, I think. A friend of mine and I were having a conversation at the time about it and he said the same thing. So some people did realize it, they were just drowned out by the negative nancies of the day, the people who always complain about "the current thing" no matter what it is.

MoP didn't get its due until years later when people realized just how good they had it. It was and forever remains my favorite expansion all around. One might say that I liked it before it was cool.

Same.

[Mr_Gyactus]

Something I've noticed in life is that people tend to be much rougher on a lot of things than history is. And it's weird seeing the turnaround.

I tend to just like what I like, but I remember, for example, FF9 being hated when it came out by the community (now it's looked at very fondly and praised as one of the "last legacy" FF games), the Star Wars prequels I remembered getting a lot of hate at the time but now people compare them to the new ones as positive, Star Trek: Enterprise was disliked when it was running but looked at pretty fondly now, etc.

When Mists was live, I was thinking at the time it was probably one of the better expansions the game had. Things were probably the most balanced overall in that expansion than they ever had been before (or arguably since), the world was pretty alive, I enjoyed the various content forms like the raids and the Timeless Isle (I think I was deployed during the Thunder isle, but it seemed to be pretty popular as well), and so on. It also has one of the most epic lines in gaming history to me:

The problem is not what ff9 is, but what ff8 and ff7 were.
ff7 is excellent from any point of view: characters, fight system (materia, we use the name "materia" in ff14 and there weren't materia in 1.0), world, story development (everyone cried when Aerith...)
ff8 is another excellent game: characters, fight system, side game (we have the card game in ff14!), story etc
ff9 is not excellent. it's another great and fun game of the golden age of squaresoft- square enix, but there is nothing memorable.

MoP is a Great expansion, full of things to do, humor, wonderful dungeons and raids BUT we were expecting something different after Tbc, wotlk and cataclysm, let's say we were expecting "legion".

[Tahbitha]

ff9 is not excellent. it's another great and fun game of the golden age of squaresoft- square enix, but there is nothing memorable.

For this blasphemy, I sentence you to play jump-rope with Vivi until you can do it 1000 times in a row without failing.

[VictorSpoils]

For this blasphemy, I sentence you to play jump-rope with Vivi until you can do it 1000 times in a row without failing.

I guess "great and fun" was too generous.

[Mr_Gyactus]

For this blasphemy, I sentence you to play jump-rope with Vivi until you can do it 1000 times in a row without failing.

Still better than dodging hundreds of thunders, but...
I don't remember anything memorable of ff9. Maybe Alexander, or when Vivi returns at his town? Dagger cutting her hairs? Ok, but in ff8 we catch our girlfriend in the open space, we renzokken bahamut jumping from wing to wing, and the dance cutscene! not the dance of Cloud in ff7 remake, but a good dance anyway!

[Renalt]

Still better than dodging hundreds of thunders, but...
I don't remember anything memorable of ff9. Maybe Alexander, or when Vivi returns at his town? Dagger cutting her hairs? Ok, but in ff8 we catch our girlfriend in the open space, we renzokken bahamut jumping from wing to wing, and the dance cutscene! not the dance of Cloud in ff7 remake, but a good dance anyway!

I think of the Garden Battle. You know how hype that will be if it gets the FF7R treatment?