Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
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".