The End Comes At Last
by Matthew Rossi 
Aug 4th 2014 at 5:00PM
It's been a long ride, this expansion. Longer than it should have been. I think that's an irrefutable statement, but for everyone there's a different threshold. Personally, I hit my fill of Mists of Pandaria a few months back. It wasn't due to a lack of quality, or any kind of discontent with the expansion's storyline, or some sort of knee jerk reaction to pandas. I liked the pandaren, I liked Pandaria, I liked the raids we got. No, for me it was simply long past its shelf life, a victim of its own success in pushing out patches faster during the expansion. I've felt for a while now that it would have been better for the game if they'd actually been a little slower with each patch - an extra month or so for each one to come out would have made this less a content drought and more a mere dry spell.
But at last, it's over. I'm not angry with Mists, exactly - it did a lot of really great things and accomplished what it set out to do. It gave us whole new places to go and explore and a new story that incorporated the new land we were exploring and the places we'd come from. I had fun playing it. I'm glad we'll soon get to go somewhere else, though. It's time to move on.
Filed under: Mists of Pandaria
