To be fair, the opinions of this forum are mostly skewed because the contrarians (hello ) are the most active anymore in the FF forums. If you actually got the members who stick to General Chat/Lounge/Discord or the admins involved, you would find that we're a pretty typical FF forum fandom with the one variable being the Pro-FFIX element. Like this is one of the few general FF fandom spots I've seen that has a rather large proportion of fans who love IX and would rank it as the best entry.

The XII hatedom died down, but I think we still have a few less active members who come in occasionally to try and set the rest of us straight. The VIII haters are honestly the most active in terms of making threads about why the game sucks for people. One sporadic member being the spearhead for the movement. Other than that, take solace in knowing your opinions are pretty much inline with most of the fandom and your confusion is being stuck with a bunch of loud mouth dissenters who make it seem like we speak for the forum when it's really the forum just letting us shout on our metaphorical street corners as the doomsayers they see us as.