Mister Arkham
Scholar
I don't think that the Codex's general consensus about the game has changed, so much as that the couple of years between release and now has given more people the distance needed to talk about it and judge it without all of the initial bile coming back up.
Nobody seems to have changed their mind about the game. It's the difference between talking about the game by saying, "I HAYTE IT BECAUSE IT DUMB SHIT!" and talking about it by saying, "I didn't like the game because of this, this, and this; which I think are poor design decisions for the following reasons..." Maybe that's decline for you, but I'd much rather see reasoned discussion than the vitriolic hatestorms that the Codex has come to love.
Nobody seems to have changed their mind about the game. It's the difference between talking about the game by saying, "I HAYTE IT BECAUSE IT DUMB SHIT!" and talking about it by saying, "I didn't like the game because of this, this, and this; which I think are poor design decisions for the following reasons..." Maybe that's decline for you, but I'd much rather see reasoned discussion than the vitriolic hatestorms that the Codex has come to love.