It's strange for me. My actual experiences in game haven't really changed all that much since I started. I'm in a great FC and mostly have a pretty good time doing whatever it is I choose to do. They player base, at large, still seems fairly friendly and supportive overall.

But I absolutely have noticed that everyone has apparently forgotten how to talk to each other. It's like a wave of collective muteness has swept over the game. People just make assumptions about what should be done and how and there's a pervasive feeling of everyone just being expected to know exactly how to do everything in the game. This lack of communication is just clarified by the forums where people do talk but don't seem to be listening to each other at all. It's almost all "my way or the highway." In game things either go fine or they fall apart completely simply because no one outside of their given clique wants to or cares to actually cooperate.