What has gotten into the community these days?

[EaraGrace]

first of all everyone has the right to express their opinion, for you it is just a game because maybe you did not invest so much emotionally, financially or time-wise, but for those who really put a lot of effort into the game it is a emotional and can be frustrating when things goes wrong or when the game goes down hill, so I can understand why they are what you call 'over react'.

So my advice to you is that, as long as they are not been toxic or aggressive, what is wrong with their opinion or so you called 'over reaction'? it does not concern you at all.

so mind your own business is the best thing you can do.

I think OP is just trying to encourage everyone to look behind the screen and see the person, not minimize what others are feeling. Its something we can all forget, as I know I have.

[Deceptus]

I think OP is just trying to encourage everyone to look behind the screen and see the person, not minimize what others are feeling. Its something we can all forget, as I know I have.

OP could have posted that in any of the multitudes of white knighting threads, instead they wanted attention to make their own post.

[Alleo]

OP could have posted that in any of the multitudes of white knighting threads, instead they wanted attention to make their own post.

But its fine when we have countless of threads about the other side? About Toxic positivity or whats going on with the devs?

We will always have people posting their own little topic even when a similiar thread is still on the front page. On the lore forum alone there is a thread talking about the story of 6.1 and yet countless of other threads that are about story points from 6.1 are also there. All of them could have fit in that one thread but honestly who really cares? I guess all of these people also just want attention?

Edit:
And about the topic itself:

Both sides can be very extreme in their views and it seems right now the forum is in a very aggressive state. I can understand it somewhat. I myself have been very angry with SE quite a few times over the years and posted about this here. Still of course tried to stay as nice as possible even if sometimes it was much harsher than intended. There are still a few things that I dislike, including housing for example. So I get the anger. I also get that if you like all these things, that its annoying to read so many negative thoughts or even be seen as a white knight for writing your own opinions about a topic.

Thats why I agree with the OP in the regards that we all should try to remember that there is a human behind the screen. And trying to be at least a bit polite towards them does not mean that you cant still rage on about different topics without insulting the other posters at the same time.

I know that most of the posters that are angry right now like the game. They are angry because they want it to be better. Its a feeling I had countless of times over the years. Yet I also wonder how some can still be there when every expansion is seemingly the breaking point for them and yet even though it does not get better they still stay.