Why is the playerbase so mentally fragile now

[Kaurhz]

Yep. Check out the old lost ark forums, or WoW forums, or any forums. They're crazy as hell. We're no different. Niche games or extreme moderation can avoid it, but it's rare.

It's in every community just in different forms, even outside of MMOs. e.g., you could go play Call of Duty and within 3 lobbies you'd already apparently have seven parents. Equally, I could go around on Battlefield, use a shotgun and within 40 minutes have a good half-sized enemy team crying that life isn't fair. Similarly, could do the exact same and have people raging in games like MK. Let's not forget about a certain meme of "Buying GF" either.

Moderation only solves so much e.g., people learning to skirt the ToS more, or just being more passive about matters rather than 'openly aggressive' - It really doesn't matter the only difference is people are masking it. Fragility would still be there, just in a different form.

This will come across as a bit of a weird one in wording but... This game just sounds worse than some others because some people may always speak of it being the best community ever etc., to the point where if something goes bad, it circulates and then the topic gets beaten, resurrected, and beaten once again. Whereas in some other communities, the expectancy of what can occur in the general community is a lot more exposed.

Edit:
Niche communities and games don't really avoid it either, the only luxury they have is that when something happens, it is probably only limited to a handful of people being in the know etc.,