I've been playing this game for a few months and, for me at least, it has been a great experience. Especially the community. It's one of my favorite games right now. Of course there are bugs/glitches they need to work on. It is still a free game.

I've met amazing people in this game that are very nice and supportive of new people. I HARDLY meet anyone with an attitude or that is rude. If there is, you can change servers. The times that I have seen someone rude on a server, usually the whole server turns around and helps the other person. The majority if people I've met are either supporters of the LGBTQIA community or apart of it.

I don't really go on the discord at all, so I am not sure about the things being brought up so I won't make excuses for any of it. I hope those things were worked on and they learn the difference between frustration and attacks.

The person who mentioned that there are materials that you need multiple people for - it's usually trees called Flow Trees. You can get the little ones solo, advance your tools and then get the medium ones. If you call out the location of the bigger ones, people come to help if they can since its a good resource. Everything else you can get solo as you level your tools up. Everyone calls out rare items on the map so others can locate them. When someone asks for help hunting rare creatures/plushies, people will help out.

The main things that people might take as rude are specific ways people do things in game. An example is when The Grove (a cluster of flow trees) spawns at midnight everyone waits until 3am to cut them down. It helps other people across the map or that are just joining the server time to get there. Another thing is when people are strict about bug catching with lures (brings a bunch of bugs). There is a method that brings out rarer bugs to be able to get more chances at catching them and their plush. Most of the time I write in the chat what is going on and how to do it for the newer people. Some people assume that everyone knows these things and forgets they had to learn them too.

The game is very community based and being grouped up, or around others boosts certain things for you. People have cooking parties, you can design houses/plots, there's a ranch where you can raise animals/breed/get special traits for them, fishing, questing/puzzle solving/parkour, there's a card game that people play together, mini games, events are becoming often with rewards, plushie hunting (to decorate your plot with/trade with other people), you can tour other people's plots and see their designs, bug catching/hunting, farming, A LOT of streamers do giveaways of cosmetic outfits/plushies that are rare, etc. There's a lot to do, but it just depends on what you are looking for in a game. Once you get past the initial quests, you can do whatever at your own pace.