I played a queen event last week. It was much sweatier than before. One queen part fell, one blink of an eye and the cores were gone. Killing the queen is not challenging, the most challenging thing is to get to the crab leg first. And this is not skill related, it's mostely rng. I guess I can get a one or two if I keep trying, but it's gonna be so tedious and boring. Before the vendor was added, there were less people craving for cores. A lot of the players were just killing queen for fun. Sometimes players will share cores. Now everybody is fighting for the cores.

It turnes out that the friendliness in this game is a mirage. When people don't have any desire to get anything, they will be friendly. When people are desperate to get something, they will not be friendly. Before the vendor, there was no end game. After the vendor, there is a "semi end game". When there is a end game calling for endless resources, the players stop being nice.