Quote Originally Posted by Insaniac View Post
Shinryu and a lot of abyssea mobs for that matter won't drop loot if everyone in the party already has it. I assume this was to stop people from shout selling stuff on a whim. Either way the server performs a check on what items everyone has at some point and prevents it from entering the pool. I'm sure that code could be copy/pasted to chests easily enough. Not that it would fix anything. The loot system would still be terrible. Now if it performed the check and instead of making an item just not pop in your chest it made it pop in someone else's if you already had it, that would be a different story.
That's something that has been in the game for damn near forever, as it applies to all rare/ex items that drop everywhere.