Hunts: What's Really Wrong With Them

[ruinedmirage]

I have to agree with Shake0615 on this. SE is completely to blame for making the ridiculous incentives. Fastest tome collecting (which is what the relic half of people play for), fastest way to upgrade to end-game raid gear (what the raid half plays for), and placed on open world content that too many on the forums have been begging for.

With those kind of rewards on brand new shiny content, the kind of rewards that cut this whole grinding game down to 1/10th of the effort, no more waiting for months to get gear, no more having to learn mechanics or sludge through criticism and harassment on your way to being the most geared there ever was .............. what did you expect the MMO playerbase to do? Apparently SE has way more faith in humanity than I thought. Too bad it not only backfired on them, but brought hacks and apps into more light than ever.

SE's over-the-top rewards for Hunts is the direct cause of the bad player behavior and the additional cheats we are seeing now. You can blame players all you want, but this was more than preventable with a little forethought.