Hunts are FIXED now. Thank you SE.

[Seibah]

for better or worse, square never fails to amaze

[madolyn]

i dont understand what all the disappointment is about...

[Xanoxonax]

Considering they specifically said they were going to be making this change, and this is essentially the only change they've mentioned outside of buffing daily marks as far as I know, I don't understand how everyone is so surprised at this.

I was hoping for the daily buff with this maintenance frankly. Oh well, time will tell when that happens.

[Tolmos]

I do not do hunts, and I don't really plan to either... that said, I'm glad they didn't nerf them since they have been available for so long. I despise this new mentality of "Exploit early, exploit often" that MMOs create by allowing over-rewarding content to last for weeks to a month and then nerf it down after the first wave of players have achieved their rewards.

If SE was going to nerf hunts, they should have done it in a hotfix within days. Since they didn't, I'm glad to see they apparently don't plan to do it so that the next wave of players can get their rewards as well.

[Chocolate_Rain]

I do not do hunts, and I don't really plan to either... that said, I'm glad they didn't nerf them since they have been available for so long. I despise this new mentality of "Exploit early, exploit often" that MMOs create by allowing over-rewarding content to last for weeks to a month and then nerf it down after the first wave of players have achieved their rewards.

If SE was going to nerf hunts, they should have done it in a hotfix within days. Since they didn't, I'm glad to see they apparently don't plan to do it so that the next wave of players can get their rewards as well.

The problem being it will not be the next wave of players. The same wave will still be there to get all the sands/oils for all their jobs. The same wave will be there to get everything they can until 2.4, when this content will no longer hold any value to them, or to that vast, vast majority of the playerbase. The only reason to do it then would be for glamour.

[Kaskel2000]

I think specualtion when the extended maitences time was annouced turned into an expectation that something would be done to hunts and so people are dissapointed. We never really know whats going to happen during an extended down time as they do not normally say and the changes SE have said they would make to hunts weren't actually given a set patch date to my knowledge. I also agree that the time for making big changes has passed unfortunetly. To keep it fair hunts would have needed to be adjusted within days and now its weeks later. Even if i disagree with the massive rewards for hunts, if they changed it now they'd upset people who weren't quick enough to follow the zerg. Personally i don't now see them making any changes as its too late.

[Sadana]

[Souljacker]

Months later, after the chatter regarding these issues has died down either because the players that were vocal about it have since left the game due to it, or the players are convinced that SE is not listening to them, Yoshida will go on a live letter and say "working as intended."

I agree. I am convinced SE doesn't know how to handle success, so they are going to keep moving further toward XI-style grinding until they are back at a more manageable 250-500kish subscribers. I cannot fathom any other reason why they would ignore broken hunts and broken relic upgrade system. The last patch was their worst in recent memory, and this maintenance is a joke at best.

[Jasiwel]

I really don't know what people expected. I'm pretty sure gameplay changes and reward-altering changes would be done in a Patch, not in an average maintenance. This is Square Enix we're talking about.

That said, I have no idea why the Hunts haven't been given the Behemoth and Odin treatment, where the important monster is the only thing FOR SURE on the screen rather than 50 other players and their birds. Then again, this game's targeting and filtering system is incredibly baffling.

[Roris]

Don't you know this game is perfect and flawless, this just confirms it, there wasn't a real problem that means it doesn't need any fixes!

But seriously at least they should have fixed their display priority, what a shame.