It's a little disconcerting to think that, if Hunts don't undergo any more large-scale changes during this patch, we'll have had six months in a row where one type of content dominates everything else in a pretty dramatic fashion. "Why do _______ when we can do Brayflox?" followed by "Why do _______ when we can do Hunts?"

It's a trend of extremism that creates, I think, a fairly negative overall experience for whomever isn't happy with it. Personally I only know two people who actually engaged in the Hunt spam and they both came out of it saying they hated it but did it because it was necessary to get what they wanted, whereas everyone else I know either decided to abstain or quit over it. I've lost more friends playing this game in the last six months than I care to think about, and I'd really like to see that trend change.

Ultimately only Square-Enix has the metrics to see the true impact of the system, so if things aren't changing then maybe everything really does look fine on their end.