The Hunt Public Shaming Needs to end

[Thayos]

Love all the comments here from the "pro early pulling" crowd that early pulling is all a matter of "I wasn't there in time." :/

I was home sick from work yesterday, so I had the rare chance to do some hunts during the day... and what I observed was very interesting (and relevant to this thread).

First of all, hunts were totally awesome until about 2 p.m. PST. People were calling out hunt locations, then being patient enough on pulls to allow more than enough time to get there. Because of this, people were roaming zones, marks were being found faster, and far fewer people were leeching at the tele crystals. It was, in a word, pleasant.

Then came 2 p.m.-ish, and suddenly there was one summoner with a titan egi who just started pulling almost as soon as he got to the mark. Every. Single. Mark. I was fortunate to be in a party with some very good hunt intel -- and, admittedly, I had to stop searching zones so much and stay centrally located in order to reach the marks on time -- so I didn't personally miss out on any marks. However, as soon as that smn joined the hunts, everything went to the crapper. More people started sitting in zones waiting for calls, fewer people made it to marks before kills, and suddenly the nasty /shouts began (that didn't exist earlier in the day).

And about the shouts, it was hardly the "public shaming" described here. The opposite, in fact. One or two people would say something like "Really???" or "Who pulled early?" And then, like five other people (I'm assuming the friends of the early puller) would jump all over them in /shout, basically laughing at them and taunting them for missing out. So most of the nastiness was from the people who were "defending" (for lack of a better word) the early puller.

Fun times.