Hunt Community vs Hunt Snipers

[Lord_Zlatan]

For me anyway, my belief is hunts are the primary reason why SE isn't or will ever release any new form of open world content ever again. Like...I often wonder how many hundreds of reports they have to sit through and read and scrap each day from players citing early pulling. Hunts were a good idea in theory, at least until the community made up its own rules for them which made two sets of players. One that follows the community rules above all else and the others who are just following the rules of the game and how hunts were designed to be by the devs.

I can see why, but on the 2 servers that I have played on (Famfrit and Goblin) most people have been either accommodating to late comers OR understanding if they were late and missed the hunt. My experience is anecdotal and does not apply to all situations/servers, but I have chosen to be on lower populated servers over the course of my MMO career for this very reason.

Furthermore, people are forgetting that the purpose of open world content is to reward those playing in the open world. Chillin in Ul'Dah or Limsa while waiting for other people in a hunt LS to call out locations is not participating in open world content. Sure, its beneficial for everyone but its totally bogus to then complain that other people should reward "hunters" and alert them for the hunt. Then... people complain that Ariyala is inaccurate. Guaranteed 90% of the people that complain about this are probably chillin in limsa right now, doing no work whatsoever to actually, you know, hunt.