i did this today on my server, Famfrit, which is pretty low on activity as far as i can tell (nothing compared to coeurl which is the server i used to be on) and there was no one else doing the quest, i had to go buy a bitter from the market and it was listed at 3 times the price of a pure. it's fine if you want to get people to interact, this is an MMO, i get it. i just think it was poorly implemented this time around.