Are Hunts Ruining Final Fantasy XIV?

[Merryl]

For me I haven't really figured out how this hunt thing is profitable. When I look at the hunt board, I see 2 types if tickets; daily and weekly.
Last night I find out that there are other targets beyond that. Very confusing though not really explained.

And since its all just random RNG I'm not sure that I care lol. I don't feel like wasting my time.

[Kardayel]

I would not say it ruin the game... but it cause really many problems.
The "farm" way to end-game gear made it the event to do, for one week the Party finder is almost empty except for "Hunt Party".
The multiple dramas on shout channel between people blinded by the greed for sands and oils.
The accusations (sometime true, sometime false) of Radar use...

You know, i've 1h free right now, i would have like to search an area to see if i can find a monster to win some points in order to buy vanity gear or a minion... just for fun... you know, what the hunt looked like when it was announced, a fun event just to spend some time... But no, i want have the less to do with the mess... It's sad, i think it could have been so much fun with only a few foresight and understanding on the player mind...

[Xystic]

So my question is, are the Hunts ruining your experience with the game?

Not at all.

People are really hyping it up to be over dramatic. The fact that the content was new and that many people would be interested in the rewards caused a huge ruckus because a huge surge of players entered the hunt producing a huge amount of competition. To sum it all up, people are trying to eliminate the need of competition thru any means possible, accusation of 3rd party bots, harassment, lack of enjoyment, end of the world/game and so forth.

Yesterday we saw a post of people already posting screenshots of the rewards, meaning everyone else who were partied with such individuals should be close or in the same position. Once people obtain what they want, its most likely they will leave the hunts.

[JTribal]

I don't think so. Really it's the Debbie Downers that are causing the problem. My LS buddies and myself spends hours on end scouting different areas for marks and have a blast in the chat and Mumble while we are doing it.

What really kills the buzz though are the people that send you nasty tells or shout in zones when they dont get to a mark in time. These usually end up being the ones that do not actively hunt, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.

So I guess my answer is kind of contradicting. No, I don't think hunts are ruining the game, but I think that a minority of the player base that are not putting in any effort and are expecting to get then same rewards as the ones that do put in effort are.

[Kallera]

...People go as far as to Blacklist, name shame or say things like, "I'll trace that guys IP address & I'll make him wish he was sorry."

"And I know who pulled Naul becaused I BACK-TRACED IT! " (/olddeadmeme)

So my question is, are the Hunts ruining your experience with the game? To me it seems like Hunts are all people do now because the rewards vastly outweigh everything else.

Thoughts?

Not mine personally(I'm catching up with things) but it has brought several unsavory things about the community to surface that are a concern. I wonder when we'll hit that "cloudsong" moment.

But frankly atma got me closer to quitting than Naul.

[StrangeAeons]

But frankly atma got me closer to quitting than Naul.

Atm was the %(^*^*$(##)$)%)%) worst. Animus was pretty annoying too. I love Novus though.

[DefendPopPunk]

Yeah I saw someone on my server use a macro that announces when a pull or hold is happening. If you pull before this person, I've seen them shout "this person from this free company pulled early." The only reason for crap like that is to get a character that pulled early blackballed by anyone in earshot, and that's just mean spirited in my opinion. You didn't see that before hunts came along.

[JayCommon]

Yeah I saw someone on my server use a macro that announces when a pull or hold is happening. If you pull before this person, I've seen them shout "this person from this free company pulled early." The only reason for crap like that is to get a character that pulled early blackballed by anyone in earshot, and that's just mean spirited in my opinion. You didn't see that before hunts came along.

Yeah, he got called out for this in all the Linkshells he was in (that I was in also, anyway). Basically was told that he was griefing the entire community for his macros and enticing people to blacklist others. He's not in any of the LS I'm in anymore, I think he had to make his own.

I don't know, I basically stopped hunting. BRD BiS is sands for Body/Belt. Got those with book drops and finished alexandrite with the seals. Got the two minions, I'm done until the flame dies down (which I believe it will).

I'll hit up S ranks I see, but probably just get training dummies for my house.

I still stand by the fact that hunts didn't ruin the game, players ruined the hunts. But that's just my opinion...

[Mugiawara]

Yeah I saw someone on my server use a macro that announces when a pull or hold is happening. If you pull before this person, I've seen them shout "this person from this free company pulled early." The only reason for crap like that is to get a character that pulled early blackballed by anyone in earshot, and that's just mean spirited in my opinion. You didn't see that before hunts came along.

That's horrible. they either need to remove this content for a bit until they fix it, or have a maintenance or something. it's not runing the game, but dare is say...making the community more toxic than it already is.
thats a shame. ik hunts are pretty flawed but i do agree to some extent ppl are making it much much more worse than it really is.
asides the whole cheating app thing.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

At best hunts are imbalanced. The rewards for daily/weekly hunts are incomprehensibly low and the rewards for abusing the system exceedingly high. There is a huge supply and demand problem where too many people want to hunt but there aren't enough hunt mobs to go around. Blaming the player base is incredibly misguided, of course there's going to be tension when a system is implemented that rewards selfishness.

I understand what the hunt is supposed to be but it's fallen woefully short.