Are Hunts Ruining Final Fantasy XIV?

[whiskeybravo]

it's not so much the hunts themselves or even the community that are ruining it for me right now. SE needs to drop the ban hammer in a big way on people using radar apps. They've locked out oil/sands in every other content except hunts, and people want these and are fighting for them BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LOCKED which is in turn creating the toxic community and ruining hunts (this is historically what happens when there are a lot of people fighting over a small amount of resources.. see WORLD HISTORY.)

Basically SE made the mess, and they need to clean it up asap. Make sure the playing field is as level as it can be, that's the best thing they can do for their customers in the long run.

[kidvideo]

Are Hunts Ruining Final Fantasy XIV?

Hunts don't kill people... people kill people.

The hunts don't bother me at all. I do the dailies if I'm in an area running a treasure map or gathering for a GC supply mission. If I'm in an area & see a shout but can't make it to the coordinates in time, I just keep doing whatever I was doing. I'm not rushing through content.

But then again, I'm not the whiny entitlist internet rant troll type.

I'd rather enjoy the all the game has to offer rather than rush through a single feature or quest line, then throw a tantrum that I didn't get what I (ODC) wanted.

I haven't seen any of the shouts or threats that I've read about here... but damn, they are literally acting like spoiled children. /smh

[Kaskel2000]

Problem is that se won't do anything about it. It's been a week and a half and most changes have been slight not major. The thing id like to see would be removing sands/oil or implementing a weekly cap so only 1 a week like all other content, but that's a major change which won't happen. Once a systems gone live major changes rarely happen. I don't really mind the idea of everyone getting 100 plus armour for me its the negating of content. I was part of a thriving fc/kin in LOTRO moroa days when we had 8 or 9 six man dungeons and a good top tier raiding dungeon. Mirkwood gets released with a minor level increase and only 1 six man 2 three man 1 twelve man. Over night we went from having loads of content to none. The effect on our fc of doing the same few dungeons every night was total collapse.We all moved on to other games. I'm lucky on of that group is still a good friend and I got her into ffxiv a month back. But that's what could happen with hunts. With them being the shortest route to myth, sold and sands/oil that's all ens game content negated. If se announce a big ilvl increase and a load of new 90 ilvl dungeons that give 120 ilvl with coil 3 giving 130 ilvl to be released September at the latest then maybe that'd make sense. Still doesn't really make sense why coil 2 and St are locked if hunt sands and oil Arnt.

[Corfish]

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Maybe my server is just a bit more civil than some others (though we have our turds, I'm fairly certain Siren is a smaller server so being a turd could black ball you.)

We have FCs and LSs for hunting too, but you'll often see parties up in PF looking to fill it up with random members as well. Usually 2 or 3 people in a party are associated with the correct groups to get to hunts quickly, so rarely do we have a pull without a good number of people.

We still have issues with people starting crap, but it's usually just people who are waiting on a handful of stragglers when we already have a couple hundred people all grouped together. The same people start all the arguments. So I just ignore them.

[Merryl]

I've tried looking this up but can't seem to find the correct wording.
Do we need a ticket to hunt S targets? If so where do you get them?

[Welsper59]

I haven't seen any of the shouts or threats that I've read about here... but damn, they are literally acting like spoiled children. /smh

And people question why I believe devs need to treat the general player base like children. The responses/crying/outrage remind me of when a child hates being called a "kid" or believes they are adults. Some 8yr olds at a local Elementary that I used to facilitate at behave and treat others better than 99% of the internet populous.

[Merryl]

Wait a minute...kidvideo? I know someone who uses that name everywhere. You wouldn't happen to know anyone named bates motel would you?

[kidvideo]

And people question why I believe devs need to treat the general player base like children.

The game has a T rating doesn't it? They could very well be children.

[whiskeybravo]

Hunts don't kill people... people kill people.

The hunts don't bother me at all. I do the dailies if I'm in an area running a treasure map or gathering for a GC supply mission. If I'm in an area & see a shout but can't make it to the coordinates in time, I just keep doing whatever I was doing. I'm not rushing through content.

But then again, I'm not the whiny entitlist internet rant troll type.

I'd rather enjoy the all the game has to offer rather than rush through a single feature or quest line, then throw a tantrum that I didn't get what I (ODC) wanted.

I haven't seen any of the shouts or threats that I've read about here... but damn, they are literally acting like spoiled children. /smh

It's not about rushing through the content, it's about being able to do that content at all. It sounds like you have not even intentionally tried to hunt, if you had your feeling would probably be different.

I could care less about hunts getting zerged, a lot of people complain about not waiting or not telling people in the area about the hunt, that's not why I'm here. I'm here to advocate for something to be done with the blatant cheating that's being used to find the hunts. Certainly you would agree that cheats/hacks need to be dealt with?

[kidvideo]

Oh second though, I blame atma.