Are Hunts Ruining Final Fantasy XIV?

[Dinadan]

I think they should add allied seals to Frontlines. That'll give greater incentive to pvp and provide an alternative to hunts for casuals.

[indira]

hunts are just poped NM's.

people said they didnt want them in the game now all they do is hunt NM's all day. typical mmo community.

[Angelfish51]

Like FFXI, the hunt has same problem
Hunt provides the top gears that comparable to SCoB. But SC0B provides everyone same chance to join/loot.

Hunt is a win-lose game, hardcore players will get as many as alli-seals for themselves and just hunt as many as NMs across eorzea. Groups recording NM spawn location & e time of death. They are in fact monopolies/cartels in the game. If they have surplus, they can earn gils from those who don't have time to track NMs by selling alli-seal by letting the buyer join the group when hunting. Other players might only get 1 all-seal, 2 myth and 1 sold even if they start hitting the NMs together with those groups. This distinction among the player base will creates tension among them. Someone may already notice the atmosphere getting bad.

Those from FFXI said the hunt system is good, because 90% of the FFXI players are hardcore gamer. Irrespective of the way of leveling up to doing quest, one needs to attach to a competent group to progress.

[Nabian]

I am hoping it will eventually calm down but as it stands now, getting people to do the Second Binding Coil is like pulling teeth. I am worried that with the hunts, they may have inadvertently killed raiding. The rewards from hunts are good enough for most people it seems and the rewards from raiding are not strong enough to lure them back.

This right here...casual content should NEVER give gear equivalent to raid gear. At best the hunts should give i100 gear (even that is pushing it). You want the best end game gear...go raid. You don't like raiding? You don't need high end gear.

[echoica]

Yes. Especially for ps3 players and casuals. The hunt content is a complete mess and the longer se takes to address it the worse it gets. I don't even know if it can be fixed at this point because so much damage has been done already.

[SongJoohee]

hunts are just poped NM's.

people said they didnt want them in the game now all they do is hunt NM's all day. typical mmo community.

give us another option to get unlimited sands and oils of time and i can guarantee a lot of players would stop doing hunts.

[Wobble]

I got naul once and got 5 seals but the ticket says reward 20. Someone tells me that's only if you get the kill, maybe they need to word it that way? I'm not breaking my neck for something so hard to get to for 5 seals I can get that much off the daily ones and easier, but honestly I haven't been doing them because the rewards are so low and the hunts are a snore. Only people getting them are using programs to track when they pop or just happen on them....

[Kardayel]

Those from FFXI said the hunt system is good, because 90% of the FFXI players are hardcore gamer.

I'm a FFXI player, i know many other players, we're mostly agree on this point: NM on the maps are good, over-competition on them like we've here is bad.
The probleme here is the rewards (no, i'm not against "casuals" obtaining high level gear). I explain.
From hunt you can obtain/buy:
Soldiery/mythology tomestones
Mythology job stuff without paying tomestones
Alexandrites
Oils/Sands

On high level gear not obtainable by hunt remain: (high) allagan gear, primals weapons, ATMA. So survive from hunt: Bahamuth/Primals battle/FATE

The rewards should have been split on differents activities, not one event which kill them all.

[CYoung187]

Honestly as it stands I may never need to do a dungeon again. The rewards for hunts are so huge that even doing rouleties or speed runs is a waste of time. I'm not in the same boat as the Raiders who don't feel special anymore because others can get the same level of gear, but the gearing through hunts is just too dang easy.

[Kerrigen]

Hunts definitely ruined a lot of the incentive to do PvE content. Ramuh Ex might as well not exist.