Elite Mark Fix?

[Nekodar]

Ok I'll wear the hat you handed me... yes it is inconceivable. They should have pulled all seals and sands from all the zergers after the first week of horrid behaviour, and put a cap on seals, as well as substantially increased daily rewards for people who chose not to join 4 hunt linkshells and stay wired to coordinates and timers all day and night. They should also have abolished the precisely predictable spawn timers and made the spawns truly random, so players who stumble upon these mobs could kill them without the travelling circus on their tail shouting abuse and blacklisting.

Pulling seals and sands would require rollback on a LOT of characters, which simply isn't practical, and would have resulted in a huge backlash...
Daily Hunt they should boost rewards on already and it shouldn't require more than changing a value, and I've said that before this hotfix as well.

However, not everything can be "fixed" just by changing a value...

[Dwill]

Maybe it just takes more time to put in fixes for the real issues... inconceivable, right?

You're underestimating Square Enix. It wouldn't take them 3 weeks to put dynamic HP on Hunt mobs, put a weekly cap on seals and on sands. Of all the thing they decided to put the server down for, it's this. I really hope there are ninja changes when the server comes back up else this would be quite disappointing.

[Powercow]

You're underestimating Square Enix. It wouldn't take them 3 weeks to put dynamic HP on Hunt mobs, put a weekly cap on seals and on sands. Of all the thing they decided to put the server down for, it's this. I really hope there are ninja changes when the server comes back up else this would be quite disappointing.

The server most likely went down primarily for the anti-cheat aspect, and they figured "hey, we've got this part of the hunt fix ready, we may as well put it in now."

[Satia]

I hate to break to all of you but there is no 'nerf' coming.. they only adjusted it so that its not the same weekly hunt twice in a row.
The rewards are exactly as SE intended and will NOT be changed in any way.
If you don't enjoy the content don't do it... it really is that simple.
Time to move on and stop acting like little babies.

[SirSaber]

We've been fooled:

The following change has been made to “The Hunt”.

The Elite Mark Bill has been adjusted so that when it is updated the same monster will not be the targeted mark two weeks in a row.

[Marquiss]

Naul-senpai notice me plz

[Alexia89]

I'm sorry, but all these "how dare they take the servers down for this" posts are ridiculous.
It's 3 goddamn hours. Get over it. They could take down the servers to change one strand of hair on Minfilia's head if they like. You agreed to the TOS. Maintenance happens. Deal with it.

[DeceptionsWrath]

I'm sorry, but all these "how dare they take the servers down for this" posts are ridiculous.
It's 3 goddamn hours. Get over it. They could take down the servers to change one strand of hair on Minfilia's head if they like. You agreed to the TOS. Maintenance happens. Deal with it.

Love the defenders! While i agree it is only 3 hours, and i really don't care there is maintenance atm, this is 3 hour maintenace for what? The 3-4th time they had 3 hour maintenance this month? Not to mention the 7 hours for the update? Not complaining, just saying. 3 hour maintenances add up you know.

[Brine_Gildchaff]

Love the defenders! While i agree it is only 3 hours, and i really don't care there is maintenance atm, this is 3 hour maintenace for what? The 3-4th time they had 3 hour maintenance this month? Not to mention the 7 hours for the update? Not complaining, just saying. 3 hour maintenances add up you know.

Strange, isn't it? It's almost as if they do maintenance... weekly to ensure all aspects of the game are running smoothly or something. Also, homework for tonight: go have a look at how many of those maintenances conclude half an hour or more before the original scheduled time. The three hours includes a buffer in case something else gets snarled up by their fixes; if nothing goes wrong it's usually 1.5 to 2.

Ok I'll wear the hat you handed me... yes it is inconceivable. They should have pulled all seals and sands from all the zergers after the first week of horrid behaviour, and put a cap on seals, as well as substantially increased daily rewards for people who chose not to join 4 hunt linkshells and stay wired to coordinates and timers all day and night. They should also have abolished the precisely predictable spawn timers and made the spawns truly random, so players who stumble upon these mobs could kill them without the travelling circus on their tail shouting abuse and blacklisting.

Okay, so... what about the people who are in the middle ground? The people who occasionally break from the other stuff they usually do to go form a hunt party for a few hours, split up and have members searching in every zone, maybe have one guy hooked into a smaller linkshell of people likewise actively seeking out hunt mobs so they can cover more ground, and grind out a couple hundred seals in 3-4 hours of work? Players who actively combat the negativity through example, like responding to a "lol dead" shout with "Aww..." or the linke? People here love to talk and talk about the "hunt zergers" and all the casual no-skill no-lifers who "do nothing but afk by the aetheryte all day until they get told to lemming to zone+coord", what about people who actually approach this crap sensibly and at the very least are out there actively trying to track these things down? What about us, hm?

[Double]

Strange, isn't it? It's almost as if they do maintenance... weekly to ensure all aspects of the game are running smoothly or something. Also, homework for tonight: go have a look at how many of those maintenances conclude half an hour or more before the original scheduled time. The three hours includes a buffer in case something else gets snarled up by their fixes; if nothing goes wrong it's usually 1.5 to 2.

Even though they do more maintenance than some F2P games..

What does their servers run on? Better question would be, is a name-check for an npc really maintenance worthy? I can deal with incorrect spelling after seeing Roes in Noscea having "zzzxre" as name for so long.