Quote Originally Posted by Volcano View Post
With the rewards hunt offer you can't sit here and tell me SE did not predict that hunts would get far more attention then what they designed it for.
We're talking about a company who still views their player base as their seemingly ~100k active subscription expectations at launch. About a company that actually thought that the player base would behave and not abuse their inaction to 3rd party use. A company that did not predict RMT to be so prevalent (despite previous access to knowledge of how they ruled XI at one point). People that actually believed Magicked Stable Brooms requiring Glazenuts AND Broombush for a consumable item to be affordable and realistic for players to acquire at the speed that is needed to maintain, while simultaneously thinking they'd magically acquire feed for the birds... when the significant majority are limited to S size housing, so 1 garden patch. Need I go on with it?

So yeah, I'd say it's perfectly reasonable to think they did not predict it to be as dominant as it is.