Hunts are just another thing SE hyped up to be this great thing then completely moogled the implementation from the start, and their "fixes" since then havent really made it any more appealing. The whole thing caused so many arguments, fights and vitriol on the servers it was insane. It turned what was supposed to be a social game into an all out war at times between players.

SE is great at taking good ideas (esp from other games) and then ruining them with their own twist and implementation.

GW2 had Vista's, which were a lot of fun.... spots you find your way to and look around for a view and get progress towards achievements. SE takes it, calls it Sight Seeing, but ties it into time... and weather... making it yet another, shitty, massive grind. Sure they just added "weathermen" now to help with it... but why include the weather and narrow time window in the first place? Ah, right, because they cant let it be easy.... or fun.

Some days I just dont know where the game I loved at launch has gone, but SE is taking this train somewhere pretty messed up lately imho.