What's wrong with a little competition? Hunts need a claim system.

[Hyrist]

No. Put hunts into the treasure map system so you have your own personal/party hunts instead.

First good thing I've heard on this thread.


To answer the question the OP title poses. What's wrong with a little competition?

It rarely stays 'a little'. Escalation becomes the name of the game and whomever will do whatever to get a constant leg-up on others. Including downright cheating.

Competition should be kept somewhere where it can be better controlled, like instances. Open World competition tends to lend itself to horrid abuse. Goodness knows the whole rushing to a Zerg before it gets pulled becomes its own competition and already has its own problems.