I've no idea how things are on other servers, but here in Jenova we have a serious problem with linkshells as oftentimes they serve no purpose. What I mean by that is, announcing a hunt on a shell is for naught as the damn thing will be dead less than a minute after the announcement.

Not to say that happens to absolutely every hunt, but it came to a point where every day there will be a huge amount of people complaining of early pull. I get that Square Enix intends to encourage competition and in a practical sense, reporting someone for early pulling is ridiculous. But the worst thing is, we as a community do absolutely nothing to change that. Is not because Square Enix says they won't do anything that we can't do anything.

Moments ago I received the report of an S rank in Central Thanalan. Not even a minute after that, everyone was teleporting to Black Brush and in the ride between there and the Clutch, the mark was dead. There were only two or three people there when we who had just teleported arrived. Yes, it takes effort to spawn S ranks and the person who did it deserves some credit, but why would anyone announce it on shells if it's going to be pulled before anyone else arrives anyway? The person who popped and pulled it even said "I made it spawn, I pulled it, I announced, so you're welcome", but what's there to thank when only him and his friends got anything out of it?

I just want to know why those who are bothered by this do nothing. The other day I even had someone openly admit they early pull on a linkshell that is largely against it and instead of engaging the discussion, they were all quiet and not agreeing to either side (she was trying to defend the practice while I was trying to explain why it's bad and why the term "early pull" is a thing). Still, before she said anything a large portion of them was complaining that the mark we had moments ago was pulled early.

FFXIV has an incredible community in many ways, but hunting is definitely not one of them. Even though there's nothing explicit going on in the linkshells, the animosity makes up for the lack of toxicity. When it comes to hunting, are we lost as a community because no one cares to do anything besides whining?