Quote Originally Posted by Ardeth View Post
Hunts went from this cool, player driven thing to a Discord ping. That's my issue with Hunts. I know it's still player driven, but before you kinda had to know the people on your server and get into a Linkshell and there was effort on the player to Hunt. Now it's join Discord server mute everything but the ping you want and follow the ping. The social aspect of it has just evaporated. It's another example of cross world travel killing an aspect of a server's community.

It's definitely way more accessible now. I'll give it that. No longer do you have to try to get into the secret club, but at least to me, it felt better when it was Linkshells. It gave it purpose. Now, hunts are just low effort tome caps and gear upgrades.

I find myself participating way less than I did before. That's my TLDR.
I mean, to be fair, there are way more people now doing hunts than before. It would be pretty inefficient to try to get like 100-200+ people organized with just word of mouth. The devs also made hunts the most efficient way to grind tomes for relics so that's probably also making things feel worse than before. It might not be ideal but I understand why people ping rather than just run through servers shouting for hunts or relying on just linkshells. People want to get into as many trains as possible and Discord allows for cross-DC hunt attendance.