Hi,
- I believe that if you’re in a party, you can only hunt the DL monsters with your party members and are neither able to open it up to other nearby players nor able to link up with remote hunters.
- I am coming from the point of explaining what the management might be thinking about, based entirely on their announcements. They are either informed by the gameplay data from the playerbase or informed by player feedback from somewhere (and they have multiple channels to see player feedback).
You can always give them your feedback: https://community.monsterhunternow.com/t/protest-against-changes-of-dimensional-link/33045/
Personally, I don’t see a need to remove DL monsters. They’re additional monsters for us to hunt, and they give players the opportunity to perform group hunts for the additional group hunt rewards, regardless of whether they can solo the monsters or not. Overall, having this feature is a win for us.
The only “problem” is how they have implemented this feature. If they had released it as simply a “field map monster” version of Hunt-a-thons, where HATs also do not send out group hunt invites since a while back, players would generally be celebrating this feature rather than lamenting about the post-release adjustment of the feature.