People, I respect all your opinions, but I think DB hunts should stay as is it (of course, put convenient hunt periods), Remember gett the transformation/buff/whatever is just a reward for hunting them, not something that people just can earn easily. I know the game industry in these days is (in most cases) all about allways reward the user so gamplay becomes much more comfortable, but I think we should retain the essence of the original DBO.
By the way, I've obtained the dragon balls 2 times, and I just started 1 and a half months before the servers shutdowns. The first one basically with the box method (look for upper level boxes, then kill'em and change channel), the second one was just playing without caring so much.