I'm assuming you've never participated in or heard of simulated events lol. Those cost money to participate (and even just spectate), usually. You know, like say for example, something along the lines of that Walking Dead Escape thing, where your general goal is to survive till the end as you run through the obstacle course. It's not a free event or anything. That's pretty much how I imagine the GATEs to be. Events with actors playing the part, given the nature of the place.
As for payoff of the mini-games... yeah, I can see a small increase being acceptable. To be honest though, have you ever actually timed how much MGP you earn from them? It's rather high, for the amount of time it takes. The mog crane game takes me only 7-8sec to finish, with an almost guaranteed success chance for the 5 MGP (4 profit). That's 40 MGP in 70 seconds of play (see 1min 10sec). It'd be a lot better of a yield if they just allowed repeat playing, like with TT, instead of having to constantly click and accept. It's a REALLY good profit yield of MGP for the lack of effort needed lol. When I'm mindlessly waiting for something for a little while, I'll just spam that game and without even realizing it, I'm over a couple hundred profit in.
