Why did you get rid of Skinchange We Can Believe In...

Air Force One is okay, but doing it on a controller gives a clear disadvantage against doing it on a mouse. There's also the fact that it's instanced. Despite not hating AFO, I still don't do it often because the goal of hitting all targets is too difficult with a gamepad. Can still get max points, but trying for the achievements isn't enjoyable.

I'm going to miss Skinchange. It was easily my favorite GATE. I knew after they removed Vase Off to put another in that Skinchange had an expiration date on it, but I hoped it wouldn't actually happen. At least Leap of Faith and Cliffhanger are fun, I guess.

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Originally Posted by TheGrimace

Air Force One is okay, but doing it on a controller gives a clear disadvantage against doing it on a mouse. There's also the fact that it's instanced. Despite not hating AFO, I still don't do it often because the goal of hitting all targets is too difficult with a gamepad. Can still get max points, but trying for the achievements isn't enjoyable.

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For real, I got a PERFECT eventually, but my goodness was it a chore.
And its always at that "Bonus" part at the halfway mark that things get stupid and chaotic. You have to pretty much spam the fire button to hit the targets, but if you spam too much then you get a bomb. Its an uphill battle that feels like it was designed to make controller players fail.

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Originally Posted by TheGrimace

Air Force One is okay, but doing it on a controller gives a clear disadvantage against doing it on a mouse. There's also the fact that it's instanced. Despite not hating AFO, I still don't do it often because the goal of hitting all targets is too difficult with a gamepad. Can still get max points, but trying for the achievements isn't enjoyable.

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I've found the same thing - but the easy solution is to just plug a mouse into your PS4. Instant perfect scoring.

I do not understand why we cannot have simultaneous GATE at the same time if they do not occurs at the same place.

Some GATE only take 2min to be done (or less) and need to way 18min for the new (which could also be done in a few minute). The biggest issue for me is that for some GATE if you are not here before it start you cannot do it at all (currently only Ultros but before we had the Emote stuff). So you can go in Goldsaucer at Xh06 and have not GATE to do because you were late and miss the start.

The less popular GATE (or removed GATE) could be activate in parallel like: Vase off + Ultros (not same location, Ultros can be missed easily if you miss the start), Emote+ Skinchange (same). In order that you can do at least one GATE if you go in gold saucer at any moment (and at most 2 GATE if you go at the start of a window GATE time).

But maybe they do not want people to earn too much PGS (but for a new player there is already so much to buy, and for old player the new items added are more and more costly like the last expansive mount).

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Originally Posted by TheGrimace

Air Force One is okay, but doing it on a controller gives a clear disadvantage against doing it on a mouse. There's also the fact that it's instanced. Despite not hating AFO, I still don't do it often because the goal of hitting all targets is too difficult with a gamepad. Can still get max points, but trying for the achievements isn't enjoyable.

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it's fine with a controller, the problem for me is that it's a memory test and I always fail it because when I shoot targets a penalty target spawns after I have fired.

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Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

it's fine with a controller, the problem for me is that it's a memory test and I always fail it because when I shoot targets a penalty target spawns after I have fired.

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Oh that is my pet peeve. It happens way too often. I’ve started to actually wait for them to spawn before I shoot, but I have to be super fast or I’ll miss some and still lose out on 1000 MGP. I also play in controller. I have 5 more perfect scores to get the last achievement.

I do like Any Way The Wind Blows but Vase Off, Skin Change, and Time of My Life are the other gates I've enjoyed. I haven't been to the Gold Saucer in awhile though. Change itself rarely bothers me, I'm pretty easygoing, but the one thing that can upset me a little in a game is having content I regularly utilized and found fun removed.

Moving away from "because it's bad/not fun", I'm sure the devs have analytics that let them know which GATEs are done the most. New GATEs get added and, if you have too many in the pool, getting to participate in a particular GATE becomes more difficult. When something has to get removed to make space, naturally you're gonna get rid of the thing no one's using.

Anecdotally, as others have mentioned, I rarely see anyone doing Skinchange, so it wouldn't surprise me their metrics showed them it was the least engaged.