Public Poll: Are FATES a good idea for FFXIV?

Fates as they were IMHO were fine. The problem came as we are all lazy gamers and as Fates were THE best way to level up to 50 as fast as possible (as SE seems to nudge us in that leveling speed). SO pretty much everyone jumped on the fate bandwagon to grind out exp. Jump to 2.1, pretty much no one does FATES as the exp gain just isn't there anymore as compared to random dungeon and other activities that got a boost. Fun or not, if the exp isn't there, my feeling is that the community will ignore it =/

Now that fates are not spammed to level like before I think they are great. There might need to be some adjustments to how the difficulty of the fate is determined though.

Its so difficult to run fates now in lower levels. Very few people do them, and most aren't exactly soloable.

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Originally Posted by Thriar

The rewards were there, you just chose not to participate in them and that's fine but don't say that invasions were pointless and meaningless.

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In the time it took you to save up for the one epic planar piece, you outleveled its usefulness and needed to start saving for the next one. Unless you got lucky with a string of events with a dozen people around, you were getting minimum rewards due to the time taken to solo them.

So yes, for the most part, they were an inconvenience. FATEs are a choice, and i like that i can choose to participate or not. Rift never gave me the option of continuing to do normal quests around the event, it forced them down my throat.
Also, there was no variety whatsoever in the Rifts. Pull a rift down, you get a spawn of some weak mobs, then some slightly less weak mobs, then a lolboss. If you had enough people to beat the timer, you got the bonus waves... Which was more of the same.
never said they were meaningless. I said they were without threat, and mostly an irritant on low pop Shards.