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I'll be one of the first to admit that I embraced the FATE system when it first became available to test in beta, and then steadily lost interest as the months went by because there were so few unique FATEs muddled in with the many repetitive ones. Perhaps if there were more unique FATEs that required more than a single IQ point to complete then my interest will be renewed in this system.
They work for incidental side-content - I got quite addicted while levelling to doing FATEs that happened to pop near me, and Odin and Behemoth spawns still draw a big crowd (and have some actual threat to them). But as a main focus, either when grinding FATEs or waiting for FATEs, they're far from engaging.
My personal opinion about FATEs:
They fill a certain role in the game. If they were removed, something would have to be implemented to replace them in the role they fill.
That said, I would like fates to be a little more rare and give better rewards. And that they're taken out of gear progression, other than some of them maybe giving tomes.
Don't need to remove them but if they plan to add more of the same type of FATEs we already have then i rather they just don't add anymore.
I wish FATEs had something different than just killing monsters, maybe in the future they can be more creative and add different objectives and mechanics. The system has a lot of potential, it's just not being fully used at the moment.
I'd say I fall into both categories. I love the idea behind the system, but I'd also like to see more involved FATES. Maybe some more mechanics behind them, other than kill, and kill and bring stuff to a person or escort.
More story ones would be nice as well, that cultist one near Camp Bluefrog was awesome, the way it progressed from killing cultist, to killing their boss, to killing the embodiment of their God.
I think I was spoiled by Rift. That game had the best public events that had lasting consequences.
I like the ones that have a semblance of a longer story, like the Highbridge acts and the Dalamud cultists. The other ones are just random and boring.