Fates are an insult to most people's intelligence and mental fortitude. The only virtues I can see fates requiring, are a galactic amount of patience and determination to survive cumbersome and mindless grind while keeping your sanity intact. If this is the best this game has to offer, I can certainly see a mass exodus by the year's end.

The only people I sense who are defending fates, are the ones who want max level as quickly and effortlessly as possible. These are the types of people who love to burn through mmo's and then quickly abandon them for the next shiny gem on the mmo radar. Fates are merely GW2 events, done wrongly in every conceivable way.

Brilliant of you to speak on behalf of everyone asking for fate changes though. Surely we were all "thankful when reaping those rewards"? Mmmmm, no, maybe not.