How come we can't play with friends?

[KiriA500]

I guess we have concluded fates are flawed open world content.

Not really. They're a good idea, it's just when you have them spaced so far between pops, you give them higher priority than everything else. If Odin/Behemoth popped more frequently, you wouldn't have to announce to the server that they're there, causing a huge influx of players to bottleneck into a tiny area.

FATEs themselves are fine as a form of placing giant mobs into the world. They give people a chance to do the fight without having to stand around for hours/days running a bot to claim.

Works just fine for me, sure theres some slowdown but ps3 players cantbever see Odin or 70% of the people there.

It works "fine" for me too, as in the game doesn't drop to 10FPS while doing it, but with that many players constantly spamming abilities to hit him, his model disappears quite frequently as he jumps around aggro on players. I agree that the fights are horrid on PS3, but they aren't really up to par for PC either.