Feedback on the Easter Event (Hatching Tide)

[Felis]

And they don't really feel like events then if all you do is a single fate and pretty much have everything from said event. It doesn't need to be anything world saving since it's an event, it'd just be nice if it was more than "Hey, go do this fate" and that's it

In short the FATEs should be inside of story quests. I'm ok with it.
Something like speaking with a NPC, then the NPC show you the location of a FATE and give you a special item that you need to wear to get the wanted drop from the FATE (to make sure that you speak first with the NPC for the story).
Or a NPC at the location of the FATE you need to speak first before you can join the FATE (see garlean invasion events 2012). Should work similar like the level-sync requirement.
Or a FATE that start at a specific time in a specific zone and then jump to another zone the moment it got finished in the current zone (see Atomos event 2012)