Poll: Remove or Keep FATES

[MapleDeepDish]

I agree with the above couple posters. FATES are fine when they are just a means to supplement exp. But they seem to want FATES to be the main open world attraction, and they tack it onto everything. I think its safe to say that most of us don't want them as requirements for important things like relic upgrades. Unless they improved them like some above posters have mentioned and actually made them more meaningful and have tangible effects. If you agree that FATES should not have such a prominent role in the open world, you can give my question at the end of page 2 of the Questions for the Live Letter (General) thread a like. Not that they'll address it. Its fairly obvious that the reason FATES are so relied upon for open world content from a developers standpoint is that it is probably extremely easy to develop and implement on a mass scale. It really does just come down to lazy and/or financially cheap design.

[Moqi]

I like FATES. I had never done them before Atma hunting so they're all pretty new to me. I wish there were more viariety and I would love more of them to be chained together, but so far they're fun.

[MapleDeepDish]

If you've never done them before atma hunting, you really haven't had time to be over-inundated with them yet. Give it time, the mindlessness of FATES as they currently are gets old very fast.

[Lucke]

I'd like to see real consequences for failing a FATE and branching FATEs.

For example, let's say there's a FATE in Drybone. the Amal'jaa are raiding the camp for people to temper. If you succeed, FATE is complete and you launch a Counter-attack at the Amal'jaa camp. Just for this exmaple, it's a 2 FATE series.

If you fail, multiple NPCs from Drybone, merchants and even quest givers, are taken hostage. Part one FATE is a failure and part 2 spawns where you have to recover them. If you fail part 2, the series ends and those NPCs are gone from the world. Let's say if that happens, the NPCs escape on their own a day later, and respawn in Drybone. If you succeed, all the NPCs return to drybone and part 3 starts where you fight a boss FATE and fight the mastermind behind part 1.

Kinda like old-school besieged.

[Inosaska]

FATES remind me to much of Warhammer Online and that game is officially gone now so probably a good idea to get rid of such an idea.

[Lunavi]

I'd like to see real consequences for failing a FATE an branching FATEs.

It will be so fun leveling in a world with no questgivers... Most 50's only care about coil and Brayflox HM.

[DoctaruRavenbe]

I'd like to see real consequences for failing a FATE an branching FATEs.

Like the Highbridge series or the Poor Maid series then?

[Lucke]

It will be so fun leveling in a world with no questgivers... Most 50's only care about coil and Brayflox HM.

If you wanna do the quest that NPC has, then you better do all you can to prevent him from being kidnapped and go rescue him if you fail to protect him. Like I said, their absence is only temporary.

[Lunavi]

If you wanna do the quest that NPC has, then you better do all you can to prevent him from being kidnapped and go rescue him if you fail to protect him. Like I said, their absence is only temporary.

As I said, most people will not care as they have done the quests already. This would lead to that people would have to have ridiculous waittimes for alot of quests. Also it would do naught but increase the hate towards fates. People already think we have to do too many of them as it is.

[Malamasala]

If you've never done them before atma hunting, you really haven't had time to be over-inundated with them yet. Give it time, the mindlessness of FATES as they currently are gets old very fast.

The problem is that dungeons get old fast, leveling gets old fast, PvP gets old fast, etc.

The only feasible way to play MMOs is by doing things differently over the course of the week to not burn out. Do fates monday, dungeons tuesday, craft wednesday etc.