YES fates are broken.

[Dhex]

It is clearly working as intended, you should be thanking someone higher up that it isn't like the coil lockout where you can only do one once a week.

Waiting - the best non-game you've ever paid for!

Includes wild and fantastic features such as the following:
Un-engaging non-interactive periods of nauseating boredom rarely punctuated by fleeting insubstantial content!
The opportunity to catch up on your reading or favorite TV shows!
Sit in a chair staring a screen watching your avatar stand around blithely!
All this and less!

Only $13.99 a month!

[Mcshiggs]

I say they should offer a choice between a netflix or hulu subscription with the monthly fee for this game. Waiting for a fate might not be so bad if you the wacky antics of House to help pass the time.

[BunnyChain]

clearly 3 hrs is not working as intended /rant off

I believe it was really intended this way. Had to also wait 3 hours for a FATE once, gladly only once. Apparently it was supposed to be fixed, iirc some patch notes but that it seems never happened...

If you're sitting and waiting, you're doing it wrong.

Get out there and complete other fates in the same zone.

Really bad idea, especially in zones like Coerthas and, in my case, East Shroud, FATE boss' HP vary based on the amount of participants last time, such a boss can die in half a minute, I'm had that happen to me, I was right there when it appeared, could only get silver and had to wait for it to appear again...

Waiting - the best non-game you've ever paid for!

Includes wild and fantastic features such as the following:
Un-engaging non-interactive periods of nauseating boredom rarely punctuated by fleeting insubstantial content!
The opportunity to catch up on your reading or favorite TV shows!
Sit in a chair staring a screen watching your avatar stand around blithely!
All this and less!

Only $13.99 a month!

Please, look forward to it!