I purchased and played the game on the original ARR release for the first couple of weeks until my account was hacked and I was banned for about a month. It took so long to restore my account (and they didn't refund me the rest of my free month) that I simply left.

I'm now back leveling up my original character. Are FATEs supposed to scale to the number of players? On release the FATEs were full of people so it was never an issue. Now I run into FATEs where there are dozens of enemies and I'm completely alone. They are impossible to complete when no one is around. The one in particular I'm thinking of takes place in Eastern Thanalan I believe, near a bridge. There are villagers and supplies you have to protect. I forget the name, but it is basically impossible solo.

Is that working as intended? It makes the FATE experience somewhat disappointing once the masses have moved on past content. I can complete a few of them but it mostly involves slowly pulling one mob away at a time.