GATE - Why is it still every 30?

[MrTherm]

I understand that your trying to bring people back to the gold saucer by increasing the amount of MGP people can earn, but what I don't understand is your 'solution' to GATEs.

You increased the reward on them, but they still only happen every 30 minutes. Why didn't you just leave the rewards alone and increase the rate to every 10 or even 15 minutes? Specially when anything that happens in the event square requires you to sign up for it within a minute or you can't do it.

[PotatoTree]

Yea it really should happen more often. It would also be nice if they said what event it was in the chocobo/minion areas too, instead of just the general "event has commenced" message. I hate having to port down just to see what Gate was up.

[CyrilLucifer]

Agreed, it's way too infrequently.

[Rufalus]

This would be great if Any Way the Wind Blows could come up more frequently to give me more chances.

I haven't won that GATE since about May due to very bad luck. I usually get blown away on the very first breath. Correctly guessing where to stand 5 times in a row seems so unlikely, and you need the win 10 times for the title.

[myahele]

GATEs are quite fun! But every 30m is a bit too long of a wait. I think reducing it to 15m should be fine, especially since there isn't that many people in the GS anymore.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

If they made the events happen more frequently, they would lower the rewards to compensate.

[MrTherm]

If they made the events happen more frequently, they would lower the rewards to compensate.

Even if they did decrease it, the MGP per hour would remain the same if they cut the spawn timer in half. As another up side, it might bring more people to be interested in them which would give them a reason to make additional ones beyond the 6 we have.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

The other thing is some GATEs can be a little lengthy, so they would probably have to make the games end sooner so that the next GATE comes without interruptions. Not good for games like the vase and glamour where you do need time to finish them.

[Xau]

The other thing is some GATEs can be a little lengthy, so they would probably have to make the games end sooner so that the next GATE comes without interruptions. Not good for games like the vase and glamour where you do need time to finish them.

that or allow what theres a mainsquare gate and a no mainsquare gates active at the same time

[Aura_Shurifon]

Even if it's every 15 min, you earn only 1000 MGP (more or less depends of the GATE)
It's still so small to compensate the fact that you need to "camp them" to be able to "farm" them... playing TT against the lazy garlean guard is still better reward for low difficulty...
It's the same for the chocobo race, if the reward were better, people would grind them a bit more, right now, it's like 3 min for 170 MGP at low level (and it's a looooong way to be high level) Playing the new minigame (botanist precisely) is much easier and faster too. (i can win at least 160MGP every minute or so)

TL;DR : The MGP reward are too low for "casual playing", you must farm them 24/7 to earn 1M MGP... (and it still not enough)