Time for SE to drop the ego.

[Annah]

Nhisso...really not trying to sound like a fangirl here....but...here we go!

Square Enix's FFXIV is further from the mindset that you made them out to be. These folks are down to earth, they are very humble. They are also compassionate about their job. They put 8 years of development into 4 years of development making Realm Reborn WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, adding content to FFXIV 1.0. Some of them literally slept in their cubicles sometimes days at a time.

The development team sacrificed their after hours work for FOUR YEARS to make this game a game that truly lives up to the "Final Fantasy" name.

Yoshi, bowed and then cried saying he was so sorry because the Realm Reborn launch wasn't smooth. How many developers do you know cries while apologizing to his fans? Um no one??

So, good sir, you are further from the truth if you think Square Enix doesn't care for you. They may not be your mother and make sure you eat your cereal but they are are here for us for this game.

[MoroMurasaki]

I feel like MSQ never takes you anywhere that you are terribly outclassed by... Why not just do the fate? I mean it's a mild inconvenience but outside of combat you can swap classes with no penalty so even if you don't want do the fate on that class you could just swap out.

Also the title of this thread is just some trolling bull, if you hate SE so much go play something else.

[DPZ2]

<sarcasm> I feel exactly the same, but only when there is an A or S rank monster in the area -- how DARE they put these things in a leveling area !?! </sarcasm>

You can always note the "time remaining" for a FATE and go take a break. Or, even better, work on more than that one. single. quest. obscured by the FATE.

I haven't found any FATE out there (or A/S rank monster) that entirely removes the possibility to progress with side-quests.

[RayneLittlewinkle]

Are...they talking about the really really popular fate like Ixion that spawns every...oh I don't know. Three days? Or the Fox lady fate that spawns every 12-24 hours?

I mean come on.

[Catwho]

I'm a Goddess of the Land.

At-level FATES in the new zones sometimes spawn on my mining points MID GATHER so I don't have a chance to put my Stealth on. It'd be comical if it wasn't like a near instant KO since gathering gear has no vitality.

[Kazrah]

There are so many other concerns with the game and THIS was the last straw?

Don't let the door hit you in the face on your way back in....

[FreakinRican]

This is bait people.

[kikix12]

Yes. Some fates spawn near or on top of questing locations. One such example is fates south of Camp Dragonhead when you are doing the gathering Ixal quest there. They make it really difficult (impossible) to use one of the trees if your gatherer is lower level, until the fate is finished.

There are quite a few fates that spawn close to main story quest locations, too. But they are not as frequent (and with the timer on them, it's not hard to know when to come to not be caught by another fate again), not to mention, it's actually very much possible to pass the mobs for the locations without fighting them. It just takes some basic skill in paying attention to the surroundings, instead of standing in the first spot from which you can interact with whatever is part of the quest...

If desperate, just ask someone through a Yell to "tank" the mobs for a few seconds...It's not like they need to be killed. Just grabbing their attention so that you can interact. As a summoner/scholar, that can easily be done with the summon, just have them take aggro. As anyone else...well, the Chocobo companion can leave for a little bit. If you aggro only one mob, max two, you should be able to interact with the quest easily enough.

[Vidu]

I'm a Goddess of the Land.

At-level FATES in the new zones sometimes spawn on my mining points MID GATHER so I don't have a chance to put my Stealth on. It'd be comical if it wasn't like a near instant KO since gathering gear has no vitality.

If I'm not mistaken they've asked us to report such incidents - along with "Hey, there are mobs very close to a node!" - so they can look into and possibly change it.
Either way: FATEs arent on the map forever, most of them last for 15 minutes max, normally you're even able to solo them - and I cant recall a point where a FATE hindered my story/quest progression. Doesnt mean that there absolutly was non, but if it happend, it obviously didnt happen enough in 4 years to leave a real impression.

Also... what does that has to do with their "ego"? How is placing FATEs at certain quest-spots related to someones ego at all?

[Avatre]

Yeah, I know, but if there's fate on that location, moving to other instance will be fine though? Or does the fate on other instance also happen at the same time?

Most of the time FATEs aren't up in the exact same spot on all instances. It can happen, but from what I saw when the instances were up right after SB launched it was VERY rare.