Time for SE to drop the ego.

[Nhisso]

Im aware that this game is incredibly popular, but FFXIV is well past the point where there are people engaged in every fate. And the game is definitely past the point of there being huge amounts of people in each questing area. Even on servers like Giglamesh.

So why the hell does SE think it's acceptable to drop fates on questing destinations? This is ridiculous. You dont have the numbers to possibly think fates are being completed each time they pop up. Impeding players from completing a quest is an unacceptable practice.

And dont give me that crap about doing something else, fanboy apologists. If you get caught up doing other stuff, there is a good chance that the fate will return as you make your way back to the quest in question. Or it will drop right on you.
Im just one subscription, so im sure SE doesnt care about me, but im strongly thinking of not resubbing next month. I dont have time to deal an absolutely stupid design such as fates ruining my questing progression.

[missybee]

Literally what?

[ToasterMan]

What this game needs is competition. For some reason the other MMO's that are out right now aren't really helping with it. I hope Blizzard can step up their game at some point

[Medicine]

Snip.

Umm... Bye?

[Neri]

That's why they put back the instance channel, no?

[Jijifli]

That's why they put back the instance channel, no?

I think he's talking about where some fates spawn right on top of quest locations, making it annoying to do those quests.

[missybee]

I think he's talking about where some fates spawn right on top of quest locations, making it annoying to do those quests.

That was my interpretation as well.

Ixion and people afk in The Lochs cock blocking others from actually being able to progress MSQ, etc is definitely a valid complaint (which should hopefully be remedied by the reinstatement of instances), but this...this is not.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I never noticed this o.o and I did most of the story on Mateus, and we almost never saw people in the zones while questing.

[Maero]

There have been times it has happened to me also, is it annoying as hell and a stupid idea? Absolutely. Will i unsub because of it, well no

[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.