Why did you get rid of Skinchange We Can Believe In...

[Feronar]

instead of Any Way the Wind Blows for patch 5.1? SWCBI is actually fun and requires skill, whereas AWTWB is just stupid and entirely luck based, there is zero skill involved.

[Rhus]

Also is the new yojimbo gate not just typhon gate anyway? Just stand somewhere and avoid his sneeze (sorry slashes, it is yojimbo after all)

[Fynlar]

Presumably the Yojimbo one will allow movement and therefore be a test of dodging attacks, similar to Bardam's 2nd boss except presumably without any second chances (get hit once and you're out)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Because anyway the wind blows has an achievement and people would throw a fit - see diadem thread

[Espritduo]

At this point it is kinda sad that all of the original GATES except Cliffhanger have been removed. I think they should just make all the old GATES regular attractions that can be done any time for a smaller payout instead of just flat out removing them altogether.

[LauraAdalena]

Also is the new yojimbo gate not just typhon gate anyway? Just stand somewhere and avoid his sneeze (sorry slashes, it is yojimbo after all)

It's a lot more than that. Typhon you get locked in place, it looks like from what Yoshida showed you can move during Yojimbo's. That and there's little like cup games, and races for gold with Daigoro you play in-between rounds.

[Nalien]

At this point it is kinda sad that all of the original GATES except Cliffhanger have been removed. I think they should just make all the old GATES regular attractions that can be done any time for a smaller payout instead of just flat out removing them altogether.

Said this the first time the event came around, but the haunted house we have currently for the Halloween event? Perfect for a Gold Saucer attraction. For starters, it mirrors the haunted house section in Final Fantasy VII perfectly. The actual event there is ideal for an instanced GATE I think, too. Skinchange we can Believe in would also be a fitting attraction for that section of the Gold Saucer, given it involves Imps and Glamours, just like the house in the current event.

Have it as its own offshoot zone, with its own rotation of GATEs. Would allow us to have more variety in what GATEs we can do, for example Cliffhanger could be going on in the current zone, while Skinchange is going on in the haunted house zone. You pick which you'd rather do. Ideally have it so they alternate type, so if there is an instanced GATE in one zone, the other has a non-instanced GATE going on. That way there is always a GATE for people who don't want to drop out of their DF queue.

[Kirsten_Rev]

I don't know why they would ever remove GATEs. They shouldn't have removed Vase Off, either. Within the first patch cycle of a new GATE releasing, up its frequency so that people get to experience it; afterward, set them all at equal frequency rates for the ones available from :00, :20, and :40 windows. I mean, is variety ever really a bad thing in this scenario?

[Enla]

I never see anyone doing Skinchange so that might be why. That said I do wish they wouldn't remove any of them. That's just counter productive to making the MGP grind actually tolerable.

[Ultimatecalibur]

At this point it is kinda sad that all of the original GATES except Cliffhanger have been removed. I think they should just make all the old GATES regular attractions that can be done any time for a smaller payout instead of just flat out removing them altogether.

Any Way the Wind Blows and Cliffhanger (Round Square and Wonder Square versions) were both in the original GATE releases.

Time of My Life likely was dropped due to the number of different Races and the limited number of spots on the Main Stage. During HW and SB the males and females of one random race ended up dancing on the hanging stage which made them difficult to spot and watch. Viera and Hrothgar (and their opposite sex versions if added in the future) would have just make things even worse.

Vase Off was always one of the more unpopular ones due to the original version having a random reward based on number of Vases given and how finicky the the NPCs' detection could be based on server tick.

I suspect that Skinchange We Can Believe In is getting removed based on visibility issues and inconsistent difficulty. When the best chance of success involves taking screenshots console players end up a bit disadvantaged.