Just a moment ago I found two clear examples of what I was talking about the fates. I was on Northern Thanalan on my way to Mor Dhona when a fate spawned, one of those about collecting stuff. After 5 seconds of it's start (I'm not exagerating), the bar went from 0 to 100% and it started the count down. Do you really believe that they couldn't have waited before giving the items to the NPC so that everyone could have a chance at getting gold or even silver? Do you really tell me that that's the game's fault too?

Well, I shrugged and followed my way north, then a second fate appeared. The same zerg came and I couldn't even touch a single mob before it was dead or already tagged (and dead a second later). Heck, even half their people where just standing there doing nothing. That's not playing, and whats worse, that's not letting anyone play.

Seeing as the playerbase doesn't do nor want to do anything about it, I expect that SE will do. Then we'll see plenty of complaints as with the fix to AK speedruns. Keep going, mates.