Request: Please add Alliance Raid unskippable cutscenes

[Tridus]

What reality is that, exactly?

The one in which people are still running MSQ roulette? aka: This one. It's amazing how it still manages to happen when everyone abandoned it, eh?

Huh. So the issue is less "this will break the roulette" and more "this accomplishes literally nothing."

It'd let that one guy who is new to Rabanastre not get locked out on the last boss in Rabanastre. That's about it. As with MSQ roulette it's not an elegant solution to the problem (several better alternatives have been suggested), but the time required isn't really comparable.

[CaptainLagbeard]

How about No?

[Ilyrian]

It would just cross another roulette off the list for (I imagine) quite a few experienced players who are in essence the ones helping (or at least facilitating) the new players through the content.
It would be interesting to see the impact that the MSQ changes had on queue times - does anyone know if it did negatively effect them?

[Kazgrel]

Next week OP will request unskippable cutscenes period.

[Riko_Futatabi]

I'd rather just increase the arena seal timer a bit more. Maybe to 45-60 seconds.

It sucks, but I wouldn't expect 20+ people to wait for me if I'm taking a long time to get to the boss.

Either that or warp/pull everyone into the boss room when the seal goes up.

Your post made me question why we even need the bosses to be sealed off? Maybe that's the real problem in the first place? Sealing of the boss arena seems unnecessary?

The only thing I can think of is of course, trolling. Players pulling the boss outside of the arena and resetting it? Maybe that's why have this sealed boss fights. But even then, I can easily solve this by saying that the Seal/Barrier or whatever you want to call it should be one-way, enter only after closing. I believe that would solve everything.

[Tridus]

I can easily solve this by saying that the Seal/Barrier or whatever you want to call it should be one-way, enter only after closing. I believe that would solve everything.

Graveyard zerging would be possible in that case.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Good idea, let's just make Alliance Raid Roulette dead-on-arrival like so many other things in this game! /s

This is not a good idea. No one wants to suffer cutscenes they've seen before - at that point you may as well disable our ability to auto-skip cutscenes everywhere else and force us to manually skip them.

[giwaman]

You can rewatch all cutscenes inside inn rooms. XD lol

[Enla]

No thank you. All the cutscenes can be viewed from your inn room and quite frankly with the All Greed 'improvement' being shipped out, adding this onto everything else will just make things more of a headache.

[ZJyn]

I don't see what the harm in something like this would be. The cutscenes amount to maybe one minute total combined. It's not on the same level as the MSQ, and would eliminate frustration of someone new to the raid wanting to immerse themselves in the story.

There are other solutions (like not allowing the boss to be engaged until the CS's are over), but 60 seconds isn't a lot to ask for.

In reality, though, I think that considering it's so dang short, that the folks who are creating the environment that someone feels they have to ask for this should be ashamed of themselves. Being just a little patient (and really, it's indeed just a little patient considering they are so short) can really elevate the experience of another player, while trying to shave seconds off your run time can do the opposite.

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