Punish MSQ Cutscene Skippers

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Originally Posted by Awha

I skip cut scenes it saves me and the group time. People are free to watch the cut scenes they properly will just not see much of the fight that is all.

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This again? Wasn't this JUST a topic?

You. Can. Get. Banned. For. Skipping. The. Cutscenes. Even a minimal chance is STILL a chance; why even risk it?

Even just for a second. It is still against the ToS. I'm just mindblown by how nobody understands this. It's as if people literally go, "Eh, I got it away with it this time. It will never happen to me."

And as for the quoted poster, how does this save time? I can understand if a whole party does it (maybe even 4), but 1? That seems like a waste of time to me.

If people don't want to waste the time, why do they even do it? Because of Poetics? Exp? YOU HAVE SEVERAL OTHER OPTIONS FOR THAT!

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Originally Posted by TyrTry

This again? Wasn't this JUST a topic?

You. Can. Get. Banned. For. Skipping. The. Cutscenes. Even a minimal chance is STILL a chance; why even risk it?

Even just for a second. It is still against the ToS. I'm just mindblown by how nobody understands this. It's as if people literally go, "Eh, I got it away with it this time. It will never happen to me."

And as for the quoted poster, how does this save time? I can understand if a whole party does it (maybe even 4), but 1? That seems like a waste of time to me.

If people don't want to waste the time, why do they even do it? Because of Poetics? Exp? YOU HAVE SEVERAL OTHER OPTIONS FOR THAT!

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Might just be my luck, but often times I end up with groups where half the group often skips the cut scenes. Sure it is against the ToS. but if SE does not enforce it people will keep on doing it. Might be because where I live but I view it like no smoking signs on my campus we have them but most ignore them due to the lack of enforcement.

This will be one of those things that SE will have a hard time enforcing. Sure people have several options, but it falls along the same lines as why anyone does anything because they want to.

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Originally Posted by Awha

Might just be my luck, but often times I end up with groups where half the group often skips the cut scenes. Sure it is against the ToS. but if SE does not enforce it people will keep on doing it. Might be because where I live but I view it like no smoking signs on my campus we have them but most ignore them due to the lack of enforcement.

This will be one of those things that SE will have a hard time enforcing. Sure people have several options, but it falls along the same lines as why anyone does anything because they want to.

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More power to ya I guess. I don't know if this is truly a significant problem to warrant an extreme action, but I wouldn't risk it.

I guess my personal pet peeve is the hand-waving of the reason it was introduced in the first place. I got use to it after awhile, but I totally can understand the frustration of running these dungeons back in the day, only to be completely lost to what was going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZheRfZu1o

Be careful who you report (if you do) some people actually have internet problems and get disconnected. It happened to me a few times this week while farming Prae and Castrum.
I'd hate to get banned for something I didn't do !

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Originally Posted by Awha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZheRfZu1o

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Ha. I've seen that before. It is pretty funny.

The final thing I'll say about this topic is this. I hear what you're saying because I hear it all the time in my line of work.

I'm not advocating for "breaking the rules" or anything like that. You're old enough to make the decision for yourself. Do whatever makes you feel right. Just feels like a stupid risk to risk years of an account you spent time into.

But ultimately, these players knew the consequences set before them and decided to go against them. Based on what I read in this topic, they like to act as if "they're saving time for new players" which is the biggest load I've ever heard; it never was about the new players, it was only about them.

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Originally Posted by Adrameliya

Be careful who you report (if you do) some people actually have internet problems and get disconnected. It happened to me a few times this week while farming Prae and Castrum.
I'd hate to get banned for something I didn't do !

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That's just the thing about reports. There are times when you simply cannot prove if someone is actually doing wrong.

Like emote spam.

It's spam, but a surprising amount of people do not know you can turn off emotes in the chat and have been playing since the start of ARR. I do not think anything short of, "I am disconnecting right now to skip this cutscene, please look forward to it." Will be solid proof unless they are doing it /every/ cutscene and it is logged.

Having gotten though those dungeons last week while leveling it didn't feel that bad. But I guess if you're doing them everyday it can drive people to look for ways to skip sadly.

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Originally Posted by Controller

Having gotten though those dungeons last week while leveling it didn't feel that bad. But I guess if you're doing them everyday it can drive people to look for ways to skip sadly.

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Honestly, going through them every once in awhile is not bad; you just need to make ample time in your schedule to do it. I would HIGHLY advice not to run them everyday unless you got the time; there are just far better choices for your time and effort imo.

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It's spam, but a surprising amount of people do not know you can turn off emotes in the chat and have been playing since the start of ARR.

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Not everyone wants to completely "turn off" emotes. I want to see emotes, just not spammed ones.