Skipping MSQ movies a bannable offence?

Title says it all. Was in a MSQ run and a tank was skipping the movies in "The Praetorium" pulling the boss encounters. He then told the group how to do it and then everyone did it except me, even cleared the final boss before the last movie was finished playing.

It is definitely a reportable offence, and against the current TOS.

They are exploiting the way that the "unskippability" of the cutscenes is implemented.

The developers clearly intend for there to be no way within the game to skip the cutscenes, but cannot actually prevent the use of this method that goes "outside" the game to break it. So all they can do is enforce the rule that you should not do it.

I have a few screen shots of the run, how do I report this?

GMs dont accept screenshots.

You need to know the time it happened primarily. They can look into it on their end from there. I had screens and video proof of harassment and they told me nope. In game only, anything outside of that becomes external and not something they can work with.

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Originally Posted by Gula

GMs dont accept screenshots.

You need to know the time it happened primarily. They can look into it on their end from there. I had screens and video proof of harassment and they told me nope. In game only, anything outside of that becomes external and not something they can work with.

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Well, at least I can tell them what the names of the characters are...lol...

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Originally Posted by Boonedale

Well, at least I can tell them what the names of the characters are...lol...

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So you know for future reference, you can get the names of recent party members (and also friend or blacklist them) from the Social > Contacts menu.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

So you know for future reference, you can get the names of recent party members (and also friend or blacklist them) from the Social > Contacts menu.

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Got it, tyvm.

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Originally Posted by Boonedale

Well, at least I can tell them what the names of the characters are...lol...

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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't there also be a timestamp associated with the screenshot? You could use that to give a general consensus on the time frame as well then.

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Originally Posted by Bryan_Weary1

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't there also be a timestamp associated with the screenshot? You could use that to give a general consensus on the time frame as well then.

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As far as I’m aware, there are no visible time stamps on screenshots. GMs won’t accept them as evidence anyways. However, they do have full access to chat logs, so if people were actively discussing this exploit in chat, that’s all they really need to take action. They’ll be able to look at combat logs as well to see how quickly they ended everything and should be able to draw conclusions from that.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

As far as I’m aware, there are no visible time stamps on screenshots. GMs won’t accept them as evidence anyways. However, they do have full access to chat logs, so if people were actively discussing this exploit in chat, that’s all they really need to take action. They’ll be able to look at combat logs as well to see how quickly they ended everything and should be able to draw conclusions from that.

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I suppose I should have been a little more clear, I meant that TC could use the timestamp of the screenshot to give the GM's a time reference to check the chat logs. You are correct though, at least on PS4, there is no visible timestamp on the screencap.