Cutscene Skip Glitch in Praetorium

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Date & Time: April 18, 2026, 3:10pm ET
Frequency: Unknown
World name: Hyperion
Character name: Airy Rimelosdomin
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Monster name: Magitek Colossus, Nero, Gaius
Class/Level: 50
Party or solo: Party
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Area and coordinates: The Praetorium
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1. Healer as well as Tank were able to use Alt + F4 on PC, used for exiting the game to perform skipping all Cutscenes in Praetorium and leave console players locked in cutscene.
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This has been the case for years. A lot of players knows the trick, but just don't bother, especially since they cut praetorium in 3 a few years ago. It's not really a bug per se, but an abuse of force closing the game. IIRC, it's also possible on consoles by closing the game and relaunching it.

I'm not sure it ever will be changed, because it's technically hard to tell a real disconnection apart from a fake one, and the first group would be as punished as the second one. You can find several thread about this over the years(like here or here), and it's always been ignored. I don't think it will change. I doubt they'll put ressources on something (long cinematics in a dungeons) that hasn't been used since ARR vanilla, 13 years ago.

I'd rather report the people to the GM team for abuse.