The pressure to skip cut-scenes!

[Neptune]

I agree with the OP. This is like a huge elephant in the room. The dev team should respond with plans to stop the player frustration around this. They can program the game to know if someone hasn't ever seen the CS, and stop timers, restrict movement, etc., until the CS is over with. Better yet, display a countdown timer next to the CS icon above the players' heads to show the ETA til the end of the CS, and also alert other group members so they can take a quick 2 or 3 minute break.

I hope the dev team eases the stress this causes the players, both for those who wish to skip and those who would rather not.

I had one guy yesterday run ahead in Tok( whatever it was called, something about teeth, lol) by himself to battle the boss while the rest of the team was still in the cut-scene. I did not mind however that the barrier was closing without me in it. I mean, after all, I was the healer. I was not going to skip just to accommodate someone in a rush. He didn't last very long from what I could tell. The barrier reopened a few seconds later while I was still watching the scene unfold:P

Moral to the story? Be courteous to your team. If someone is running through the dungeon for the first time, wait patiently for them to finish. Its not going to kill you to wait for a few minutes. Well in the case of the guy on my team, his impatience did.

This same thing happened to me in Toto-Rak. Me and the healer were in the CS, while the MRD and ACN went inside. They both wiped. Yeah, you can blame it on player courtesy or, when it comes down to it, human behavior, or the dev team can just step in and put boundaries in place.

lol.. i always play healer or tank..they can just suck it up or i can find a new party really, really fast

You can go on being an asshole too, no one's going to stop you.