Skipping Cut Scenes in Dungeons

[RyuujinZERO]

You can't really be upset that DF pairs together people with differing play styles.

^ ALL of this.

I havn't reached end-game of FF14 yet, but when i get into the end-game dungeon scene of any MMO I consider myself quite the hardcore. I aim for precise, effective speed-running of dungeons; but that's the thing, I wouldn't force that upon a PUG I found with the DF, I'd assemble a regular group of like-minded individuals with the same goals and play style and keep them on friends list to run together as a regular team. Anyone who goes into the DF, forms a PUG and then tries to force their playstyle on an unwilling audience, and then gets upset when they actually want to do this properly, is the real "noob" in the situation and is a kind've player the community can do without.

If a speed-runner team needs additional members to fill slots, then what they should instead do is advertise in a city or two, that way they can brief potential applicants ahead of time that it will be a speed run, and it's through that kind've community interaction that you discover new members for your regular team too!

[Sovereign]

Oh good. There hasn't been one of these threads in the past couple hours. =/

[Uveck]

Players being jerks to other players isn't SE's problem so your entire post is a pointless.

If it equates to loss subscriptions, it's definitely their problem. Also, there are things SE can implement that would lower the hostility. IE pausing time for cut scenes, having 2 separate instances (1 story, 1 speed run)

Also, I am curious how they wanted the game to be played by someone experiencing it for the fist time. So no, my post isn't pointless.

[VahnValbosce]

The story isn't even that good. Typical JRPG cliche nonsense most of the time, very predictable.

Tell me again why you're playing this JRPG then? Hopefully you can go back to a non-JRPG, thanks.

[xXHalloweenTrixXx]

Just watch them. If people want to rush the dungeon and wipe, let them. I never force anyone to skip them.

[Aicasia]

Tell me again why you're playing this JRPG then? Hopefully you can go back to a non-JRPG, thanks.

Are you seriously asking that question? Rhetorical or not, you can't be serious.

[Rin_Kuroi]

I don't mind letting people watch cut scenes so long as they are willing to skip them if time is running low.

[VahnValbosce]

Are you seriously asking that question? Rhetorical or not, you can't be serious.

The characters and animations are all cliche JP Anime, right? It's not like western MMO's and FPS aren't cliche at all, right? Nope, guess not.

I think you fail to see how your opinion/personal taste of the story really matters when it comes to people wanting to enjoy the cutscenes in the storyline. It is not "irrelevant" just because you say it is. I find it funny how you can criticize this game and yet still play it and say that it's enjoyable to you. Like I said in other posts, "gamers" that just want gameplay will drive the community into the ground and there will no longer be a stable community at all, it will just become filled with "gamers" that just want combat and nothing else, and will bicker and complain when anything else besides combat mechanics is being developed for this game.

[Aicasia]

The characters and animations are all cliche JP Anime, right? It's not like western MMO's and FPS aren't cliche at all, right? Nope, guess not.

I think you fail to see how your opinion/personal taste of the story really matters when it comes to people wanting to enjoy the cutscenes in the storyline. It is not "irrelevant" just because you say it is. I find it funny how you can criticize this game and yet still play it and say that it's enjoyable to you. Like I said in other posts, "gamers" that just want gameplay will drive the community into the ground and there will no longer be a stable community at all, it will just become filled with "gamers" that just want combat and nothing else, and will bicker and complain when anything else besides combat mechanics is being developed for this game.

"Gamers" that don't think gameplay is the most important part of a game should go watch a goddamn movie. And how does me criticizing the story have anything to do with me being a hypocrite or my enjoyment of the game as a whole? Christ, it's one thing to be ignorant, but this is on a whole new level.

[sasakusaku]

Don't really care if people want to watch the cut scenes...but what I would like to see is an option in the menu to skip them all automatically. Also perhaps let others continue on with the run while the new player(s) watch cut scenes...sometimes waiting 5+ mins for them to watch them is kind of....boring especially when it happens all the time...