This needs to be stopped, and immediately.

[Sax]

Castrum is almost 15 minutes. Praetorium is almost 30 minutes.

Think what you want. But as long as Square wants to get the boring dungeons full and don't keep new players waiting to long, they will always be required to skip the cutscenes or miss the fights. It is as simple as that.

Edit:
And yes. The majority rules in an mmorpg.

Out of curiosity I just timed the cs's from both. Not counting the final cs from CM (because you don't have to wait around for people to watch those), the total time is 7:04 not skipping any of Livia's or Cid's dialogue. Prae on the other hand is a whole other kettle of fish. I'm surprised Cid doesn't tell you how to wipe your butt in those cs's. Total time, ignoring the last scene, and allowing the voice actors to deliver their oscar worthy performances... 23:38. So while your estimate of CM is very exaggerated, you were surprisingly close to the mark with Prae. Though, you could probably knock off around 8 minutes if you read the text instead of sitting through the series of dramatic monologues lol.

As for the rest, it has nothing to do with what I said, so I'll assume you were replying to other stuff people said.

EDIT: To make it longer!

[Tharian]

Out of curiosity I just timed the cs's from both. Not counting the final cs from CM (because you don't have to wait around for people to watch those), the total time is 7:04 not skipping any of Livia's or Cid's dialogue. Prae on the other hand is a whole other kettle of fish. I'm surprised Cid doesn't tell you how to wipe your butt in those cs's. Total time, ignoring the last scene, and allowing the voice actors to deliver their oscar worthy performances... 23:38.

You are assuming that everyone in the world reads at exactly the same word per minute rate that you do, of course?

[Sax]

You are assuming that everyone in the world reads at exactly the same word per minute rate that you do, of course?

Of course I don't assume that everyone reads at the same pace lol.

It was done out of interest because people (myself included) have been saying 'x takes this long and y takes this long' and I wanted to know how long the cs's generally take in total. If you would like to sit and time them, reading at what you believe is an average speed knock yourself out. As a point of reference, the average adult silently reads approximately 200 to 250 words per minute.

I don't even know what to make of your post lol.