This needs to be stopped, and immediately.

[Giantbane]

And no one will do the dungeons but new people.

I really need to time all the CS's in CM and Prae so I have information to throw back at people who think making them unsinkable and not increasing the tome reward is a good idea to deal with this situation.

Somebody already did in the thread. CM isn't too bad at like 7-10minutes (depending of course on how fast you read). Prae comes in around 22min. None of this counts the after boss cutscene, and I'd imagine it's worse on PS3 with load times.

CM isn't so bad. But then again the mid dungeon cutscenes are pretty stupid, you're not missing a whole lot if you skip them.

Prae, on the other hand is absurd. It takes as long to watch the cutscenes as it does to run the dungeon. Demanding people to stand around and do absolutely nothing for half of the dungeon run because you want to watch a movie is a little selfish. I personally did not mind waiting for others when the roulette was first released because it didn't happen very often. But since the influx of new players from PS4, it's not worth it any more so I rarely do the story roulette now. However, I still don't mind waiting if the group wants to, or we have a few new players that all want to see the cutscenes. But if it's only 1 player and the group doesn't want to wait, I have no problem charging on without them while they watch the Prae movie.

If it's really, *REALLY* important to you to have the full prae cinematic experience, put together a duty finder for this specific purpose. Just put in the comments that you want to get the full cinematic experience and welcome others who want to experience Prae as originally intended. You should (given all the upvotes) easily be able to find a group in a semi-reasonable time frame. However, if you can't put together a group, well, there's your answer to how many people are interested in watching the cutscenes.

But seriously, don't blame the players for not wanting to sit around twiddling their thumbs for 20+ min for your sake alone. Blame SE's antiquated, non-interactive design to put excessive cutscenes in the middle of the dungeon. Even if you ramp up the rewards to something absurd like 400-500 myth and force them to watch the cutscenes, you're still creating a situation where playing the game involves standing there, mindlessly staring off into space while you watch the same damn cutscene for the umpteenth million time. That's just NOT GOOD DESIGN. And if you don't have people running it often, the new players will have to wait forever to get in the queues for it (this already happened with Cape Westwind before it was added to the trials roulette).

It's also the ONLY dungeon where it's a serious issue. So just get over it and move on to the end game. In reality it's just a very small portion of what you're going to be doing and you'll have many more epic moments actually FIGHTING (not watching) stuff that happens after the end game.

And again, if you *really* want the full Prae cinematic experience, there is an option for that. It may not be as easy as 1-click DF queue, but it's supposedly important for you to have the proper experience, right?