Why shouldn't someone be allowed to watch the cutscenes on first playthrough?

[Granyala]

The whole cutscene in group content is crap design.

I'm a healer and I felt forced to skip all my cutscenes because I constantly got the message "X closes in 15 seconds" while I was watching them and then tried to sprint to the next boss.

I get it, this is Final Fantasy and FF always was a Cutscene heavy game, but they simply overdid it when it comes to the Castrum/praetorium.

REMOVE Cutscenes at the beginning or keep them short (10-15s max).
REMOVE Cutscenes in the middle or keep them short (10-15s max).

Put your story stuff at the END of the dungeon, initiate it AFTER the loot distribution when they click the shiny thing to leave.

There ya go: everyone can enjoy them at their leisure w/o having other people wait 5 minutes for some damn video.

Best option is to change these dungeons from Cutscenes to in-game events. That way EVERYONE has to wait through them.

Though they still should see to it that interruptions in dungeon runs are SHORT! If they make us farm them for stuff we need.

No matter how you design, people WILL get annoyed with minute long events in dungeons they want to farm quickly.
By forcing them to watch it, eventually peeps would drop out instantly if they got this particular dungeon.
Seen it countless of times in Halls of Stone / Oculus in WoW.