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

[Bixby]

If it becomes a problem, FFXIV can increase the noob bonus to get vets to queue.

Simply increasing the bonus will only encourage more of the same. Speed runners gonna speed run, and making it even more worthwhile to do so isn't going to make them slow down.

One idea is to give the new players a pop-up at the end of the dungeon asking if they feel the non-new players were helpful. Or, y'know, word it however you want. If the new players say yes, the (random, not queued together as a party with the new players) vets get significant bonus Myth (or whatever). If not, they don't.

[IndigoHawk]

One idea is to give the new players a pop-up at the end of the dungeon asking if they feel the non-new players were helpful. Or, y'know, word it however you want. If the new players say yes, the (random, not queued together as a party with the new players) vets get significant bonus Myth (or whatever). If not, they don't.

I like this idea. It's like the commendation system. If the noobs don't say people were helpful, then no one gets a bonus. Since it's at the end of the dungeon, no one can retaliate. And even if no one gets the bonus, everyone still got the base reward, so they didn't really lose anything.

Instead of people speedrunning and locking out the noob or pressuring them, some people would start acting "super friendly" to earn that bonus. It would be a bit fake, but maybe it would encourage the right behavior.

And it would be amazing to see people asking the noob if they were having fun or understood what was going on instead of rushing.