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    Vidu's Avatar
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    Vidu Moriquendi
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    Odin
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    Bard Lv 90
    Aaaah... one of those runs again - while that sucks, I need to ask yout to put yourself in his shoes aswell:
    Those dungeons have long cutscenes. Its a big designflaw and you'll be happy to hear that SE didnt repeat this mistake.
    I recently did the last ARR-dungeon (Praetorium) for the friend of a friend. It took over an hour because they were watching cutscenes - completly fine because between the three of us we agreed on that being cool. But: An hour.
    Those dungeons are basically 15 minutes action and 45 minutes cutscene.
    I dont want to blame you or your friend for wanting to enjoy your journey there, hell no - but you please need to understand that you're asking 6 other people to just stand around and do nothing for 45 minutes while you watch your cutscenes.
    Its not 5 minutes or something minor like that. Its an aweful lot of cutscenes - not your fault wanting to enjoy them, but I can also understand why someone doesnt want to go through that again. Its really bad design there.

    I just wish, SE would resort to giving everyone a warning message before queueing for that dungeon - something along the lines of: "The following dungeons are very cutscene-heavy, make sure you're in a party that will allow you to watch them".
    You can argue all about how we should all be patient and friendly and let new people just watch those cutscenes, but when that means that the rest of the party has to wait for 30-45 minutes that doesnt seem very reasonable to ask anymore, I'd say.

    I can only urge everyone: If one of your friends reachs those dungeons: Grab them, grab a third person and do them unsyched. It will be a better experience for them and you wont make 7 strangers wait for a very long time.

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    Reinha's Avatar
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    Reinha Sorrowmoon
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    Reaper Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidu View Post
    I dont want to blame you or your friend for wanting to enjoy your journey there, hell no - but you please need to understand that you're asking 6 other people to just stand around and do nothing for 45 minutes while you watch your cutscenes.
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidu View Post
    Of course, if the rest of the party agreed and only one person had to be a bit of a jerk in the end, that sucks and I dont want to defend that - but even if those cutscenes are intended, its still a lot to ask of a bunch of strangers to wait for those. Again: Not your fault. But I cant really blame those people either. If you've got only 2 hours of playtime each day and you spend half of the time waiting for someone to finish a cutscene... thats not fun.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sarteck View Post
    I mentioned, "Hey, we got locked out because we're viewing cutscenes," and the response was pretty much that they could take care of it and not to worry about it. That was fine by us, really. We watched the cutscenes, and tried to catch up with the party the few times we had the chance.
    Vidu, you need to read the OP again because you keep claiming the party was slowed down. The party didn't have to wait for him and that idiot healer is to blame for being rude. Such intolerant people do not deserve a new player bonus and I wish new players could deny it from anyone who makes the experience unpleasant.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kuo View Post
    if you cant wait on new players watching cutsences, don't queue roulette for story dungeons
    The truth is in the quote. You can only end up in MSQ dungeons on purpose so you shouldn't queue if you don't want new players experiencing the dungeon as intended. It's as bad as those mentors who only queue Mentor Roulette for the mount and ruin the experience for the new players.
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    Last edited by Reinha; 08-06-2017 at 09:48 PM.
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