Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Akor]

Start the clock!

SE, it was 3 months and 40 pages from the time you said you'd restrict chat in the Feast - a fact that was, and still is near-unanimously received VERY poorly. And when you did respond, it was to ask for "any suggestions or feedback", as if ignorant to the first 39 pages. This has been received just as poorly. . . how many months and how many pages will this one take, and what will be done about it?

P.S. the PvPers are watching too. How long will it take the "favorite" child to get attention?

You can cry how much u want u can stand on your head for days, they wont change it (only if the pvp pupolation will decrease so hard than only after that they will might bring back the old stuff like chat etc.). Its time to change game if u like PvP. lol
PVP was dead (for me) since they removed CS anyways.

[LaylaTsarra]

The sad part about this is that people actually trying to complete story are going to HAVE RIDICULOUS queue times for their duties because I can't see people waiting for the duty to pop and then have to sit through all of the cuts. It's just not going to happen and those doing story will be the losers. Most will simply queue for a relevant dungeon at their level to make up for the experience they lose from the roulette.

Edit: My suspicion is that they'll see soon enough how it's not working and will be forced to change it.

[BunnyChain]

While I haven'T been doing that roulette for a long time (probably since HW launch) this is certainly not how you go about 'fixing' the issue. Even the current, soon old, way of running it doesn't entice me for those tomestones. This change will decrease the amount of players willing to queue for it.

[Ayasaki128]

Personally I like the idea of the CS cant be skipped. They should put something like "New Player detected, All Cutscenes cant be skipped" in all duties.
I'm not trolling, you are playing Final Fantasy, read the story! Back in 3.0 when I was helping some friends with the lv 60 dungeon and even praetorium or castrum I was queing as tanker to prevent cutscene skipping from others. Because I wanted to be sure they could experience all the story.

[Warkupo]

If this change goes live you can pretty much kiss new players goodbye. I will not personally sit in an hour long dungeon so some random green-leaf I'll never see again can complete his MSQ with the oh-so-well written main scenario in tact.

[Mr_Gyactus]

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No. sprouts deserve to see cutscenes.
MSQ will become a sprout-mentor roulette.
If you are a mentor and you talk this way you are't up to the role.

[Rufalus]

I didn't believe they would make this kind of change but a significant amount of people were asking for exactly this, and crucially it's the easiest fix they could make. Yoshida has always had the belief that it's impossible to make heavy adjustments to old content because this hurts their ability to produce enough new content in a timely manner. I thought CM/Prae might be an exception, but no apparently they don't have the dev time to make these into solo instances with NPC allies who use squadron AI behavior or anything like that. If the solution isn't perfect, that's why, it would have delayed the patch or reduced the amount of new content in the patch.

[LaylaTsarra]

On top of the fact that Main Story isn't going to be worth the time and effort we are getting a new roulette to replace the experience lost from it.

Duty Roulette: Level 70 Dungeons has been added to the Duty Finder.

[Bellsong]

No. sprouts deserve to see cutscenes.
MSQ will become a sprout-mentor roulette.
If you are a mentor and you talk this way you are't up to the role.

I don't get this post. they're not saying sprouts don't deserve to have a good first experience or view the cutscenes, and in fact suggest an idea that would make both parties happy: A solo experience.

Veterans no longer have to go through the duty for the sake of a roulette, and new players get the best possible experience with the content.

[BillyKaplan]

If you are a mentor and you talk this way you are't up to the role.

Did you even read the post? Making this a solo instance would let the newbies enjoy the cutscenes to their fullest without anyone else being held hostage. And, what, do you honestly think no Mentor will bail the SECOND they see what they got? At no point was I required to do whatever content thrown at me when I became a Mentor. That's not what the role is about and thinking it is is honestly misguided entitlement. Mentors are players too and have things they don't want to run. That's what the abandon penalty is for.