This MSQ change makes nobody happy.

[Talraen]

Also, saying this was added because vets were "mean to newbies" is over the top, least from my experience. I have NEVER seen ANYONE get at a new player in the instance. The only time anyone made any amount of deal about the cutscenes was someone acting high and mighty "defending" the newbie who couldn't care less. We let them watch it because them falling behind usually has 0 impact on the dungeon speed.

I've seen people give newbies a hard time for wanting to watch cutscenes. Also I'm guessing many, many new players wanted to watch cutscenes but didn't want to say so because they didn't want to be yelled at, or because they were already told not to bother because no one would let them watch the cutscenes

And now? I have no reason to go in there. At all. Poetics are common. I've seen the cutscenes. I can get more exp per minute doing my on level dungeon.

All of these things were true before 4.2. The exp per minute was never particularly good in Main Story Roulette, on-level dungeon was always a better rate, and also allowed you to make better use of experiences bonuses (e.g., from your FC or squadron manuals).

The only difference is now a player who actually wants to see the final story sequence of a Final Fantasy game can do so without having to organize their friends into letting them. Who loses, exactly?