Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
From the game's perspective, it factually is.
from that point of view, yes. From the perspective that all aspects of a game that people enjoy are equally important. No. But then again.. it is perspective.

Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
If I run it unsynced I'll power my alt to 60 in POTD and unsync it myself, that's not the problem. I'll still have to sit through the same cutscenes I don't care about. I just ran it unsynced on a level 70 and I still had to watch the gosh darned cutscenes. They should have at least limited it to there being a first timer in the instance. There isn't? You won, it's going to be a fast roulette. There is? You knew what you were queueing for to begin with so it's all good.
THAT is a problem, I was under the impression since the description WASN'T there in the dutys entry that outside of the roulette it functioned as it always had. That needs to change. Also, this other solution you've proposed ALSO fixes the majority of the problem, perhaps that couldn't be done for the same reason the duty seems to HAVE to have the same restriction. It's a flag that cannot be flipflopped. Just ON or OFF as long as the duty is there. Either way yes, that needs to change for people who want to rerun or speedrun but do not want a 40 minute investment.



Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post

You told me I didn't know what you were thinking, so I'll throw that right back at you. I don't think they did it for money, though I can see a lot of people going there to avoid this on alts. I think they picked the path of least resistance without actually checking what resistances would arise as a result.
OK, fair enough that was a large assumption. Personally I cannot see people dropping 18-25 dollars just to skip 2 hours total. That's a lot of money for a minor problem. More than a months sub with extra retainers. Mentioning the pots as an alternative seems ludicrous.
With the addition of that last information about the duties even unsynched having to watch cutscenes at a set pace, I'll say this seems poorly implemented or at least incompletely.