Quote Originally Posted by Yunuen View Post
I appreciate everyone that's brought up valid criticism of this change. Any time I've brought it up, I've been told the same BS that Reyn is posting with no actual offer for a solution and felt like I was alone. I used to queue up every day as a healer. I always made sure to tell newbies that they could sit back and watch the CS and don't worry if the rest of the group goes ahead. Out of the 3 years I've played, I've only had two people throw fits over it.
I've run CM and Prae once since the change, and while CM is not that bad (from 20 mins to about 30 mins for me), Prae was horrible last night, clocking in at 1 hour. While I know this is going to grate on the nerves of our dear white knights in this thread, I'm not going to be running it any more. That's my opinion and choice, and while the white knights don't seem to think it's valid to voice one's opposing opinion, I'm standing by it. I personally enjoyed running these roulettes with random people, and this has ruined it for me.
You are well within your rights to stop and SHOULD if it bothers you that much. Good on you for helping new people for so very long.
I don't think I've seen one person say that SE is infallible. They've done some dumb things, the fact you still cannot skip CS if you make your own PF or Unsynched party is one of them. But the part where the roulette has unskippable CS ISN'T. A compromise was proposed that if a newbie is in the roulette then the cutscenes should be unskippable, but if all are vets who have done the instance before it should run as it always has, this is a good balance. Now the problem is to get this to the attention of someone who can do something about it without this being buried in bickering. Does that sound right to you or is this a situation where the old way is better than any sort of modification for you? Or perhaps you think devoting resources to re-doing the whole line itself is a better idea?