Cutscene skipping "peer pressure" What is it? Why does it exist? Why care?

[KisaiTenshi]

This is industry-wide, though. Not just with FFXIV. I remember reading an interview with a Blizzard developer saying that a very small percentage of their playerbase raided, and a very small percentage of their playerbase did competitive PvP. The majority of their players played casually, which they defined as mainly solo questing and regular dungeons, while dabbling a little bit in raiding and PvP. That's today's MMOs in a nutshell.

The days of hardcore raiding are gone. And if you want hardcore PvP, you're playing a MOBA or an FPS.

I don't think they (hardcore PvP's) ever existed. PvP is all Team Fortress/Overwatch clones now. Probably more satisfying than MMORPG PvP which is almost entirely griefing if there is not some form of perpetual war going on.

Hardcore raiding may still survive, but only if the players that are interested in it can behave, otherwise there is no point in the developers producing more content for them, which means those 5% or so that play that content need to stop scaring off players who otherwise would play it. One needs to ask what the threshold is before the developer just doesn't bother with it, and it becomes easy-mode for everyone.