People able to skip cutscenes in MSQ roullete o.o

[Tsalmaveth]

You do have the right to not run the all of two (2) dungeons where this mechanic of unskippable cut scenes happens. There is that.

They realized these long story-driven play-stopping cut scenes were not working so they stopped doing them. But for these two dungeons... they are there. If they are SUCH a problem for people... Don't. Run. Them. You can farm all your tomes a ton of different ways. Seriously... just don't do them. Whining about how horrible they are isn't going to change the fact that they are there and that the designers really want new players to see them. If sitting through them is THAT much bloody torture... honestly, for your sanity, just don't run it. You can bust out quick clears of other content just as fast. Go do that.

[Rokke]

You do have the right to not run the all of two (2) dungeons where this mechanic of unskippable cut scenes happens. There is that

My fc just ran this with 2 new members. Neither of them wanted cutscenes, but they also didn't want to pay $25 USD, so we all suffered together lol

A lite version roulette would be heavenly for those of us with alts or people who don't want to watch a camera slowly pan across the dungeon as BE-WOP BE-WOP alams sound off. Less tomes/exp as a reward would be fine.

[Melondra]

If you don't want to put up with cut-scenes then don't play a story-driven MMORPG. Final Fantasy Franchise is focused around one thing story-telling, if you don't like that concept then Final Fantasy XIV is not for you. But don't expect new players to miss out on the experience just because you have already seen them, after all when this game first Launched and you ran those dungeons for the first time I'm sure you watched all the cut-scenes, have that same respect for others that have not been through it yet.

[Rokke]

If you don't like one aspect of X, you can't enjoy any of it!

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I did not watch all the cutscenes. My 2 new FC mates who I mentioned in the post juuuuust above yours, did not want to watch the cutscenes (they have, however been enjoying HW's story quite a bit). Were all of the cutscenes packed with lore and character interaction, perhaps we'd have enjoyed the 2 dungeons a bit more. But taking a few steps forward and the game to fading to black just to pan around the dungeon does not a story make.

[Nixxe]

My fc just ran this with 2 new members. Neither of them wanted cutscenes, but they also didn't want to pay $25 USD, so we all suffered together lol

A lite version roulette would be heavenly for those of us with alts or people who don't want to watch a camera slowly pan across the dungeon as BE-WOP BE-WOP alams sound off. Less tomes/exp as a reward would be fine.

You're under the mistaken belief that the people who fancy themselves defenders of sprouts actually care what sprouts think.

[Dogempire]

My fc just ran this with 2 new members. Neither of them wanted cutscenes, but they also didn't want to pay $25 USD, so we all suffered together lol

A lite version roulette would be heavenly for those of us with alts or people who don't want to watch a camera slowly pan across the dungeon as BE-WOP BE-WOP alams sound off. Less tomes/exp as a reward would be fine.

Only issue with that is people might only want to run the lite version.

Though I guess if the lite version gave nothing except poetics and XP people would rather run the other version, but that would probably be super confusing to make a second praetorium and make the cutscenes skippable.

[AngelCheese77]

Let them skip the cutscene. They get to fight stuff on their own and you reap the rewards. Or just ignore them and watch You Tube or read a book like i do, lol.

[Hestzhyen]

"If you don't like it, don't run it!"

I don't... but sometimes Mentor Roulette needs me to fill a spot. So one new guy watches cutscenes he may or may not be interested in and the rest of us f*** off for 10, 20 minutes at a time. That is awful and indefensible content.

I agree 100% that new players should get to have the "full experience" their first time through. It's not something that was always afforded to me so I try to be accomodating. But the solution SE implemented in those dungeons was not the right one- it disproportionately punishes the majority to accommodate a few. So whenever I get unlucky and have to waste my time in those instances I hope next patch announces a real fix. Make it solo, make it skippable again (it's not even skippable unsynched in premade groups which is pants-on-head STUPID), something...

[Rokke]

Only issue with that is people might only want to run the lite version.

Though I guess if the lite version gave nothing except poetics and XP people would rather run the other version, but that would probably be super confusing to make a second praetorium and make the cutscenes skippable.

How about: Main Scenario Roulette (story mode) 200 poetics base + 300 poetics roulette bonus + however much exp the current reward is at VS. Main Scenario Roulette (lite mode) 50 poetics + however much exp the old roulette used to give ?

Personally, I'm in the camp that would vastly prefer the 2 dungeons to be reworked into duties. No queue times, no pressure to skip cutscenes, no people rushing etc. Every player who doesn't buy a jump pot has to do these to hit HW, to eventually hit SB, to eventually hit whatever comes next. The first real story checkpoint needs to be more user friendly, imo.

[alimdia]

At the very least get rid of the restriction when running unsynced, not like there's any tome reward unsynced, yet the sprout is forced to waste valuable play time with shallow cutscenes.