Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
But that choice isn't available. As has been previously pointed out, the cutscene itself, even when viewed in an Inn, is unskippable. It's all or nothing, due to technical limitations. Either newbies get to experience the story as it should be, or they don't.
So yes, it is the best option currently available.
The option was available BEFORE implementing this. You could have used party finder for "No skipping cutscenes" and go with that. You could get your friends/Free Company members join with you and not skip the cutscenes/not fighting while you watch them. You had options of not skipping cutscenes...or skipping cutscenes. There are no such options now.

The lone fact that this was not used is proof of how few people actually give a darn about watching the cutscenes and fighting the mobs as they go. In case you didn't notice, vast majority of the players (you included) that stand "in defense" of the rookie players...are far from being rookies. It's the unrelated people that want to be the white knights of the new players. There are few here or there, don't get me wrong. There are new players that enjoy this possibility...first time around. But mostly it's not. Mostly the defendants of this change have little to do with the audience it is for.

It's good if they are actually someone that runs those dungeons with those rookies, but there are most likely as many or more people that do not. That are just talking for the sake of showing themselves on a supposedly moral high horse.