Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[SamSmoot]

First run of Castrum Meridianum.. More time spent in unskippable cutscenes than actually doing the content.
I was frantically trying to skip them anyway because in my previous MMO, you're effectively AFK if you stop to watch a cutscene = bad.) Square Enix really wants us to watch their stuff I guess..

[Aosha]

First run of Castrum Meridianum.. More time spent in unskippable cutscenes than actually doing the content.
I was frantically trying to skip them anyway because in my previous MMO, you're effectively AFK if you stop to watch a cutscene = bad.) Square Enix really wants us to watch their stuff I guess..

Thankfully Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium are the only dungeons in the game that are like that.
The cutscenes used to be skippable (but on the flipside, if I recall correctly, had MANUALLY ADVANCED TEXT). This caused situations where new players trying to get their story clear and watch the cutscenes (which they have the full right to do, bugger off speedrunners) would get left behind. Heck, I started the game in 2.2 or 2.3, and ALREADY people were going so fast that by the time I'd exit a cutscene a new one would be starting right after.
This made the dungeons kinda unplayable for new players who didn't set up a party specifically to go slow.
So to allow new players to experience the full dungeon SE eventually made this change. It's honestly kind of a bad solution, but I'd argue it's still better then what we used to have.

The devs learned from this mess, and made sure that no future dungeons would suffer from this issue. Any custcenes are shown before entering or after exiting a dungeon, minus the usual three (panning view through the dungeon at start, boss intro, and "hooray we beat the boss").

But hey now you're past that and getting closer to Heavensward. Post-Praetorium is where dungeons really start getting more interesting, so have fun.

[Endeleon]

First run of Castrum Meridianum.. More time spent in unskippable cutscenes than actually doing the content.
I was frantically trying to skip them anyway because in my previous MMO, you're effectively AFK if you stop to watch a cutscene = bad.) Square Enix really wants us to watch their stuff I guess..

That and Praetorium are the only two times you have to worry about it and unless you do Main Story roulette you'll never see them again. So just relax and don't worry about it.