Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Wow, that First Page lol.
The Time it takes to get through The Praetorium isn't that bad. Just Watch some netflicks or Do SOMETHING else in the background while the unskipable Cutscene plays out.
If I remember, they said they buffed the EXP rewards to compensate for taking away the ability to skip, and Ill tell you what, 4 - 8mill exp is nothing to sneeze at. I think its a good tradeoff. Your almost gurentee'd a level.

The Castrum Meridianum should be Buffed tho, that place gives barley 2-4mill exp
I know this from raising all of the Combat CLasses.

[CazzT]

The Time it takes to get through The Praetorium isn't that bad.

50+ minutes isn't bad? Compared to the 15-20 it used to take? LOLwut?

Just Watch some netflicks or Do SOMETHING else in the background while the unskipable Cutscene plays out.

So.... instead of PLAYING THE GAME, go do something else instead of PLAYING THE GAME? And you don't see the problem here?

[YukiinoTheKid]

Why not make a button for those who dont want to skip cutscenes so they can all play together while the rest of us do our roulettes?

[HyoMinPark]

Why not make a button for those who dont want to skip cutscenes so they can all play together while the rest of us do our roulettes?

Splitting the two MSQ queues into “want to watch cutscenes” and “don’t want to watch cutscenes” means that the individuals in the former group will probably end up with exorbitant queue times. Which would defeat the purpose of the roulette—it was initially made to facilitate queues.

[Iscah]

Why not make a button for those who dont want to skip cutscenes so they can all play together while the rest of us do our roulettes?

Because you wouldn't have a roulette then. Certainly not the profitable one which, as has been discussed repeatedly, has reward set according to the amount of time it will take you.

Remove the time factor, and there is no longer a high-profit roulette to be run.

The choice is already there, but it's between "play with cutscenes" and "don't play".

It's designed to get people to help first-time players, and segregating it would defeat the purpose.

[Avidria]

They really should've made those solo dungeons to begin with

I mean come on, how did a raid with 40+ minutes of cutscenes get past play testing? Who thought that was a good idea? Who approved it????

This was a band-aid fix to bad design choice and it's really kind of a shame. Oh well. This is the queue I run when I'm half asleep watching recipe videos at three am now. :P

[Berret_Snow]

Didn't they mention that they were going to cut down ARR and the 2.X patches around the 5.X patches? I could have sworn I read that somewhere.

[Seraph522]

They really should've made those solo dungeons to begin with

I mean come on, how did a raid with 40+ minutes of cutscenes get past play testing? Who thought that was a good idea? Who approved it????

This was a band-aid fix to bad design choice and it's really kind of a shame. Oh well. This is the queue I run when I'm half asleep watching recipe videos at three am now. :P

Remember that this content was created in the 2.5-year or so period in which FFXIV was being rebuilt from the ground up after 1.0's failure; they did a lot of good in reworking the game during that time, but that leaves a very short amount of time to think through some ideas. Presumably, they were created as such to act as epic finales to 2.0's storyline - perfect from the perspective of a Final Fantasy game, but not so useful from an MMO perspective where content is run over and over again. They learned from that mistake and haven't done anything like them since, but reworking them would require time and effort that could be spent towards newer content.

Personally, I'm hopeful that if the Trust system is successful and they begin to import that concept into older content (which they've suggested they might do, though not in a "we're definitely going to do this" kind of way) that these dungeons take first priority.

[Kaethra]

I still maintain that ilvl scaling to 110 was a mistake. It should be 50-60. Then we can talk about skipping cutscenes.

[Fynlar]

I still maintain that ilvl scaling to 110 was a mistake. It should be 50-60. Then we can talk about skipping cutscenes.

What do you mean? There is no ilvl sync on CM/Prae.

Unless they've mentioned this as an impending change come 5.0 or something.