Roulette: Main Quest Scenarios...

[Maero]

lol i am just saying the text should be sped up, no reason for it to remain on screen for so long.
Love the xp but those many and long cs are so annoyingly tedious

[Hysterior]

Introducing: FFXIV Fitness Dungeons

- Do pushups during the full duration of odd cutscenes
- Do crunches during the full duration of even cutscenes

Go from Potato to Rogabuff with only a few minutes per day!!

[AlphaFox]

Introducing: FFXIV Fitness Dungeons

- Do pushups during the full duration of odd cutscenes
- Do crunches during the full duration of even cutscenes

Go from Potato to Rogabuff with only a few minutes per day!!

Instructions unclear, put a pizza in the oven.

[Noitems]

I just treat Main Scenario Rou as dinner time. If it's Castrum it sucks since the cutscenes aren't as long. Only that one where you first meet Cid and when Juvia is giving you the long talk about her husbando are where you can actually eat food at an average pace.

The best one for that is ABSOLUTELY Praetorium. The cutscene with Cid and Nero is almost over 5 minutes long. I've had dinner and finished in time before it ended, but also took a shower once during the time it was going on and still made it in time.

Don't have a record of how long the Gaius->Gold Experience Gaius cutscene is or the "WE WILL SPEAK LATER ASSIAN" but I'm gonna say they're shorter then the cid one.

[Jojoya]

Smarter idea: don't do MSQ roulette if sitting through the cutscenes bothers you. Doing the roulette is not mandatory - sitting through the cutscenes if you choose to do the roulette is. You can always spend the time grinding other dungeons, PotD/HoH, leves, FATEs, etc. to earn XP.

Personally I don't mind getting half a level of XP for letting cutscenes run in the background while I play Solitaire or browse the internet (assuming there's no new player in the group asking questions).

lol i am just saying the text should be sped up, no reason for it to remain on screen for so long.
Love the xp but those many and long cs are so annoyingly tedious

Not everyone has voice acting enabled. It's to give players time to read the dialog.

[Nora_of_Mira]

Because the rewards would be slashed.

where does this idea come from? if the cutscenes are for new players. How does skipping cutscenes equate to less rewards earned for players that have seen them and no new player is affected at all?

[NekoNova]

where does this idea come from? if the cutscenes are for new players. How does skipping cutscenes equate to less rewards earned for players that have seen them and no new player is affected at all?

because the only reason we got the huge rewards is because the cutscenes were enforced.

[Nora_of_Mira]

because the only reason we got the huge rewards is because the cutscenes were enforced.

...to the benefit of the new players, no? take out the new players and what reason do we have for cutscenes?

[Rilifane]

where does this idea come from? if the cutscenes are for new players. How does skipping cutscenes equate to less rewards earned for players that have seen them and no new player is affected at all?

It has been mentioned about a hundred times in every thread about this topic: because people would try to find out who the new player is and kick them so they can skip the cutscenes.
MSQ roulette awards that insane amount of exp + a chunk of tomestones for the sole reason of everyone being forced to watch the cutscenes. It's the devs way of thanking you for your time and making it possible for new players to get into those two dungeons and experience everything "on set" instead of being rushed through and forced to watch them later at the inn.

Don't want to spent 30-40min watching cutscenes? Don't do the MSQ roulette.
Many players do it regulary and it's a great way to grab exp with next to no effort. You can do all sort of things while the cutscenes play. But if you prefer to get your exp and tomestones elsewhere, you're free to do so.

[Seraphor]

where does this idea come from? if the cutscenes are for new players. How does skipping cutscenes equate to less rewards earned for players that have seen them and no new player is affected at all?

Because before cutscene were made unskippable, rewards were a third of what they currently are.
And all newbies were forced to skip cutscenes.

...to the benefit of the new players, no? take out the new players and what reason do we have for cutscenes?

The problem is, there's no fair way to differentiate between them.
The moment you have a distinction between having new players and not, you exclude new players.
No one will want to run it if there's a new player. Get a new player? Kick them.