Why is leaching tolerated in MSQ roulette?

[Macleod]

Not really. You're judging a multi-faceted person based on their stance of one particular roulette that just wants to get in and get it done.

Probably shouldn't openly admit to abusing game mechanics to skip unskippable cutscenes on the forums. I know this particular exploit exists, as do many others, and never once have I ever considered abusing it. If you queue for MS Roulette, you know what you're getting into and should plan accordingly. If you're willing to abuse poor game mechanics, carry leechers, etc., then I'm sorry, but yes that does tell me all I need to know about you with regard to this game, and I wouldn't want to team with you. Let's stamp the good ol' "difference in playstyle" on this one...

I know the MS Roulette instances are old, and easy, but that's no excuse.

[JunseiKei]

Probably shouldn't openly admit to abusing game mechanics to skip unskippable cutscenes on the forums. I know this particular exploit exists, as do many others, and never once have I ever considered abusing it. If you queue for MS Roulette, you know what you're getting into and should plan accordingly. If you're willing to abuse poor game mechanics, carry leechers, etc., then I'm sorry, but yes that does tell me all I need to know about you with regard to this game, and I wouldn't want to team with you. Let's stamp the good ol' "difference in playstyle" on this one...

I know the MS Roulette instances are old, and easy, but that's no excuse.

You can virtue signal that I'm terrible for being apathetic toward AFKers and leechers or people disconnecting just to try to make it faster, but it's not going to change my mind.

*Laughs.* No where did I say I actually do skip cutscenes. It was an example, though I can see where my wording would give you the impression that I'd abuse it. You'd know I sometimes just suck with words if you knew me. Can you give me definitive proof that I actually do it and not just words on a forum? No, you can't. I can tell you I have purple purple hair and that's all you'd have to go on. That doesn't change my stance on running the dungeon as quickly as possible and not caring what most of the other people do for a majority of the run. Nor does it tell you about me and more so a point that we agree to disagree on with a single subject. If you cannot make that distinction, oh well.

Again, I just want to get in and go and I don't care if people are AFK in a poorly implemented roulette that was great the first time I experienced it, but is now just outdated and annoying. Especially if no one is new to the instance. If anything, I hope the amount of AFKers and people willing to disconnect to skip the cutscenes demonstrations how bad this really is. Make it a bunch of cutscenes with trials where the bosses were, a trust dungeon, a squadron dungeon, something, than what it is now. If people kick those AFKers and they keep rejoining, I hope that drives the point home even more to the XIV development team that this is long overdue to be changed. The amount of threads complaining about the cutscenes, or in this case, leeches, doesn't seem to make much of an impression and hasn't in years.

You're judging a multi-faceted person based on their stance of one particular roulette that just wants to get in and get it done.