Pointless Cut Scenes

[Rowyne]

Actually, it's mostly to mask other players using the elevator- so that nobody else has to wait for the elevator to go up/down before they can use it. Technically the polys for the upper/lower level need to start being drawn but this only takes an instant. If you go to the airship landing, the loading doesn't take place until after the elevator animation finishes.

Didn't the elevators in the Bastok Metalworks move in real time? Honestly, I would rather have that.

I like the chocobo and airship cutscenes, but there's really nothing epic about watching my character walk onto an elevator.