MSQ cutscene skipping against TOS?

[Vnolan]

You can justify it however you like or downplay it, but they do have the tools and can use them if the situation escalates enough.

Not talking about trigger use, hunt radar or clearing content for money/Gil. Doesn't have to be justified when anyone can do it, it affects no one and the devs have had ample time to do something about it if it displeased them so much.

(Read: An LB giving 50% damage up literally breaking the difficulty of their content, forcing the devs to play their hand and using those exact tools and statistics to place temp bans on many people who used the exploit, even just out of fun.)

They found about Ungarmax and let players continue to do it for 18 months? Or was the game taken offline within a day or so?

The cutscene lock took a while to be implemented, despite it being an ongoing problem for many months - years as well. Just saying, any day now you can wake up to a lovely email informing your character has been banned due to the devs wanting to place a firmer stance on the cutscene skip exploit.

Adding unskippable cutscenes is not like temp banning a bunch of players.

Like I said, it's about common sense. I know some players who botted 24/7 that have been banned, I know others who never have been.

So we're in agreement that just doing it won't have you banned.

As Ungermax had set a precedent for, nothing will keep you safe, no matter how innocent, no matter how much the group agrees with you, if the devs decide they want to go hard on shutting down an exploit. I'd advise to stay on the side of common sense. They implemented the cutscene lock because of outrage people were clearing the instance while they wanted to watch cutscenes. A subsequent outrage will only have the dev's iron hammer crashing down upon you.

Sure it will. Why nip it in the bud over a year ago when they can wait, let more people do it and increase how many they have to ban all so they can take in less money?