Quote Originally Posted by raelgun View Post
The change to the MSQ was only made much later into the game, and yes I am aware of the situation back then.

People here are trying to argue the rewards are based strictly on the cutscenes when its actually more specific to the new player experience to engage in the boss fights that ensues after them.

Since the cutscenes are strictly designed with new players in mind, if there arent any, then why enforce with no options to all vets to watch the cutscenes.
IIRC the rewards were increased when the cutscenes were made unskippable, and then a little bit later they were increased again because the first bribe increase was not large enough to get people to run the MSQ roulette with unskippable cutscenes on a regular basis.

The developers cannot easily make the cutscenes unskippable only in some cases, so therefore they are made unskippable in all cases.