Quote Originally Posted by Hazama999 View Post
I value the experience of any one new person over that of the rest of the group, who have likely run X or Y raid a bunch of times, so I'd rather wait.
This is the core of the issue to me right? we as society in general value things that can only be experienced once more than repeated experiences, and that's what makes cutscene watchers more valuable than everyone else.

Lemme paint a scenario, let's say you are somewhere you can't leave, like an office job, just doing routine things that don't exactly need full focus, and there are 5 people in there, there was this new super popular show that everyone has been watching, and 4 out of those 5 people have watched the show and are super excited about it, the 5th haven't because of time constraints and they still intend to watch it once they can, those 4 people want to discuss the show among themselves, but assuming they know of the 5th's situation, they will refrain from doing so, because they don't want to spoil the 5th's experience, you are unquestionably putting one person's enjoyment above the other four, but their first experience is considered intrinsically more valuable and thus it is respected.

This is the same for cutscenes, there are elements that get glossed over, a cutscene watcher may feel pressured in skipping the cutscene because the game notified them that the battle has started and that puts them in the mindset that they need to be there(personally, it took me a long time to train myself that if the battle starts, I should just sit that out until I am done), they may miss a few battle quotes that are part of the whole experience, they may want to take the entire fight in because that's part of the narrative, those are all elements that we respect because we respect first experiences more, and doing anything that may negatively impact that first experience is bad as a result, it's also the entire reason we have unskippable cutscenes in Praet, because the devs themselves are respecting the potential first experience more than everyone else's repeated experience.