This has to stop.

[Rumpelstiltzkin]

If someone gets told not to watch CS when using the DF I will tell them to do it. If they feel forced to skip anyway I will make sure to watch every CS myself.

[Fuz]

If someone gets told not to watch CS when using the DF I will tell them to do it. If they feel forced to skip anyway I will make sure to watch every CS myself.

My behavior exactly in those circumstances.

[Taika]

I'm very happy to see huge majority of players commenting and liking the posts in this thread understand that when people are running the dungeon for the first time for the story, the group should let them experience it without rush and skipping the story part of it.

In my LS, I've tried to organize LS groups for all members who are up to CM and Prae so no one is ruining the experience for them. That's where they can also experience their first times doing 8 member content which is great experience for especially tanks and healers, I think. We usually don't even explain any strategies for the fights but let them figure out stuff themselves. It's sad when people forget they were once new and feel like their time is so very precious they can't let new people experiment and experience things.

[RyuujinZERO]

Every single person our linkshell group on Balmung has been either coerced into skipping, or have been locked out of the boss fights due to people refusing to let them watch the cut-scenes.

It's absolutely ridiculous the situation that you cannot obtain a DF team for the instance without either missing the fights OR missing the cut-scenes... in the final levels of a story driven game. It's all very well telling people to watch the cut-scenes anyway, but you still miss the game exposition of the fights itself - while if you skip, you then get to watch the cut scenes out of sync, without the important context of the cut scenes the fights probably don't make much sense.

One good solution would be to simply make the boss barrier un-crossable until all players are out of the cut scene. or trap the players in a field like they do when the players first enter the instance so they can't start before everyone is ready.

[Kathryn]

It disgusts me how many rude people have come to infest the community, If I ever see someone telling someone to skip a CS I will give them a piece of my mind and tell the person who is new to watch them as NO-ONE has the right to make people skip any cutscene in a storybased games.

/Tired of elitist jerks polluting good games.

[Pronsolo]

I love all these people saying "You're the jerk for wanting to watch the cut scenes, if the other 7 want a speed run you just need to go with it." By this logic the kid at school who gets bullied needs to just give up his lunch money because he is being a real jerk by not giving in to the 7 guys who are going to beat the crap out of him otherwise rofl.

[odintius]

People need to go back to the inn and take an actual look at what cut scenes are in the book not all of them are their especially the short cut scene you receive after boss fights etc you only see the beginning one and ending full cut scene's telling people other wise is being dishonest to them and yourself.

[seekerofpower]

I agree that people should watch the cutscenes their first time, in fact one of my LS is planning to do a cutscene run of CM and Praetorium 1 time a week, just to get some new folks through. At the same time, all cutscenes ARE IN THE INN. You have to check multiple tabs, but I know for a fact they are all there. Once again, though, this is not an exceptable excuse for forcing people to miss them in context.

[HamHam]

I'm not new to these fights, and I have done CM more than 50 times and sometimes I want to see the scenes I missed in CM when I did my first run, but I can't because it's always a speed run.

But peer pressure always wins.