This has to stop.

[Psykloned]

I've had this happen many times. I even spoke out against a group of 4 in a CM run I DFed since they were bullying a healer for watching the cutscenes. They proceeded to not tank properly, wipe the group a lot, and the other healer from that group of 4 refused to heal me for it. Oh well though I said my peace for the poor guy/girl.

[Kafziel]

I am personally fine with people watching cut scenes if they want to. However, if only one or two are watching cut scenes then don't expect the rest of the group to stand around waiting for you.
To those saying watching the cut scenes is doing the dungeons as intended I say then why is their an option to skip the cut scenes? SE intended for people to be able to skip the cut scenes even their first time.

the quest description even says Use the Duty Finder to enter Castrum Meridianum.

Of course it does. All groups, even pre-formed ones, must enter CM through the Duty Finder. Just like every dungeon must be entered using the dungeon finder.

As for those who say SE is not to blame. They are. There was no reason to make a story dungeon one of the best end game grinding dungeons. If they had separated these two things we would not be having this discussion.

[Tyndles]

+1 to "story is meant to be watched the first time, not rewound on the TiVO in your inn room. " To watch all the story segments in CM takes about 12 minutes if someone reads slow. It isn't going to ruin your day. Even if it happens multiple times per evening. Hell, lets say you do 10 runs in an evening, and you lose 120 minutes because someone watches the cut scenes every time. (Which is extremely unlikely to happen, but roll with it here.) Yeah, you lost 2 hours that evening, but you let AT LEAST 10 people enjoy a story and made their night by letting them experience the story the way it was intended. There are much worse ways to lose 2 hours a night.

That said, if anyone here is coming up to the end of their storylines on Balmung, send me a tell, I'll go with you and argue that your storylines not be skipped.

[Rochetm]

The amount of stupid required for someone to join DF and want speed runs is beyond what I thought possible.

[AridElf]

Whenever I join CM and someone is watching their cutscenes I do too. Why? Because I'm a tank and if I can draw some of the rabid hate from the party members away from the new guy/girl who wants to experience the story properly, I damn well will.

I don't mind people watching the cutscenes, I did it on my first run, if you don't like it then form a party outside of the Duty Finder else you'll just have to take the gamble.

[Alteiriaa]

Stuff like this makes me want to read even slower. :l I haven't made it that far yet, however even if I did, I wouldn't be telling nobody to skip any cutscenes, 's just rude.
Hell, if there is (a) new player(s) I'll probably watch the CSs again!
I don't like inconveniancing anybody, really, but there is no way I'm missing my CS in a dungeon on the first run through, run ahead without your tank if you are so hurt by it. :/

[nijn78]

Never let people tell you what to do, especially in an MMO.
You've paid for it, you should be able to watch the cutscenes.
Besides, they can't stop you
there's no kick option anyway, so go ahead and watch them.

I'm watching my cutscenes, I don't want to watch them in the inn, nope I want to watch them while I'm right into it.
So I got locked out once on a boss fight, but no big deal

[Idrael]

it's pretty much dice rolling when you use duty finder.

Lucky sevens to find that group that is totally okay with cutscenes, not one dungeon, but two in a row

Snake eyes for when you pretty much run into people who go 'YOU'RE WATCHING CUTSCENES, UGGGGGGGGH*rq*'

[Warkitten87]

I never skipped the cutscenes until I ran Praetorium, during which, as tank, I couldn't get a single group to stay together unless I skipped all the scenes. The ending was basically ruined for me, the bosses just randomly seemed to be in new environments after the skip and I felt like it was all pointless. It's my own fault for giving in to it, but as far as I'm concerned people can watch whatever scenes they want in any dungeon. Advice to all new Praetorium runners, find a premade with your friends so it's not ruined, it's worth the wait.