This has to stop.

[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.