Quote Originally Posted by MythToken View Post
Sorry but this is just wrong. If you look at the forums yes it might somehow appear that way. But the fact is the "speed runners" are the majority. Otherwise the CS'sers would be able to vote against the speed runners.
Every time ive done this dungeon its only 1-3 people who want to watch cutscenes.

So I think your assumption is wrong, based on the clear facts of vote power.

That being said, both sides have legit gripes. My solution to get rid of the roulette would eliminate the speed runners, and the only people queuing for the dungeon would be CS'ers.
Don't mistake "not for" as "against". In my experience, you have 1-3 who are for cutscenes, 1-2 loud people berating them for daring to even suggest such a travesty, and 3-6 players who don't care enough to speak up either way and so remain silent.

The difference is, the speed runners are (incorrectly) confident that they are speaking for the majority, while the newbies have no idea what the right or wrong thing is, and so unhappily concede, not knowing they even have the option to fight it. No "vote" ever becomes involved - and if it did, the speed runners would likely lose.

Getting rid of the roulette would drastically reduce the available pool of players, which is a bad thing as it means newbies, many of whom don't have a FC or many friends, could be gated behind the content for who-knows how long, especially as the game ages and the rush of new players peters off. The Roulette was a wonderful idea that SE implemented from hard-earned experience in FFXI: vets don't often help newbies if there's nothing in it for them. Roulette addresses this by making sure there IS something in it for the vets.

The problem is that the system awards the vets for helping the newbies FINISH the dungeon, when it SHOULD reward them for helping the newbies EXPERIENCE the dungeon. People have suggested ways to award the vets for doing the latter instead of the former - but it's just too late, I think. I doubt SE will spend the resources to correct the problem, now. But no - doing something that will essentially cut off almost all veteran help is not a good solution to the issue.