Why can boss fights be started while first-timers are watching the cutscene?

[LalaRu]

The solution were already done more than ten years ago by GW, when you cannot skip a CS unless everyone else chosen to skip it. It is so easy to implement that I'm amazed why still haven't done here.

[Chihaya]

This is why I don't do main scenario roulette anymore
you don't wait for people to watch cutscenes - people bitch
you wait for people to watch cutscenes - other people bitch

[Caraway]

This is why I don't do main scenario roulette anymore
you don't wait for people to watch cutscenes - people bitch
you wait for people to watch cutscenes - other people bitch

Yes, but the people complaining because newbies are watching the cutscenes are wrong. This conversation has been had multiple times and it's been stated multiple times. That new person's 1st experience is more important than your 25987th (you of course being a generalization to include anyone whinging about people enjoying the game the way it was designed).

Only SquareEnix will know the numbers for people who leave before finishing Castrum/Praetorium but I would not be surprised if it was a non-negligible amount.

[Callinon]

The Stone Vigil last boss cutscene is a long one too. I can understand the tank getting impatient... that being said, doing that fight a member down is rough and probably not worth it. Just stand there and have a dance off while the guy watches the cutscene.. I promise it won't kill you.

[Magistrella]

The solution were already done more than ten years ago by GW, when you cannot skip a CS unless everyone else chosen to skip it. It is so easy to implement that I'm amazed why still haven't done here.

If you do that, not even 1000 soldier bonus would be incentive enough to get me in Praetorium or Castrum again - and i'm probably not the only one.

Playing since 2.0 release, having farmed Castrum for Philos to equip multiple jobs for whatsoever many times. Doing roulettes and Praetorium/Castrum for month every day to get Tombstones for multiple relic weapons.


So yeah - bad idea because you would loose many people b/c they can't be arsed to watch cutscenes everytime someone chooses they want to (or are just trolling and slowing you down even tho theyre in there the 100+ time)

[Callinon]

If you do that, not even 1000 soldier bonus would be incentive enough to get me in Praetorium or Castrum again - and i'm probably not the only one.

I don't know... 1000 bonus soldiery would probably convince me to sit there an extra 7 aggregate minutes while the cutscenes play.

[Magistrella]

I don't know... 1000 bonus soldiery would probably convince me to sit there an extra 7 aggregate minutes while the cutscenes play.

Well, im done with soldier equip on all classes and 5 relic weapons - the tomes arent really an incentive anymore. The only reason i did Praetorium after i got to that point was to get the Gaius Card (which dropped on the first run - shouldve done that except winning 400+ times against the NPC that drops it >.>)

And with 3.0 the problem becomes obsolete probably anyways - if you want to watch cutscenes you can choose to have a squad of NPCs instead of other players for that.

[wentouch]

Cut scenes unlocked can be viewed in your Unending Journal in the Inn.

[RyuDragnier]

Cut scenes unlocked can be viewed in your Unending Journal in the Inn.

Sadly not all of them end up there, which is something they need to fix.

[RyuRoots]

Cut scenes unlocked can be viewed in your Unending Journal in the Inn.

Yeah, everyone knows already. It's also not a reasonable expectation to tell every player who's ever new to an instance SCREW YOUR CS SPEEDRUN GO GO GO. People need to calm the hell down.

I was taking a friend through T1 today who hadn't touched any of the coils yet. She wanted to watch the cutscenes so I just stood there with her while she did so. Party rushed ahead and fought ADS with only 2 DPS (I was monk, she was a bard). They wiped while she was in CS, much to my amusement. When we tried with all 8 of us, we breezed through it no prob. First wipe was also due to the other 2 dps apparently being totally fresh without having watched or read anything on it too, but point is that the less than 5m it takes for someone to watch a short scene is not going to kill your entire day.