My first bad experience with another player. :o

[Sarteck]

Been playing just over two months, and I've been AMAZED at how generally nice and helpful the community is. Seriously, I really expected a lot more "elitist" types, but it seems most people just want to have fun.

Got my RL friend into the game, and we've had a TON of fun for the past month or so. People have given him advice along the way (when I couldn't give it myself), and we've just generally all-round had fun playing together and with others who've been more than helpful.

This last dungeon we did, though (C. Meri.), we wanted to take it slow and view the cutscenes, but the rest of the party was rushing ahead. I mentioned, "Hey, we got locked out because we're viewing cutscenes," and the response was pretty much that they could take care of it and not to worry about it. That was fine by us, really. We watched the cutscenes, and tried to catch up with the party the few times we had the chance.

At the very end, this buttmunch Healer goes,

next time... especially as a tank.... don't freaking view cutscenes when you can view all of them after
i usually view cutscenes too but you're being really rude by doing nothing half the dungeon

I could TOTALLY understand if we were using the Party Finder and looking to farm stuff, but this was just ridiculous. After the rest of the party told us it's fine, this guy decides to be an arse like that.

Totally blew the mood we had going, my friend was happy to finally have gotten that far, and I was happy for him as well, and this guy wants to whine about us enjoying the game, and had the audacity to say WE were the ones being rude.

Dude, if you ever happen to read this, I hope you realize just how rude YOU were being.

Sorry, just had to rant.

(3/3 for 1000-character limit)

[Sarteck]

[Mods, I just found the "Tales From Duty Finder" thread, please feel free to close this or merge it into that thread. I can't seem to delete it myself.]

[The_Last_Dragoon]

you can edit your post to get around the character limit.

[Sarteck]

Oh, thank you for that. I'll edit my first post and see if I can figure out how to delete the rest.

[Vidu]

Aaaah... one of those runs again - while that sucks, I need to ask yout to put yourself in his shoes aswell:
Those dungeons have long cutscenes. Its a big designflaw and you'll be happy to hear that SE didnt repeat this mistake.
I recently did the last ARR-dungeon (Praetorium) for the friend of a friend. It took over an hour because they were watching cutscenes - completly fine because between the three of us we agreed on that being cool. But: An hour.
Those dungeons are basically 15 minutes action and 45 minutes cutscene.
I dont want to blame you or your friend for wanting to enjoy your journey there, hell no - but you please need to understand that you're asking 6 other people to just stand around and do nothing for 45 minutes while you watch your cutscenes.
Its not 5 minutes or something minor like that. Its an aweful lot of cutscenes - not your fault wanting to enjoy them, but I can also understand why someone doesnt want to go through that again. Its really bad design there.

I just wish, SE would resort to giving everyone a warning message before queueing for that dungeon - something along the lines of: "The following dungeons are very cutscene-heavy, make sure you're in a party that will allow you to watch them".
You can argue all about how we should all be patient and friendly and let new people just watch those cutscenes, but when that means that the rest of the party has to wait for 30-45 minutes that doesnt seem very reasonable to ask anymore, I'd say.

I can only urge everyone: If one of your friends reachs those dungeons: Grab them, grab a third person and do them unsyched. It will be a better experience for them and you wont make 7 strangers wait for a very long time.

(also: you can bypass the characterlimit by editing your first post)

[Sarteck]

Vidu,

I do understand where you are coming from. But as I mentioned, the rest of the party had already said (when I first mentioned we were watching scenes) that they could handle it.

We were not asking them to wait for us at all. But neither should our gameplay experience be ruined from some arse that wants to call us "rude".

If they are playing the dungeon for loot or for any other reason that they want to go quickly, then they can use the Party Finder. If they got in there because of Roulette, then I guess it should be taken out of Roulette. That would be a simple solution from SE's side.

There's no excuse for that kind of crap, though--calling people "rude" for playing the game how it was intended.

[Draxis_Fallspear]

But OP was fine with letting the rest of the group run ahead.

Honestly, unless you were both tanks; that healer really was just being a jerk. You don't need 2 tanks for CM. It's usually 50/50 whether the off tank even grabs the adds in there when they go chasing the healer.

The only place I could possibly see it being an annoyance is right before Livia. But that place is generally a clusterfuck anyway since no one ever pulls back to canons anymore (which are often destroyed anyway).

[Sarteck]

Draxis, nah, I'm DPS. I can't handle Tanking or Healing, heh.

And honestly, the rest of the group was handling everything splendidly without us.

I am certainly going to take Vidu's advice for the Praetorium, though--I'll just unsync, or see if I can get some of my FC to join in instead.

[Zarabeth]

I'm so sorry this happened to you! I usually skip dungeons cut scenes so i don't hold the run up for others (I'm usually on WHM) as I can watch the scenes later in my inn room or fc house. However, I don't yell at those who watch them in the dungeon as (as you said) that is how the game is intended to be played. Those who have playing a long while tend to try to fly through dungeons as fast as they possibly can because they've done them so many times and are ridiculously over-geared for the older ones. This is not an excuse but rather to tell you why this happens.

I hope this doesn't turn you off the game, it's a lot of fun!

[whiteblade89]

Runs like these will happen from time to time. It sucks, but those Main Scenario dungeons are easy enough that a few people can clear it just fine while half the group watches cutscenes. I had a run in praetorium once where 5 people were new and wanted to watch the cutscenes. Me (MCH), the tank, and the healer basically blew through the place and downed a few of the bosses ourselves. No one was butthurt about it and it was actually a lot of fun because it provided just a sliver of challenge to those old instances. Don't let it get to you. Like you said, the majority of this community is incredibly friendly. But the bad apples tend to stand out like a sore thumb. Just don't let those bad times affect the way you enjoy the game. Happy adventuring! And welcome to Eorzea!