Thread: Patch 4.2 Notes (Preliminary)

Originally Posted by Ilenya

The reward was the bonus, not what the roulette was for. SE (rightfully, I suspect) realized no one would bother running the MSQ roulette with the base reward, so they added the bonus as an additional incentive to run it. The point of the roulette was still for helping newer players be able to run the dungeons required for the story. People just never treated it that way. I can't blame SE for people being people. And as I noted, while I did run it to take advantage of the rewards, I also did what I was supposed to, making sure new players could keep up, letting them know where to head when, and generally being the mentor I actually am.

To be fair, I also ran the MSQ roulette fairly often and rarely did I ever see hostility. In fact, people usually told newbies to just enjoy the cut-scenes while we all killed stuff. I or someone else usually stayed behind. It's the desire to have upwards of seven people wait until you're done watching them before proceeding that causes arguments. And what will ultimately kill the roulette imo.

Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

You'd think SE would get it by now that they need to make them into solo-able instances with NPCs. Forcing the cutscenes isn't going to help the new people, it's going to punish them because they're not going to get anybody to queue up for it simply because people's time is being wasted for a useless reward. IMO, for doing the MSQ roulette with no skipable cutscenes, the reward should be around 100 Mendacity since poetics are pretty useless at endgame.

Unfortunately, SE tends to forget NA/EU culture is [i]very[/i[ different. Supposedly, JP players tend to wait whereas that's practically unheard of over here. They really need to hire overseas developers and what have you to better understand how we approach things. Shaming NA/EU players into doing something that doesn't benefit them just won't work on average.