Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Lord_Zlatan]

all the people saying "you only have yourselves to blame"... that is so far off base, its ridiculous.

First and foremost, the main scenario roulette is only 2 dungeons. It should be way more, considering there are other duties tied to the end of the expacs that could EASILY have been added to them, breaking the monotony of hoping u get CM over Prae. You cannot possibly expect 4 year veterans to watch the cutscenes every time, even with the skip feature (this doesn't mean u can't wait for people to get out of them). THAT is the biggest issue with this roulette, theres not enough in there. Praetorium or Castrum every day for years. No thank you. Even still, I ran it every day because guess what? The exp u get is insane.

Second. People want to get these over with quickly. If you solo queue for it as a new player, you should understand that at this point no one cares if you want to watch the cutscenes. That doesn't mean people should exclude you from participating in the instance, however. The happy-medium is that you watch the cutscenes at the inn. Now, making everyone watch CSs that are 4 years old is going to make no one want to do it, and therefore new players will progress at a much slower rate. That doesn't put the player at fault, it puts SE at fault for punishing EVERYONE, when they could have taken much better approach to alleviating this issue.

[Fynlar]

That experience you describe still isn't the experience that developers intended for new players. The dungeon feels empty, hollow, and entirely unimmersive if after watching a cut scene, everything is dead.

I bet the developers also didn't intend for people to just bail or kick newbies out of this dungeon either, but that's still going to happen, and if anything they are facilitating it with this change.

Also, bit of a tangent here, but if they really truly wanted to create a truly authentic experience for new players, they would need to slap a item level 50 cap on it so that everything isn't as faceroll.

[Vshunyi]

I, for one, am very excited for all the "my queue took 5 hours and the tank just left!" kind of threads this will bring out. Gotta wonder what kind of reaction SE was thinking from the playerbase when they thought of this "fix"

[Riardon]

Whatever. Have fun waiting hours I guess. Or have fun paying extra money as a newcomer to buy jump pots. Extra money on top of the game title/expansions and monthly subscription.
Definitely one of the silliest decisions in this game ever.
Even from pure greed standpoint this doesn't make any sense. Jump pots according to SE didn't sell very well. This will make the game more unfriendly and frustrating to newcomers and it can also be considered as a paywall.
A paywall on an already expensive game. This decision doesn't make sense in any way.

[AppleJinx]

I'll gladly do it if I can get an entire level or cap my weekly tomes in one go if I queue up for this thing. Basically they'll need to make the reward so ridiculously huge that players will gladly take the time to do these hour long duties

[Zephera]

I'll gladly do it if I can get an entire level or cap my weekly tomes in one go if I queue up for this thing. Basically they'll need to make the reward so ridiculously huge that players will gladly take the time to do these hour long duties

I already have all my combat jobs at 70 so more exp isn't too incentivizing. Capping on weekly tomes would likely draw me in but I don't see that happening. Best I'd hope for reward wise is a sizeable amount of Gil, but it would have to be big and I could see it maybe ruining some servers economies if they don't do it right.

[Kaurhz]

Well they tried so round of applause for actually caring about the newer player base to say the least.

Better solutions could be developed like making it a solo instance and removing MSQ roulette from the game. But to assume the current state is good.... (Not everyone wants to watch the cutscenes in the inn room, and to further add those that do watch the cut-scenes should not essentially be forced to not experience the combat side of the dungeon.)

[Lord_Zlatan]

Well they tried so round of applause for actually caring about the newer player base to say the least.

Better solutions could be developed like making it a solo instance and removing MSQ roulette from the game. But to assume the current state is good.... (Not everyone wants to watch the cutscenes in the inn room, and to further add those that do watch the cut-scenes should not essentially be forced to not experience the combat side of the dungeon.)

this does nothing to help the new player base tho...

[Kaurhz]

this does nothing to help the new player base tho...

Oh I never said it helped, but it at least came to their attention was the point being made in the first sentence. The current, and the post 4.2 changes are both bad for new players... Many people make bad decisions to say the least, but let's reserve the judgement until we actually see how rewards were adjusted, no?

[Lelila38]

I'll gladly do it if I can get an entire level or cap my weekly tomes in one go if I queue up for this thing. Basically they'll need to make the reward so ridiculously huge that players will gladly take the time to do these hour long duties

That would be cool and I'd probably queue for it, but I don't see it happening.