Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Solarra]

I support this 100%. Our FC always tries to get a group together for these dungeons but I really feel for people using the roulette.

My first run of Castrum was via DF and made memorable by a blazing row between another new player who told everyone they had to wait while they watched the cutscenes and a player who resented being spoken to like that and having their time wasted. The two were hurling abuse at each other for the entire run. The party did wait (thanks guys) but I couldn't enjoy the cutscenes with all that drama going on in chat. I have never been so glad to get out of an instance.

Solo with npc helpers would be so much better for everyone. Now, alt characters and new players who aren't interested in the story are going to have to sit through the cutscenes, too. And what about those times when nobody in the roulette is new?
80 extra poetics doesn't seem enough of an incentive. I really can't see many experienced players queuing for this regularly when the rewards are so paltry.

[Fynlar]

Making it unskippable for everyone is a dumb, dumb move. Not even all the new players will want to see these cutscenes. Forcing it upon them is not the answer.

What they SHOULD be doing instead is, upon unlocking these dungeons, warn the player that the two dungeons are very story-driven with long cutscenes (much like how the game warns us at the end of 2.55 and such that a long cutscene is about to commence) and encourage use of the Party Finder to find like-minded people that will actually let them watch the cutscenes and not just bum rush the entire dungeon, to give them a more authentic experience (and even teach how to use the Undersized Duty option, if necessary, such that you don't NEED to get a full group of 8).

They really don't emphasize use of the Party Finder enough, and IMO this would be a perfect opportunity to teach players of its existence and what it could be useful for. Instead though, it's being squandered with bad adjustment decisions

[CaptainOhare]

Just cancelled my sub over this. Inexcusably moronic. No justification for this whatsoever. If you wanted to watch the cutscenes, you could do that already, just let the other people clear it. This and 2.1-2.5 are huge bottlenecks in the game already. Making this old trash longer is the opposite of what they should be doing. Everyone saying this will be a nearly insurmountable obstacle in the MSQ now is completely right and it's not hyperbole. People will be sitting in queue for hours and then just log off out of frustration. Unbelievably stupid. Completely ridiculous.

[KaivaC]

Just cancelled my sub over this. Inexcusably moronic. No justification for this whatsoever. If you wanted to watch the cutscenes, you could do that already, just let the other people clear it. This and 2.1-2.5 are huge bottlenecks in the game already. Making this old trash longer is the opposite of what they should be doing. Everyone saying this will be a nearly insurmountable obstacle in the MSQ now is completely right and it's not hyperbole. People will be sitting in queue for hours and then just log off out of frustration. Unbelievably stupid. Completely ridiculous.

But...aren't you already past MSQ? Is this a protest?

[Zephera]

But...aren't you already past MSQ? Is this a protest?

I imagine because it sets a rather terrible precedent. If they go through with an action this hostile towards new players, it's not a good sign for the future.

[KaivaC]

I imagine because it sets a rather terrible precedent. If they go through with an action this hostile towards new players, it's not a good sign for the future.

I...suppose lol. I can understand and I'm frustrated about this as well...

But at the end of the day, this doesn't exactly have a huge affect on me. Yet.

[Lord_Zlatan]

I imagine because it sets a rather terrible precedent. If they go through with an action this hostile towards new players, it's not a good sign for the future.

its ironic, because its supposed to give new players what they want but what its really giving them is a big f*ck you.

[AngelCheese77]

Just cancelled my sub over this. Inexcusably moronic. No justification for this whatsoever. If you wanted to watch the cutscenes, you could do that already, just let the other people clear it. This and 2.1-2.5 are huge bottlenecks in the game already. Making this old trash longer is the opposite of what they should be doing. Everyone saying this will be a nearly insurmountable obstacle in the MSQ now is completely right and it's not hyperbole. People will be sitting in queue for hours and then just log off out of frustration. Unbelievably stupid. Completely ridiculous.

Can I have your stuff?

[Nextstep]

Honestly?

MSQ Roulette either needs to be scrapped, or have more relevance added to it. I'm sure it's been touched on in this thread before, by why don't we have more story relevant dungeons/Trials available to it? Atherochemical Lab, Doma Castle, Ala Mihgo. It is literally the Castrum or the Preatorium every time. For me at least.

I mean.. it wouldn't be that hard one would think. Making the scenes unskippable will just create more of a time sink into dungeons that aren't even that fun due to repetition...

[DevonEllwood]

I haven’t read the whole thread but are they also disabling the chat box? If not then people may just get harassed to click faster through the dialogue.