Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Skivvy]

I'm not trolling, you are playing Final Fantasy, read the story!

I see this sentiment fairly often, and while yes, it is a FF title, you also have to keep in mind it's not a single-player game. MMOs draw people for all sorts of various reasons. Some will love MSQ, some have absolutely no interest in it.

[ErryK]

On top of the fact that Main Story isn't going to be worth the time and effort we are getting a new roulette to replace the experience lost from it.

Duty Roulette: Level 70 Dungeons has been added to the Duty Finder.

Experience? You don't get experience at 70 though?

[Moonfish]

No. sprouts deserve to see cutscenes.
MSQ will become a sprout-mentor roulette.
If you are a mentor and you talk this way you are't up to the role.

Not wanting to sit through an hour of cutscenes doesn’t mean they’re a bad mentor. This change is ridiculous and will hurt sprouts the most.

[Tridus]

Personally I like the idea of the CS cant be skipped. They should put something like "New Player detected, All Cutscenes cant be skipped" in all duties.
I'm not trolling, you are playing Final Fantasy, read the story! Back in 3.0 when I was helping some friends with the lv 60 dungeon and even praetorium or castrum I was queing as tanker to prevent cutscene skipping from others. Because I wanted to be sure they could experience all the story.

But it's not really a problem outside of these two. They learned from their mistake pretty quickly and new things like that are broken up. The big cutscenes for Thoradin are *between* Aetherochemical Research Center's last boss and Singularity Reactor's first, so people can watch them without making anyone else wait very long.

[Aylis]

Well we still need to wait and see for us who already done the msq roulette if we are forced to watch CS or only till the new player ended watching it. If we dont need to rewatch it than PF all the way.

Way I'm understanding the notes it's all unskippable weither you're new or old. They probably did this as a fail safe so any new player won't miss out on any fights since everyone will be cut scene locked. Either way yeah this is not a good move. With everyone avoiding MSQ roulette like the plague it's not only going to hurt this instance but every future MSQ instance.

[Crushnight]

The only way to get people in this roulette with unskippable cs is to chang the tomestones reward from 200 poetics to 200 mendacity

[LaylaTsarra]

Experience? You don't get experience at 70 though?

Oh true... need more coffee still not awake.

[BillyKaplan]

I see this sentiment fairly often, and while yes, it is a FF title, you also have to keep in mind it's not a single-player game. MMOs draw people for all sorts of various reasons. Some will love MSQ, some have absolutely no interest in it.

That's what really gets me. This change won't only hurt the roulette-goers, it'll hurt the people running through it the first time who don't give two damns about that sort of thing. No one wins with this 'solution'

[Ayasaki128]

I know it is a MMO, but people who skip all the story just to play raid/pvp... I just think they are throwing entirely game in the trash can just for one or two content.
People can play they way the want, but there are some newbie/vets in the dungeon want to play reading the story. (Yes, I like rewatch cs)
You are right, this is not a single-player game and there are people who will queue for these people too and also keep queing for msq as well.

[Moonfish]

The only way to get people in this roulette with unskippable cs is to chang the tomestones reward from 200 poetics to 200 mendacity

Personally, no reward would be great enough to sit through that. I apologize to all the sprouts who will now wait hours for these dungeons to probably be left high and dry when their mentors leave (and I won’t blame them.) This is on SE.