Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[HyoMinPark]

Eh. All this means is new players will need to rely on their FC or party finder to do it. Not like it even was worth doing before. If they need to waste time on stupid stuff like bard perform and raid replay, and can't even make this into a solo instance, whatever.

A rare time when I actually agree with you, Riyah. At least partially.

The developers seem hellbent to spend tons of time and resources on Perform and implement this Duty Recorder feature that is immediately invalidated by other third-party recorders/streamers, but can't be bothered to do more than force everyone to sit through the cutscenes of Praetorium and Castrum. These two should have been a solo instance; they probably would have felt more epic that way.

I've seen the cutscenes. Yeah, they were in the innroom because I was advised beforehand that people would tell me to skip them (actually, they told me I could watch them and just enjoy them while they did stuff but I said I was fine with skipping), but I've seen them. I don't particularly want to be forced to watch them every time I want to run MSQ roulette.

I usually ran it on oddball DPS jobs or tank jobs that I wasn't comfortable with above Level 50, or to just get some poetics for whatever reason I needed them, and because the experience was actually really decent. Some of the runs were actually amusing; people joking around and emoting at each other. I've never seen players demanding people skip, personally. Most newbies they tell them to sit back and relax. Anecdotal, I know. And I know bad groups exist, but I don't see how this change is going to get rid of those bad groups. I think it's, overall, a fairly bad decision.

I probably will not run MSQ Roulette anymore. I'm sympathetic to the newbies. I really am. But I also have limited time that I can play now, what with school starting up again, and I just can't afford to spend 1-2 hours in a single instance when I have other things I want to try to get done.

[RiyahArp]

A rare time when I actually agree with you, Riyah. At least partially.

I really don't do the MSQ roulette. Its always been pretty worthless, since there are more fun ways to get poetics overall. I don't think its just the cutscenes, the rushing and ilvl trivilaizes the encounters too in the same way thordan is trivial; you simply can't raise ilvl that much any more and expect encounters to be fun.

The other stuff...i was raked over the coals for hating how they wasted time on the screenshot utility when it first came out, and if you wonder why i get so irate about stuff, its that they took all the gushing over that and now we have tons of little utilities. Its probably because JP doesn;t have the software we do, so it makes more sense in game, and perform makes cool videos for nico nico douga.

It kind of gets old sometimes playing MMOS from Japanese devs; they don't get that we can't be shamed into doing stuff and we don't have as tight a culture that we will shame each other else into doing acting in the best interests of the group.

[Rokke]

Literally last week I got an alt through 2.0. As a dps it took 45 min for prae to pop, and I knew what wait I was getting myself into. A poor noob is going to be sitting pretty for an hour during prime time, and god help them if they play in off hours. What a mess.