Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
You just proved it's horribly designed that such a thing is even possible. And no, strong-arming anyone who goes in there to go through the entire experience when even a lot of newbies don't care about the cutscenes is not the way to fix this.

You've brought up the problem while ignoring it completely. No one will have that proper experience with full cutscenes if the queue doesn't pop, and the queue won't pop because no one will queue for that roulette with those changes to begin with.
Sad to say I wasn't able to experience it fully because of the player base, not the content itself. Maybe on another datacenter the outcome would have been much different, now I'll never know. We are actually talking about two different things here. You are talking along the lines of it's a bad movie, make a new one. And I'm saying I've never seen it and who knows how many times people would watch the same movie that's worth seeing anyway. Because it is a movie for its length, and you think it won't be seen at all because of queue times.

There's the problem, expecting someone to decide on spending considerable company time and money on assumptions such as yours. How do you justify a budget for revising content from assumptions? That's someone's neck on the chopping block. They at least need actual numbers because real money has very real numbers. Is it really a content issue, player issue, or a selling issue? So, no, these changes are not stupid. These changes are serious questions that need to be asked and tried especially when real money is involved.