Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Ottkins]

Newbie here. Well, mostly. Been subbed for a month and a half now.
Seeing the cutscenes for the first time all I wanted was to press the skip button.
It also doesn't help that they happen every 5 bloody yalms I walk either...
They are excruciatingly long and a pain to sit through, only made worse if I am trying to get my hands on that much needed Genesis.
Going without running Castrum and its agonizingly boring thrice as long deformed sibling means I am effectively forced to either play PvP or never miss a single one of the other dailies every day for every week to top up fully. Never have I met a single newbie who thought otherwise, perhaps due to being on Chaos, but regardless...

I support giving people the choice to skip the cutscenes if they so want to.
This stuff gets painfully dull... and it's dull for nine people out of ten from what I have seen.
To make matters worse, people join and just tab away these days too. They sit AFK and only tab back when they hear the "TP to boss room" jingle.
This makes running these even slower and even more excruciating.

Might I suggest a compromise if skipping is no longer an option?
Anonymous vote to skip feature? Eh? Eh?
If at least two party members vote against skipping then the scenes aren't skipped? (mostly to prevent solo queued trolls from voting no just to watch everyone else suffer)

[Reinha]

They are excruciatingly long and a pain to sit through, only made worse if I am trying to get my hands on that much needed Genesis.
Going without running Castrum and its agonizingly boring thrice as long deformed sibling means I am effectively forced to either play PvP or never miss a single one of the other dailies every day for every week to top up fully.

You can get Genesis tomestones outside of roulettes too. The most recent dungeon(s) always give 50 tomes, or 90 when you add the expert roulette bonus.

Agree with your suggestion btw.

[Ottkins]

You can get Genesis tomestones outside of roulettes too. The most recent dungeon(s) always give 50 tomes, or 90 when you add the expert roulette bonus.

Agree with your suggestion btw.

I did not know that... huh, thanks!
Guess if the suggestion doesn't go through or nothing else is done then at least I won't have to deal with those scenefests.
Which is cool, and good.

[BillyKaplan]

I did not know that... huh, thanks!
Guess if the suggestion doesn't go through or nothing else is done then at least I won't have to deal with those scenefests.
Which is cool, and good.

Other ways to get Genesis tomes include (oh god) Eureka, SB level A rank hunt marks if you're into that, sometimes you can get it from WT... and yeah, like Reinha said, level 70 dungeons and trials give straight genesis tomes. So no need to put yourself through it.

Once again voicing my hope these will become solo instances. They long since have the technology, and it will work better with the interwoven cutscenes, too.

[Dirwen]

You can get Genesis tomestones outside of roulettes too. The most recent dungeon(s) always give 50 tomes, or 90 when you add the expert roulette bonus.

Can also get genesis from doing SB Ananta beast tribe quests if you're doing them on a level 70 job. You get 5 genesis per quest so can get up to 15 per day doing all Ananta quests that day. That is 105 genesis per week by doing them.

Also the Koji beast tribe quests reward mendacity tomes for doing them on a level 70 job if they interest you.

[MistakeNot]

To this day I still don't understand why if a party don't have any new player cutscenes are still forced to watch. I mean, is a first-timer is there sure, force cutscenes and give a fat bonus to keep everyone happy.

That's to prevent impatient people from kicking any newbies from the party.

[Emstidor]

To this day I still don't understand why if a party don't have any new player cutscenes are still forced to watch. I mean, is a first-timer is there sure, force cutscenes and give a fat bonus to keep everyone happy.

To stop people from "fishing" for fast roulettes by queuing for the roulette, and then leaving en masse if it's a mandatory cutscene one. Which based on prior player behavior is 100% what would happen if cutscenes were only mandatory for newbie runs.

[Kikoten]

I really love the idea of the MSQ duties with unskippable cutscenes being changed to solo runs. It wouldn't take that much tweaking, I don't think, because in every cutscene, they already talk as though you are there by yourself. There's no "You and your friends," it's just "You."

EDIT: Might also work out well with upcoming BLU, and New Story+.

[Sanyabane]

Just want to remind that the best way so say some big company that some of their services is bad - is stop to supply it / stop use it.

- Stop going Main Scenario roulette at all.
- Stop buying anything from store for real money (apart from subscription / addons of course or you won't be able to play at all).

Only those steps can have some impact, not your whines on forums

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

Tbh id be with unskippable however there are like over 8 cs that are completely pointless that should have been removed after week 1 but i know it will never happan because this days playing a video game has to be like watching a movie