Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Mihana]

How is this debate still going? What don't people understand about the roulette for this? It's not mandatory, is in its own separate roulette, and has much larger bonuses to compensate players for their extra time. It doesn't matter if that's not what players are using it for, that's how it was created and how it was meant to be used. If you don't want to sit through the cutscenes and just speed through it as fast as possible then remove the rewards or reduce them to match the other roulettes. Hell, add them back into the normal leveling roulette and be done with it. I imagine if they took away the roulette system for it and made the two MSQ dungeons solo instances there would be an outcry to bring it back because of the loss of potential EXP and tomestones. And then when they did, complaints it needs to be made skippable. A never ending cycle.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

All the new players I run into seem to hate the cutscenes too and think Gaius' talking is too long winded and slow.

They really need to redesign this. I don't really care if it takes effort, it's worth it to get new players into the game. Lots of 2.0 is a slog, this doesn't help.

There's no challenge with the over geared nature of this anyway so there's no sense of accomplishment for new players.

[Hazama999]

I try to see the positive in things. I've always valued the newbie's experience over that of the 7 others who've run these instances thousands of times, so that's there in some aspect... plus I get to catch up on other stuff I am so obviously doing on the side.

[Calestis]

So about a month ago I hit this point in the story quest where it was time for the MSQ roulette 2 duties. Normally I ask my free company friends to join me for any new dungeons or the daily leveling roulette and they gladly join me. However when I asked for these in particular it was like I had asked them to sign over their souls to me to be cast into hell for the night. They turned me down for once and after doing them I understood.

I am an avid fan of most all FF content and have played most of their other games so this is not a putdown of their masterful use of music and story writing. However, as someone who is a speed-reader and likes to be efficient with his time the pacing of these are abysmal when compared to the way they allow you to control the rate you watch most other cut scenes. I would love to run these to get tomestones for gearing/cosmetics but the super long que times and then the 45 minute run time makes it pretty hard to accomplish at times.

I'm asking for some solution to be put into action by the developers as I have seen how well they manage other aspects of the game and I know they could do it. There are plenty of great ideas in this forum.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

All the new players I run into seem to hate the cutscenes too and think Gaius' talking is too long winded and slow.

They really need to redesign this. I don't really care if it takes effort, it's worth it to get new players into the game. Lots of 2.0 is a slog, this doesn't help.

There's no challenge with the over geared nature of this anyway so there's no sense of accomplishment for new players.

Story Completion?
Cause remember its a Story Dungeon, like a Legit story Dungeon.

[Lunalepsy]

We all know that newbies who want to watch story cutscenes in the castrums have been struggling a long time, usually being answered with "just rewatch it at the inn/ on youtube." I myself have experienced this, and a majority of current players also probably have. But...

Making the cut scenes unskippable, and then locking what will be more than likely a sizable reward behind it is not the answer. Additionally, even though they may no longer be skippable, the bosses will still be burned down in a matter of moments because of the high ilevel sync, leaving the new player with a feeling of lack of accomplishment and defeating the point of this change.

My suggestion is to just remove it from duty roulette entirely and change it into a personal instance, allowing the player better interaction with the duty. Or, you know, just revert it back.

I'm sure people also have plenty of other solutions and ideas which should be posted, but I think we can all agree that changing the cut scenes to be unskippable is not the answer. All this will do is drastically increase the queue times for those dungeons and make it harder for new players to get in and progress to other parts of the game(and the queue times for those dungeons can already be quite long).

Edit: I want to point out this suggestion I've been seen being made in a few places; It might be possible to implement a "skip cutscene" vote, based on a majority victory, which will allow players to skip cutscenes.; Those who want to watch still can, but for those that don't can charge ahead.

Second Edit

Totally agree. I don't do roulettes anymore because those cutscenes are insufferable!

[Iscah]

I would love to run these to get tomestones for gearing/cosmetics but the super long que times and then the 45 minute run time makes it pretty hard to accomplish at times.

You'll have plenty of opportunities to earn poetics without running these specific instances, so don't feel like you need to do it for that. Start unlocking the various optional dungeons and you'll get poetics from those, a bonus for first-time completion, and access to another daily roulette. And the Crystal Tower alliance raids are another roulette again.

[Machka]

Story Completion?
Cause remember its a Story Dungeon, like a Legit story Dungeon.

The accomplishment of story completion doesn't require a full party of 8, so the point that it could use a redesign stands.

[TheMightyMollusk]

No one's denying that it could use a rework. It's just not a priority for the dev team, so they piled on a massive chunk of poetics and EXP as a band-aid.

[Flatopia]

I get that when new players are in, it was annoying to have the cutscenes skipped and just left there thinking "what happened" as this big ass movie played out and the dungeon was just done. It have happened to me, and it sucked.
having unskippable cutscenes and big rewards is a good move, and makes sense. People are still incentivized to do it and new players get the experience of two really awful 8-man dungeons as a product of their time lol.

My only real issue comes from when there's 8 people that que'd for the roulette, only to be put into the same instance when none of them are new. In that case, wouldn't it make sense to just let them skip? They've all seen it, and there's no new players to defend.
The issue then would be probably people leaving, or bullying new players for making them watch the movie they signed up for. In which case the best way to handle that is to make the rewards you get for helping first timers for those two specific instances be increased in rewards from the typical instance. This seems like a good idea and only serves to make MSQ roulette more enjoyable.

Or they could, you know, just rework those dungeons already. That also works.