The Castrum Meridianum/Praetorium Change

[Bongaboi]

Just cancelled my sub over this. Inexcusably moronic. No justification for this whatsoever. If you wanted to watch the cutscenes, you could do that already, just let the other people clear it. This and 2.1-2.5 are huge bottlenecks in the game already. Making this old trash longer is the opposite of what they should be doing. Everyone saying this will be a nearly insurmountable obstacle in the MSQ now is completely right and it's not hyperbole. People will be sitting in queue for hours and then just log off out of frustration. Unbelievably stupid. Completely ridiculous.

You could have used two jump potions (one for your job, one for the plot). Sorry to see you go....

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Give it a patch. The massive reduced people queue for MSQ roulette will eventually make them revert, after the complaint threads start about new players not being able to advance the story due to not finding groups or insane queue times of several hours.

Oh, I doubt they revert these changes. We all know how notoriously stubborn they are. Instead, they'll put both in Mentor Roulette (if it isn't already), 50/60 and/or Leveling.

[Lilseph]

Oh, I doubt they revert these changes. We all know how notoriously stubborn they are. Instead, they'll put both in Mentor Roulette (if it isn't already), 50/60 and/or Leveling.

They are. I got an in-progress Castrum via Mentor Roulette. So mentors actually using that roulette will fill the spots.

[BillyKaplan]

They are. I got an in-progress Castrum via Mentor Roulette. So mentors actually using that roulette will fill the spots.

It'll get the queue popped, arguably. As to how long they'll stay inside... although with gear power creep, that might just be all that it takes to get those sprouts to clear, just getting in there, lmao

[ChameleonMS]

Give it a patch. The massive reduced people queue for MSQ roulette will eventually make them revert, after the complaint threads start about new players not being able to advance the story due to not finding groups or insane queue times of several hours.

Nah, the queues will still be ok because the Mentor Roulette will be filling the "holes" in the MSQ roulette.

[Aster_E]

Nah, the queues will still be ok because the Mentor Roulette will be filling the "holes" in the MSQ roulette.

To that end, I'm just waiting for someone to get Praetorium and instantly leave because the penalty for doing so will be shorter than all of the cutscenes combined. WILL that happen for sure? I don't know yet, let alone at what frequency, but I can see it coming, and possibly maybe impacting the Mentor Roulettes by extension.

[Fredco191]

[R.I.P. Duty Roulette: Main Scenario]

You may or may not be missed.

[Solarianna]

I can certainly sympathize with the situation that originated this change.
But said change, for me, will simply mean that I'll never set foot there again.

I know they said they'll increase the reward to match the increase in time, but, to me, unless the reward is a guaranteed mount that I don't have, a piece of gear of 4.2 ilvl ( e.g. >340 ilvl), a crystal for a NON-COMBAT Materia VI, or a guaranteed insta-cap of the new tomestones for the week, it's not gonna be worth the obnoxious amount of time investment forced upon me. And time from cutscenes that I don't want to watch anymore, no less.

And I doubt they'll up the ante on the rewards that far for a roulette. And to be honest, they shouldn't.
Which means, to me, it's a roulette that simply, as of right now, ceased to exist.

[LaylaTsarra]

Takes about 30 minutes for a dps to queue for main roulette, it's going to take a lot longer now. Most of my friends and myself probably won't queue for it anymore. This isn't going to help those trying to complete main story very much.

[NorthernLadMSP]

People can be pissed all they want, but they have no one else to blame but themselves.