Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
I'm not even going into how people with alts break this statement to smitherins, or how some newbies don't give half a damn about cutscenes, I'll stay in the comfort zone of how those duties wouldn't have even popped in the first place without veterans running the roulette. You can say it's for Newbies all you want, the fact remains those dungeons need vets queueing into them for the Newbies to even get in in the first place.
My point still stand. It is not because sprouts need vets than it was designed for vets. Cutscenes are for new players and they should have the right to enjoy it. The previous system made it impossible for them to enjoy it live with boss battle. Roulettes Reward are designed for vets to do old contents to help sprout. Please change reward and not content.

Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
Any change in MSQ by definition affects every last person who hasn't been through that MSQ yet. A lot of us vets have alts who need to go through that. And that's besides the dangerous precedent set by introducing unskippable cutscenes - though as they themselves admitted that no other content followed this design as it was bad, maybe we're safe on that front. One can only hope
I agree with the bad design and they acknowledged it. It seems they are trying not to do it again now. But they are still left with these 2 duties and it seems it is quite troublesome for them to make huge change. I guess they made a choice by choosing sprouts over alts and sprouts skipping CSs. And for alts, If I were to do an alt, it would not be the 2 hours CSs of Prae over the 400 ++ mandatory MSQ quest that would change a thing. Same for the noobs who wants to skip.

Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
Don't think about this as the thing they ubsubbed for and nothing else, think about this as the straw that broke the camel's back as they're tired of SE's tone-deafness.
It kinda go along with my point. People won't unsubscribe just because of this but an accumulation of bad SE decisions. If they were to unsubscribe just because of only this, it looks to me that it was not a strong loyal customer anyway. Instead, they pleased some new players which has potential for growing long term.

I don't understand why it is such a huge deal over this. It is the FINALE of ARR, let keep it epic for new players! The game have now way more contents for vets and alts to do than pleasing them by cutting 2 hours of CSs. Let's focus on end game if it it is too difficult to create a solo duty. We are really nitpicking on this but maybe as you said, it is a sign of a more general tiredness for vets of SE bad decisions over other contents. It should not however affect this CSs change.