Request: Please add Alliance Raid unskippable cutscenes

[Ghastly]

This is a plea to square enix to please add forced cutscenes in alliance raids. In almost every alliance raid these days people are pulling the last boss leaving new people out of the fight. A lot of these new people even skip the cutscenes and still get locked out because they don't load fast enough or don' t have sprint ready.There's nothing worse than being new to a raid and missing that last important fight, it's not worth it at that point.

If anyone is in support please support and like the request. If not then give us anew solution, be cordial.

[MicahZerrshia]

If not then give us anew solution, be cordial.

Form your own alliance using PF.

[AppleJinx]

Pulling before everyone is ready? Sounds like I won't have to do a thing and win yes please.

[BillyKaplan]

Unskippable cutscenes are not a valid solution and definitely shouldn't be the go-to. Abolish that approach. It'll make people not run this roulette like they don't run MSQ roulette (it's not dead but you can't deny numbers have dropped either) and then what's even the point? And that's before having to put up with it in content you're already supposed to farm. Granted it's not as bad as MSQ but this is literally the slippery slope I was afraid of when they introduced that to the Castrums.
I will concede that almost every other solution can be abused (only unlock boss room if all 24 people are there or what not), but two wrongs don't make a right. And given that the problem is loading times I'm not even sure how much something like this would really help.

Alternative solution: in case that scene has text boxes, have those be auto progressing. Start the 30 second lockdown timer once the last person is out of cutscene in case the boss was already engaged (effectively extending the lockout period which they already did)

[LeoLupinos]

They should add a thing: "Nobody can enter the boss arena while someone is watching the cutscene". BOOOM. Simple and fair.

[Reinha]

I don't see the problem with being locked out. Just enjoy the scenery, take some screenshots and let others do the work they so eagerly want to do. You'll have time to learn the fight later.

[Sekkei]

They should add a thing: "Nobody can enter the boss arena while someone is watching the cutscene". BOOOM. Simple and fair.

Honestly they should have done that with the main scenario dungeons, but SE decided everyone should suffer through every cutscene instead...

[Tempest222]

I think think they should just leave things alone. I don't like forced cutscenes. I mean, aside from when something is literally brand new, I would imagine that the amount of new people running an instance who are both new to it AND care about the story enough that they wouldn't want to skip the scenes anyway and/or watch them later is probably not that high. Why inconvenience the majority 100% of the time for the occasional newbie?

Locking people out of boss rooms while someone is in a cut scene could be a decent compromise, but could potentially just lead to people trying to kick anyone who is viewing the scenes so they can get through more quickly.

Anyone who is new and doesn't want to feel pressured to skip cut scenes always has the option of party finder. However, as we have seen with msq roulette, the cut scenes can never be optional even with a totally preformed group.

As it is everyone has options to experience content the way they want. They have already removed that option from those msq dungeons, and I would prefer they didn't continue.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Do you aim to kill Alliance raids before they even launch? MSQ can at least be a good leveling source and is intended to only be ran once per day. The 24-mans give nothing exception Creation and gear which Pagos will likely render obsolete. I guarantee you if they took this approach, no one would touch the new raid after a couple weeks, especially since the expectation is you'll run it multiple times. Good luck convincing anyone to watch the same cut scenes 20+ times per week.

Honestly they should have done that with the main scenario dungeons, but SE decided everyone should suffer through every cutscene instead...

If they had done so, people would kick the newbie.

[ElHeggunte]

Unlike the two MSQ dungeons, this doesn't occur nearly often enough in raids for it to be a thing.