Quote Originally Posted by Keddera_StormMoon View Post
Hey, thanks for pointing out exactly WHY our viewpoints differ. I was in that thing for the first time very recently - so the memory is fresh. Whereas it's been a very long time since you did it for the first time - so to be blunt - you've forgotten. It's not a diss on you - that's just how the human mind is.

I'm just tired of vets appearing to not give a damn for the new people behind us. That sort of attitude is why SE put this heavy-handed "solution" in place to begin with. I don't blame them for not wanting to take out the cutscenes completely - the story and how it's presented is one of the things that sets this MMO apart from it's relevant competition.

Do I want people to stop doing the MSQ? Well, nobody wants that. But I start to wonder if that might be the only way to get SE to get off their hands and rework the thing.

What I do want to see is people who lack consideration to stay away from the damned thing. If your there for the shinies and care little about the experience of those who are there for the first time; I say as one who went through it recently as a newbie that we'd frankly wish you'd either pack your attitude at the dungeon entrance or not bother at all.
Going by my Join Date? I mean, it's good in theory...'cept I recently made a new main. September as a matter of fact, if I recall correctly. And I went through the whole grind.

A lot of vets would love to help new players. There was a time when people did put up PFs solely for letting new players join and enjoy the cutscenes without having to worry about people rushing ahead. Those days are behind us with the unskippable cutscenes. The glaring flaw in your argument is that if more vets did stop queuing up for it, you'd have a longer waiting queue. I don't think you were here before we even got a raid roulette, but back then, queuing up for the Alex normal raids was a pain in the ass because of wait times. That would also mean that without vets, the queue is highly dependent on either players getting FC help, asking for help in the PF, or hoping that there were enough sprouts that happened to be at that point in the storyline to even be able to queue for one of those two dungeons.

You seem to have this opinion that vets just simply don't care about sprouts, which couldn't be further from the truth. You do have people that don't give a rat's arse about sprouts, yes. But there are plenty of people in the game, in this forum even, that would go out of their way to help a sprout for something. That doesn't mean that some of us want to sit in hour-long instances repeatedly. There used to be options around the MSQ roulettes. The devs simply took those options away and forced one single route in an incredibly heavy handed way. Again, it was probably a necessary evil because it seems like they can't exactly separate how these instances play out in the PF and the DF.

And this whole 'we' thing...I can tell you now that there are plenty of sprouts who don't give a damn about cutscenes, so this whole 'we' thing is more like you stating a personal opinion without the backing of these 'we' that you refer to. Because I can promise you that if you get a sprout who says they agree with you, I can find a sprout who hated the constant cutscenes in the MSQ roulette.

I've been an advocate for these duties becoming solo ventures. Now the devs have a golden opportunity to inject a little starter boost into their Trust System and roll those two dungeons into that.