MSQ roulette and AFK

[LunarEmerald]

I personally feel the dungeons shouldn't have a i130 sync. It makes them boring and ruins any atmosphere or experience new players might have. All this dramatic build up and the boss gets face rolled in 30 seconds. Change the sync to i70. Which would be the best non capped gear available at the time of ARR's release. Maybe if they had some sort of challenge again, people would find them more engaging to do and not afk.

[Tempest222]

There are probably lots of people unintentionally afking because the cut scenes are so insanely long that they have fallen asleep or gotten embroiled in something else and forget to check back with the game.

The few times I have run this roulette since the change and have gotten unlucky by getting the praetorium have been frustrating because I do not have multiple monitors, so if I want to do something else I have to click away from the game, and then I don’t know when there is a break in the movie and have to keep checking and checking. I wished I could set it so it would play a sound at the end of a cut scene when the game is not the active window. Potentially something like that to notify people that there’s a break in the cut scenes when they are clicked away would help. Or alternatively just make these dungeons solo.

[MrKusakabe]

There are probably lots of people unintentionally afking because the cut scenes are so insanely long that they have fallen asleep or gotten embroiled in something else and forget to check back with the game.

The few times I have run this roulette since the change and have gotten unlucky by getting the praetorium have been frustrating because I do not have multiple monitors, so if I want to do something else I have to click away from the game, and then I don’t know when there is a break in the movie and have to keep checking and checking. I wished I could set it so it would play a sound at the end of a cut scene when the game is not the active window. Potentially something like that to notify people that there’s a break in the cut scenes when they are clicked away would help. Or alternatively just make these dungeons solo.

You fear about the possibility to go AFK/getting AFK players because of the lack of a multi-monitor setup?? As if this is normal... Haha, oh my!

Anyways, since...at very least Windows8 you can mouse-over a window and get a real-time preview. When I wait for a duty and have nothing else to do ingame (or don't want to do anything else) then I put up a Youtube video and place the mouse cursor over the FFXIV icon in the taskbar. So I have a PIP and can easily check what's going on ingame. That is the plus side of it going window mode when Alt+Tabbing out of the game because fullscreen Direct3D programs don't have a preview or just the last frame in the cache displayed..

[MistakeNot]

There are probably lots of people unintentionally afking because the cut scenes are so insanely long that they have fallen asleep or gotten embroiled in something else and forget to check back with the game.

The few times I have run this roulette since the change and have gotten unlucky by getting the praetorium have been frustrating because I do not have multiple monitors, so if I want to do something else I have to click away from the game, and then I don’t know when there is a break in the movie and have to keep checking and checking. I wished I could set it so it would play a sound at the end of a cut scene when the game is not the active window. Potentially something like that to notify people that there’s a break in the cut scenes when they are clicked away would help. Or alternatively just make these dungeons solo.

You can set up the game so you keep hearing the audio even when the game is in the background. That way you can alt-tab away while one of the extra long cutscenes play and still hear from the changes in the speech/music when the cutscene is over and something else is about to happen.
That's the way I do it anyway, and it works fine.

[NyteKitsune]

Yes, People being afk in a duty can be annoying, but remember to give some people a little time, after all, RL happens (Had to answer phone or door, kids need something, bio break, etc.). Now as a general rule I give afk's about 5mins. After that I assume they are either not coming back or as does happen are LD and their character hasn't gotten booted yet (some of those do take awhile before it shows someone as offline). To those that do go AFK, please at least type something into party chat even a simple "AFK, BRB" is usually enough to satisfy "most" of us, just try to be quick about it.

[Kurando]

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Don't you guys have phones!?!?

Nah seriously, if it's a cutscene I'll mess about on my phone or I'll be listening to some music/podcast, and this is on ps4 where we don't have the luxury of having multiple windows open like on PC. There is lots to do while waiting just have to find something.

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MSQ scenes are a good few minutes, there is plenty of time to do irl stuff and come back but not moving after several scenes, they getting the boot.

[Enla]

Yes, People being afk in a duty can be annoying, but remember to give some people a little time, after all, RL happens (Had to answer phone or door, kids need something, bio break, etc.). Now as a general rule I give afk's about 5mins. After that I assume they are either not coming back or as does happen are LD and their character hasn't gotten booted yet (some of those do take awhile before it shows someone as offline). To those that do go AFK, please at least type something into party chat even a simple "AFK, BRB" is usually enough to satisfy "most" of us, just try to be quick about it.

Had someone the other day who not only didn't attack any mobs up to the Magitek Armor, they actively stopped following the party at that point and only zoned into Nero when someone called them out for it in chat. Where they proceeded to, again, sit on their hands and not help. I personally don't care if someone is afk for a boss or two. I get this roulette is boring and life happens. However if they don't help at all and are trying to leech, they get the boot.

There's also something to be said about /telling/ people when you need to go AFK in these instances. Most of the time people are generally cool if you tell them you need to AFK for ten minutes because something came up. They just want to be told first and not made to feel like they're carrying you through to the end.

[foussi]

Yaa afk people can be pretty annoying tho I have never really seen peope like that during msq-roulette.
Important is to tell the other in group atleast "brb" or "one sec" .
But remember guys, parents exist and apparently they always call you during unexpected times and get impatient.

[Deceptus]

People AFK because the MSQ content encourages it.

10 minute cutscene, 45 second fight, 5 steps forward, repeat until dead.

Not exactly riveting gameplay.

[CazzT]

I don’t like MSQ roulette to but since it gives a fair amount of exp I do. With that I need to respect the others 7 players in the party. And stay AFK and trying to get the exp is unacceptably. And the number of ppl doing that is getting bigger, so I hope SE start to think in some punishment to prevent those players to do that.

It's not like people haven't been saying this will happen. Make a bad change, the players will find a way to deal with the bad change.
Instead of punishing people for dealing with a horrible change, reverse the horrible change. This was never a problem when the cutscenes could be skipped.

"But teh new plaeyrses!" There's been plenty of suggestions that would favor the new players without hindering or impacting people who have already passed that point of the MSQ.
"No xpeez or rewardses then!" MSQ roulette had XP and rewards before the asinine change. Put them back to that level.

But we've been round and round this merry-go-round since Jan/Feb of 2018 when they put this change in.


TLDR: Don't punish people for finding a way around a bad change. Fix the problem and people won't feel inclined to find a way around the problem.