Trying to understand player behavour with MB & MSQ dungeons

[Kamatsu]

Thank you for the replies.

1. I can see that if enough people are skipping it could take off quite a bit of time to kill the bosses fast. However that either relies on luck that enough people will do that, or you've queued in a big enough group to do that. When I come across someone doing whatever they do to skip cutscenes, I've only come across a max of 2 ppl doing so. Guess I've been unlucky/lucky depending on how you view it

2. I don't think it can be a 'lazy' choice to list items under the npc merchant price - isn't the default MB price set to the amount you'd get by selling to an npc merchant? Thus they would have to intentionally change the price to be lower than that... at which point they are making a loss.

I guess it could be "charity" selling - people willing to take a loss to try and get items at a cheaper price to people.

And I do sell or not sell items on MB depending on what the prices are - for those that are selling under npc merchant buying price, I've been holding on or just merchanting them.
Good suggestion to buy them... hadn't thought of that. Make a small profit on them. lol

[Arcadimas]

As a new player that just hit 50, the questline requires you to run these. Not wanting to be the low person that held everyone back, I was prepared to skip the scenes, if necessary. It was a relief when I saw that you couldn't skip them. There was some people in chat wishing the scenes could be skipped but the most geared person in the group spoke up and said it's unfair to new players. It left the impression that if I'm in that situation, I'll gladly watch them again so a new player can experience it.