No more QTE please.

[Sorimachi87]

I dont see SE going away from QTEs anytime soon. Yeah the punishment from the last trial is hard if someone fails it. No doubts about that.
But QTEs are a measure to determine the struggle of our character and personally i found it very fitting here because (spoilers below)

We've been teleported to the abyss and our total defeat was imminent. Ofcourse our character struggled to stay alive and to avert the inevitable.

It was the final trial of the shadowbringers story so its alright with the difficulty. For me at least.

[Shofie]

I don't usually mind QTEs, but they also aren't usually as punishing as the 5.3 one.

[Yencat]

I hated it.

Not because it was difficult but because we did it 5 or 6 times with no way of knowing who failed it because no one would speak up (understandably) so the party ended up disbanding. Cleared it with the party immediately that after though, but that specific part didn't feel fun, exciting, or like a challenge at all. Just annoying.

[Katie_Kitty]

We all got it done just fine the first try so I wasn't aware it wipes the group if even one person fails. It's a bit more difficult than usual though.

[MontyChamberlain]

I disagree. QTEs showcase and demonstrate story flow in the short span of 15-20 seconds. I think it's a desperately needed temporary departure from GCD-esque gameplay.

The normal version of the trial is not something you are going to farm for hours on end, unlike other content in this game. The QTE itself is also trivialized by the ability to press more than one button to fill/prevent the meter from dropping. For example, you can juggle rapidly between WASD and left and right clicks to fulfill the button requirement.

This would be a problem if it appeared in EX/Savage/other content that requires either intensive farming or practice. Since it doesn't appear in those situations, it's not a problem.

[Raines1337]

It's not by any means a hard mechanic, but I'm not looking forward to doing it again just because all it takes is one person to anonymously wipe the group... over and over.

[Fynlar]

The 5.3 trial QTE is not as punishing as it appears to be. It's difficult to maintain the bar high without an autoclicker of some sort, but the lower the bar goes, the more a single tap regenerates it. If you let the bar linger at a lower value, you don't have to spam nearly as much to maintain it. The main thing that I think catches people off guard is the fact it goes for longer than most other QTEs of this nature have in the past.

It's similar to how in solo instances, the automatic regen buff you get is stronger the more HP you're missing, to encourage the scenario where it looks like you might be doing badly but you are able to make a comeback.

[Gula]

I disagree. Just because 10 people on the forums dont like it doesn't mean it should go away forever.

Just kill the person who fails and add a HP penalty and the only way to wipe is if only 3/8 manage it.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Next up is boss phase where you have to do a QTE similar to the Honeybee Inn in the FF7 Remake... >.>

[Enkidoh]

I agree with the OP - it's an outdated relic from an earlier era of gaming and just doesn't belong in a MMORPG where the vagarities of internet connections can make or break you and your party, it's not even "mash X to not die", it's "mash X and hope to Azeyma that it's not interrupted due to network lag". QTEs are the bane of gaming and my most loathed gameplay element.

Please Yoshi, I humbily beg of you: no more QTEs!