The problem with cutscenes

[faris]

Cutscenes are awesome, and whoever is the CS director for this game deserves a medal for how good a job s/he's done on them. It's a MMO, but the cutscenes feel like those of FF. Whether it's hilarious ones like Hildibrand's storyline, suspense ones like Calamity Cometh or really sad ones like the BLM AF quest, they've come on leaps and bounds and they're awesome. For speedruns / Darnus we can skip and watch them later, so what's the problem? OP, press ESC twice. then the arrow key up, then enter when ~your gameplay experience is ruined~. Far less effort than making a thread just to whine.

EDIT: and they won't start timers when everyone's finished the CS, sadly. :<
If they did that, they could have people buffing / invigorating before the fight begins, while not subject to timers. If, like FFXI, they had people come into the fight when they've finished CS, unable to be buffed / whatevs until it's done, you could have an important tank or whm or whatevs not telling folk they're in CS and shanking your attempt if your communication's bad. Or the inverse; only one or two party members engaging and everyone else coming in to find they're dead and the boss is attacking them before they've had time to buff. Furthermore, it's a Shadowlord situation. Personally, my LS told me when I was first doing Shadowlord to watch the CS, it was fine. They killed him so quickly as soon as I'd finished his entrance CS, I saw his first death CS and then his second form's death CS. That kind of killed the Rank 5 mission for me.