Hell on Rails / MSQ Trials

[Gwenkatsu]

Or they could just auto-complete the trial after you waited 1+ hours in DF.
When someone wants to play them, they can find a way to do so.
And if someone does not want to play them, why not just let them skip it? It's not like normal trials are the epitome of gameplay. Not blocking people on dead data centers from finishing the MSQ for 8 hours sounds like a no-brainer to me.

[Aidorouge]

Or they could just auto-complete the trial after you waited 1+ hours in DF.
When someone wants to play them, they can find a way to do so.
And if someone does not want to play them, why not just let them skip it? It's not like normal trials are the epitome of gameplay. Not blocking people on dead data centers from finishing the MSQ for 8 hours sounds like a no-brainer to me.

Unfortunately some people would rather dead DCs stay dead. Half the suggestions here were "travel to the most populated DC, leave yours to keep rotting". And this isn't even for high-end raiding, it's for basic MSQ progress.

Square-Enix either needs to stop making MSQ trials, make the MSQ ones doable with Trusts, or make story mode variants of trials while leaving the originals intact. The developers (and some players) insistence that the story should be gated behind group content only works when there's ACTUALLY people to group with. It falls apart completely once someone is trying to do the content on dead data centers or during non-peak hours, where the only other option is for someone to wait a couple of expansions to go back and do it unsync solo (assuming the trial has solo-friendly mechanics).