The pressure to skip cut-scenes!

[Jamez82]

I'm reminded of an old saying, "patience is a virtue". Those people saying others should skip cut scenes are displaying a lack of virtue and as such, kindness.

It's people like these that make the world a bad place to live. Worst part, they can't even see why.

[Cynric]

No one is going to tell me when I can and can't watch a cutscene in a game I PAID for in a story dungeon I WORKED to get to. Earlier when I was finishing the story I got two groups. One bad, one good.

Cutscene skip zerg group? Half the party was trying to watch Cut scenes the other half were mad at them and zerging the dungeon. Healer decided , Oh I can't watch my CS? Fine I'll just pull aggro then. One of the DPS? Decided to spam the chat up. The two zerging the dungeon? They didn't even wait for us to get to lifts even when we weren't in cutscenes and were right behind them. Then half the group got lost in the dungeon.

Second group. I directly ask at the start of the dungeon. Who's watching Cutscenes, A healer, Me, Another DPS, and A tank were watching them. The one guy we got that time that wanted to skip all the scenes I basically told him. He should just let people watch CS or we'll be out vital party members. And he was like "Well we will wipe then" and I said "Oh well. That's what being impatient will get you."

Beat the run with pretty much 60 minutes to spare. You can ask nicely for people to skip scenes at the start of the dungeon. But if they say they want to watch them. Then you will either wait or you will wipe. It might be selfish but people paid their own cash money for this game and expect to experience it how they wish. Praetoreum isn't an endgame dungeon. If you want to spam it create a premade or be courteous to your fellow party members.

[Tirabee]

I could see getting annoyed months down the road (though I still wouldn't be mad at anyone for watching), but seriously guys? The game's been out for a week. Like someone else posted above, me watching a cutscene will only ever be an inconvenience ONE TIME. If this bothers you, well, that sucks. I guess you'll have to get back in queue.

[MrSmiley]

yea my praetorium groups hounded me and the other whm about it making jokes, getting angry, saying we were gonna fail it...still beat it in good time.

[Shiken]

They are there for a reason. If you don't want to watch them, make a group that will all agree on skipping. There seem to be enough of you so it can't be that hard. I personally hate skipping cut scenes in ANY game unless I've ALREADY watched them. Even then I will NEVER be so selfish as to be rude to another player because they want their chance to experience the story in full spectrum as well, especially since refusal to make your own party is just lazy. Grow up people, there are easy ways around your problem other than being rude to new players coming up and trying to enjoy the game as it was intended to be played.

~Shiken~

[Ryuko]

If people are telling you to skip the cutscene... too bad for them. =P That's what I used to tell my linkshell when they wanted me to skip a cutscene.

The only time you should definitely skip a cutscene is when...

1) You are going for a timed run. (Do those even exist in ARR? I haven't touched endgame yet. In 1.0, there was a lot of pressure to skip every cutscene because you would get extra loot if you finished the dungeon within a certain amount of time.)
2) If you are doing multiple attempts to the same fight, and you really don't NEED to watch the cutscene again. (From what I can see -- in Duty Finder, if you 'fail' a primal battle, it will automatically start you at the beginning point... no cutscenes repeated.)

If a bunch of people make a group specifically to do dungeon runs for EXP or seals/currency and you JOIN that group knowing what it's for... then I suppose it's common courtesy to 'skip' the cutscenes because everyone's there for a different purpose.

But if you're doing the dungeon to do the storyline, and you haven't seen it before? Watch it to your heart's content. No one can kick you. The cutscenes aren't THAT long. You should be able to enjoy it as it happens because it also has to do with what you're fighting and why.

[ArcheDragon]

I skipped ahead in the thread and I'll finish reading it after this but I wanted to make a quick comment. Isn't there a bonus for groups with people who haven't been to the dungeons before? So doesn't that kind of make up for a few minutes?

I also wanted to add that though there are two sides to the problem and both have their points, those enjoying the content that was added to the game have the right to watch it. It was put there by the developers for a reason. I suggest just creating your own groups if the CS are too much of a problem for you.

Edit: Finished reading. I wanted to add that the other players, if they are smart, won't leave even if they don't want to sit through a cutscene. A cutscene is at most around a minute and re-queuing takes about 40 minutes... Seems like the choice is obvious unless you are just that much of an ***.

[Nuit]

Go watch it on youtube? Ah! If I ever get in a situation where everyone else in a group tells me to do that, I'll agree and do it. Literally, alt-tab right now and go on youtube while they wait on me. It'll also take me a while to find the video. I might also get distracted by Internet cats.

It's too bad I'm all talk and won't actually do it. Maybe if they're real jerks about it.

[Farah]

I'm a new player, and i started playing this game because my friend asked me to. He mentioned how nice the ff community was, but stuff like this makes me think otherwise. During beta, there was nothing but bickering between new players and legacy players.

I loved this game...The graphics, the storyline, the customization. I want to experience it all as intended. I would hate for it to be destroyed because of cutscene skipping.

I party with my close friends, so they know im seeing everything for the first time. I have ran dungeons with some randoms and had to wait on them. It isn't even a long wait. I don't see what the huge deal is? I just make silly emotes at one of the other players while we wait. Blowing kisses at the lancer doesn't hurt.

Both parties can make a squad with friends to run the dungeon how they want. If you go with a random squad...you are taking your chances. I think a minute or 2 shouldn't bother anyone. Pee break while cut-scene is running?

[Viirin]

One rude person watching a cutscene and holding up seven others ruins the fun of the seven people being forced to wait on someone else.


It goes both ways.

Aw, poor baby, you have to wait a couple minutes? Tell me more about all your hardships.

This doesn't go both ways. Being a dick to someone who is watching a cutscene is being a dick.

Watching a cutscene because you're playing the game and enjoying the story is just that, it's not being a dick. There is a very big difference.

I have repeated some content and had to wait on people to watch the cutscenes. I just waited patiently like a decent human being and then when they were done we did the runs. I didn't feel the need to bitch at them at all. I believe that I am not special, and that everyone possesses this capability. I believe in you all!