The pressure to skip cut-scenes!

[Berani]

For the dungeons that we are talking about it doesn't really work like this at all...

When you actually hit 50 and do the dungeons we're talking about you will find out why people ask you to skip some of them. Especially in Praetorium...

The problem is that it's not just happening at 50. I've seen this at lower levels already. I have absolutely no issue with what's being said about Praetorium: if it's for the good of the group and necessary to avoid a wipe because the cs's are ill-timed and because the battle goes on as the cs occurs, then it's only logical to skip it. I'm talking about cs's that do not occur mid-battle, that the fight isn't triggered until after the cs is over--which people are doing because they just don't want to wait. That is what I'm seeing and no, it's not okay when viewing the cs doesn't impact the group meaningfully.

[Aver]

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Problem is, CSs are *not* ill-timed, the fight pauses and the mob does not re-engage until a party member engages it. The game clearly shows when a party member is in CS, and, as such serves as a warning to the rest of the party to not touch the damn mob. Wait the 2 minutes, I promise your life will not be negatively impacted for a couple of minutes in a dungeon that is slated to run 120 minutes.

[Diaka]

If you want to watch the cut, watch it. If people are jerks about it, leave and find another party. They can sit and wait in queue for another tank/healer.

[Whoopie_Pie]

I'm very patient. I play for the storyline as well, and I will wait patiently for anyone who would like to view their cutscenes. I do expect the same in return, as well. You can wait two freaking minutes, so can I

[Avengedangel]

See, this happened to me when I got to Praetorium (however you spell it, the final raid I guess). During the first cutscene, I opened my chat box to see if anyone was talking, first thing I see is "OMG SKIP THE CUTSCENE!" followed by a faceplant of letters on the keyboard, then "F**king cutscene watchers, skip the damn cutscenes". After that we just proceeded fine till we got to the first boss. Next thing that happened was three people (including the first guy) that were insulting someone else for watching the cutscene, after that they continued insulting them too after the group didn't wait up for them after we received the access to the magitek gear.

People need to calm the hell down, and give first timers a chance to enjoy the scenes firsthand. I understand you want to speed run, but give others a chance to finish enjoying the story for the time being before they start grinding for stones as well.

[KimimiAvesta]

I've got no issue with cutscene viewers at all, even though I save them for the inn room myself. The problem comes from those later ones where unless everyone comes out of it at the exact same time you're going to end up with a few dead bodies and possibly a wipe on your hands! But that's something for the *devs* to sort out, not the players.

[Mocci]

i was having this problem as well, people were calling me inconsiderate and etc just because i want to watch the cutscenes for the first time. At 1 point i said, go ahead and pull without me, im never gonna skip them. They did, they died, they said sorry. Yup i was the healer

[Incatasi]

Think of it this way, YOU are wasting people's time by watching something you can watch ANYTIME in an Inn. So, it's in fact you who is being rude in this situation, so next time just skip the damn thing and watch it on your time, not ours.

[Tari-F]

Think of it this way, YOU are wasting people's time by watching something you can watch ANYTIME in an Inn. So, it's in fact you who is being rude in this situation, so next time just skip the damn thing and watch it on your time, not ours.

No, it's not that simple. If they had joined you with the sole purpose of rushing a bunch of instances, then sure, they should skip the cutscenes.

However, if it's their first time in the instance and they want to see the story and cutscenes in context, then they should be allowed to do so.


This is partially a problem with duty finder, as it matches players who are new to an instance with players who are rushing them.

Having said that, I'd still like to believe that most people would have enough patience or courtesy to allow the new player to watch those cutscenes.

[Raubahn]

am not sure if someone said this but yes you can view the dungeons and duty cut scenes in the Inn
its under "Duty" in the list its the last one