Pro-skippers, politeness will get you further

The movies are part of the flashpoint, and people didn't sign up to run it with YOU, they just signed up to run it. If they want to watch the cutscenes, there's nothing wrong with that, but I agree with you that they should be up front about it. People who want to skip should be upfront about that too. Before you actually START running the flashpoint, everyone should come to an agreement about the cutscenes, rolling on loot, and who's doing what in combat and how.
It saves lots of time later when you aren't dealing with people screaming skip, rolling need on everything, or jumping the gun and getting people killed.
People who just expect strangers off the LFG tool to behave a certain way are the ones who end up disappointed most frequently.

Well this is how I see it.

I would say that skipping the cutscenes is the responsibility of the impatient player. If he/she wants to skip it, it is his/her responsibility to tell the group way ahead of time that they want to skip the story. From then on you will get two answers. yes or no. If the answer is no then you can simply leave and find another willing group who wants to skip the cutscenes.

I say this because the group is at the mercy of the person who wants to watch it. While everyone watches the cutscene they are forced to listen to anyone who did skip whine and moan. This is not fair to the group who may not have already seen the story and just want to get enjoy the FP.

I feel this poster is just butt hurt because he can't stand people not hitting spacebar. But the way I see it is if you have seen the story, you should be skipping it regardless (why? it's a good story?) and even if you have not, you should realize that new people aren't welcome here, nor are people who bought this game for story instead of "less QQ moar pew pew."

Two wrongs don't make a right. Treat others the way you want to be treated. This is a community oriented game.

I can agree with that. I don't really care either way what people want to do, as long as they tell me ahead of time.

Or if the tank or healer are skippers, they can leave the group... screwed.

Yes, convenient democracy in the form of vote-kick can change it.

And the duration depends on the flashpoint. The cutscenes in Esseles nearly double the duration of the flashpoint.

And, again, why watch the same crap over and over and over again? It can't be entertaining after the 20th time. Are you just trying to hide your desire to grief others behind the tale that you love the story so much that you could watch it every day for eternity?

I had a PUG run today in Black Talon with a couple of what I'll describe as immature impatient obnoxious kids, screaming in chat for me (and the fourth guy) to skip the cutscenes. Even after a few seconds of video, we were generously showered with "skip, SKIP FFS" and "SPACE you *******", which always gives other people a nice fuzzy feeling inside.
Now, instead of perhaps trying with "Please, can we skip the cutscenes?", which I would have agreed to, the comments instead convinced me to make it a point to watch every single second of dialogue in the flashpoint, just to annoy those kids. And boy did it ever.

Sadly I've seen this impatient and obnoxious attitude become pretty common when doing flashpoints, as if skipping is viewed as must-do and expected. A lot of people don't expect people to want to watch this stuff, even though BioWare put it there for us to watch. I for one really enjoy this dialogue and watch it when I can, and will continue to do so in flashpoints far more times than just one. These (very well done) cutscenes do represent part of the default game that everyone has paid for. Some people have actually not seen this stuff yet and should be given every chance to. "But its just Black Talon!!! Skip FFS". Doesn't matter what it is, if someone enjoys it, let them watch. You can wait 3 more minutes to finish the flashpoint.

So you guys out there in a hurry for some reason, other people are far more inclined to skip the story stuff for you if you're not being a *ick about it And for those who act like those two kids and wind up in a group with me, bring plenty of popcorn.

If you're in a hardmode, the expectation people will have is that you've seen the stories before. If you want to see the stories, queue for story mode rather than hard mode.

Otherwise you are being the rude, inconsiderate player. Odd man out and all.

STORY mode.

STORY.

Why play the same crap over and over again? It can't be entertaining after the 20th time.