Sick and Tired ..............

Kinda agree with op
In hm fp's shouldn't have to wait all day

If you want the story- solo the sm modes- that is how I saw they story and the runs are quite pleasant

It is indeed needed. HM is not the place to run for the story.

If story is so important to some of you folk, join a guild. HM runs are for comms and gear, not story.

Story Mode yes, Solo, no. Some people like doing story with multiple people. I think that as long as you are doing story then yes you should be allowed to watch. I also think that if you are doing Hardmode and if Bioware doesn't create a no story option then if someone wants to watch the story then that is there choice.

I do think that hard mode should probably skip over cutscenes, and probably require you to do story mode first to unlock it.

That is a good idea! (in bold). That way you know for sure that the people grouped with you in a HM have already seen the story....

No we did, the problem is in an FP you are playing with other people, often random because of the queue. Some of those people may want to view the story. Simply because you do not should not give you control over THEIR enjoyment. The cost of doing something with other people is that you actually have to <gasp> consider what those other people want to do.

So people will say "HM" should be different. Well news flash there are people who do HMs who want to see the story too. To say "well they should just do SM then if they want to see the story" is being more than a little arrogant and tbh ignorant of what BW games are about... because every BW game has story.

I rate playable content > story myself.... however this does not mean I somehow place my person preferences as superior to others, nor am I ignorant of the way BW makes their games.

It's people like you that make me watch the cutscenes even when I'd normally skip.

It's people like you that do things just to annoy someone else, that ruin social activities.

It's people like you who bizarrely describe doing something with as little interaction with others as possible as a "social activity."

Yeah, but he gets "social points" for it.

It's people like you who mistake watching a movie as a "social activity". I never said anything about little interaction...chat up a storm if ya like...just keep up and keep hitting your spacebar, because HM's aren't run for the story.