Enable Intro Auto-Skip Option

This. It's such an obvious thing, yet it's still not an option. It's especially annoying in Arena, since it blasts the voiceover in your ears as soon as you start.

This has been bothering me since launch at least an option in the settings to opt-out of intro cinematics would be very nice

Indeed, it's frustrating how many games do not have this simple option. I've already paid for the game, I've already seen the intro. [numerous times now], I just want to get in & play.
There's been times when I've felt like playing certain games but then remember they have long, unskipable intro's & then end up playing something else [usually one where I've disabled the intro, sometimes by force]

@schwammlgott said in Enable Intro Auto-Skip Option:

First world problems 🤦🏻‍♂️

Quality of life feature

@schwammlgott If it's entirely optional why wouldn't you want it

@schwammlgott well, usually spending time and money to reduce waiting times and improving player experience is a good investment... Even if I'm not sure how much money and time would be required to put a simple on/off switch in the game. They bothered with "fixes" nobody wanted like font size and alliance coloured tags, why wouldn't they do something like this?

@schwammlgott it's more than a 2 second timesave, if you think about it. You have to go through it every time you boot up the game, for no reason, and as play sessions grow in number so does the time lost watching the beginning of that little cutscene (not counting the Arena earr*pe). Also, I know you were probably joking, but just to be clear they can't remove the logos at the beginning since they're masked loading screens.

@schwammlgott Are you really living in such a dull world you need to chastise people for what they think would be an improvement to the game they like?
Players on these forums tend to make suggestions way more outlandish than this one, I don't get why you're so opposed to the idea of having the option to automatically skip a cutscene every players has seen hundreds if not thousands of times? Especially since an option like this would take so little time to implement.

@schwammlgott well, since you can already skip it by pressing a button, a quick and dirty solution would be an instant autoskip, and that would take no time at all.
The ideal solution would be to go straight to the main menu with the cutscene completely removed. I don't think the cutscene being rendered in real time has anything to do with the issue, it's still a state that the game has to enter. I'm no programmer, but I have basic knowledge of how these things work, and adding an exception can't be too hard.