This is the bit I'm curious about. It sounds like at least some will be drops from instances which is going to make for some fantastically funny arguments (in hindsight).
Yes please!
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If I've understood correctly, there'll be multiple ways of finding new songs, including yes, primal drops.
My guess is the primals will drop their own song, much like they drop their own Triple Triad card. Other kinds of music, like field tracks or town themes, will probably be more easily obtainable. I can see a few tracks being hidden in treasure chests but even knowing Square-Enix I would still find it strange if they didn't give us at least a few tracks to easily buy with gil or MGP.
My only fear is that this thing will somehow be locked behind a specialist craft...which if so, people will attempt to bleed as much money from everyone as they can. I am still excited for it though, shame it's the ONLY thing I am excited for in 3.2....
Does anyone know if there will be an option to embed our own songs? Like from our iTunes library? I would love to have a theme song for my house to play whenever someone walks in. LORD KNOWS I am getting pretty tired of the elevator music that currently plays non-stop in the housing wards. *sigh*
Edit: Nevermind, it's pretty late here and I just realized why this wouldn't work. Of course, the music would have to come from server side in order for others to hear it. I suppose it would still be cool to collect the songs, granted that there would be a wide selection to choose from and hopefully would all be very different from each other. My statement still stands on that elevator music though. Listening to that is getting old, pretty fast J:
I know some people don't like the collector aspect to this, but being a collector...I'm more excited for it than I think I should be. And yes, for the collector aspect specifically, not just the fact we'll be able to change up the tunes.
Given that we're getting some new system for collecting the tracks I think it's a fairly safe bet that this will be unlocked via a quest as pretty much all new systems in this game are quest-gated. With that in mind I expect we'll all get at least a basic orchestrion as a quest reward.
Give me Cecil's Theme from FF4 SE! Please! Red Wings need it guys!
I don't know if they might have already announced something like this (I should probably look huh, before I post this...oh well), but there's one feature I hope they include...
...Shuffle...