ORCHESTRION: why only inside of house ?

Why cant we make a list of Sheet music we want and listen to it anywhere in the game ? dungeons ? raids ? while leveling with chocobo ? :confused:

It's like we don't have 3rd party programs to listen to music...

Eorzea lacks wifi infrastructure. That's why.

1. Put a jukebox somewhere on a map
2. choose your music
3. hear another music after a while, because someone else choosed his music

let bards be orchestrion mobile <please>

Thats the same as asking why we can't put the Unending Journey in our duty log and read it whereever we want. Or having a portable retainer bell/crystal bell/toychest.

The intention is to increase the use of housing and the innroom as a personal hub where you can sit back and enjoy things youve unlocked. Wether that be admiring furniture youve acquired or playing mini games. And hanging out with people that do the same.

I'm bothered more by it being apparently proximity based inside the house.

If this is the case then... why... just, why? Just let it play as the BGM of the house instead of that housing ward music, when inside. Isn't that the thing people wanted out of it?

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Originally Posted by AstralKaos

I'm bothered more by it being apparently proximity based inside the house.

If this is the case then... why... just, why? Just let it play as the BGM of the house instead of that housing ward music, when inside. Isn't that the thing people wanted out of it?

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There's always got to be catch with everything we ask for them to implement. You'd think getting the music would be a matter of completing the content once? Nope, crafting with a drop that isn't 100%. Well fine, you'd think it would play like normal housing music? Nope, proximity based. :confused:

The proximity based part is the one that really bums me out ._.
That might be fine for a personal room, but having one in an actual house means at least in half the house you won't her the music you picked very well.
Especially if I do not like the look of it, I'll put it in some dark little cranny, but then I'll have to sit in front of it to hear the song for real and not just a faint melody from afar? x.X

NOT HAPPY :(

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Originally Posted by Colorful

There's always got to be catch with everything we ask for them to implement. You'd think getting the music would be a matter of completing the content once? Nope, crafting with a drop that isn't 100%. Well fine, you'd think it would play like normal housing music? Nope, proximity based. :confused:

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Exactly, it's always something...

"oh, we received a lot of requests for a jukebox, so in the interest of making it like a real one, we had it feature real sound by being proximity based!"

Always with the style over substance with SE, even if it's a detriment to function or game systems, or in this case, making such a simple and cool idea turn into something mediocre (potentially) to the reason people wanted it to begin with! I don't like or want to be negative all the time, but c'mon SE!

I for one am excited for this. Maybe proximity is to let you place multiple in a house for people to listen to what they want? And no doubt you can hide it in other furniture if you don't like the look. The collector in me can't wait for it.

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Originally Posted by raela

I for one am excited for this. Maybe proximity is to let you place multiple in a house for people to listen to what they want? And no doubt you can hide it in other furniture if you don't like the look. The collector in me can't wait for it.

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You can bet your behind it's going to be one of them "one per estate only" things. Your idea of being able to place multiple of them to counter the proximity, and let others listen to other music as a result makes too much sense, no way they'll use logic like that... also wouldn't surprise me to hear the good old "limitations" chestnut, too, for having two tracks playing at the same time being a no no.

The collector in me was looking forward, too, but unless that proximity thing is like the lighting, is on a slider where way left is close proximity and far right is full BGM, then it's a "pointlessly ruined/10" to me.

Regardless, glad you'll be enjoying it, so at least some will not be deterred by the thing.

I bet that if enough people complain about the proximity theyll simply change it. But for now, lets wait untill the patch is out so we can hear for ourselves.