Music during "START" screen a rip-off?

Anyone else notice that the little clip of music during the "start" screen is identical to "Downton Abby" music at the start of an episode? Either Square Enix ripped it off or Downton Abby did. ;)

I have never seen Downtown Abby. Someone should make a side by side video comparison though.

Uh, what? All three FFXIV title screens (four if you include 1.0) have all had variations on the same theme as it's 'title music' track which predates Downton Abbey by like thirty years (The Prelude was first composed back in 1987)!

Or do you just mean the style of the title music? In which case again it's more coincidence - Stormblood's version was meant to be both stirring and militaristic, given the expansion's emphasis on revolution and liberation (hence the cheering roar at the start, presumably it's meant to be a 'call to arms' to the player to join in the liberation of Ala Mhigo/Doma).

Either way, I think you're looking for something that isn't there.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/searc...0f&action=view

pretty damn close, IMO. Just the repeat of the first couple of bars. Every time I go to the start screen of think of DA.

What does this have to do with XIV's lore anyway?

It sounds nothing like it to me, it's just strings and piano chords with virtually no similarity in either melody or style to Stormblood's version of the Prelude. I'm really sorry but I'm just not hearing what you are.

No offense but I think you're reaching here. This is hardly close at all, unlike the snafu with Sephirot's theme and that Powerman 5000 song. Also this doesn't really belong on the Lore forums...

I don't hear any similarities...

Ripping off a song...
sounds
like
this.

Can a composer rip off their own music though?

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Originally Posted by scruffies

https://video.search.yahoo.com/searc...0f&action=view

pretty damn close, IMO. Just the repeat of the first couple of bars. Every time I go to the start screen of think of DA.

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Not at all close to the current one, which starts with a militaristic snare beat as if they were starting a march of some kind. The use of piano in the theme during Heavensward (I believe it's named A Cold Wind and is heard in exactly one cutscene in the 3.x patch series) is the only similarity I can draw, and the two themes still don't sound anything alike there.

A Cold Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHEMBqtPtC0

Stormblood Menu theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASl9Hpj63iE

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Originally Posted by Fenral

Ripping off a song...
sounds
like
this.

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To be fair, they're all composed by Motoi Sakuraba.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

Can a composer rip off their own music though?

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In three different games by different studios with different copyright holders? It's gray area, I think. Though I suppose Namco couldn't very well sue themselves over that last one...

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Originally Posted by Fenral

In three different games by different studios with different copyright holders? It's gray area, I think. Though I suppose Namco couldn't very well sue themselves over that last one...

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Yeah I think in this case it would depend on how the tracks were licensed, if the guy composed them and sold licenses then having the same one in multiple games makes sense.

This post is as retarded as artists who start lawsuits over 3 notes in a song matching theirs.

Whats....Downtown Abby? >.>

I just listened to both of them back to back but couldnt find a similarity. If anything, the SB opening themes drum roll reminded me of the 20th century fox theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPj4JPbKtA

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Originally Posted by Saiah

I just listened to both of them back to back but couldnt find a similarity. If anything, the SB opening themes drum roll reminded me of the 20th century fox theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPj4JPbKtA

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Lol maybe so.

But yea, no similarities whatsoever to DA. Totally different articulation, melody, and tempo.

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Whats....Downtown Abby? >.>

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey

If you're a fan of British period dramas then I'd suggest looking into it.

Um, the Downtown Abby theme sounds NOTHING like the Stormblood title screen. You are really seeing something that none of us see. And why is this in the Lore forum??

The question should be, "why is this STILL in the Lore forum?"