Devs, Please change the event music.

I know a lot of you will say "mute it, whiner!" but walking around the towns feels weirdly empty with BG on mute. But please, devs. Please give us some variation of music between events or better yet, please, please please, please ask the music team to make something less piercing for next time.

Like this post if you agree, comment to discuss.

Agreed, that music is god-awful

I changed my dat file so that it plays this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzpIYo_hoXw

Would you like for me to upload it for you?

I agree, after 1 minute, the music should loop back to regular music.

I played XI's summerfest music over mine I'm only using winamp though... I haven't found a good way to switch the dats yet and get them to loop.

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Originally Posted by Req

I changed my dat file so that it plays this.

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Are you able to get yours to loop, and work with the in game volume controls?

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Originally Posted by Mijin

I played XI's summerfest music over mine

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Oh my god awesome.
At least XI's summer music wasn't so piercing.

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Originally Posted by faris

Oh my god awesome.
At least XI's summer music wasn't so piercing.

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Yeah... Sorry to say but XI had way better music for the most part. XIV does have some good tracks though.

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Originally Posted by Mijin

Yeah... Sorry to say but XI had way better music.

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Can't agree more.

I personally like the XIV music for the festival. Even when doing some bidding on Tophatter I kept the game open and was listening to it over and over. Perhaps I'm a masochist and I don't know it, but... it hasn't bothered me yet. I was thinking though, that it would be nice if several different tracks were to play in a loop rather than just the one song, that way there was some variety.

I play with audio muted all the time anyway, that GC Chocobo song is just too awful to hear ever.

*creates beg emote*

/beg
/grovel

Please change the music? Listening to it for a long time drives me insane.

I find it particularly annoying because I'm just getting started in the game, and during this most impressionable time, I'm subjected to the same annoyingly repetitive event song in all 3 nations as I travel around. I want to hear each nation's song and be able to reminisce about the old days.
When loading into an event zone it should play through once and then transition back to the regular music.

I love the event music and chocobo music.

It's by far the worst game music I've ever heard. It's like I've been warped into some demented version of a 70s games show which time has forgotten.

I think they got the Summerfest music just right in FFXI. The one we have in FFXIV isn't bad, but it's way too prominent when it's supposed to lay nicely in the background. It doesn't help that it's so short either, so you hear the same thing over and over. It's exactly the same case with the chocobo music.

I don't think Uematsu made the track especially for the summer event, though (it's used in Ul'dah's opening cutscene). I think they just went through the music archive and found the song most suited for a summer event.