Anyone else wish...

[Mayin]

I wish SE wasn't lazy and had music play 24/7 not just during the daylight hours. Is that really necessary? Couldn't you have diff music at night at least?

[NovaUltimatum]

I wish SE wasn't lazy and had music play 24/7 not just during the daylight hours. Is that really necessary? Couldn't you have diff music at night at least?

They already do play both daytime and night-time tracks for the 3 main cities. Could be a lot of work to do that for every other zone.

[Seif]

They already do play both daytime and night-time tracks for the 3 main cities. Could be a lot of work to do that for every other zone.

Isn't that a pit off topic since the ot is about battle music?

Anyway new tracks are pretty much the cheapest additions to a game this scale. SE already has fired all their in-house composers to do work only on freelance basis. Commissioning even 40 tracks wouldn't be at all impossible nor terribly expensive for them.

Personally I would love for them to focus on giving the monotonous battle audio more love first but more music for night too just wouldn't be at all impossible if they wanted to do it. According to salary survey in game industry done in 2012 music is really cheap in games. Especially freelance. I'm just saying that while the music is good the requests like the OP made are NOT major when it comes to development costs.

[Enkidoh]

Isn't that a pit off topic since the ot is about battle music?

Anyway new tracks are pretty much the cheapest additions to a game this scale. SE already has fired all their in-house composers to do work only on freelance basis. Commissioning even 40 tracks wouldn't be at all impossible nor terribly expensive for them.

Personally I would love for them to focus on giving the monotonous battle audio more love first but more music for night too just wouldn't be at all impossible if they wanted to do it. According to salary survey in game industry done in 2012 music is really cheap in games. Especially freelance. I'm just saying that while the music is good the requests like the OP made are NOT major when it comes to development costs.

Firstly, what proof do you have that SE fired their composing staff? Sure Uematsu resigned years ago to undertake freelance composing, but he still retains a working relationship with SE (after all, 1.0 featured his first work on a FF game since the theme song to FFXII), but this idea that SE sacked all their music staff is quite ridiculous and doesn't hold weight. Besides, Masayoshi Soken is directly employed by SE so his position as composer and sound director for ARR makes that completely invalid.

You also make some big assumptions about game design, that music can simply be composed and added into the game with zero expense or effort. It actually takes time and money to program a specific track into the game, to make sure it cues at the right place, that it fades out when needed, and most importantly, is the right leitmotif for the setting or mood. It especially costs money to add a new track into an existing game, as the development team have to make sure it doesn't inadvertently mess up or clash with existing content. And the expenses aren't just for to the composer either - all the programmers, sound technicians, and other development staff that work on the game all have to be paid, adding considerably to the bill.). Any element of game design is a costly process, and music production for the game is just part of it. And it all depends on whether the development budget can allow it.

[Naraka]

Yeah I had enough of the battle music.
It seems its all I hear while playing the game...

And why is there no dungeon music?!
Only for 30 seconds or so it plays but then it stops and the ********* battletheme starts playing.