Dead spots (no music)

[Marael]

Heh, in FFXI there were many, many, many entire zones that had no music in them at all. When the game first released, only like 3 total non-city zones had music at all, and it barely got better from there. ARR is a pretty big improvement over that, I think. It's not great... but it could be much, MUCH worse.

[Rane]

Heh, in FFXI there were many, many, many entire zones that had no music in them at all. When the game first released, only like 3 total non-city zones had music at all, and it barely got better from there.

That's true. I actually kind of liked the fact that some zones didn't have music in XI. It made me focus on the environmental sounds, and gave me the feeling that I was adventuring out into the wilds. Over time, however, I started to miss having music, and I was happy when expansions like Chains of Promathia and Treasures of Aht Urhgan started adding more areas with background themes.

When XIV version 1.0 came out and almost everything had music, I kind of felt like it swung a bit too far in the opposite direction. Personally, I like the balance that ARR has struck, though I do wish we had a bit more music at night.

[OmniTgo]

Heh, in FFXI there were many, many, many entire zones that had no music in them at all. When the game first released, only like 3 total non-city zones had music at all, and it barely got better from there. ARR is a pretty big improvement over that, I think. It's not great... but it could be much, MUCH worse.

There were zones in XI that had no music like Crawler's nest but the zones that had music had it throughout the entire zone. FFXI does have some of my favorite music though. When I'm in places like Coerthas only around dragonhead has music. When you get far from that it's just dead silence. I have mount music turned off so I can hear the zones music. It just sucks when there is none imo.