Please give more mounts a different piece of music past Borderless.

[KitingGenbu]

That doesn't make sense since they actually replaced a bunch of the mogstation cash mounts (which used Borderless) with the early floor song of PoTD and Horizon's Call. Add in that more mounts keep getting added with some like the Namazu Mikoshi and Amaro using their own songs and it's basically cherry picking from that point.


So this one is an actual coding issue. Soken said it was due to each mount having a specific song tied to it, which is why you can't put more then one on a mount. He talked about it at NA Fanfest last year, and can see it being an actual coding problem instead of negligence.

What my suggestion is referring more to is doing away with the mount song system and just allow for players the option to access their songs directly via the roll menu, similar to a radio. If its still a 'coding' issue or whatever, just have it as a portable playlist that players can pick from their rolls before heading out into the world that they can switch between in the field. You're honestly dealing with less demand vs having 20+ songs that need to be ready to go incase someone wants to switch between 20 mounts for w/e reason. As for 'special' songs associated with mounts that players might not already have outside of the mount, just send them a roll to learn, problem solved.

[Andevom]

This makes very little sense considering every expansion they add in 3 Savage mounts and 7 primal mounts with unique themes. And the final primal mount (e.g., Kirin, Firebird, Kamuy of the Nine Tails) also has a unique song. Clearly, they’re coming up with the space somewhere.

It's what Soken claimed. It's possible specific mounts (primals, savage, etc.) are always planned out space-wise to have a particular theme, but they don't have much wiggle room when it comes to changing it for existing mounts. That's purely speculation, since the question he answered was about changing an *existing* mount's music.

[HyoMinPark]

It's what Soken claimed. It's possible specific mounts (primals, savage, etc.) are always planned out space-wise to have a particular theme, but they don't have much wiggle room when it comes to changing it for existing mounts. That's purely speculation, since the question he answered was about changing an *existing* mount's music.

I have a lot of respect for Soken—and the developers as a whole—but they also once said that the external DLC minions had to go to single character only because they were running low on account-wide keys...and then in the same month released 3 account-wide mounts on the cash shop. They’ve also changed existing mount music before: the Gobwalker from A4S used to play the default theme, and I believe there was another Savage Mount that repeated this (Alte Roite from O4S, maybe?). Both of these mounts had their music changed to reflect the respective tiers. And, as pointed out prior, cash shop mounts had their music changed from Borderless.

So pardon my skepticism.

[Enla]

Honestly even if they had a limit on how much individual mount music they could produce over the life of the game that doesn't explain why they can't go in and reuse tracks from other mounts? There's more generic themes than /just/ Borderless.

[Enkidoh]

Because to change the BGM for a mount requires the mount to be recoded to use that new track specificially which takes time and money, and each mount that has to be done individually, that they're more likely to spend fixing serious bugs or exploits, and only do it for certain 'iconic' mounts like the magitek armour if enough requests are done, and it takes time to implement. It's not so simple as simply 'flicking a switch' to make a new track play.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have certain mounts' BGM be changed (the Regalia being at the top of that list for me: A Quick Pit Stop is just sooo grating...), but due to how the game is coded and music especially is coded to play it's not something that can be quickly and easily implemented.

[Orbus]

Yeah it's pretty much why I have the mount music turned off.
Many zones have such fantastic music tracks, vs... the generic flying mount theme on literally everything that you've heard a thousand times.
Can you blame me?

Same, but it's such a good throwback to Chrono Cross. I'm only using my Amaro mount at this point because I love that song so much~

Oh, it's got music reminiscent of chrono cross?
That's definitely an incentive to go for that mount. (though not enough of one to max every single combat class in the game SHEESH)

[ForteNightshade]

Because to change the BGM for a mount requires the mount to be recoded to use that new track specificially which takes time and money, and each mount that has to be done individually, that they're more likely to spend fixing serious bugs or exploits, and only do it for certain 'iconic' mounts like the magitek armour if enough requests are done, and it takes time to implement. It's not so simple as simply 'flicking a switch' to make a new track play.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have certain mounts' BGM be changed (the Regalia being at the top of that list for me: A Quick Pit Stop is just sooo grating...), but due to how the game is coded and music especially is coded to play it's not something that can be quickly and easily implemented.

... They've literally said the only reason we aren't able to change mount music ourselves is they feel it wouldn't fit the aesthetic. Which makes no sense when you consider mount music like Borderless or say, O12S doesn't suit the Azim Steppe. It's more than likely this falls under the same category as the Hempen set people have been asking them to make non-race locked for years. They just don't want to do it.

[Noitems]

What my suggestion is referring more to is doing away with the mount song system and just allow for players the option to access their songs directly via the roll menu, similar to a radio. If its still a 'coding' issue or whatever, just have it as a portable playlist that players can pick from their rolls before heading out into the world that they can switch between in the field. You're honestly dealing with less demand vs having 20+ songs that need to be ready to go incase someone wants to switch between 20 mounts for w/e reason. As for 'special' songs associated with mounts that players might not already have outside of the mount, just send them a roll to learn, problem solved.

It'd be nice, but remember these are the same people who announced a couple of months ago you can now eat food while sitting. I think the concept of a portable player would be far out of their mindscape especially with the restrictions we already have while mounted for other things. Also consider that a concept like that does in some ways lessens the value of the mounts the song is associated with. I mean we're seeing it in this thread alone people are shocked to know the Amaro plays a song akin to Chrono Cross in the porter theme, a breath of fresh air for a reward that's time consuming to get.

That last option though ooooof, that's a nasty way of gating people off from collecting the orchestrion rolls especially if it's tied directly to savage drops. The market would go nuts and completely destroy the fantastic system they had in Stormblood trading drops from the first tier for the savage version of the fourth fight.