Quote Originally Posted by Callinon View Post
The request wasn't "turn FFXIV into a first-person shooter" it was "let me pick my music track in the open world" which, I will again remind, is ALREADY A THING YOU CAN DO. The request here is for that system to be slightly expanded to include more tracks and an interface to manipulate them.
This is why developers hate users. They think they know everything when they usually know literally nothing.

"It already does y and z. Just go back and add x. Easy." But it was never designed to do x. The user looks at the front end and imagines how easy it must be, while the devs are look at the back end and know that to add x they'd first have to completely redesign r, s, t, u, v, and w for it to work.

Now in this particular case I don't know the game's code any more than you do, but I guarantee it's not nearly as easy as it looks. It never is.