Portable Orchestrion

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Only jaded (or super arrogant) developers hate users. I've been a developer working on large user-facing projects. This is why I'm completely certain that code can be modified and is not, in fact, carved in stone (or oil on canvas or whatever that was about up there).

True. Many developers likely don’t hate users; they don’t have to interact with them. They might hate Sales though, who’d promise users a moon when the team doesn’t even have a rocket.

I didn't say it'd be easy. I said it was within the scope of possibility because the system already does some of what it would need to do. There'd be no need to create brand new tech here, just some modification to what's already in place.

A senior developer I’d known often said anything is possible, given resource and time, with the implied caveat that the latter two are the limiting factors.

The game wasn't designed with flying in mind, we can do that now. Believe me that was a MUCH larger change than is being proposed here.
The game wasn't designed to have collectables, but somehow that's now a thing.
The game didn't ship with duty roulettes. Remember having to spam Castrum Meridianum to cap tomestones? I do.
The game didn't ship with a glamour system. Letting one piece of gear look like another piece of gear? Blasphemy!
The game didn't ship with GPose. Changing outdoor visual effects so that they'd only be visible to the player was a big deal. But changing outdoor audio that only changes for the player is a bridge too far apparently?

I could go on and on.... and on.

Assuming you’re a developer for a commercial product, how would you justify the resources needed for this requested change?

Many of the features you listed are available in other competing MMO(s), so the justification was likely not difficult: they are considered needed to stay competitive.

Would this requested change help to increase number of subscribers? Or would it help to retain existing subscriber that would otherwise quit the game? How many users do you actually expect to actually be using this feature, given that it’s limited to music from this game and a couple from other FF series? Could it possibly decrease sales of soundtracks/music? (This might be countered by online store sales of orchestrion rolls) Would the existing license work for vocal songs, or will those need to be excluded from fields?

If the resources needed can be justified, then this feature request might actually get implemented. After all, music seems quite a big part of the FF franchise.