In-Game music - do you like it??

[HuaTuo]

Okay, let me clarify here a bit, because I'm guessing some people here take it as some sort of personal grievance. I understand that playing an MMO is to some degree a lifestyle choice, and I didn't mean to question a validity of your choice here, take it as you will - I play this game too, keep your pants on people.

Issue I'm having is not with the music itself - it's with the arrangement. And I'm sorry, but truly AWFUL synthetic, cheap and absolutely atrocious arrangement, using soundbanks from some KAWAI K4 (was pretty popular back in the 90s), all cropped and compressed to smithereens. Perhaps I didn't make this clear in the OP and I apologize, I should have said an Arranger, not a Composer, but not only that, but employing an actual ensemble to capture all this ambience (and yes, they earn enough money to do it thrice over, as far as the budgetary concerns go). FF14 would sound absolutely epic (and admittedly some tracks "nearly" do) - if arranged for an actual ensemble, instead of some cheap MIDI soundbank from last century!

And lastly, I gave my education background as to put my opinion in certain perspective (biased), not to elevate myself in any way. If you somehow think otherwise, that's on you.