In-Game music - do you like it??

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OP, to try and less aggressively respond...

For a game that is presumably now the most played MMO (yes, me too hanged 10+ years of WoW for sake of FF14), and for the epic and absolutely captivating story, did SE not thought to employ and actual composer and hire an orchestra to best capture ambience of the vast areas of the game world?

I think games with more orchestration are generally ones with longer development cycles...
Take into consideration that most companies generally take 4-6 years to develop a game.
FF14, on the other hand, puts out a new expac every 2 years, with no corners cut on the number of new songs added in each.
Doing that with a composer at the helm sounds like a logistical nightmare, especially considering you'd need to do it again and again every two years.

Also, logistics aside it's just not a solid business plan.
Putting the music on the shoulders of fewer people saves the company a LOT of money. Plus, while an orchestrated sound track would be cool, but would not directly translate into more subs, so I can see how a company would see it as extravagant or wasteful, and FF14 was famously almost ended by its initial extravagance (among other things).

Could FF14 use more live music in game?
Maybe?

Should they have hired a composer?
No, probably not.



Though, I also have a question for you OP.
Did you also have these issues with WoWs music? Or is this somehow worse in FF14?