The direction of FFXIV's music.

[Nightmare8675]

...And this is just my personal opinion, but we need less j-rock / orchestrated pieces, and more classic FF synth. They're trying to bring the "Final Fantasy" into XIV, and that's a great way to do it. The synths we all know and love.

So true! most of the time I play with the music off cause it's so dull we need more/better muzak!!

[Finchley]

I totally agree. FFXIV music is soulless, has no feeling, doesnt fit, horrible, boring. I play with music turned off because this music is awful, It ruins the game for me. Now FF11 on the other hand I absolutely loved zoning and enjoying the zone themes such as windys theme, bastok, Jueno, White gate, dynamis Xarcabard. They seriously need to completely redo every single zone in this game. I cannot believe how awful this games music is.

[Akujin]

Not sure if it was already posted, not going through all the pages. But Nobou said in one interview after the release of the game that he didn't personally like all of the musical scores. A lot of them seemed detached from the world itself. When the original XIV team came to him, they came to him with concept art and ideas on paper, nothing he could really see for what it is and get an actual idea of how a player would precieve the world.

The current people they have making musical scores for the game I like, every new patch I go to their SE music blog to catch a tease of what they're about to release. So I'm sure they've already got a new OST set up for 2.0's release and I'm looking forward to it.

There are a few tracks that were included in the Alpha files that still havent been used yet that I think are still pretty great. Whether they'll keep them or not, dunno.

[Sortis]

You missed the point. Uematsu isn't with Square-Enix anymore. He's not in there talking with the devs and getting a direct feel for the game. I find this soundtrack to be one of his worst, actually, apart from one or two songs.

Just because Uematsu scores it != good music. When will fanboys understand this?

IMO, they need to get the staff that scored FFXI, FFXII, and the FFT series. They need to go into Nobuo's songs, which seem pretty bare bones to me, and embellish on them a bit. Get some real melody in there with more than just 1-2 verses. You know, songs that last longer than 4 minutes, because any less is frikkin' annoying when set on repeat for hours at a time.

When people are hired like this onto a MMO or game that plans expansions of any kind like Elder Scrolls game for instance, then the composers and voice actors alike are 99% of the time under a contract to keep coming back for expansions and new content. If he isn't it's more than likely a choice on SEs part, not his. That being said, being the HUGE name he is as far as video game composing goes, I seriously doubt SE is like "awesome composer...no thanks, we got this with a couple no names" if he is under contract they're gonna use him lol thats like the Yankees not letting Jeter play.

[Phen]

I really like all the music. I like seeing the feel each composer brings- I think it actually makes the world feel even more diverse.

I really like Quicksand, Twilight over Thanlan, Desert Moon Defied, The newer black shroud, pretty much any garleanean theme is amazing, Mor Dhona's battle music oh man. And as Akujin said there's a lot that's not fully used, so its more implementation if you ask me. No theme fits 100% but Twilight over Thanlan in a duststorm as you run back to town- Fantastic!

I have a feeling 2.0 will only enhance this music in how it fits.

[Phen]

Oh one thing though- more variations on raid music please!

[EdenArchangel]

I'd like more varied instrumentation, as well as themes that actually 'fit' an area, not just a random piano piece/march flavor of the week.

[Andrien]

heart pounding intense music~

[Slyvannas]

only good song in the whole game is the inns music lol

[Gramul]

Say.
Who is doing the music right now anyway?
Lazily casting my gaze on the Google search bar isn't solving anything.