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    Enkidoh's Avatar
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    Enkidoh Roux
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    Incidentally, the orchestrion that Yoshi mentioned in that interview is actually an item from FFXI (which changed the BGM for the player's Mog House, FFXI's equivalent of an Inn Room) - all very well, except the music sheets that were needed to change the music were extremely rare/expensive/almost impossible to get. So I'm really hoping Yoshi does not simply repeat the FFXI mistake and make it that the orchestrion in FFXIV is equally difficult to acquire, along with it's tunes.

    Also, the orchestrion isn't quite what the OP wants - he doesn't simply want a jukebox to play music in a house, but he wants to literally change zone BGM to something else, specifically music from other FF games. On the one hand this sounds like an excellent idea, but given the fact Soken already stated ages ago that zone BGM can't even changed to a looping track due to how it's been specifically coded to fade in and out depending on the time of day or whereabouts a character is in a zone, this simply won't happen I'm afraid.

    I'll eat my Holy Shield if I'm proven wrong though.
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    Last edited by Enkidoh; 04-16-2015 at 05:45 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Rannie View Post
    Aaaaannnd now I just had a mental image of Lahabrea walking into a store called Bodies R Us and trying on different humans.... >.<

    Lahabrea: hn too tall... tooo short.... Juuuuuust right.
    Venat was right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
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    At worse they'll probably be about the same as TT cards in terms of rarity, though since it has no side-game of its own it'll probably have a different system (requiring multiple instances of that song playing to "capture" it. Would give players some motivation to get a few clears of t12 and t13 after 3.0 hits.
    It's not too complicated if the Orchestrion is an inventory item (though I hope not, I hope it's like minions, mounts, and TT cards and has its own separate thing) and has its own thing that automatically overwrites any and all music files.
    I mean don't get met wrong it's still complicated, but plenty of games with similar sound systems to XIV already do this (EQ2 actually has music box items, for example, that are loaded with music from EQ1) so it can be done.
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