music by player

[Malzian]

i just thought of something that can be nice for the game, allows player to play music with instrument (like in the lord of the ring online) indeed they can put limitation of where people can play music, but the systeme is not that hard to create and if a game like the lord of the ring onlince can do it, i don't see why FF14 can't.

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=henpPIyaeiw

this systeme allows multiple person to play music together and in rythm. can be amazing and will give some fun tool for roliste while adding some possibility and nice event to the world. let's bring the music to eorzea!

As someone who came from the LotRO server that hosted Weatherstock (Landroval shout out! Lonely Mountain Band FTW) the concept of an in-game music system is awesome. However, I don't see it fitting with the lore to have everyone able to play music like that. It works in LoTR just fine, but not so much for FF.

[WellFooled]

However, I don't see it fitting with the lore to have everyone able to play music like that. It works in LoTR just fine, but not so much for FF.

I'm curious, what in the game's lore makes you say that the citizens of Eorzea can't play music?

[Malzian]

I'm curious, what in the game's lore makes you say that the citizens of Eorzea can't play music?

Specifically in this game, nothing, but typically in FF games the only people that have ever played music have been bards. It's not that no one else -could-, just that up to this point no one else -has-. (Note, I am not counting Celes' singing in VI as playing music.)

[WellFooled]

Specifically in this game, nothing, but typically in FF games the only people that have ever played music have been bards. It's not that no one else -could-, just that up to this point no one else -has-. (Note, I am not counting Celes' singing in VI as playing music.)

:P So what you're saying is that there's nothing in lore that would be against this idea?

This may seem very nitpicky, but the playable character in four main series Final Fantasy games plays the piano, the lute is played in two, the bell is played in one, and Geomancers, Ninjas, White Mages, and Cait Sith all use instruments in the main series without being bards. That isn't mentioning the amount singing playable characters or npc who also have musical forays or Final Fantasy spinoffs. If you're worried about precedence, I wouldn't sweat it.

I would love to see this included in the game, side content like this I think is some of the best world building.

Edit: I also forgot the concert in FFVIII at Fisherman's Horizon! Where the player characters play the violin, flute, Acoustic Guitar, tap, Piano, Sax, Electric Guitar, and Bass!