Quote Originally Posted by Konachibi View Post
You do know Uematsu composed the soundtrack for FFXIV don't you?

I'm thinking it may come from him being used to making music for single-player RPG games. In those you only need to make a tune for a particular scene and it may not be used again, so you can give it the necessary feel for what's happening. In an MMO the world will always be evoling with more stuff being added to it and extra music to go with it may not be a possibility at the time, so it's best to make music that can fit a variety of situations rather than having 1 track focusing on 1 thing. Because of that the music sounds more 'generalised' so it can be re-usable.

Yes, I'm completely aware that Uematsu composed the soundtrack. That is why I'm so upset about it.

I agree with what you're saying though. Which is why I wonder why he chose to make the tracks so loopy and repetitive. Take the company themes for example; there are different stages of the pieces where the pace of the music changes and becomes a different tune for a while, then back again. That is perfect for something that's going to repeat. But for most of the themes the music just loops the same two things over. . . and over. . . and over again. What we need are longer pieces that contain more music that changes from time to time, instead of short loops. Maybe it was laziness or lack of interest in the project; maybe it was SE rushing the hell out of him (I'm guessing the latter), but either way, I believe that the musical pieces for this game are seriously lackluster for the most part. I will say, however, that it's gotten better since they've changed around some of the themes, and I know there are a lot of tracks he composed that aren't even in the game at all for whatever stupid reason; why don't they throw them in the mix?