Listen to music scrolls anywhere in eorzea! (an idea)

[Seig345]

I suspect most (all?) those who buy the OSTs, like I do (I have the two Before Meteor and one ARR OST, not to mention umpteen other FFXI CDs) listen to them anywhere OTHER than in-game, I really think your fear is groundless.

Oh, no fears here. I was just trying to point out that we technically already have an option to listen to any of our favorite tracks from the game while we play; not necessarily that it precludes what the OP is asking for, just that the option is certainly there. Albeit, if so much as one person who would buy the soundtrack to listen to while playing FFXIV decided not to because they had full control of the music in-game, that would technically be a compromised sale. X)

[Paladinleeds]

Oh, no fears here. I was just trying to point out that we technically already have an option to listen to any of our favorite tracks from the game while we play; not necessarily that it precludes what the OP is asking for, just that the option is certainly there. Albeit, if so much as one person who would buy the soundtrack to listen to while playing FFXIV decided not to because they had full control of the music in-game, that would technically be a compromised sale. X)

But then there's streamers like myself. If the music is coming out of the game (say I could be sat down during a BRB scene in my apartment with the orchestrion playing), and you can see my character sat down in-game, then yeah, I can livestream that even with BRB graphics. Copyright will be OK. An in-game portable orchestrion, would work the same way as far as copyright goes, because you'd be pumping out the music from in the game client itself.

[Seig345]

But then there's streamers like myself. If the music is coming out of the game (say I could be sat down during a BRB scene in my apartment with the orchestrion playing), and you can see my character sat down in-game, then yeah, I can livestream that even with BRB graphics. Copyright will be OK. An in-game portable orchestrion, would work the same way as far as copyright goes, because you'd be pumping out the music from in the game client itself.

Well, if you add streaming into the equation, then sure, I can certainly see the unique benefit there.